CSPS Board of Education Meeting 6.8.26

001Good evening. It's now 6:15. I will call the June 8th Cedar Springs public school board meeting to order. And if you would rise for me to the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic, one nation And if we can have a roll call, please start here. here. Patton here. Trust here. Trusty >> here. >> Trusty >> here. >> Thank you. We have a forum and we'll move on to the adoption of the agenda and I would entertain a motion for as presented. >> So, support discussion having none. Vice President Berser. >> Yes. >> Secretary Hatton. >> Yes. >> Trusty Slger. >> Yes. >> Trusty Schoffner. >> Yes. Yes. Just bullet. >> Yes. >> President Reed. >> Yes. Motion carries. >> I will open up the table

002for gratitudes. Like share. >> Make s anyways for everybody. >> Exactly. >> Well, I'll I'll throw out there. I thought graduation went really well. So, thank you to everyone that had part in that and just seeing all the kids there, seeing my own kid there. It was just awesome time. So, thank you. >> I think I love the upgrades in the stage like with the flowers and whatever Angel did I Yeah. Very nice. >> Yeah. I was grateful we were able to celebrate the careers of our retirees and milestone of years of service on Thursday afternoon. Yeah, just so many things that are um be mindful of the work that we do is so complex. You know, each one of the graduates had a unique journey from point A to point B, but they all

003got to the finish line, you know, but each of their stories was unique. each of their experiences unique. One thing they had in common was they had significant one or multiple educators along the way and help support them in that teaching. That's just in the DC side. >> We both have to say too, it's not necessarily grateful that hill time is coming down, but it is happening and so it is a process and people are likely enjoying the disruption piece of it while other people are sad. Understand that that is grateful for the planning and the safe safness of it all. Yeah. >> There you go. >> All right. I don't think we have any high school representatives. It's summer. So, we'll go ahead and go forward. So, the next item we have before us

004is our consent items and it's the general business being a board and I would entertain a motion for as presented. >> There was one last minute add to the personnel recommendations. Uh, I did include the our recommendation, our finalist for the middle school principal position. We just completed those interviews today. Um, and so I wanted to get that recommendation from you rather than having everyone wait two weeks already. Thank you for pointing out for the vote. Yeah, >> there we go. Okay, >> yes, >> thank you. >> I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as there. Back on track. >> Support. >> Got it. Okay, now >> Vice President Bowser. >> Yes. >> Secretary Gen. >> Yes. >> Trusty Slater. >> Yes. >> Trusty Shner. >> Yes. >> Trusty Willlet. >> Yes. >>

005President Green. >> Yes. Motion carries. And for our district spotlight tonight, we have with us student services update. We have Van Brand and Rap with us. >> Yeah, let me get this just switched over here real quick. >> Great. It's working too. Um well, thank you for having me tonight and I'm just want to say um this is my first first year wrapping up here at Cedar um Springs and it's just been it's really been great and amazing to meet from anyone from the students to families, staff, teachers, administration. It's just been a great year and I'm really looking forward to next year. So just want to start that um because it is my kind of year in review tonight. Um and as we I move forward through my portion um of the presentation, I

006really just wanted to um begin with emphasizing that the work that really our department supports um and particularly my role um is our our staff and our teachers um focusing on that whole child approach. So supporting social, emotional, mental health, behavior, physical health and and life skills which in turn supports our that that students basic needs being met so that they can learn and ultimately reach their academic success. So, um, sometimes we forget that some of these things seem like they're really nice things that we have, but they are really important for our students, um, to reach their academic goals and to that day of graduation. Um, so, a few things that I just noted up there that, you know, we focus on under um, student services or under my my role with my supports

007and teachers um, is really physical health. uh our school nurse provides supports to um not only the students but also the building level um staff and admin in regards to health related needs. And I'm going to h I'm going to highlight her role a little bit because I know that role isn't new to our district, but Rachel, our school nurse, Rachel Johnson, our school nurse, is newer and I just want to embrace the things that she's really worked on and highlight that. Um as well as our social emotional um health and life skills support. So making sure that our students, yeah, they're learning math, but they're also learning how to be a good friend and um solve conflicts with each other. So some of those supports are really important for character building um as well

008as those health related needs um around getting proper sleep and nutrition and family engagement and parent involvement. So my first highlight that I alluded to a minute ago is um our school nurse, Rachel Johnston. um you know that school nurse is really that critical bridge between um health and education. Um and her primarily role primary role is really ensuring that a student's health um needs are supported whether that's prevention or providing those nurse supported health care plans. So I do have that data um piece next to what she has provided. This is a small portion. I will assure you I had two pages I could share with you on the things that she has done to support our our students and our system within health care. Um so supported healthcare plans she has 31 um

009students that she has supported with healthcare plans such as diabetic um planning um potentially like a seizure plan that might be in place uh amongst other health related needs a student might have. She's provided staff and student CPR training. Um and that number surprised me. We have 195 students that had CPI train CPR training this year and then 94 staff. Um as well as um our MERT team, so our medical emergency response team training and that is that prevention piece of if we have an emergency within a building are do we have a team prepared and they know what to do in regards to where is the AED machine? What are some other supports that they might need to know? What's the plan to call 911? in an emergency, a medical emergency. Um, so she

010not only trains those building level teams, but she also does a MER drill. Um, and she has done six of those, so one per building every year, which is a requirement by the state as well. She wanted to make sure that I threw that in there as I shared her data. Um, so I I can't really talk enough about her work um that she has really um supported the district with um in regards to even looking at how our meds and procedures and policies all the way down to the individual student work that she does. Um and I just really wanted to highlight some staff along with our data. So that's the school nurse. The next role that I know that was newer um this year to the district is an elementary school counselor and

011her name is Kimuchek. She was um6 this past year um providing school counseling and then she did um some also some music and specials teaching um for the other portion of her role. But within her role providing K5 counseling supports she really she really packed her supports in. So at tier one level, which is where she provided some lessons to the classrooms, she pushed into 57 classrooms for a total of 342 lessons. Yeah. So those lessons again were life skills, learning how to um solve problems, um conflict resolution skills, um coping strategies, taking a few deep breaths if you're struggling with anxiety maybe before you take a test. Um so she she did a lot of work there at tier 2 or that small group intervention level she did 10 small groups um and within

012those 10 small groups they were 75 students that were um receiving those services. So within those small groups again we're talking friendship social skills just maybe at that smaller group level so that those students um can attend and get that information um in a small group setting at that tier three level providing individual student support. So that's counseling, behavior, um sometimes that's even one-to-one um supports with like a family that might need some referrals and help and case management. Um she had 49 students with 148 sessions that she provided support to. And then within those tier three is also our 504 plans that our counselors cover and she had 40 students that she covered 504 plans for. So again, lots of work packed into her packed into her role and she did an amazing job

013and she's just excited to keep moving forward in the next year as well. Any questions about the those data pieces that I shared? Okay, I am going to move a little bit more to some program um policy procedural law updates. I know in the fall I talked about the behavior threat assessment law um coming in place in the state of Michigan. Um, so we are moving forward with getting prepped for that. Um, the Cedar Springs already had the behavior threat assessment model in place. So, it was just a matter of now what are some of the things that we have to um tweak to make sure that we're prepared for the law in October. Um, one of those things is making sure that our all of our teams have a school administrator, a mental health

014professional, and a school resource officer that are trained by the my BTM model. Um, so there's multiple models out there. Michigan is saying we need to be trained with the my BTM model and we need to have that certificate on file that they have been trained. Um, so that that's something I'm we're moving forward with as well. Um, I'll share that slide in a minute. I kind of got out of order there. Um, I wanted to share the amount of behavior threat assessments we did this past year. Um, I know you probably say see that one at Cedar Trails and maybe it's a little surprising that we had to screen a student there. Um, a screener really allows for us to do that gathering information. So, if a student makes a threat, whether it's physical

015or verbal, and we're concerned about that behavior that it may pose a threat, then that team does get together and screens that behavior um, and pulls in that data for that student. Um, what a screener usually does with those little is allows us to start working with families and it it gets that student some supports that are needed. um maybe the family needs some support. So the end result, the end goal at any age is really to make sure that the family is feeling supported and has their needs along with ensuring that our school environment is safe. Any questions about the data for BTM? This is just what I'm preparing for that training in August. Um each building will have a BTAM level team that is composed of a school resource officer, school admin, and

016school mental health professional. And we'll be getting trained as teams by the Kent ISD my BTAM training. So that will um help us get one step closer to having those certified staff um all set for October. The next program I wanted to just discuss that I'm looking forward to um getting more uh involvement in at Cedar is the prepare model. And the prepare model is the National Association of School Psychologist crisis response model. Um it is an evidence-based model and it's really to work alongside or to help support our district emergency operations plan. So when you think of um some of the the uh crisises that could happen within a school district um whether it is a violent act that would give us a format and an evidence-based systematic approach to support our students and

017our community within um prepare model does have an acronym. So it's I it clearly is go right goes right along with um that prepare but it's prevent and prepare for crisis. So main key is prevention and that's making sure that we're all educated on how to support um reaffirm physical health and welfare and perceptions of safety and security. So making sure that if we have had a crisis that we're we're our main goal is to make sure that we are connecting back to safety for our students and our community. um evaluate the psychological trauma risk. And that's where our mental health professionals come into play, supporting our our students and maybe even staff. Um provide crisis interventions and respond with mental health needs. And then when we've completed our our supports, making sure that that

