001session. So, the meeting's already been called to order, but for verbal attendance for board members starting further to my left, please state your name for the record. >> Supos, >> Scott Nelson, >> Alex Kealevich, >> Julie Moon, >> James Dolan, >> Jessica Pritzker. >> All right, everybody's here. Let's move to our public hearing, right? >> Yes. >> We're going to move to a public hearing. Sorry. Do I have the public hearing? I do. >> I'd like to call the meeting in order again for the public hearing for verbal attendance of board members starting further to my left. Please state your name for the record. Eva Gilio, >> Scott Nelson, >> Alex Camelage, >> Julie Moon, >> James Dolan, >> Jessica Pritzker. >> Thank you. Now we'll move to uh the assistant superintendent of business services
002presents the fiscal year 26 budget. >> Thank you. Good evening. Uh tonight we're going to present the same numbers that we've been looking at uh for the last two months now. Um all revenues we've got um on top looking at $108,428,411 looking at expenditures of $116,284,26 for a deficit of 7.8 million. When we look at just the operating funds, we're looking at revenues of 9763300,411 and expenses of 99,379,332 for a deficit of 1.7 million. In looking at our reserve reduction plan, according to this public act, we see yet again that um no threat of having more than two times the annual expenses and that's all we have. >> Are there any questions? >> All right. Next, we have audience comments related to the public hearing. This is first opportunity for audience comments with this meeting.
003Anyone wishing to address board can submit a comment card and give it to the executive director of communications and strategic planning. The executive director will call community members who submit cards forward. They'll be asked to introduce themselves and describe your relationship to the district. Please keep your comments at 3 minutes or less and keep them related to the public hearing as we're in it right now. We'll be taking notes and we'll be in listening mode only and the appropriate response will be given in a timely manner. Do we have any comments in the public hearing section? >> No, we do not. Hm. No, we don't. >> No. >> Okay. >> All right. I'd like to ask for a motion and a second to adjurnn the public hearing. >> Bill moved. Moved. >> Second. Dolan. >>
004All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? No. Motion carries. All right. Next, we'll move to uh Oh, there it is. Got it. Yes. Approvals. Can I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda? >> So moved. Camelich. >> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Next we have the approval of the August 18 executive and regular session minutes. Can I have a motion and a second? >> So moved. Pritsker. >> Second. Dolan. >> Gabby. May I have a roll call? >> Supos. >> Hi. >> Gilio. >> I. >> Dolan. >> I. >> Moon. I Nelson >> I >> Pritsker >> I >> Kemale Levage >> I >> motion carries. Now we have our communication section. Dr. Delhi. >> Thank you. Outside of our stated agenda items, I don't have
005additional uh comments to make at this time. Thank you. >> Thank you. And we are now at audience comments. Do we have any audience comments for this section? >> We do not. >> All right. Now we have the consideration of resolutions, our consent agenda. We have the 2560 personnel report, the 2561 payroll warrants, the 2562 vendor warrants. Can I have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda as presented? >> So moved. Moon. Second. Pritsker. >> Gabby. May I have a roll call? >> Gilio. >> I. >> Dolan. >> I. >> Moon. I >> Nelson >> I >> Pritsker >> I >> Kemlvich >> I >> Supos. >> Motion carries. >> Now we have the 2563 adoption of the final fiscal year 26 budget. Nothing. May I have a motion and a second
006to approve the fiscal year 26 budget as presented? >> So moved. Camelage. >> Second. Julio >> Gabby. May I have a roll call? >> Dolan. >> I. >> Moon. >> I. Nelson >> I >> Pritsker >> I >> Chemolovich >> I >> Supos >> Gileio >> I >> motion carries we have the 2564 financial audit services agreement for fiscal year 2526 >> so it's always best practice to have >> I'm sorry and fiscal year 26 >> yes >> so it's always best practice every now and again to go out and take a fresh look at what auditors may be out there and try and change services get a fresh look from another audit firm given the fact that we are going through um some changes in the business office, trans treasury services in addition to
007new software uh implementation later this year. We thought this was a good time to uh put out an RFP to seek um proposals from audit firms uh for our audit services that we are required to do each year. Um we sent out u a number of different agencies or firms rather our RFP met with several board members and ended up uh with just one submission but we had a sort of an interview process with that uh with Baker Tilly who is the who's emerged as the recommended um auditor for like you said FY25 which we we just ended in the upcoming fiscal year 26. So, this is a recommendation for a uh an agreement for two fiscal years at the price uh listed in the memo. And um yeah, I don't know if there's any
008other comments from anyone who who was at the uh selection meeting. >> Yeah, thank you to Mr. Supos and Mr. Camelich for helping us uh with that process. >> Yeah, I mean, we were we talked a little bit afterwards. We were very impressed um by um you know I think it having sat in on hundreds of RFP presentations. It's always great when the prospective vendor brings people along that you can kind of tell just really really enjoy what they're doing and like the intricacies of what they're they're doing to to the point where they can't help themselves but like try to solution in the RFP presentation which normally you're told sort of not to do because that's billable work but um and so that was our takeaway that you know that we were very impressed
