001e e e all right is uh 659 uh we'll go ahead and call this meeting to order with uh please with a reminder to please silence your electronic devices also a reminder that this meeting is being both audio and video recorded um Mr Lauer can I get a roll call please yes chairman Mr Paul Alexander here Dr Shante Jones here miss Ellen sadnick here Mr Michael Cummings here Mr Zach Graham here all right thank you ma'am um Mr Cummings would you care to lead us in a moment of silence Pledge of Allegiance absolutely I pledge allegiance 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 all right thank you sir um do we have any additions
002or corrections to the agenda no additions or Corrections chairman thank you Dr suers can I get a motion in a second for approval of the agenda motion to approve the agenda second motion is second all in favor I okay uh moving on to discuss an agenda the fiscal year 26 superintendent proposed budget presentation okay good evening chairman members of the board um as you know uh the I presented the superintendent's proposed budget um about a uh three or four weeks ago and so we are here tonight to review that budget give you all an opportunity for any last discussion items or agenda items related to it and then hopefully move to um an action item for the budget I do want to point out a few um adjustments to the presentation and then I'm going
003to share with you a few uh questions that you all submitted and the answers so that um not only does the board see those but then the public can see them as well um I do want to highlight I have updated our care solist doc uh uh slide here um it now reflects July through February and you can see uh those numbers continue to increase those are that is our uh 247 365 day mental health care coordination Services um I believe the last slide had um about 50 or 43 total cases and now we're up to 91 so just um you know I think that does show and reflect the uh the need for that continued um resource for our School Division and our community I also want to um point out at the end
004of the presentation in in the last slide our next steps uh we did some adjustments to the calendar to ensure that all of the board members were able to be here for the um vote for the budget and so our uh we're here tonight for the March 3rd Schoolboard uh FY 26 budget adoption um the March 17th will then turn into a regular school board meeting uh as we will adopt the budget this evening so just some adjustments there uh to the presentation and then finally I'd like to go through a few of the question and answers for um that school board members submitted between February 10th and today um we have uh as you know Mr lion had shared a uh a Google doc with all of you um to enter in any questions
005that you might have regarding the budget and then uh we forwarded those to staff members to provide some answers so I'm going to quickly go through and highlight um these questions and the first few are from Miss ladnik um first one was talking about prek and uh do we have any of the um any uh budget in here adding into the prek and the the answer is we are keeping what we have currently um been servicing in our prek U Miss celo has provided uh some information there about the total number of students that we service and we will continue to look to further expand um using mixed delivery Partnerships and different kinds of options that are available just want to remind the board that um prek is not compulsory um it is a separate
006funding source um from our traditional budget and rk12 budget is one funding source and then prek is funded in a different way so that's uh that information is there for you to see uh some information about math coaches and uh math Specialists and U Miss Kelo shared some uh with you specifically some ways in which we are supporting math I know I spoke a lot about literacy in the budget math is certainly a priority and something that we continue to work um towards improving and um she's highlighted here the supports that we have for um for our students in math um the El positions uh I miss ladnik would like to have a little bit more information around uh our process and what we do and how our scores have been over the years this
007is really a a great topic for our academic committee meetings and uh Miss kelsa will plan uh with our staff to provide that information the academic committee and then uh potentially share that with a larger board the next set of questions uh were submitted by chairman Alexander um calling out the different student percentages with with the state averages and you can see here uh Mr L has identified that according to vooe fall membership data collection the overall State percentage of economically disadvantaged students was 43 students with disabilities was 15 and students who are English language Learners were 12 um you can see we're somewhat in line with economically disadvantaged and uh students with disabilities are are similar to us uh our English language Learners is significantly higher than the state average some questions about our
008backup generators uh these backup generators are only intended to provide temporary power for critical infrastructure um and we've been uh talking about making those adjustments uh the food nutrition uh funds uh Mr Alexander asked uh what would we how long would we be able to U basically pay for this ourselves and our original estimate was for the two years uh outside of this year however we understand that there are some changes at the Federal level that could change that and so um we will continue to review that each year as a as a possibility understanding it's both a priority for the school board as well as uh the governing body the question around skipping 2027 for networking infrastructure Mr lion has um provided an answer here uh to balance each of the fiscal years in
009the CIP uh upon the projected transfer year-to-year fund balance in order to make FY 27 balance we skip the year of network trans uh infrastructure we revise the CIP annually and so we look at what the direct needs are for each of our um each of our schools and and all of our infrastructure and so you may see that get adjusted as the years move on and remember the CIP has already been reviewed and um uh approved at a previous meeting but it still is a good conversation to have as part of the uh budget process um some questions about the newly acquired buses and C ceras uh we include cameras cap uh compatible with our monitoring system on all of our new bus purchases cameras in all but two of the buses need to
010be replaced due to video monitoring system being outdated and limited in scope the activity buses have older and different camera cameras and will also need to be replaced Dr Jones has submitted the next set of questions um a lot of these are around potential Federal cuts um at the uh in budgets I've been um sharing with our staffs that uh about 6.5% of our budget is federal funding um in multiple categories our title funds um Title One title two title three title four title 611 um Perkins Falls within that as well as um our food service funds so we receive quite a bit of funds 6.7 6.5% of the budget uh revenues from there so um right now we don't actually have any specific indic indicators that any of those funds have been reduced cut