018worked. So evaluating and examining the effectiveness of our crisis response. The types of crisis a school might respond to really is anything from a staff or student death from natural causes to natural disasters. You know, throughout the state of Michigan, we've had tornadoes and floods that have come through. The um this prepare model really has been um helpful for those schools that had to also support their students through um even some of those natural disasters that occur this year. This is my data for for our crisis response. We have had four instances that a crisis plan was necessary. Um and those included a staff in staff death due to illness, student death due to illness, traumatic death of a former student and it was reported in news media. So we knew that that was going

019to affect some of our students and staff. Um a death of a sibling within the community that was reported in the news media as well. So I would say four crisis response um can there's no typical number and there's all different levels of response that those crisises needed. Um even within these four they were all supported in different ways but that prepare model really will prepare our staff and school mental health and admin to feel more confident in responding to those um more traumatic res crisises that occur. So the goal um is again to have that common language that systematic approach. Currently we have five um prepared trained staff and the goal is to continue um it's just a matter of the K ISD having those trainings available for our staff to attend. So that'll

020be a goal is to continue to have mental health professionals, our administrator administration, um any other support level staff that might be uh part of that crisis respon traumatic crisis response team. That is all for my section tonight. If there's no questions, I'm gonna hand it off to Dan Grant. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. >> All right. So, um, instead of going to real in depth and special ed tonight, because Tracy, I appreciate you. Um, just a quick update. So, we've made a change. And if I don't expect you to remember the data that was shared back in the special ed update earlier in the year, but just one of those data points was least restrictive environment and our ed ed uh, learning environments, particularly for our youngest learners. In this case, I'm talking specifically

021three to five year olds that have disabilities that we've historically served in self-contained classrooms. That would be that we bring three to five year olds into our early childhood center. We provide their special education programs service within the context of a self-contained classroom. Right? So, there are other ways and other expectations that both IDEIDA and the Michigan Administrative Rules for Special Ed would expect us to operate. There was an office of special education programs letter um on the idea of preschool inclusion going back to 2017. There was an action item from I from the feds that came out in 2015. We won't go too deep in that. I've given you guys links to all of these things. So if you are bored on a Tuesday evening um you are welcome to do that tomorrow. Um

022but so I've given you those pieces of of data points um on where this comes from and the why behind why it was imperative that as Kent ISD gives us and provides us with ongoing data as well as the state on an environment specifically for our 3 to 5year-old learners. Um that is the action step that we're expected to take. Right? So as as we go through some of those and I I've provided those in um a linear kind of timeline. So as the information comes out, the expectation increases, right? So we have this expectation. There's a lot of people out there that don't realize that we in the state of Michigan are unique um to the rest of the the nation. We are the only state in the nation that provides special education programs

023or services birth through age 26. Um there are five other states or six other states that do birth to three. Um but there are no other states that do 22 to 26 year olds. So we have this kind of unique thing that happens in Michigan that we're expected to do things um based on our own laws that um add some responsibility. So that's where kind of this concept of least restrictive environment and 3 to 5year-olds come in. Um in Kenta ISD our our intermediate school district and we partner on our birth to three population. We do um house some programs for the Kent ISD and our birth to three population. as an example, um our our bright beginnings program and our play groups that happen for um families and children that are uh born with

024a disability and some that are not but still want to participate in our play groups. We open it to everybody, but we do house some of that at our early childhood center for birth to three. The majority of our responsibility kind of picks up from anywhere from two and a half um and on. So one of the expectations is increasing how we provide services and where those services are provided particularly for those 2 and 1 half to 5year-olds. Um so that's what this is kind of all about. So what is the change? Historically I'm going to throw some numbers at you. I've given and we'll walk through what they mean but historically in Cedar Springs public schools we have operated what's known as 340.1754 programming. That's that self-contained early childhood programming. there is a different

025way to do business, right? Um that is 1755 340.1755 which is early childhood services. That's where we can take the service out of a self-contained classroom into a more generalized general education preschool or early childhood setting and have those services. One thing that I I try to partnership and collaborate with our business office on and I'm sure Marty appreciates that less than he will explain. Um but uh one of the things that I try really hard to do is if I'm asking us to shift, I also ask us how are we going to pay for it and make it the most economical or the most um you know tax responsible way. And so one of the way that 1755 increases our ability to garner um FTE or garner uh uh you know resource flow into

026the district is the amount of time that it takes for us to provide services and equal a full FTE for 1755 is less than what we would do in 1754. So the 1754 programmatic requirements have a higher number of hours to lead to a 1.0 Oft versus 1755 which is a lower number of hours to equal the same thing. So what that means is the state and so some people might look at me and go what does that mean? That means the state has incentivized us in in increasing our students with disabilities to participate at the preschool level in general ed settings. It makes more money for us to do it that way than it does for us to do it the more restrictive. So that's not a real fun way to look at it.

027But I think that there are incentives for why are we doing it? Well, because we have to, but the state and the feds are saying, well, we'll help you do that by allowing more flexibility around how we garner those FTEEs. So, who we've added a teacher. So, again, when I go and make an ask, I say, how are we going to pay for it? So, this is the ask. We in order for us to really increase our locations and our environments that we can provide services, we have to hire another teacher to do that because the law says for 1755 specifically, those services have to be overseen by a fully certified early childhood special education teacher. Chelsea Loper, who historically been our 1754 classroom teacher, um is going to do part of that, but then

028we needed a second person to help share the wealth because we're going to operate both types of programs. So, we are still going to continue to operate the self-contained early childhood program because we have some young children that just need a more significant environment in order for us to provide and and increase their skill set so that hopefully they can go further into early childhood general education programs, but then we still have to have the ability to do the 1755. So, so we've added that as a programmatic change. Our staff have been very very receptive and open and we sent them out this school year on three different um program visits to other districts that are doing 1755 well in the county. And so they came back, they developed um a program that meets the

029needs for Cedar Springs public schools and they've really embraced it and led most of the conversation around what it's going to look like. Our first year we're going to start primarily with GSRP in our own building. So, we're a unique setting here in Cedar Springs where we have nine um GSRP classrooms, which is more than a lot of other districts around us have. So, that it increases our ability to have more classrooms for us to integrate in and support. Um which is why it's still important for us to have PAR educator support because when the teacher is not in that classroom with the GSRP, the students still are. So, we're going to offer a little bit of support when the teacher's not there to help provide just additional stability within the classroom structure. Um, why

030are we offering it? So that we can increase our full continuum as it relates to early childhood special ed. I gave you an LRE document that it's the called the 2023 MDE lease restrictive environment. If you're wondering what a full continuum looks like, that document's a really good um learning tool to help explain what a continuum looks like, whether that's any special ed student within our district. questions about that so far? All right. So, introduction to Michigan ECSE. I've kind of already talked about this. Our goal is to provide a free appropriate public education, FAPE, and the least restrictive environment. So, least restrictive environment we talk a lot about. There's not a lot of um opportunity for us to share what that looks like in action. basically what the law says and I'm not I

031won't rattle off numbers to you but there's a section of the law that talks about um what LRE looks like in action and it talks about um to whatever extent appropriate a student with a disability should be educated with non-disabled peers to whatever extent appropriate is what the law reads um but then they go on to show us and tell us what appropriate looks like. So when we think about our responsibility of a free appropriate public education, it's how do we define that word appropriate as it relates in this particular case specifically our three to five year old learners. So we have lots of information on what helps us lead to what that appropriateness looks like. And the least restrictive environment portion of that is how do we use and foster emotional cognitive social growth

032um in a way that is with non-disabled peers to whatever extent appropriate. There's two pathways I've already talked about 340 1754 and 1755. Um, just a a note, Michigan's the only state that has birth of 26. So, I talked about that. Um, this I've already talked about. So, the requirements under um 1754 is where the law literally states. So, if you look up 340754 in in Mark's rules, Michigan administrative rules for special ed, you will find this definition um for minimum one teacher, one assistant, it's capped at 12. the minimum of 144 days and 360 clock hours particularly for 1754 comes right out of our pupil accounting manual. So it's just kind of giving some descriptors as to what that looks like and what the difference are. The full-time equivalent there is divided by 450.

033So the 360 clock hours with within 144 days doesn't give us a full FTE. That's the minimum a program has to operate. If we operated that program, we would get roughly a 6 to8 FTE for each student. We always operate in in any program that I oversee as a 450h hour program so that we get a full FTE for those students. Um what is it best for? So 1754 really is are children who require intensive daily heavily structured self-contained environment. These would be our our earliest learners who are you know significantly impacted by their disability. So that general ed environments might be overwhelming or they need just a larger space um without 20 other students in the room and they or they need more um of a sensory kind of decreased environment. So that's typically

034what it's for. Conversely, 1755 is exactly what we talked about. It's delivery of those services and general education. Now, um like I said, we're initially focusing on our GSRP programs. Um, if you look at that 1755 guidance document that I shared with you in um, hard copy form, it talks about other environments, Head Start as one of them. So, I've already connected with our Head Start here, North Kent Head Start um, on White Creek and we're looking at next year also increasing our um, kind of uh, reach out to them for 1755 services. But really, we could do it anywhere. um it's about where the service is and who's providing it versus that it has to be locked into one location. So if we expand this out, we hypothetically could um look at also providing

035services in daycarees. Again, the problem that we have is a resourcebased problem, right? The more locations we increase to, the more staffing we need to be able to do that, right? um just the requirements. It's provided by an early childhood specialed teacher uh who is approved and then it's also provided in collaboration with our speech and language pathologists, our occupational therapists and our physical therapists. Um the calculation to that and this is where you can do that compare and contrast piece with um it's a minimum of two hours for 72 clock hours over the school year. If we offer um that program for five hours a week, right? So we're pushing into GSRP classrooms five hours a week. for every student we do that for, we're getting a full FTE. Um, so that it's just