009by them and felt it would be a good relationship So yeah, I would say this committee is coming to the full board with the recommendation that uh Baker Tilly at least be awarded this contract for the next two years minimally. >> Thank you to Alex and Vicilios for doing the due diligence for the board. Uh are there any other questions? Can I have a motion and a second to approve the resolution as presented? >> Second. Camelich >> Gabby may have a roll call vote. Moon >> I >> Nelson >> I >> Pritsker >> I >> Kemale Levich >> I >> Subos. >> Gilio >> I >> Dolan >> I. >> Motion carries. >> Now we have the 2565 healthcare cooperative agreement. >> So uh this is my 11th year now and since I've been here
010and for many years prior to this district has operated a self-funded PO health program and it performed well for for many years. Unfortunately, like many self-funded programs during the pandemic years, we watched our claims exceed our projected premiums, thus drawing down our reserves. This forced us as a committee, COMCO, to uh re-evaluate and seek proposals from at least two of the healthc care cooperatives within Gallagher. Gallagher is our current healthcare uh broker consultant. And so what what the charge was for for for Gallagher and the committee was to take a look at three options. One, what does our self-funded standalone program look like in terms of pricing for the following year? And what does that look like for EBC, which is one of the co-ops from Gallagher and NIH? And so what they did was
011the underwriters of of Gallagher gave us um their best guess on what premium equivalence would be for FY for calendar year 26 rather. So Comco met several times along with several of the board members here tonight and u to evaluate the program and then finally the pricing associated. So speaking on behalf of the committee, I think it was clear that all options remain viable. Um there's pros and cons to to all of them. However, you know, based on uh the co-op option, I think that's going to emerge as the right path for the district moving forward for for several reasons, but in particular and these both of these programs were very close in what they offer. NIH emerged as the recommendation from the committee and I think uh you know based on everything we saw
012and the fact that in the first year our plans stayed the exact same. We know the service from Gallagher is um to our to our liking. The pharmacy list remains the same. And then finally pricing uh which showed material savings for both the district and many families who buy up for the you know a plus spouse or plus kids or family. So uh with that I did ask Nick Rabid Rabidic Rabbatic I'm sorry to to join us and just introduce himself on behalf of Gallagher and um just speak a little bit to to the process. All right, good evening everyone. Thank you for having me. As Eric said, my name is Nick Good. Um, as Eric said, my name is Nick Rabatic. I'm here from Gallagher. My uh my primary role and responsibility within Gallagher
013is focused on NIHIP on the cooperative and leading the overall strategy, the satis the satisfaction of all the districts within NYHIP and the uh the vendor and carrier partners that we work with uh managing the the relationships with them. So, um, as Eric said, I wanted to to thank the district, the committee, um, some of the board members who are involved in the process that I recognize here tonight, um, for evaluating the options. I I do believe that, as Eric said, any of the options were viable, but, um, coming into the NIH cooperative is a win for the district and for the the families and the employees within the district. So, uh, thank you again for, uh, exploring the options and and partnering with Gallagher. So, on behalf of Gallagher and NIHIP, we're excited to
014welcome in D34 into the cooperative. Um, I trust that you've all had the opportunity to review the memo and the the board resolution, and I'm here to answer any questions that may be outstanding. >> Nick, you were at the May meeting, too, weren't you? >> Yes. >> Yeah, that was a great presentation. I think we had quite a few board members that participated over a couple of meetings, so that was great. I want to thank COMCO for taking this work on. This is a extensive work that COMCO has done to make sure that all of our staff members have great health insurance going forward. Does anybody have any questions about the NIH presentation? >> I I appreciate um your comments there, President Nelson. Eric's been working really hard with comco for years just trying to
015understand the kind of annual impact. Ryan, thanks for kind of bringing this to us. I guess I only have one question since you're here. >> What have been, and if you don't have it handy, it's okay. >> Yes. >> But basically the performance versus market trends for NIH as a cooperative purchaser and whether it's underperforming or in line with market growth um and cost increases and you know what can we look forward to? What can the district look forward to with regards to beating the market because of the power of the purchasing cooperative? So the both the HMO and the PO plans with the NYHIP have outperformed the market over the last five and 10 years. That's something that we regularly look at. We look at the market average increases or rate action I should
