001I mean, some there's no questions on whatsoever. That's what it is. Um, if anybody has any questions as I'm going, stop me, ask. I'll answer all the questions that I can. If it's something that's really off the wall, I guess I may take a minute to respond, but I I should I know these numbers pretty pretty well at this point. So, I'll go over the revenue first, which is just that single sheet, the color sheet. So, this breaks out all of our revenues. So, at the top you have our real property tax. So, oh, so that's our levy that I can raise through the the taxes, which is the 25.1 million. And then other revenues and our state aid are equaling almost 30 million. Appropriated reserves at 300,000. That's from that debt service that I've
002talked about before. Um, and then the appropriated fund balance is at 2 million. So, our budget, what we're looking at at this moment in time is 57,17623. And then the breakout of all the state aid revenues and other revenues in the middle there of that chart is all the individual breakdowns of that number. And then the state a breakdown is underneath that. So it gets very detailed. If you have any questions, please let me know. Um it's pretty self-explanatory, but um that's what we're looking at for revenue. If the they come in with better numbers, then we we'll adjust if we if they give them to us in time, we'll we'll adjust at that point. But this is where we're at right now. So, if we get better numbers, the reduction would occur in the
003fund balance being Well, I don't know if there would be a reduction or if we'd look at adding something else to the budget. So, so we got two options. Two options. Okay. Yep. And and just one question because somebody did ask me this at one point in time. Could you send me or everyone how much of this is lottery aid? Somebody asked me the question and I know there used to be a line that said what the lottery was. I don't have that breakdown now. Okay. That comes way after the fact. So could you give me last year? I can give you this current year. But I I don't know next year because they don't know. You get a I just know I remember seeing it comes in and somebody had asked me what it
004was because they don't follow this calendar. you're saying in any way, shape, or form. It it's built into the state aid numbers, but they don't they don't give us that breakdown now. No, no. Our aid starts coming in September and then comes throughout the year. And when you get it, you Yeah. If I can just answer the question, last year we got Yeah. And I could give you 245. I believe we already got our lottery. So, and I mean, it's just the pockets are taking it down. Exactly. At least they they aren't lying when they say they do give it to education. Not what they should be getting, but it's a sizable chunk. Yeah, it is. Yeah. But again, they just reduce other sources of money when they did that. Yeah. In case other people
005are getting way more money than they're getting, not sure. So then we'll go on to expenditures. And what I did here is so you have 2425. So the current year we're in our budgeted numbers, what has been expensed so far? And then what we're looking at for 25 26 budget. Okay. So, and I also do a dollar change and I do a percentage change so you can see the fluctuation because sometimes a percentage change you're like, "Oh my god, it's 20%." It's $200, you know. So, I think it's important to see all those those numbers. Very helpful. Yeah. So, on the top where you see board of education, there's obviously a very big swing there. That big swing is the strategic plan. So, we did we budgeted for our strategic strategic plan this year. um
006we're not going to have that expense obviously next year so it got drastically reduced. Um we had $150,000 in for that and that's one of the items too John when you talk about like if the state comes in with a little bit more money that's one of the things there is there's three different levels that Nicole would offer for support next year. We looked at the middle level that yes I'm Nicole and I taught a follow-up conversation cuz said listen we're getting all of our dates ready to go. She's like, you could even do the lower level, which after the discount would be out like $12,000. There's still Bosey's fees added on to that. So, it'd be back up to 158. So, that's one of the things that Jen and I have talked about as
007that's not at the moment. Not right now, but but if we were given some more money, that's on the table. Yeah. If I read this correctly, we haven't paid that bill yet because we're only 1,97 that we paid. We paid it, but it was paid out of Boseies. We actually ran it through Boseies. Okay. So we we were smart and we're going to be able to get aid back on that. Okay. So that's build through the 490 10 10 10490 and it's build over time. So we put it in the budget before knowing we had that avenue of a better way to do it. Right. So it was still in the budget but when we found out we had the that was a no. We're going to do it anyway. So why wouldn't we get
008Yes. Um, so we also did I want to mention in there too on the 1010 402 line we did increase that by $3,000 120% because of the New York City trip that Curry went to. That was not included in last year's budget. So that is only one person going. Yeah. Um, but it's it's built in there now. So at least one person is built into the budget. We were able to do it this year because I had extra money from the strategic plan because we didn't spend all of that. So, so you can see the the big swings there. District clerk, the 1040 codes, there's no changes. 1060 codes, there's no changes. Um, then we get down to 1240, the 1240, which is your chief school officer, which is Mr. So, you can see all
009the changes there. Obviously, there's um several decreases. Um, that's due to salary and contractual language and all of that good stuff. So you can see how much you could have got out of us. Fine as is. And I will say that over and over again. I am fine as but. But thanks Chris. Is that a reminder for next time? Um then we go down to the business administration line. Again there you'll see um on page two. Yep. On a 13 10 400 there's a large upswing there. That's because we have our 5-year plan and long-term plan built in there. We have to legally have that done next year in well in the year 2025. It's got to be um sent to the state by December 31st, 2025. I do have two quotes so far. I'm
010waiting on the third one and um we'll decide who we're going to have do that. It will probably not just being open. It will probably not be very far. I was going to say that. Yeah, we're probably not going to use BCA for this. So, we want to test drive we want to test drive some architects. A great way to do that. Yeah. Um so that's the big increase on um that audit and services very minimal increases treasures salary increase a lot of this is strictly just salary increases 1330 tax collector um I am there's a little increase in there I am going to try and get the credit card system up and running for our taxes. That's my goal. Um, if I have enough time in the day, I'm going to see if I