036a little bit of a different look. This is best for ch I'm going to say it this way. This is best for most children. Um, because I think it is truly best for students to be participating in programs with non-disabled peers at every opportunity. Uh, and that's my last slide. One little note, um, I think to to just kind of drive some of this home is we really do have this obligation and it's how do we frame it? how do we do the work and how do we ensure that our staff are prepared to do that work? But our goal is to collaborate with as many parents and as many community um opportunities for early childhood to make sure that our students with disabilities are supported as they come into kindergarten. Questions? >> I go

037ahead. >> Oh, just one question. I I'm just curious between birth 1754 and 1755, would that be parents really choosing which which best fits their child or would there be some guidance or placement? >> So placements never let let me frame it this way. Placement's never a parent's choice, right? What we want parents to understand is where is your child typically going to be, right? Um, so if you tell us that that your child is going to be typically in a GSRP general ed setting, that's where we'll provide the service. Um, so it's not really whenever we go more restrictive, right? So if you look at that continuum, we've got low restriction or lower lesser restrictive that would be in a general ed preschool or a daycare. And then we have higher restrictive which is

038the 1754 which is the most restrictive self-contained early childhood program. We really need to be basing that off of child need versus parent choice, right? And I know that that's a struggle for some parents to hear, but we have an obligation under federal law to provide children with disabilities and opportunity to whatever extent appropriate to be with non-disabled peers. Parents and we don't have the right to check that off and say it's a choice. So, we really lean into the IE process um in order to inform what we should be doing for that student. Does that does that it's it's complex. I know that because uh primarily because I have parents every day and staff members every day that would love to dictate that and quite frankly administrators every day that would love to dictate

039where students are educated. We just have to lean into least restrictive environment to whatever extent possible. >> What is the reach out for the school of look like for us as a district? Like what's that going to look like? So, we already we've been ongoing doing child find um activities around our general ed preschools within our our resident area, right? So, we kind of reach out to the the daycare center right downtown. We reach out to doctor's office. So, we have a good relationship with Pine um uh Pine something family. What is that? I can't think of what is it. >> White County. >> White Pine. Thank you. White Pine Family Medicine in town. Um we have a really good relationship with Head Start. Um we also have a statewide childf find kind of um

040process. So we are already doing the child find reach out is it it's comprehensive but it's not perfect. Other questions. It's a celebration because our one we're doing a lot of better work around um environments for preschoolers and environments for young children. But our our staff are also excited. So I just think that that should be no. >> Thank you, Deon. >> All righty. Moving on to discussion items. Our first discussion item is L429, property tax with money. All right. So, this is kind of the first of three presentations that I have uh for you. So, uh if you need some coffee or get some water, now might be the time. Uh I will try to be quick, but there is just there's a lot of information to go through. Um, we have both the

041the final budget for the 2526 school year as well as the initial budget for the 2627 school year. Um, as I'm going through, obviously stop me if you have any questions and I will address those um if I can. If I if not, you know, I'll follow up with you u tomorrow. So uh the first of the three presentations is the 2026 tax year truth and taxation uh presentation. This is an annual presentation that I do. Um so what this relates to is the Headley amendment which requires local government units to uh essentially reduce the millage rate if uh the annual growth on existing property is greater than the rate of inflation. So, it's kind of putting a cap on how much revenue a local government can bring in. It can't exceed the rate of

042inflation. And there's a a calculation uh right there in the yellow uh taxable value last last current year lost what divided by 2026 taxable value last 26 additions multiply that then by the CIP. it will calculate a ratio that is then applied to the uh millage rate on the L4029. Uh what the truth and taxation hearing allows a local government unit to do is uh if we don't do this, we don't get to use that CIP multiplier. So it would just be the first part of that formula without the CIP. Generally speaking, that ends up resulting in a bigger a larger roll back and a larger loss of operating revenue. Uh so for 2026 tax year, uh this is the calculation. This is provided by the Kent County assessors. So they provide all the taxable

043values, the 2026 value, uh all these numbers they they provide. So once we do this, we have a ratio of less than one. That indicates that the annual growth on existing taxable value has exceeded the rate of inflation, forcing us to then roll back that millage rate that we had for 2025. If that number was 1.1, then we would not have to do a roll back. But for 2026, it's N966. So we will be rolling back the 2026 uh millage rate. Uh so you know projected revenue districts are allowed to levy up to 18 mills. We historically have not. Um some districts will pass a an operating millage saying we want we're going to pass up to 22 mills. Now, state law would allow only allow them to levy 18 mills, but by passing that

04422, what they're doing is they're rolling back the 22, not the 18. So then maybe 10 years down the road, they finally get to that 18, and then they would renew again at they go back out to the voters, say, "Let's renew the millillage at 22." And you're never losing any funding. for Cedar Springs public schools when we renewed uh three years ago I believe it was maybe two >> 24 25 >> so two years ago one >> no you're right >> yeah about two years ago when we renewed our operating millillage we did not ask the voters to approve 18 mills we kept it at the current level and then since then we've been rolling it back um So right now projected uh revenues at the proposed 17.2685 mills is projected to be uh

045just shy of $3.7 million of operating revenue that the local townships and city of Cedar Springs will collect on our behalf and then remit to us. So you can see it's a pretty substantial difference between uh what we would get if we levied the full 18 ms versus the 17.2685. It's a $177,000. I would equate that to about 1.5 or 1.75 teaching FTEEs. So it's not an insignificant amount of money, but it is important to note that by doing this uh truth and taxation hearing, we are allowed to use that CPI multiplier and that allows us to kind of stop the loss. If we didn't do it, we would lose an additional $104,000. So that would be two and a half FTEEs of teaching staff roughly. Uh so here's just a draft copy of the

0462026 tax rate request for Kent County. Uh you can see uh right there, this was the 25 millillage. Here's the Headley roll back reduction fraction. Um and this will be the the mill rate for tax year 2026. that uh if approved tonight, I will then tomorrow uh send those out to the local townships treasurers and they will they've already prepared their tax roles. Um so, but that's the number that um I have given them. Let them know it's a draft that the board will be taking by voting yes or no. And if voted if approved, then I'll send it out to them and they can send out their tax roles July 1. Um, and then we do have uh Newego County as well because part of our district does uh go into NEGO County. So,

047we're asking the board to take action on the L4029s tonight so I can get that information to our uh local treasurers and they can uh meet their deadline of July 1 having the tax bills sent out. Any questions on any of that? All right, one down B. There you go. All right. So for the 25 26 final budget, keep going. So here's a historical look at our state aid membership. Um this is not necessarily a headcount. Um it is you know some of the students that attend we might not it might not be a one to one head we might get a 0.85 FTE. It it kind of depends on their enrollment level. Um but what you can see is uh we do have a pretty steady decline since the 2019 2020 school year. Um

048fortunately that decline is starting to kind of level off as we've discussed in the past. Um but from the 1920 school year to now we have lost a total of 614 uh FTEES. Uh at at today's state aid foundation allowance that equates to roughly uh $6.2 million operating funds that we uh are no no longer have. So, I just bring that up because obviously when as we're losing students, we we do have to adjust how we operate. We can't continue to have the same number of sections and necessarily we're going to try to provide all the services, but at a certain point, we have to face the reality of $6.2 million is a lot of operating revenue that we no longer have. So, we do have to adjust to uh the the realities of that

049declining enrollment. Um obviously we usually try to do that through uh attrition you know retirements somebody taking another job at a district we'll then assess each position and say all right are we going to replace it yes or no quite often it's yes but if if we have the opportunity and it makes sense then you know we'll when that individual retires we just won't replace that position. So, what's changed since I I think it was February when we did budget amendment one. Uh, starting up at the top, local revenue, that's the biggest change. That's primarily related to the Red Hawk insurance claim. Uh, back in March, we had that windstorm that came through uh blew off a section of the the gymnasium roof at Red Hawk. That ended up being a $260,000 uh insurance claim.

050So, the way it works, we have a $10,000 deductible. So, SE said will be issuing us a check for $250,000. They're just going to withhold that $10,000 deductible. So, that goes down into local revenue as an insurance reimbursement. Uh we also have a a $52,000 adjustment for um interest income. those returns. You know, the Feds had not been scaling down the interest rates as quickly as um I anticipated earlier in the year. So, we have a positive variance there. Uh and then for fuel, one thing, you know, obviously fuel costs are up since uh we last had budget amendment one. Uh but um the Kent ISD who operates the special ed transportation out of Cedar Springs, they use auto fuel. We then uh invoice them for that. So and they basically paid they pay what

051we pay. If we're paying $4 a gallon, they're going to reimburse us $4 a gallon. So I've adjusted the fuel reimbursement from Dean Transportation related to the increased fuel costs. Um, other big one would be a pretty significant change to incoming transfers and others that primarily relates to uh the ISD adjusting our allocation for act 18. That would a$ 187,000 decrease from what they've previously projected. Um, and then we do have a positive variance of $60,000 related to payments for other from other school districts to reimburse us for some us for some special ed uh services that we performed. And then there's a whole whole list of uh ins and outs for the state aid categoricals. um net amount being a a positive variance of about almost $100,000 additional uh state revenue that we we

052will be receiving. Any questions on revenues? All right. So for on the expenditure sites, we had a uh increase of 634,000 on the expenses. 260,000 of that is related to that insurance claim. Um you can see that right there in operations and maintenance. Operations maintenance went up $282,000. That line share of that is that insurance claim. Uh the other two big p uh line items would be an increase for our basic programming. So, that's kind of our gen ed setting, basic instruction, um, as well as a large increase to instructional staff services. Uh, not much change to the percentage of type of expenditure. We're still spending a roughly 41% on our basic programs. Um and kind of the the overall amount percentage that we spend on student kind of uh delivery of instruction student services

