001Okay. Good morning and welcome to the June 30th special called board meeting. Um we'd like to start with the pledge of allegiance and invitation by Miss Kurszich. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please join me in prayer. Heavenly God, we come before you with grateful hearts acknowledging your wisdom, provision, and grace. Thank you for the opportunity to serve our community and guide the education of our children. We ask for your presence today in this meeting. And as we prepare to make decisions about the school budget, grant us clarity of wisdom and integrity. Help us to be faithful stewards of the resources you entrusted to us. Bless our teachers, staff, and
002families we serve, especially the children. May all that we do here today serve their growth and well-being. And it's in the name of Jesus that we pray this. Amen. Um, up next is the approval of the meeting agenda. Mr. Chair, I'd like to amend the agenda to include a close session pursuant to general statute 143- 318A1 to discuss the confidential student matter. Okay, we have a motion by Miss Wheatley. Do we have a second? I'll make that. Second by Mr. White. All in favor? Perfect. And now, do we have a motion to approve the amended agenda? I'll make that motion. Motion by Miss Chadwick. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second by Miss Wheatley. All in favor? address. How you doing? Perfect. Um, do we have a motion for the consent agenda? I'll make
003that motion. Motion by Miss Chadwick. We have a second. I'll second. Second by Miss Wheatley. All in favor? Perfect. I believe we are now Miss Julie Bernowski for the budget amendment. [Music] Good morning. Morning. So today I have the final budget amendment for you to consider for your approval. This year's closeout um from our end was very smooth. Um there were some problems technologically speaking because DPI is undergoing their modernization. Our software system is not talking to their software system. Um this is not just our problem. Uh link is our software um system and 80% of the districts in the state are using this software. So this was a statewide problem. This was all hands- on deck and this was kind of a crazy last couple of weeks trying to get all of this done
004and reported to DPI correctly. So, I just want to preface everything I'm going to say today by saying our finance team was fantastic getting us through this. And I have our assistant finance officer, Casey Harris, here who I want to thank personally for doing a lot of um moves and everything and working through those problems with our software. So, um I just want to say thank you Um so this is our final budget amendment. Um and as you can see it is hitting the state budget, local budget, federal budget, capital budget, child nutrition budget, and fund 8 special revenue budget. Um the first section that you'll see in the state budget, actually the first three sections are guaranteed aotments. This is for longevity pay, subpay for anyone out on the parental leave of absence, and
005then the highly qualified teaching pay for any teacher who is considered highly qualified. They will get actually paid above what their license certifies at, but the state pays the difference. So, these are guaranteed a lotments. This is just a budget for that guaranteed aotment. Then below that is um an extra $2,700 that came in just last week for some EC funds for uh this is our CPC, our preschool center. And this is just the aotment of that extra revenue. And then the last three sections is um I call them realignments of PRC's. This is to make sure that we don't have any budgetary violations at the end of the year. Since I give you the budget in the beginning of the year with purpose codes, um I have to make sure that all of the
006purpose codes are in the black by the end of the year. So, this is just taking money um for that first section, for example, um $2,000 that we didn't spend in the PT salary, but we were over budget in the director's salary. So, I just moved what we didn't spend to where we actually did spend it to make sure that there are no budgetary violations for the local budget. The first section is the same thing. This is just a realignment of uh purpose codes to make sure we are budgeting where we are spending. Then we also have a lead abatement project that happened at Atlantic school so that we could open the prek classroom in the beginning of the year. and then um prek TA salaries where the aotment coming in from the state is
007just not quite what we are spending on our salaries for prek in the federal program. Um we had some additional uh revenue come in. Uh this was EC revenue. It dropped two weeks ago. So this is the budgeting of that money. Then the rest of it is just again realignments, making sure that there are no budgetary violations to make sure that we are budgeting where we are spending the funds. In the capital budget, we have two new uh repair and renovation um projects underway. So this is just budgeting those funds. in the child nutrition budget. This is um again just a realignment of the entire budget to make sure that there is not a budgetary violation at the end of the year. And um we are not charging indirect costs against child nutrition at this
008time. So this is just reallocating that budget line item up against expenses that they had for the year. And in fund eight, this is again just realignment to make sure that there are no purpose codes in the red at the end of the year. Do you have any questions? I appreciate you so much. I don't think I would be able to sleep at night if I had to do anything with this. So appreciate you and your team so much. Any questions? Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. We have a motion to approve. I'll make that motion. Motion by Miss Chadwick. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Mr. White. All in favor? Perfect. And I think it is still you for the budget resolution. So, um, we do not have a budget resolution for the
0092526 school year. So, what we do is we do a continuing resolution. We will continue to maintain operations based on this year's budget until a budget resolution comes your way. I am hopeful that that will be as early as August, though I can't promise. Um, but this is just to um ensure that we can continue operations until we do have a resolution. I'm sure that's very fun for you. Um, do we have a motion? Motion. Motion by Miss Chadwick. Do we have a second? Second by Mr. White. All in favor? Thank you. Where are we at? Oh, that's a good wrap. Um, I would like to recognize the East Carterette High School baseball team for setting not only a high school record, but a county record for being the only team to have an undefeated
010season. No other high school has done this in the county since 1964. Wow. Awesome. Yeah. Um, our next regularly scheduled board meeting will take place Tuesday, August 5th at 6 PM. And this meeting will be livereamed on YouTube. Um, do we have a motion to move? Um, I move to convene in close session pursuant to general statute 143-318A1 to discuss confidential student matters. A motion by Miss Wheatley. Do we have a second? I will second. Second by Mr. Jenkins. All in favor? Perfect. [Music]