001reow r curan hi Stacy hi kogle hi lenman I Benny Bradley and Sola I okay retirements and resignations it's recommended the F retirements and resignations on theb second Stacy hi kogle hi lamman hi Benny Bradley Silva hi Cur hi um 8 C requests or Lees of absence it's recommend that the fing request for these absen is listed below and on the website be approved kogle hi lman hi Benny Bradley Sila hi Curran hi and Stacy hi 8D requests for extensions to leaves of absence it's recommended the fing requests for extensions to leave the ABS listow dist website okay lenman hi Benny Bradley Silva I Curran I Stacy I kogo I Okay I uh the next one 8e um I believe we have a or I know we have a request to hold this until our
002for executive session and we'll come back uh with that one um and the same is true of 8f um with our extra cular recommendations so good we'll jump right along and uh see uh 8G cafeteria Aid recommendation incl Junior High School for the 2421 you've received detailed information about this Administration is prepared recommendations are hold for discussion in executive session the gcsd9 administration included from high school principal P curry curry recommend Sheila mey has to serve as cafeteria at coolage high for the 2425 school year approval is recommended pending the submission and require fav second okay Silva I curan I Stacy hi kogle hi lintman hi Vinny and Bradley okay um 8h request for deduct days for the 242 fin you've received detailed information about the side Administration prepared to make recommendations for discussion session
003the gcsd9 administration reprs the following four good up days golf a cafeteria work for GS be school to be approved approve second roll call Curran I Stacy hi kogle hi lenman hi Benny hi Bradley and Sila okay um and we also have a request to hold 8i um for executive session so we will that and jump ahead to AJ policies polic committee is recommended improve of following policies that me on November 12th second okay any discussion these were I believe most yeah this is ground breaking or anything just keeping up with law uh roll call please kogle hi lman hi Benny Bradley Silva hi Curran hi and Stacy hi okay 10 a uh drum roll please this is the fiscal year 26 District reconfiguration the gcsd9 administration is requesting the Board of Education to approve
004the recomendation for pre configuration model that was presented in November 1224 of Education approve any discussion talk about [Music] it yeah yeah won be happy in January this will this will not happen until August but um all right welcome we heard you parents we heard you tonight roll call lenman I Vinnie Bradley Silva I Curr hi Stacy Hi and kogle hi there it is okay 10B gchs pickle ball Club proposal the GCS and9 Administration received a cash proposal from grandon high school students interested to start a pickle ball Club the pickle ball Club will be twice a week during September October March and may uh Scott founder is a guidance counselor at the high school and is willing to overse the approval is recommended [Music] roll call Benny Bradley Silva hi Curran hi Stacy hi
005kogle Hi and linaman hi okay 10 C evening Academy assignment spring semester 2025 the gcsd9 administration request approval of the F Academy assignments for GR and Bas to for the spr B they listed below and on the distri websites well so Mo second okay roll call Bradley Silva hi Curran hi Stacy hi kogle hi linman hi and Benny okay 10 D Lake essc 6th hour assign spring spring semester 2025 the gcsd9 administration request approval of the following sixth hour assignment for the spring semester at Lake this assignment allows us to offer a work Co-op class to high school students who are able to approval as recommended I should list I should say candy Candace Parker is the person recomend okay roll Silva I current hi Stacy Hi kogle I lman hi Benny and Bradley okay
00610 e gchs 6th hour assignment spr semester the GC Administration requests approve of the following 6 for the spring semester at Grant City High School this assignment allows us to offer an American education class for students interested in pursuing a career in education the 6our signment will beid an education grant that is being utilized by several area school districts yeah I want to say few uh Kim Kim LNO will be the the teacher that will oversee that and approval is recommended R Curran hi Stacy hi kogle hi lamman hi [Music] Vinnie Bradley and Sila okay f is our consideration of tax celebr resolution truth and Taxation hearing and really uh first what we need to do is adjourn our regul of the board and open to public so uh do I have a motion to
007adjourn some second Stacy hi kogle hi lamman hi vny Bradley hi Silva hi and current hi okay do we have any public comment on the cancel the resolution okay Mr Ser your show go ahead okay so this is the 2024 2025 tax levy presentation um okay so real quick we're going to go over some tax levy terms some historical charts we've got the 2024 tax levy collected in 2025 we will do a comparison of the 23 and 24 Levy um we will we will go over the district's debt schedule and then we'll do some uh estimated taxes in 2024 paid in 2025 on a uh typical home in Granite City so Levy when I say Levy that is what Granite City School District 9 is asking for it does not mean it's what we're going
008to get the extension is what the gcsd9 gets after the limiting rates are applied and those were approved by taxpayers a long time ago the tax rate is how your property taxes are calculated eav when I say eav is equalized assess valuation that's the total value of all property in Granite City or in a singular session your house is your EAB um limiting rates that's rates that we cannot exceed a certain amount so this is a historical chart of uh equalized assess valuation for the Grand City School District as you can see in the past from 2020 on to 2024 or 2023 we've uh had a pretty good increase we've gone from just under 600 million in total eav to about 740 million total eav in uh 2023 which is this year and we're projecting