053has stayed same stayed relatively the same over the past 3 to four years. So for basic programmings uh we have an increase of $212,000 uh 86 about 87,000 related to wages. So there was a reclass of about 25,000 for section 27 L2 that was the educator compensation uh that the state included in the uh this year's um state law. Um, we have 16,000 for board certified grants. Uh, that's basically we have two teachers who hold nationally board certified certificates. So, there's a grant that we apply for and will receive $8,000 and they basically we pass that on to them. Um, so it's a kind of a additional compensation to those individuals for holding that certificate. um $40,000 for extra duties and some other adjustments that I made at the end of the year. Uh obviously

054every time we have adjustments to salaries, we have adjustments to benefits. Uh purchase services increase 49,000. Part of that's kind of reclassing uh digital textbooks. Historically, that's been budgeted as a supply, but more and more so, uh, our dual enrollment students, they're not buying, we're not purchasing physical textbooks. They're buying online licenses. And the state wants us to not, we don't record that as a physical supply. Now, it's a purchase service, which is a digital kind of software license. So, that's through that $22,000. I took it out of supplies and just moved it up to here. um $23,000 increase for sub cost through EDG staff and a minor inc a small increase for dual enrollment tuition uh supplies. The decrease primarily relates to the digital textbooks being now shown as a purchase service. Uh, and

055then the large one is a $51,000 net increase to tuition that we've we're paying for my school at Kent as well as Michigan Virtual University. Um, added needs, we have a decrease of $46,000. So, this is special education, uh, career tech education and, uh, compensatory ed. So kind of the added needs the interventionist like the tier not necessarily tier three special education interventions but tier two. So we did have a decrease of uh 39,000 for salary and this should say benefits um as well as a small decrease in purchase services to special ed. So that decrease really relates to a position that did end up being filled for career tech. Uh I added $15,000 for the hoop house that is now uh been constructed outside of the ACT science room. And then for compensatory ed,

056we had a small $12,000 net decrease for salary and wages. Um and then a decrease in billing for bright beginnings. Questions? fugal supports increase $45,000 primarily due to a net increase in uh wages and benefits. Um also had an increase for uh ED staff subs as well as we had a speech path who ended up going on maternity leave. So we had to contract a contractual speech path to cover in her absence. Um and then we did have a decrease in our PT services that the ISD bill does. Structural staff services. It's primarily uh professional development, academic services, and student services. Uh we had an increase of $81,000. Uh basically all related to net increases in uh salary and wages. So, we had some uh some PD Ely trainings that we charged to section 30

057or at risk funding. Uh some schedule B extra duty wages and benefits that I picked up and then uh just some general adjustments to the overall wages and benefits for supervision and direction of instructional staff. uh maintenance operations. As I previously me mentioned, the primary driver of this increase is that uh $260,000 uh insurance claim related to the Red Hawks uh roof being blown off. Um slight increase to waste and dispos trash disposal. Uh I think we'll come in a little bit under on our lawn care uh contract. uh pretty significant increase to gas and electric about 20 uh $28,000 primaril mostly gas. Honestly, electric seem to be pretty stable, but that's primarily related to gas. Um and as I mentioned, you saw the the re insurance reimbursement on the revenue side. transportation have a

058$31,000 net increase. Um, you know, a $35,000 decrease to our dean service uh dean transportation services. We had the seven school closures. So, when we have a school closure, we do do still pay uh it's a 70% reduction in what we pay. So, we do have some savings when we have a school closure. Also, Christina has been very good at adjusting routes based on the needs of uh the writership. So, you know, we might have started the year with I I want to say 27 routes where we ended the year with 25. So, Christine is very mindful of all right, how how can I be most efficient with um these routes to save the district money? Um $38,000 increase to diesel. Um, it's pretty we've been we were going through about 3,000 to three $3,500

059of diesel a day for the past I'd say since March. So, a pretty significant increase in the cost of diesel. Um, also a $25,000 increase to our special ed transportation that the ISD will bill us for. Capital Outlay had to increase that uh by about $25,000 to recognize the um consultant fee for the Hilltop abatement. So that's um Northern Analytics. They they're kind of the I would say the architect. They put together the specs that and they do all the testing on they did all the testing for Hilltop. Put together the specs to identify this is what needs to be uh this is where the asbestous is. This is how to remove it and then the asbestous removal company then bid on it and did the the actual work. So, when we add that all

060up, we are now looking at a close to an $800,000 deficit. Um, so two things to comment on that. One thing, one part that's in there is about $425,000 of uh abatement per hilltop. So, that's something that doesn't happen, that's not an annual cost. Um, and then we also opted out of section 31A funding which was I want off to the top of my head $450,000 roughly. So we have those two items there. We are right about break even. So uh and we are still in very good position at 29 28% fund balance. Um but you can see you know we're we really built fund balance really got built up during COVID and we will as we go further to the right of this we will see fund balance starting to uh decline. Ideally we

061would get it to around 20 between 15 and 20%. would be a a good target for fund balance. Any questions on general fund? >> What is abalate? I don't know what abilate is. Um it's a reading um font based uh reading resource that we are using K through five or sorry K through two kindergarten first second uh grades um and it's really just a tool goes hand inand with our CTA curriculum to support the standards and um objectives for those three grade levels. >> So, it's a support program. >> Yeah. Intervention tool. >> Yeah. >> All right. Uh on to community services. So, this includes uh preschool, tuition based preschool as well as campus kids. Uh so compared to the initial budget that I would have presented this time last year, uh preschool tuition is

062down by $39,000. Um and but campus kids tuition is up 13.7. Uh we also have a positive uh variance for interest income of about $11,000. Um section 147 revenue is down seven. Um, and then I added roughly $10,000 for the section 29L2 revenue, that educator compensation, because those are those individuals that work in preschool and work in campus kids. They're they're educators. They all qualified for that funding and we thought it was important that they receive uh part of those those dollars as well. highlight uh for expenses. Staffing expenses did increase by a net amount of 16 point or 19.6,000, but that was offset. We had a significant decrease in purchase services of 47.5. Uh last year we had budgeted for the reading port um knowing that there was a grant that was outstanding, but

063we didn't know if it was going to come through. So, I did budget for that. Well, that grant ended up coming through, so we didn't have to pay for it. So, that was a very positive variance. Um, and then increase of miscellaneous expenses by 6.4 or $6,400. So, right now, we're projecting uh a positive net surplus of roughly $20,000. So we are really starting to kind of uh write the ship on the community service and you know that's a a standalone fund that has to be self sustaining. So we're we're in that going in the positive direction for community service and a lot of that work is being led um by Kim Morton and on the preschool side Dan Brandt. So, uh, and still a very healthy fund balance of, uh, roughly 59%. Uh, food

064service. First thing I want to point out is our food service staff served just under half a million meals this school year. If we didn't have those seven school closures, we would have exceeded half a million. So, we are feeding a lot of we're we're we're putting out a lot of breakfast and a lot of lunches and getting food in a lot of kids' mouths on a daily basis. So, the food service definitely uh deserves a lot of kudos for that because they work hard. Um so, universal breakfast and lunch free universal breakfast and lunch continued in 2526. Uh we did have a increase to revenue of about $12,000. Uh expenses increased by 94. Uh we still have a robust fund balance. Um you know, I'm I'm still taking out the $90,000 of indirect costs

065that service will transfer to the general fund. Uh so that does kind of put us at a $60,000 projected deficit. Um but if you recall we have to maintain our fund balance under a certain level or the state will say well you have excess fund balance you have to spend it. So by doing this we are staying uh slightly under that allowable excess cost. So we won't get a letter from the state saying you have too much money you have to spend it. And we still have a healthy fund balance of 28%. Student activities, this is kind of a this is a guess, you know, based on historical data. You know, when Brent was FFA director, he was very good at, you know, having leading the kids in fundraisers. Um, I don't really necessarily know

066what dollar amount will be coming in until it comes in. So, you know, this is really based off of where we are at May 31st plus what do I expect to come in in June, those kind of final deposits. Um, so right now I'm budgeting for a $7,000 surplus. If if more comes in between now and the 22nd, I will adjust this and um that will kind of get it a little bit closer to the actual where we will end the year at. But continue to have a very good uh fund balance. Debt bonds. Uh we did we will be closing out the 2016 A refunding bonds um because we did the 2026 refunding bonds. So this is a new you did not see this uh budget uh this time last year because this did

067not exist. So um so here you can see for this 2026A we will be closing it out. Any remaining funds would be to the distributed to the existing funds. Uh, and we still have, you know, about $100,000, a little more than $100,000 in fund B projected fund balance at June 30th between those six remaining debt service accounts. All right. capital projects. Um for the sinking fund, we are in I am increasing expenditures related to the demolition of Hilltop. Um 271,000 is onethird of the approved uh budget for Hilltop. To be frank, I'm going to increase this based on the speed that they are operating because they might that might be 100% done before June 30th based on how the fast they're moving. I mean, building is half gone in one day. Now, >> I I

068I think some of the I think some of the earth work might take a little bit longer, but I'm probably going to make this about 75% complete. uh when you see this on two weeks from now. >> So uh but right now based on this I would have about $1.75 million remaining in fund balance going into next year for the uh capital improvement fund. Right now I I don't think we'll need to uh use any of those funds. So originally I put4 million as a placeholder. I don't think we'll spend any of it. So we'll just carry that fund balance into next year for the 2026 bond construction fund. Uh we are getting very close we will be very close to fully spending this down by the end of this year and it will definitely