016say, whether it is an increase or a decrease and how the cooperative performs relative to the market and both the five and the 10-year averages are better than the market. >> For everybody who watches the news, that's very encouraging. Uh and then just one clarifying question for you, Eric. um the pharmacy formulary is comparable or exactly the same between kind of this year, next year and without any major changes expected going forward. And Ryan, you could answer too. >> Sure. It is. So within NIH, the formulary is more broad than the the district's current formulary on a standalone self-funded basis. So, um, Blue Cross has confirmed that there's no disruption to members because it is moving to a more broad uh, formulary list, formulary drug list. >> Thank you. >> Now, of course, I'll add,
017you know, Blue Cross can make changes to the formulary, which they do um, a couple times a year. So, that of course can happen regardless of which formulary you're on and which which plan you're in, whether it's standalone or within NIH. >> Great. Great. Any other questions? Thanks, James. That that was very good. >> Just having attended the presentations, I mean, I think either of the co-ops were great. Not without going into a lot of details. I mean the the NIH um way the Nihip runs its business appears to be from my perspective a little bit more innovative and allows it to be bit more proactive on the cost side than than a typical reactive um co-op might be. And I really I thought that was good. But there wasn't a lot of air between
018them. They would have either been good choices. All right. Thanks. >> Can I have a motion and a second to approve the resolution as presented? >> So moved. Dolan. >> Second. Julio. >> Gabby. May I have a roll call? >> Nelson. >> I. >> Pritsker. >> I. >> Kemale. >> Hi. >> Supos. >> Hi. >> Gilio. >> Hi. >> Dolan. >> Hi. >> Moon. >> I. >> Motion carries. >> Next we have our discussion section. Thank you very much for coming. Thank you for having me. I did enjoy your presentation. I was >> Next, we have our proposed construction for summer of 2026. >> Inviting Steve Rueli to the stand. [Laughter] >> Good evening. Um before you uh is a memo that um states the projected work for the summer of 2026. Uh basically it's
019going to include site work at um Lion and Springman. Uh basically that uh includes pavement and concrete, new curbs, new walks, everything like that. This past summer of 25, we did site work at Hanking along with interior finishes at specials rooms, art, drama, music at Hanking and Westbrook. Um, bids came in approximately $2 million, which was uh about 1 million under our uh proposed $3 million budget. So, that leaves us $1 million of carryover for year two. Um, we will be going out to bid uh in December to uh uh receive bids on the site work at Springman and uh Lion uh with a $4 million budget proposed. Uh once the bids come in, uh we'll be bringing you back uh our recommendation for discussion in March. >> Any questions? Steve, I'm really happy to
020see that we're maintaining all of our new work that has been done too >> as we go forward. >> Thank you. >> Are there any other parking lots that >> could be also like moved forward a year, Steve, as part of this? Just, you know, in the memo there was the um you know, using the carryover, we need to do this one. Are there any other parking lots in disrepair that could be part of or bundled into this to think about think about that? >> Well, the the estimated cost for Lion alone is about 4 million. Um that's going to be our base bid. So, we're going to use Springman as an alternate which I'm going to break up into three sections. And again, depending on how bids come in. Um you know, if they
021come in low, great. We'll do both schools. Um if there are other park eventually we're going to do all the parking lots except for Westbrooks um which is fairly new. Um so yeah if numbers come in in our favor uh Glen Grove was the next parking lot or site work that would have to be done. Um so I'll consider that. You know we'll bring it to the board at that time. Depends on how the numbers come in. >> Great. It's good. Any more questions about this? When do we vote on this? >> March. >> Come in. Yeah, probably. >> Yeah, we're going to go out to bid in January, so we'll get them back probably in March. >> Okay, >> sounds good. >> All right, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Sorry, we're back to
022audience comments. Are there any audience comments right now? >> Uh, no. >> Thank you. All right. Next, we have our report section. We have the foyer report and the administrator and teacher salary and benefit report for 2025. Any questions? Everybody read those. >> Great. >> Yeah, I fight report. >> Yeah, >> it's my new hobby. >> It's a good You're hopefully you're not going to be busy. Uh, next we have other business. So, I just want to remind everybody that I have a True North board meeting and uh changes are a foot. So, please if anyone has any thoughts or questions, look at the True North board docs which will be live I think tonight and you can let me know if you have any thoughts. We've been talking about that for a while. Uh
023but things are moving quickly. So, please send me your thoughts. >> And now you can even watch the meeting. >> That's right. It'll be live streamed this Wednesday for the first time ever. Let me know if you can't hear us. The sound is pretty bad in the gym. >> We'll text you. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. Uh any other business? If not, uh we are journed. Thanks. >> Thank you.