009that it will go even higher probably closer to 800 million somewhere between 800 and 850 million next year total Levy verse extension so you can see what we've asked for um throughout the years and then what we have received the what we've asked for is the blue line and then what we've received is the light blue line um we want to keep that light blue line close to the dark blue line without going too far the dark blue line getting too far apart from it but uh as you can see we are asking for just over 35 million this year we asked for just over like 32 million last year and we got about 30 so we're within realm we're capturing dollars that uh serve our students the tax rate as you can see from
0102010 to 2024 we had a spike in 14 and 15 we did a uh two-year bond which caused the tax rate to go up we were also experiencing some decreased eav but as you can see we've been on a pretty steady path down we are estimating if the proposed tax rate goes up what we think our tax rate would be somewhere between 414 and 403 next year so it if we get everything it'll be 403 we don't think it's going to get quite that low we think our asss a little more than that historical new property uh there was a surge one year uh right under 30 million a new property and then it's kind of dwindled back down we usually hover uh in the five 2 to 5 million range in new property so
011we've kind of estimated in there um that's just how we figure out what may or may not be included in the ask that's how we determine how much we're going to ask for this is June 30 fund balances uh Ed fund o andm Transportation working cash are the operating funds and then you can go to the other funds which is Debt Service imrf capital outlay torp and health Life Safety those are the fund balances and you can see here I break this down in our operating fund balance so what you see there is the state does a financial profile score and part of that Financial profile score is having cash on hand they look at our bank balance to determine our score we have a we have a four in that as you can see
012the different levels so 9 M or eight roughly 8 million of our fund balance is to get us onto the financial watch would put us in the financial watch status 15 million almost 16 million would put us in the early morning then 20 about 24 million would put us in financial review and anything over that would keep keep us in the recognition days this also includes our savings accounts for the new bonds we just passed which would go towards building Renovations or anything like that in the future so 2023 to 2024 and the levy just so if anybody is curious 2023 taxes are collected in 2024 2024 taxes are collected in 2025 so we if you go down the list the Ed fund we're at asking we were anticipating about a somewhere between 15ish per
013raise in the new property we thought it might be up to 18% of additional capturing Revenue so that is increased by 2.3 the limiting rate there is 2.55 we get capped at 2.55 no matter what just because we ask for it doesn't mean we get it we will get to 255 uh special ed had an increase technology lease had an increase these are all limiting rates so that rate is locked in no matter what we are not increasing that tax rate with this at all um debt service is down from the asked uh that's just because with the bond issues last year we didn't know where it was going to be I wanted to make sure we were cover um transportation is up an additional 200,000 imrf is reduced because imrf and Social Security we
014moved that to Social Security to try to bring 51's balance up there the same fund and they just we were just messing with it a little bit to even out some balances working cash is got a $55,000 increase Tor is a $25,000 increase now this when we do this this may affect the rate in a penny or two just because that is a unlimited there's no limit in that fund so that would have a slight increase from last year to the r and then Health Life Safety is the same we just asked for 55,000 more all set about3 million additional new dollars next year if it all comes through 24 rate scenarios based upon eav if you look there now we estimated 873 million uh with our increase so that would bring the rate down
015down to 40375 if we do not get any increase in eav the rate would stay the same at 4451 from 4436 so no change in the rate and then the current debt schedule with the bond referendum last year we did increase our debt load uh that is the effective rate on where we are you can see that that rate drops each year that's with a a 3% growth to EAB for each of those years that's the bonds in February we sold so how do I calculate my taxes so if you have a $120,000 house your property value is assessed at 13 of the value minus exemptions now please know that this is a generic generic basic calculation there's other factors that play into this and there's also city taxes and other taxing bodies this is
016just the school district but uh that would assess your house at $40,000 for taxing you multiply that through by the rate of 4.14 36 and your school taxes on $120,000 house last year were about $1600 $657 so how does the 2024 Levy affect my taxes if your house value doesn't change and you and the rate stays the same your taxes would go from 165744 to 16584 um which is under a dollar if the rate does go up your taxes on your $120,000 home would go down they would go from 16584 to 1615 now what if my home value goes up then you can see that if your home value goes up and you get a 10% increase to your home value so on your $120,000 home it would now be valued at $132,000 it'd be
017assessed at $44,000 if there's no change to eav you would see that multiplied by the rate your school taxes would go to 182384 and then in 2024 if the rate is 800 EAB goes to 873 million total the rate on your house would go to 40375 bring you to about 50 so there would be some increase on a to that 10% but it's not a complete in total it's about 100 bucks 120 bucks on the 873 million EAB increase possible maybe there we go so comparable tax rates to Madison in Madison County if you look at 2023 we were the second lowest tax rate in Madison County um roxan is number one we are probably never going to catch them I would just say that we as much as I would love to try we
018are probably never going to catch them may what maybe strike oil yeah yeah um but we're starting to gain a little bit on Collinsville and Highland and some of those and hopefully we see that rate go down a little bit more next year as well and then like I said this is my general disclaimer please remember there are many factors that can determine your property taxes how your property taxes are figured these examples provide provided represent the most basic calculations of just the school district cash rate any question with that I do need a motion in a second to adjourn the public hearing and Recon the regular meeting Laman I vny Brandon Sila I Curran I Stacy okay and now that we are back um we need to uh adopt the attach total tax level