069be spent next year. Uh so right now based on uh the revenues based on uh earnings through May and projected for June uh expenditures are based on the actual expendit expenditures incurred through the May pay app and then with a projection for June. So, um you know, we're about $2.7 million ahead of where the um draw schedule was last year at this time last year. So, we're making progress on uh the bond projects. So, you know, this is the first read. There's still information coming in. We're still receiving some smaller uh invoices, but like I said, the there's still information. The year is not over. I will adjust these budgets if anything significant happens, such as they more or less complete the hilltop de demolition, I'll adjust the budget. If anything else significant happens, I

070will adjust it and present those changes to you on the 22nd. Any questions on the 2526 final budget? >> No questions. Thank you. >> You need I need to break. >> Yeah. Stand up. Kind of get the wiggles out. >> These chairs are so comfortable. me just this is some stuff. So, >> all right. So, looking forward into next school year. Our new fiscal year starts uh July 1. So, uh this slide is part of the budget hearing uh and required related to that truth and taxation uh hearing. Uh basically it's saying you know we intend to levy the 17.6 uh 17.2685 mills on uh nonhomestead and non-qualified agricultural properties uh for the operating purposes of the school district. So nonhomestead if your second home is in Cedar Springs you will be paying this. If

071you own a business you will be paying this. But if your business is agricultural, you would be a exempt from this. So, so kind of going back to last month, um twice a year the state holds what's called the consensus revenue estimating conference. And this is basically where the the legislators kind of collectively will get the numbers that they have to work with uh as they set the upcoming fiscal year budget. Um so essentially and they look at the general fund general purpose as well as the school aid fund. High level the general fund general purpose budget is under intense pressure right now. school aid fund is very, you know, they adjusted revenues up. Sounds great except for anytime the general fund, general purpose uh budget is uh under pressure, they're going to they're going

072to reach their hands into that cookie jar and start taking cookies from the school aid fund. So, even though we have more funds available, guess what? They're going to use those funds to cover shortfalls in the general fund. Um they do that by borrowing money from to cover the costs for higher ed and uh community college. So this practice started back in 2009 and 10 for the C community colleges and 2011 and 12 respectively for higher ed. And it was it was it was intended to be a loan, right? So, you know, here's that Dumb and Dumber reference. You know, that's as good as money. Those are IUS because, you know, it was supposed to be a 5year loan. Well, we're 15 years in and there's 11.3 billion bow. Um if if they hadn't loaned

073out the $ 1.34 billion in 2526, that'd be an additional $974 per pupil. Um roughly that could be available for K12 students. Uh for Cedar Springs, that'd be $2.9 million of additional revenue that we could uh put into the classroom. So it it's a significant amount of money. Um, but I I I think we will be contending with that for the, you know, this list will continue to grow and I I don't think we'll ever uh be able to cash in those IUs. So, but that is kind of a we're definitely watching it and it's definitely a physical constraint on K12 the K12 system. So, some assumptions, you know, right now we're forecasting 10,300 per student. That'd be a $250 increase over last year. Uh for state aid membership, I'm projecting uh we'll be down

07441 FTEES. That does include uh I added 15 new FTEEs related to the um Cedar Springs virtual and homeschool program that Kim Morton is working on. So, we kind of projected, you know, we're not at break e I don't think we'll be at break even this coming year. I we budgeted for 15 FTEES. We wouldn't quite cover the cost of that program. I think if I remember correctly, 25 20 to 25 was a kind of our break even point. Um but we were, you know, this past year came with building the program. This year we're going to launch it. We're hoping year two is when we hit that, you know, we'll we'll see those numbers grow and um we'll be able to really serve uh those families that have made those choices to elected to

075homeschool. We'll be be able to provide them some services as well as provide a viable option for the the families that uh elect to do virtual school. So, I bolded some of the kind of general assumptions that I made within the budget. Uh, across the top, I think $250, it seems to be a pretty locked in number. All three budgets have a $250 increase to the, uh, foundation allowance. Um, we'll continue to receive section 22L transportation funding, uh, probably at the $125 million level. For us, that was, uh, $460,000. So, that'll be what I roughly budgeted for 2627. Uh, the other big one would be the section 31A categorical, at risk categorical. um it'll probably land between a five and 6% increase to that funding. Um I used 6%. So from a revenue perspective, um

076right now I'm projecting we will be down uh $550,000 uh large lar largely due to state aid uh state revenue. Um first looking at local revenues that's being down $18,000. That's deceiving though because I earlier I talked about the $250,000 of insurance uh reimbursements. Well, obviously we're not going to get hopefully we don't have any large claims this coming year. So, we won't be receiving a quarter million from our insurance company. So, that really kind of skews that number. Um but if we look, we have $342,000 increase to property taxes. I am again projecting a decrease to interest income and then a $37,000 decrease to miscellaneous revenues as well as that insurance reimbursement going away. Uh state aid I have it being down half a million. Um, we have a decrease to our foundation allowance

077because I am number one that $250 increase is not quite it's not at the level that we've been receiving. We've been receiving 350 400. Um, also so now we have fewer students. It's not growing as quickly. The large chunk of this being down is a $658,000 decrease related to section 27L2 that educator's compensation that we paid out as well as section 27 L4 that related to a 3% uh health care subsidy that went back last year employees who were in that retirement plan they were paying for out of their paycheck. It was an responsibility of the employee based on the plan that they were in. This year, the state said, "All right, those employees no longer have to pay that 3%. The district's going to, but to offset that, we're going to give them additional

078funding to make them whole." for 2627 the district will continue to pay that 3% for that retire uh healthc care subsidy but we will no longer receive that offsetting revenue so it's really a 3% increase to our um our expenditures uh I have section 27 L or I'm sorry section 297 enrollment stabilization that's a slight increase. Um, but it's kind of as that the enrollment decline goes down, that's going to start to dwindle smaller and small. Good problem because then we're getting the full FTE's amount. Um, do have a $400,000 increase to section 31A. Uh, that's that 3% increase that I mentioned on the previous slide. Um, and then we also have some deferred revenue. So, revenue from this current year that we won't spend that we can roll into next year and spend in

0792627. Um federal revenues I have down collectively $155,000 um $90,000 decrease to title funding. That's kind of that's a pretty conservative number. uh title funding, you can you can bank on 85% of your previous year's funding. That's the hold harmless amount. So, that's what I budgeted. Generally speaking, we will receive essentially 100% of our prior year, but to be conservative, I'm using that hold harmless number of 85%. Um we have $86,000 related to that filter first grant where we went through and replaced all the filters on the drinking fountains. Uh that grant is wrapping up so we will not have that revenue uh next year. Um transfers and other is up 122,000. That's primarily related to an increase to our act 18 revenue from the ISD. Uh on the expenditure side, I have a net

080decrease of 1.1 million. Um that's largely driven by uh the the retirement rates that the state has adopted uh are I want to say on average 2.5% less than uh last year or this current years that we're closing. So what we're paying for retirement benefits is going down slightly. Um also as as you know a 25 year 30-year staff member as they retire well those individuals are in kind of the highlevel expensive retirement pension plans. So their rate might be 30%. as we bring in as we replace them and bring in new staff. Well, they have two options. They have the pension hybrid plan and pension plus or basically a defined contribution plan. That's about a 3.5% uh difference in, you know, 30% versus 26.5. So, as individuals retire, not only are we, you know,

081saving on the salary, but the retirement expenses, you know, we're starting to capture those lower retirement rates as we move along and as those demographics shift. Uh so some basic assumptions we have an agreement with the CSEA that uh they will receive steps plus two and a half to the base. Um we do have some projected reductions in the number of sections. Uh I want to say two less um two less in the elementary level. Um and then some reductions at the secondary level as well as we kind of try to kind of consolidate some of our offerings. Uh support staff and everybody else is following along with the CSEA agreement. So everybody will receive you know two and a half% to their base as well as a step um healthcare insurance health insurance uh

082hard cap increased by 3%. uh kind of an asterisk is that one House Bill 6058. That's still a possibility. That has not been settled in court yet. But for this, I am going with the 3% hard cap increase. Uh but if if House Bill 6058 came to be a reality, that could be a 10% increase year one. Um so that's something definitely we need to keep our eye on. As I mentioned the the retirement rates are decreasing. Uh the UAL rate was decreased from 15.1 to 13.1. Um that also the the one the UAA rate we get section 147C from. So that's an in and out. So if they charge us less we'll receive less. But at the end of the day, nets to zero because if we receive $3 million from the state, we

083pay OS $3 million. So it's a it's a wash. But um we do have a slight reduction in curriculum supplies, uh tuition and dual enrollment textbooks, and then operation uh operational capital outlay. some staffing changes. Uh at the admin district office level, we are up one. Uh that's a new 612 literacy coach. Um and then if you look down at under CSEA, uh the ESL elementary teacher, the English second language teacher, that's a new position. Both of those positions we're adding as a response to new laws that have passed. Um, so those are two positions that the district has to add, but it's not necessarily being funded for. The literacy coach position is part of the dyslexia law legislation. Um and the uh other position related just to uh helping us be in a better

084position in regards to compliance for the new legislation current. >> Yeah. So CSA we're down at net 1.4 FTEES. We had nine retirement. Uh seven of those positions we are filling. We're adding six new positions. uh we had three resations uh as I mentioned we eliminated two sections at the elementary level um and then kind of amongst various shifts another reduction of point4 FTEES um this is still fluid so you know we will earlier today Dan mentioned we might need to open up a second another ASD classroom based on uh some of the needs that have been identified. So, this this is as of now. Um support staff down FTEES uh had five unfilled uh part-time facility care positions that I took off the books. Um we had two one-on-one aids that their the students