011changed uh so our projected um amounts for those funds we annually we just roll forward what we've used the previous year what we've been um allotted the previous year if in fact something changes and and again I don't have any official notification of any changes we would have to um review the budget we would have to come back to the Schoolboard um staffwood with a recommendation for a budget amendment and um work through it at that point point but at this at this point we have nothing specific to say that these These funds would be reduced or different than they are today um the the question around do we have an estimate for the budget for substitutes uh with the updated benefits uh the FY 26 proposed budget does include an increase in the in
012the line item for uh for our substitutes by $200,000 and that's to accommodate all of the changes in the different benefits the paid maternity paternity leave the additional days of moving to PTO that's an estimate on our part and we will certainly be continuing to monitor that and review that at the end of the year to see how close we were to that the School attendance resources uh how do we know that the School attendance are they included in this budget um if so do we know how the School attendance resources for this year impacted students attendance um so yes the attendance resources that were in the fy20 budget are carried forward in the FY 26 budget um these resources include our software attendance uh package that we use and the three attendance staff positions
013that are monitoring uh attendance and really having those interactions with parents one-on-one these resources continue to D have a direct impact on our student attendance rates and reducing our chronically absent student percentage which is an indicator for our school accreditation this year um moving into the um the framework for next year um so our midyear data gives us some indicators that uh we are reducing the chronically absent percentage it's less than it was uh last year at this time but we still have the remainder of the year to go so those percentages will not be final until um the end of the year they are critical and we do have them in this budget we will have to continue to see how we uh resource those in the future um if the federal per pupil
014funding goes away are we prepared to cover that cost um no I I mean it would be a significant cost um so any federal funding reductions um would have an impact on our budget and would would require us to propose a budget amendment adding staff to the general operating funds at at this point some staff members are included in those federal funds um particularly Title One um some of title three definitely special education which is title 6 611 6B 611 um so those are all ones that we would have to very carefully look at what needed to then be moved into the operating fund and it would have a significant impact as I said we don't have any indicators right now that there um that anything has been reduced um but should that happen we
015will be coming back to the board and U making a budget amendment and I think that's uh that is a high overview of uh the questions that were submitted it's important that you all get those answers as well as the public sees that you have um been communicating with staff and and asking thoughtful questions about the budget process and with that I think that's the end of our uh update thank you Dr anyone have any questions for or comments before we move on to the action agenda I just have a comment I just wanted to kind of put some numbers I know you mentioned just for the public in the board um I know you mentioned that we are over the state averages in um um in some of those categories so for State e
016is the 43% is economically disadvantaged I went back to the graph that Mr line presented we are 55% uh we're on par with uh students disabilities but our the um English language Learners is 12% for the state we are 45% which I know I kind of went to my question we're adding those L teaching positions so that increase in the budget for those Staffing is really really important even though our population is declining so I just want to to voice that again that uh looking at these numbers it just goes to show the the types of supports that we need for the for those students in our district all right any any other comments I have a couple um I just want to thank U Dave and team the finance committee Dr Saunders for this
017has been a uh very very informative process uh I too was shocked by some of the numbers I think we can't also forget like that a lot of our kids Imagine Learning Algebra 1 but also learning it while trying to learn the language it's being taught in so it you know it's very very difficult for our kids so the support that the school provides for that is is uh much appreciated um thank you for the addition of the questions to the end of the I know that was a that's very helpful for everyone to see um and then we've also uh just so that J public is aware uh we've been having information sessions with the governing body Dr Saunders and team have been meeting with governing body members oneon-one and with a couple more
018still going on uh with to provide feedback and answer any questions uh one of the things that has come out of is we're looking to also provide um information to the governing body on what did not make the budget where what did we leave out that we potentially would have liked to have included uh if there were opportunities to do so just so that they know what was kind of left by the wayside that's a priority to us but we just couldn't get it in um other than than that I no one else has any other comments all right uh let's go ahead and move on thank you Dr sers yes let's move on to the action agenda the fiscal year 26 superintendent proposed budget may I get a motion please I would like to
019make a motion um that the school board of Manasses Park City approves the superintendent's proposed FY 26 budget as uh presented totaling 64 m87 4,000 $855 second all right motion a second since this yeah since this is a uh budgetary uh vote we will please do a roll call vote Mr Lauer yes chairman Mr Paul Alexander yes Dr Shante Jones yes Miss Ellen sodnik yes Mr Michael Cummings yes Mr Zack Graham yes the vote goes 5- Z thank you ma'am all right moving on to upcoming meetings the we have a regular school board meeting Monday March 17th 6:59 in City Hall and board Chambers uh and then the following day we will be uh presenting the fiscal year 26 budget to the governing body also board Chambers on the second floor um and seeing that
020we've covered everything else may I get a motion in a second for adjournments motion to adjourn second motion a second all in favor all right this meeting is adjourned thank you