019resolution um so this is our consideration tax resolution to the taxation hearing okay tax rate hearing the board of education is required to hold a public hearing prior to settling setting the levy for 2024 number two tax levy resolution would adopt the attached total tax levy resolution number three certificate of tax levy the Board needs to adopt the attached certificate of tax levy and then four Tru and Taxation certification and comp of compliance the Board needs to certify that we complied with all provisions of public act any lman hi Benny Bradley hi Sila hi curan hi Stacy hi canovo hi okay uh 111a CEO administrative placement request one yes you receive detailed information about the sign Administration prepared to make recommendations vot for discussion in the executive session approval is recomended below CEO Bradley Silva
020hi Cur hi Stacy hi kogle hi Laman hi and vny she 111b CEO administrative placement request two yes you receive detailed information about the sign Administration prepared to make recommendations or hope for discussion session approval approval is recommended to place the student listed below at the C Curran Stacy hi kogle Lan hi Vinnie and Bradley okay um 112a Freedom of Information Act requests yes the Freedom of Information Act requests is listed below and on the district website the requests was Hand by Administration 112b the iasb liaison report from L canol okay to other MERS experien and I ask if anyone would like to sorry anyone would like to U mention the program that they went to the workshop that they went to um it would be interesting for the other board members I don't think
021we had a chance to talk together and we were talking you know when we had these these uh programs we just went to them and then we went on to something else so we didn't get a chance to share them this is our opportunity so um I was going to ask uh uh Becky do you remember you and I went together at uh lead like lass like lasso and we were both very impressed with not only the presentation but the idea behind it was we need to be looking at a different way to develop leadership uh as as Ted lasso has done in his programs uh he uh has a very uplifting uh and coaching approach and this kind of thing can be extended who are watching and listening to this to his uh to
022his leadership so I appreciated Becky letting me go with her to that program um is there anything that you'd like to add to it Becky I don't think so it was really good it was about U building relationships within your team within your your uh board and your school distri more relationship so you can work together and the the lady that was leading this uh this program she' herself had various issues that she was overcoming and she was just Dynam absolutely dynamic in the fact that those those many medical issues did not stop her from presenting this program just extremely well does anybody else have anything they want to sh with the U citizens and with each other I had I'm sorry but you have something no you know I was just going to say
023real quick um I like the entirety of the ISP conference especially when it has to do with well I went to a workshop Friday for U board presidents and it the way they laid it out was pretty good second is particularly good because it goes into the various legal thoughts that a board can find itself in so far we've avoided everything they've talked about but it's just that stuff that exps in back their head and then Tom said 24/7 and but it it's good to know that stuff it's good to see where other uh districts have done well it's good to see where other districts have not done so well and what not to do um so it's it's definitely worth going to and yeah that's all I want to say anybody I I did
024have so so Bey and I went to a school so that we could understand I think they should have made that a two day that was overwhelming um I wanted to also mention that um I attended an e conference and uh it was an interactive uh program we uh we were asked to stand in a circle and tightly in a and begin discussing a topic and then secondly um several people from the audience were picked out to come and try to add to our discussion try to get into it and we would not all to it was amazing how get we felt you know performing like this and but this the idea was that we need to be aware of people who are not included students who don't get included in the class classroom or
025in any activity even in sports um that this also can be presed by our parents who are not included or don't feel that they are included so we have to be sensitive to uh this whole idea of inclusion and fairness uh and I think so many of our teachers and our administrators do a remarkable job in that area so I thank you so much uh the only other one that I had was the delegate assembly that was incredible I as a delegate I had never been to a delegate assembly this was uh phenomenal a huge group of people who were sitting there we all had clickers um and we had to vote on uh the uh people who were running for office who would become uh our I uh program people and um it was
026it was amazing there were people that I voted for and people that I didn't uh but outstandingly the number of votes was given to the winner of that particular position so it was very very well done and I felt you know pretty pretty uh in experience uh lagging an experience in this role but I certainly thought it was amazing and I think that I'm hoping that we will continue to be to have a liaison and a delegate for the joint conference in the future so thank you thank you very much and with that uh we do need to go into executive tonight the exceptions are noted 5Cs 120 and uh we have first 2c1 the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees in the public body 2c2 collective bargaining manners between public
027body and its employees or their representatives and I'll say 2c8 because it might be some overlap okay the um so do we have a motion to go to executive second C Stacy kogo I lman venny Bradley and solo hi