085that they were working with that required that one-on-one service have graduated. So, there's no longer a need for those positions. Um, we do have two new ASD aids and then we were down one uh a ESL aid. So, we're adding an ESL teacher, but we are dropping a ESL aid position. >> Um, one of the new school counseling positions is um position that will serve beach and cedar few. Um Kim who checked the position that Devon spoke of her presentation last year was a K5 school counselor that was really a6 position. It wasn't a full-time position. It was full-time FTE will be dedicated to Cedar Trades. So we're substantially increasing the overall school counseling support at the K5 level. um but also adding that uh mental health counselor. Um that position will be um a

086position that we will utilize primarily uh grades four through eight in terms of providing more of a consistent or clinical type of um support measure for students. But that individual would easily be able to pick up students um based on need at the 912 roads for so trying to uh match needed across the district by school counseling and clinical housing supports >> for basic programming. we have a net decrease of $652,000. It's really kind of these three items right here. Um close to a $400,000 net decrease to overall benefits primarily related to the retirement decrease in retirement expense as well as health care uh health insurance and cash and loop. So another you know as I mentioned though when we replace a staff a retiring or staff member uh is leaving we bring in a

087a new younger staff member they generally generally speaking they either elect cash inlue or single subscriber um because if they're fresh out of college they might be 22 23 years old while the person who just retired might have full family or um twoerson health insurance. Well, health insurance the way it works, you know, having two people is just about as much as having a full family because they assume for the most part that double subscriber are older individuals that will have higher health needs. Um, so another kind of built into the overall budgeting model is as we bring in new staff, lower retirement rate and for the first five to six years lower health insurance cost because they'll be single subscriber or cash in loom. So instead of paying $22,000, we might be paying $7,000.

088Um $126,000 decrease to my school at Kent tuition payments. So we have about I want off the top I had 12 to 13 seniors who will grad who graduated through the my school at Kent virtual program. With the launch of the Cedar Springs virtual program, any new student who wants to do virtual, we will enroll them in the Cedar Springs program. any stu any existing student who chooses and is success currently being successful within my school at Kent, they can continue that through their high school career. Um, but as they drop off and we bring in new people, we will enroll them in the Cedar program. Um, and that will be a pretty significant savings overall for the general fund. added needs. So, a special added intervention, uh, an increase of $19,000. Uh, large decrease

089related to section 27 L2. Uh, we have a $164,000 increase for salary and wages. Small adjustment net decrease for benefits. Um, and then, uh, I have a I budgeted an additional 50,000, which ended up being a net increase of $35,000 for a plan purchase of a new a science FFA tractor. Drupal support had a net increase of $143,000. Um, primarily driven by increase net increase to salary and wages. We're adding two FTEEs there. Um, small adjustment to benefits. Um, and you'll see a common theme throughout is a decrease in wages and benefits related to that 27 L2 uh, rants that I don't anticipate having next year. Uh, instructional staff services. So that again professional development, academic and student services have a $283,000 increase um primarily driven by in $24,000 increase for salary and wages. We

090have one new FTE there. And then th this year I had Kim, she was charged the community service because she was doing a lot of community outreach as she was building the virtual school and the homeschool program. Well, now that she's now that we're launching this program, now it's going to be she's supporting instructional practices. So, it's no longer community service. So she's moving from the kind of basically the bottom of the last line in the budget kind of into the middle. So that's why uh she's part of reclassing where we charge her as a large part of that $24,000 increase. Along with that goes increased in benefits. Um and then we do have a a net decrease to purchase services. So, some software licenses and PD uh general administration slight increase uh pretty significant

091increase to the school administration. Uh that would be the office of the principles for all of our buildings. Uh primarily related to section 272. Uh there is a $29,000 decrease in wages. Uh so we have um our obviously our two our middle school principal and AP are moving into elementary roles. So we then we'll have a new middle school and new middle school AP they will both be coming in at lower uh steps or so instead of being step five they might be starting at step one. So we have some savings there. Also some uh there was some overtime last year. So uh business services had a slight increase of just under $9,000. Uh operation maintenance and security had a significant decrease. Again, primarily related to that $260,000 uh insurance claim. Uh, also I had

092a about a $170,000 net decrease related to capital outlay. I mentioned earlier filter first. That project is being wrapped up this fiscal year. Also, we had uh the section 31A cameras. Those were primarily completed last summer, but some of that project rolled into the new fiscal year. was wrapped up before school started, but we still did recognize uh about $80,000 of work. Uh so that project is done. We don't have that budgeted uh for next fiscal year. Transportation increase of 118,000. Um that primarily right now is driven off of uh an increase for Dean Transportation. I have a significant increase for uh gas and diesel. I I think prices actually have started to go down a little bit, but it's still $4 a gallon for diesel. Um how much longer will will we will it

093be $4 a gallon for the entire school year? I don't know. Um but as of now, that's why I'm kind of assuming based on historical numbers. Uh, and then we also have a $41,000 increase for special ed and homeless transportation support services. We had $64,000 increase to salary and benefits uh and $14,000 decrease to plan per uh PD athletics. Uh this increase is primarily driven off of uh increased uh purchase services. So any coach that is not a regular full-time employee, we uh have them sign up through Etu staff and there's some pretty significant savings there because they're not put into the retirement system. uh community services. Uh discussed earlier, we're moving the director of extended learning opportunities and instructional uh opportunities to an instructional staff services. So that's a $186,000 decrease. And then finally,

094Capital LA, a decrease of 513,000 uh 88,000 related to the high school PA clock system that was completed last uh this this year as well as uh obviously we will not have to abate Hilltop again because Hilltop will be gone maybe by the end of the month. So, right now I'm projecting a $235,000 deficit um still a very healthy fund balance um of just over let's say 29.5%. Um so actually our fund balance percentage is going up slightly from where I project it ending the 2526 school year. This is all based on the information that I have now and the revenue is definitely an estimate. Right now, you know, two months ago, they said the House and the legislators, they they didn't want to have a repeat of last year and go into October. Now,

095we're kind of starting to wonder if it's going to be July or August before we really know what our our funding is. But so this is our best educated assumptions that we have at this time. So what I present in January or February will be different. Any questions on general fund? All right, moving on to community services. We're in the home stretch now. So preschool, we're going to continue offering uh AM preschool Monday, Wednesday, Friday. uh any salary adjustments are in line with what everyone else throughout the district will be receiving. Um same with campus kids. Uh we are increasing campus kid rates to be in line with neighboring districts and uh providers. Um and then we did switch to a lower cost but more functional software. And then one other change that we made,

096we're no longer going to absorb that 3% credit card processing fee. Uh that ended up being 15 to $17,000 annually, but we did give families an option to resume paying by check. So if they don't want to pay that 3%, then they can write us a check. Now, if if they we start having issues with stale checks, we will address that or bouncing checks, we'll address that with the individual family versus cutting it off for everybody. So, we are trying to find a way to save families some money on that. Uh with all that said, we are looking at a just under a $50,000 uh surplus. Um, you know, there are some capital needs that Kim would like to see for community service. Right now, we don't or not community service. Yeah, community service, but

097specifically campus kids. Right now, the playground that we have at the early childhood center really is more of a uh early childhood playground. So, preschoolers, the ECSC kids. We don't have a playground right there that's more geared towards kind of our elementary level kids, you know, K6, which is our population of kids that come to uh campus kids. So, we're going to see how this year plays out and then next year we might look at um asking the board to consider some uh capital uh projects related to uh campus kids playground equipment. So, uh food service. We don't have the 2026 27 uh reimbursement rates yet. Uh but we do anticipate that universal free breakfast and lunch will continue. That was included in all three budgets. Um and that's that's probably one that's going to

098be pretty hard to walk back um from a public relations uh perspective. No. So, uh, revenue assumptions right now assuming the rates remain the same and we will continue to serve right around that half million dollar meals per year. Um, they do have increases for personnel and supply costs. So, right now we're just just north of break even at about a $70,000 surplus. Uh one thing of note, I do not right now anticipate taking any indirect recovery. Uh we and this will will still be below that excess cost uh threshold, but we'll we'll keep an eye on that as the year progresses. Uh student activity, I mentioned before this one is really kind of a a best guess based on historical uh numbers. Right now, I'm saying, "All right, we'll probably historically we kind of

099add $5,000 uh to fund balance each year." But this is really one of those as funds are raised, we should be spending on those kids who raise those funds. Uh debt bonds. Now, as I mentioned, we've dropped off the 2016 refunding bond, so now we only have three of them. Um we are still in the borrowing mode for the school bond loan fund. Uh so we will be borrowing again in April to make our May debt debt service payments. Uh the October, November debt service payments. Uh we will have plenty of uh tax revenues that have been remitted to us that we can make those payments but in May we will be borrowing. This budget is based off of projections that Baker Tilly public financial adviserss provide us. Um so taking their information and putting

100it in this format capital projects funds. Um, so based on all of the projects that we have currently going, uh, we're going to use the scing fund and the remaining school bond uh, construction fund. We're going to use them in tand tandem to complete these the remaining projects. Now, this is kind of the worst case scenario because there are uh several hundred,000 within the approved budget for cont various contingencies that um those are kind of like the worst case scenarios, but to put it in perspective, we recaptured $600,000 of contingencies on the beach project. So this is kind of the if we have to pay out the full budget on all the remaining projects. Uh so this includes you know cap campus improvement phase two. So the roads, the sidewalks, uh the pickup around Cedar

101Trail, parent pickup loop, uh the Hilltop demo and the greenhouse. Uh again, currently not projecting needing any of the capital improvement fund dollars. Uh and then this is spending down the remaining 2026 uh school bond, school building and site construction bond series 2 funds. Again, we'll be using the remaining funds, these remaining funds with the syncing fund in conjunction to complete those projects. Uh, one thing to note, and I do need to uh do a little more research on, we will have to pay, I mentioned this before, we do have that $640,000 related to arbitrage that we will have to pay the IRS. Um, that's basically the IRS saying, "All right, we allow you to issue tax-free bonds, so you get a favorable rate, but if you earn too much, we want our piece of

102it." You know, they're going to find their ways to collect their revenue, and that's how they do it. So, it's while we have to cut a check, it's kind of a good pro problem because that means we earned some significant uh investment earnings on the 23 bonds that allowed us to do that much more. Um, but my intent is to pay that out of the general fund. Um, and it's really it's really really related to the um uh Davis Bacon prevailing wages. Um, so I kind of can maximize the more I use these funds, the more I can maximize the amount of work that can be completed with it. I don't what I need to look into is when that arbitrage payment will be due to the IRS. Off the top of my head is

103want to say it's three years later, but you can pay it off as soon as you want. Um, so if we end up paying it next year, that would be an additional cost to the general fund. um that we would recognize in during amendment one. So again uh by law board is required to pass the budget by June 30th. So we will be asking uh you to take action at the 2 uh June 22nd meeting. Again if anything changes I'll update uh have a slide that shows any changes and we'll discuss those and then ask for action. That's it. >> One thing that is important to note, you know, Marty did budgets the series of assumptions, right, and projections. Um, one of the assumptions that was made is that we would be accepting 31A funds

104related to safety, security, mental health. um we turned we said no pay to you those funds in the 2526 school year. This budget is built on us saying yes please for those funds with greater clarity around the language in the 26 27 school. So we'll keep you updated >> and thank you for catching that. That was something I meant to mention. Um, also, you know, that that's still in court, right? I think the plaintiffs are appealing to the Michigan Supreme Court. They haven't ruled if if it doesn't rule in their favor, they're going to go to the federal court. But at the end of the day, if the plaintiffs lose and the state is victorious in this lawsuit, um the likelihood of this these the state using unfavorable language tied to future funding, they basically

105have been given the green light to kind of hold schools feet to the fire and say if you want this funding, you're going to agree to this, you know, waving of right, constitutional rights. So, they will probably start using that more and more. Um, and and you know, right now I'm projecting that being 500 $600,000. Um, if we don't accept that, we we're going to have to have the conversations about services in the future. So, we currently have the fund balance, but start taking out big chunks of it. It does it goes down pretty quick. >> Thank you for attending my Super Bowl. >> Yes. >> So, we're approaching hour two. We need a little quick break. >> Five minutes. All right, we're back and it's 8:05. >> All right. >> And we're ready for

106fun construction updates. >> Yes. So, there are two um uh elements under this uh section on uh board book. So, the first is the the um practice center turf update. So, um, when we first walked into that space after the turf had been installed, um, there was a genuine consensus that we didn't have the right product on the floor. Uh, it wasn't what we initially intended. When we first started talking about putting turf down in that space, I specifically used the words old school Pontiac Silverdome turf. So, we just wanted a carpet. We didn't want a field turf experience and um somehow that was misunderstood uh or mis um um yeah it was just misunderstood by a team at GMBB. What they ended up specking for the project was more of a field turf type

107product which is similar to what we would have uh on an outside venue. This is the type of product that we have outside the practice center, but they also utilize that same product inside the practice center. So, it's a thicker bladed grass product. It has a flowth through backing on it, so water rain could just seep right through the the material and dissipate into the stone, the crushed stone below. But we don't have crushed stone below the practice center floor. we have cement. And so if a student was to vomit on this product, that vomit would just kind of go through the pad and just kind of hang out underneath because it wouldn't dissipate into the the ground uh water or the ground like the the outdoor turf would. Some other issues that we had

108is you'll notice this the backing I'll pass this around in just a minute is a felt type backing. So there's it's pretty slippery. So if you put it on a cement uh substrate, it slides on crushed stone. No, it's it locks in pretty pretty well. But on a on a substrate like we have in the practice center, there's a lot of movement under foot. Um so we notice that regularly. The third thing we noticed is these blades don't want to stand up on their own. Um, so their natural tendency is to fold over when you step on it. So when you'd walk through that space, when they first put the turf down, it felt like you were kind of on a woopy slide um when you were a little person on a playground because your

109footing was really going all over. you were trying to walk in a straight line that you were actually being drawn in one direction or another depending upon how the the the blades of the the turf were uh acting under your foot. So the solution, what they do with this field turf in an outdoor setting is they put a fill, they put in sand or those little um rubber pellets and what that does is that gives these fibers more substance under foot. So it stabilizes, but this is an indoor setting. And so sand in the turf gets tracked into the weight room, gets tracked out into the hallways. Um, if a student was to vomit on the turf, the solution was, well, you just spray it down, vacuum the contents out of the turf. Um, but

110then you'd also be vacuuming out the sand or the fill and then you'd have to put more sand back into that area. So, you'd have to spot fill the material. Um, we just kept saying, "It's not the right product. It's not the right product. it's not the right product. And so, um, we've been working with the GMBBC, uh, Triangle Construction, which has been phenomenal. We also been working with a couple of other vendors. Um, Vic and I spent some time together. We drove over to Meridian High School over uh, near the thumb. Um, we also went to Grand Rapids Community College. We went down to Portage Central High School last week and we we finally found a turf product that we were really originally looking for. Um, and so this turf product, you'll see, has

111a much more uh reinforced backing to it. There's an actual rubber um material that's um that that the turf that is uh adhered to. It's really more like a carpet. Um, you could probably wash your dishes with this. It's almost like a little brilliant pad of sorts, but but that's the product that we were truly looking for in the beginning. Um, better under foot, more secure. This product that you can't glue down. They glue the edges, but they don't glue the center of the product. Because if you glue this whole thing down, eventually the glue you tear the vacuum off the turf. So, if you if an athlete planted to cut, that planting would likely damage the the substrate of the turf um while the while the turf was moving on the under the foot.

112And so, this product glue the whole thing down. It's a much more stable product under foot. So, um we met with um Tim Garretts from GMP Architects Engineering. He's one of their VPs last week and um we presented this to him. We rolled out we met here in the practice center um talked about the wise behind this not working and we said somewhere along the way in the design phase uh on your end of the work this got replaced or or that concept got replaced with this product and it's just not working for us. So, the cost of this product is about $14,000 more than the cost of this product was. This was $55,000 and this is about 69,000. Um, and so what GMBB came back with and Triangle also came back with is they're

113going to cover this mistake for us. So, we're going to be able to get this for a an increase an increase to the total budget for that portion of the product project of about $14,000. Um, but we'll have the right product. This is what we should have bought in the first place. Um, it's just going to be more durable. It's much better for that space. Um, and, uh, the installation window. Um Vic and Diane and the team from uh facilities and operations been working with the supplier. They're going to be able to bring this in. Uh we're slated for installation the week of July 27th. So it was very important to us to get this done before the beginning of school. So the the the team that is providing this product for us, they had

114an opening in their calendar. Um, and as long as we could make everything fly um, uh, in in quick order, they would be able to come in and get this installed for us during the week of that July 27 window. Um, should be a pretty pretty straightforward um, installation. They're anticipating about a week of installation max and then um we need to be off it for about a week to let the adhesive under the under the pads dry for us or cure for us. Um so we're in a good spot. Um the 14,000 will come out of contingency funds. We've already bid it. Uh, so there's no need for approval by the board, but I just wanted to bring you up to speed so you know where we are as far as these two products

115go. Um, the second piece that you have, the second item is just the construction update. Um, as far as the timeline goes, well, that document, as you can see by the progress made at Hilltop today in five hours between, well, four hours between 1:00 and and 5:00 is kind of out the window. They were initially going to start demolition on Friday. So, they were staging their equipment. They they brought in some excavators last week. Um, they brought in their third excavator on Friday. they were dropping them off uh this morning. They showed up at five o'clock with their fencing and their crew uh their team and they started working uh and they reached out at about noon and they said, "Hey, we're ready to go." And we go and uh so we said, "Well, okay.

116Uh let's make it happen." And so they started uh started with the actual demo uh right away. Um, so as Motti uh talked about in the in his budget presentation, you know, we're anticipating them uh moving forward with the progress on that uh portion of the project m much more quickly than what we anticipated. Um, they do have another job uh coming up. Their team is mobilized and they'll be staying over here in West Michigan. They're from the thumb area as well. Um, and so we we're really, you know, looking to see them make some great progress on that uh on that building uh very very quickly. Um, we did get some feedback from the city today about um uh dust, so we're going to be working with uh the triangle team and beerline to

117help uh try to address that uh moving forward. It's supposed to be kind of rainy for the next couple of days, so hopefully that will help knock down some of the dust. But getting back to the the artifact that's in board book, it just showcases all the different projects that we have going on and some uh targeted timelines for each of the different projects. So, shows the project the uh parking lot reconstruction reconfiguration at Cedar Trails, uh the road packages, it talks about the um work that's going to be done back to the baseball softball fields, uh the complex behind Cedar View. Uh and so again, it just kind of gives you an update in terms of where we're headed on some of the projects uh that we've got on site for this summer. Again,

118there it's a it's a plan. Um they try to build in some additional days through the scope just in case they run into uh situations that they were not anticipating. Uh but at least that way in case anyone asks, you've got some uh high level higher higher level uh overview of the progress in times. So any questions on that? All right. >> Okay. Moving forward to the 2526 Superintendent Annual Evaluation. So the artifact included tonight in board book is just the uh rubric that was in place um from our last meeting in May. That's a big document. We tried to give you a lot of time to be able to spend some time digging into it. It's the same document that we used last year. Um you should have gotten an email today from Mark

119Doash and he'll be working with the board again. He'll be coming in on the 22nd. I'll be getting you my um like I did last year my self assessment. um with some artifacts that we would utilize uh during that uh conversation that we had with Mark on the 22nd. Um one of the pieces that we'll also incorporate into that um overall evaluation rubric uh in that process is incorporating some of the data uh from the uh my student voice perception survey results which is the next item down uh on the agenda of 9B. Um Trusty Willlet had asked for some detailed um data from that my student voice survey. So what I included uh in the board as requested um the first item 911 consists of the consortium reports and so that is a combination

120of all the students, all the staff, all the parents that contributed to that survey across the state. So it just kind of gives you a baseline of of information just in terms of it gives you kind of a a comparison. This is where our students were. This is what our uh students or or parents or staff said. This is what statewide the results are coming through on. This is a lot of data. There's over 800 pages of data there. You're not expected as a board of education member to process through this. on uh at our meeting in July, our plan was to provide you with a detailed breakdown and a summary of these data points with some highlevel observations and some trends that we're going to be using during our last school improvement work um

121over the course of the 26 27th school year. So I provided it because it was requested, but don't feel like you've got to go through page by page. We'll be giving you a summary for that. So 9E1 is the consortium reports. 92 is this set of sleep reports and those are broken down Cedar Springs High School, Cedar Springs Middle School. Um it it just goes down. It talks about Cedar View, New Beginnings. Uh student reports aren't going to have uh reports there from Beach and Trails because our beach and trail students didn't participate in the survey. Um but you will see um the parent reports are referenced in each of the buildings as well as the staff reports being referenced from each of the buildings. So 9 E4 is that collection of staff reports. Um

12295 are the collection of parent comments from each of the each of the individual buildings. 96 are educator and staff comments from each of the buildings. So again, it's a lot of information. We're going to be providing a summary at our meeting in July. Um, so if you're a person who loves data, this is a pretty neat collection of files to review. Uh, if you prefer the summary that'll be coming out in July. Is there any questions about that data set? our goals. >> Yeah, that that's part of the July. >> Yeah, we're we're trying to blend and utilize. So, we've got to do um we've got to do continuous school improvement anyway. Uh and so, uh what we are doing is is moving in that direction. So, we're doing one thing. These are the

123school improvement goals. These are the overarching um the overarching uh initiatives that we're going to be focusing on will district level initiatives and also building level issues monthly that yeah um the next piece 9F uh Heidi Sky took a group of our um students our environ that's not a typo it's actually you may know it's a group environ students um took a five member team to a state level competition and our team uh came in first place in the state uh which qualified our team uh to have the opportunity to go compete at a national competition which is actually being held down at um Mississippi State University coming in July. So just a cool opportunity for our kids. Um the total cost for the uh competition they're staying right on campus. Um the total cost

124in competition is $2,300. That includes your lodging, the the meals for the team, um but then also the competition fees. That um $2,300 was um paid for by the farmers insurance agency, I believe. Is that correct? Farmers. >> Yeah. So that that piece was covered. The only thing that we'll have to cover is transportation costs of those students in that month. So, I included a PDF of the events um for you to consider. We're actually meeting tomorrow morning um just to walk through all the details of of the the trial plans. Uh so I'll be giving you some additional information on that. But we are asking for uh approval on this um this pretty exciting opportunity for our kids uh to be able to go out and showcase that if environmental thinking. So any questions

125on that? Okay. Thank you. >> All righty. That brings us to the portion of our meeting where we would have public comment and this is the time for the board meeting and we'll be following up at this moment but superintendent Smith will be following up but we will open um public comment and I do have one person signed up and that would be Russell if you want to approach the podium and we would like to hear from you. I will set my timer for three minutes. That's part of our process so don't be offended by that. >> All right. So, thank you all for uh listening to my speech today. I prepared it uh prior to this. Uh I'm Caleb Russell. I live in Sparta, so pretty close to here. I'm a school of choice

126student currently enrolled at Cedar Springs High School as class of 2027. But before I begin, I would like to make it clear that the speech I'm giving today is in no way caused by teachers pressures or suggestions. I'm simply acting as a representative for the students who have been negatively affected by the alterations of advanced placement classes at Cedar Springs. I am an honoral student. I have completed seven advanced placement classes and I plan to take five more my senior year. And no, it is not meant as a brag, but I simply a statement of their importance to me for me and my classmates. Advanced placement classes serve as a crucial building block that leads into successful education beyond high school. And as you all know, AP classes give high school students the opportunity to

127receive credits before becoming an undergraduate and potentially saving thousands of dollars in the process. Unfortunately, district office has come to the difficult decision to cancel not only AP biology, AP chemistry, AP research, and switch AP literature to dual enrollment. There were 11 students enrolled in AP literature with a minimum of two more who planned to take the class before the abrupt change. Of the 11 enrolled, the switch to dual enrollment schedule does not work for at least five of these students due to the two two-hour long classes, dropping the class to only six students. While class size has a slight positive impact on performance as research supports such as Stanford and the National National Institute of Health among many others, the other AP classes are being cancelled for this exact reason. AP chemistry had 15

128signed up cancelled. AP biology and AP research both over 10 and yet again cancelled. The demotion of these classes to only online or dual enrollment makes difficult classes even more challenging. Not only is it a challenge to fit these classes in reports such as those made by the Journal of Educational Technology and online learning say they're less beneficial with online classes trending to lower performances. Ronald Baron, director of secondary academic services at post-secondary success, told me via email, and I quote, "All we are doing is changing who is teaching the course if the students want the course during the school day." However, for AP literature, dual enrollment is only six credit hours instead of nine, and now it's only two instructional days instead of five. In the words of Cedar Springs faculty member, which I

129will keep their names private to protect their identity, says it's asinine to equivocate five days of instruction into two days. And here's another quote from an entirely different faculty member. The district office doesn't want to hire more teachers to cover all of the classes that we offer. I have several more quotes from additional staff with more opinionated statements, but for the sake of the student focused argument I bring before you, I will not go beyond making it clear students and teachers alike do not agree with the decision district office has landed upon. I reiterate the students point of view is the entire reason I'm here, but it feels empowering to know that several members of Cedar Springs staff agree with the position I and my fellow classmates are making. Is it okay if I have

130a little bit more time to finish? Thank you. >> Appreciate that. Among a large portion of Cedar Springs excelling students, there is a feeling of disenfranchisement. As an incoming freshman, I already had most of my high school career mapped with the help of the counselors and instructors. I remember being told about AP Capstone, and I knew immediately I was set out to complete it. Unfortunately, I found out this spring AP research would no longer be offered in person at Cedar Springs, removing this possibility of capstone without the struggles of an online AP class. And with AP literature not fitting into my schedule, I'd also no longer have the ability to take higher level literature class without sacrificing another AP for my schedule. Now, it might seem like nothing more than an inconvenience, but it's more

131than that. Last year, Cedar Springs boasted an 88% P AP pass rate according to the 2025 2026 annual education report. On top of that, the report also notes in 2024, Cedar Springs had 14 APs offered. And now in 2025 that number dropped to just 11. Especially in times when uh enrollment numbers are dropping and I understand the financial cost of these APs, they are crucial to not only me but my fellow students striving for universities and undecided families who are trying to find a school of best fit for their children. As school of choice student myself, it's discouraging to see the cutbacks occurring that may impede the education of water school students at Cedar Springs High School. Unfortunately, that's all the time I have for today. And I hope you thoroughly consider my argument. And

132while it may be too late for this coming fall, I beg of you, please bring back these AP classes vital for future students. >> Thank you for listening. They do. >> That's the one that >> No. Okay. With that, we'll close public comment. >> Moving on to our action items for this evening. Um our first action item is L429 proing tax and entertainment motion for as presented. >> Any discussion? None. Vice President Bowser. >> Yes. >> Secretary Ken. >> Yes. >> President Gilmore. >> Yes. Slicer. >> Yes. >> Shan, >> yes. >> Willlet, >> yes. >> President Reed, yes. Motion carries. Action item B is 2026 National Conservation Foundation and Virathon competition. It's um pretty much states of what it is in the title. So, I'm going to call it as presented. I would entertain

133a motion. So, move support. Any discussion? Having none. Vice President Bowser, >> yes. >> Secretary Paddton, >> yes. President Gilmore, >> yes. >> Slagger, >> yes. >> Shner, yes. Bullet, >> yes. >> President Reed, yes. Motion carries. That's the end of our action items. And then um for the communication portion of the meeting, I do have an I know that none of you got an email or anything, but I was a community member reached out to me and the data and the question was it were a large community went in on a subdivision versus a data center that overwhelmed the schools. So I consulted with um Scott and we we have room we have room for a lot of students. So the answer I gave to the community member was that would not be an

134issue. We are well situated to welcome more communities and students and that would be fine. So I love there but we have to do that information. >> Thank you. >> I received no additional communication. So, a couple things I'm planning. Our next meeting is June 22, 2026. And then uh I also included uh an artifact the 2025 2026 district event schedule. If you open up that PDF, you'll notice that his name is crossition. A lot of things, >> a lot of things that took place over the course of this week. So, just neat celebration. great uh just a great testimony to the the teachers and the staff that know how they know teachers so hard uh need experiences out there for their students and that doesn't include our our programs just ask okay very good

135with our next meeting there's one second and then everyone notification but um with that we will stand and it is 8:31. Sorry guys.