011can get that done so that way we can set credit cards for taxes. People have been asking a lot about it. Um, it is more money, but I think it'll in the in the end the benefit cost us in fees, but well, we pass those fees along to the taxpayer. So, taxpayers won't be happy about that. They'll be happy they can use a credit card, but it's cost ahead of time, right? Because I know like with my brother's business, I know that the credit card thing like fees are unreal. Yeah, it's they're large. It's crazy. And we have to pass those along to the taxpayer, but it'll still give them that option if they if they want to use it because we we've been asked a lot about it. So, I'm going to try and
012get that accomplished. That's my goal for September. Pay your taxes. Get flyer miles. Pay your taxes on a card that's 70% interest. Pay it off. I mean, um then we go down to fiscal agent. Very minimal changes there. Um legal councils. Um no changes there. Um personnel contractual stuff. Uh that Bosey's line went up by 30 almost 35%. That is the um uh I don't know what you call her. Jess communications. Communications or PR person. Um so that's the increase there. And then there's aid a year later on that position. Yeah, that's a um service we pay for through that. Correct. Yes. So, next we get an operations of our building. So, this are our m our um custodians um maintenance people. Oh, maintenance on that side. Um mostly our custodians. Not a whole lot
013of changes. I did move some money, 10,000 from one line to another line because we have more substitutes than we or more overtime than we do substitutes because we don't have any subs. We don't have any. So, we're asking people to work OT. So, I put the money where we're actually spending it. Where's the rollover of the fuel oil go? I see we don't use anywhere near that. Yeah. Well, that that's only we don't have all of our bills yet, but it it goes into fund balance. Okay. And we've had it is that is the same with everything that rolls over goes in that fund balance wheel. Yeah. Yep. And anything left goes into fun balance. And it's nice to have some of those big things that come in when surprises happen elsewhere. Yes. And
014fuel oil. You never It's an unknown. Yeah. You don't know how cold it's going to be. You don't We We do lock into the Boseies rate. I usually do a lock in. I don't do variable. Um it's just safer that way. Mhm. Um, but you never know how cold it's going to be, but you never So there there is I always build in extra in that line because we've come we've gone over that before. So, yep. Any other questions on operations, maintenance? Um, again, not a whole lot of changes there. Substitute maintenance. I did increase that. I know it says $150% but it's $1,500. Um Bruce Muso retired and he's coming back and he's doing a lot of training for the the young man that took his position. So he's filling as a sub to
015mentor him. It's been great. It's working out very well. And Bruce is one of those few people that seems to know an awful lot about a lot of systems that he does all of our cleans all of our boilers, does all the air filters, does all of that stuff. That's huge. So he worked with Jordan for a year before he left, but there's still a lot you got to know. There's just a lot. This building, these buildings are huge. There's so much. We had a similar situation as neck where the guy retired, his son took over that position and it didn't work out because the son just wasn't as knowledgeable. It takes time. Yeah, it's a huge thing. It's a huge thing. So, Bruce has been coming back and continuing the training that he started.
016So, when Jordan runs into a problem, we can call Bruce and say, "Hey, do you mind coming in walking them through this?" And he does. He's great. So as he's a wonderful resource to have and the rest is all just increases obviously because everything's going up. you know, our repairs, cost of of repairs and supplies, everything. Nothing's going down, which I'm not telling you guys anything you jump on. Central printing and mailing, very little changes there. And we're not that special um liability insurance and and um all the inland insurance and all those are all our insuranceances. Uh we are going to see a little bit of an increase. nicer went through some interesting hiccups, but it seems like they got everything ironed out. They figured it out. Yeah. Um I'm very pleased with them.
017We we go through Northern. They're wonderful to work with. Very responsive. I've had no issue whatsoever. Um so we're going to continue on that. School association dues, refund of property taxes, and Bosey's administrative costs. Bosey's administrative cost. Um we don't have any control over those. BOSI sets those and that's what we have to pay. So BOSIS gives us those numbers up front. So that's the increase. Then you get down to 2020 codes are all your um administration. So this is everybody um as far as administrators go and administrative contract instructional and then the non-instructional typus for those for those people. Again, it's really just increases two salaries. They got a 15% on line one. Um, no, that means or does that it doesn't everybody's like following four and three. I just wondered what the there
018was new hires that some people were hired at higher rates than others and all of that good stuff. So it's it doesn't mean that it's through the through the it's all those people in that account for total 15 and it's that that first one are those the central administration like uh poly polygary as opposed to people are designated for buildings correct polygary the districtwide ones got yep you got So, we're really on page seven at this point because there's not a whole lot. And then we get into all of our instructional. So this these are all of our teachers and teacher aids and our typist some of our typist in our our buildings. Um monitors and all of the equipment monies and contractual monies and conference monies and material supply monies that are all instructionally
019related. And again most of the increases here there was very little changes other than salaries to anything else. A lot of a lot of you'll see large increases to the substitute lines. Yeah. Um we have built in a little bit extra. We're going to go in July and we're going to up some of those sub rates that we have. We set them at the reorganizational meeting in July. So I built in so we can increase some of those rates. Try to retain some of those substitutes as well. Maybe draw some in even just to track. I mean yeah. We're trying. I know teachers when they cover a class they get paid. What category is that in? That is under 2110 130 inhouse. Uh in house subs. Yeah. So the one the 210 120 1190 there's
020there's one for every building. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, so 2110120191, 120291 and then you go to 211013090 and 2110130 1190 and those categories flare up in cost when we can't get the other bodies at the daily. Well, they only flare up in cost if you get people that are willing to cover. Correct. They got to volunteer that during their time. Correct. Yeah, I know. I work in one of those buildings. So do I. So I think people knew retiring. So that goes through page. There's a lot instructional. So that goes Well, that's a good thing. We are a school. And that we are a school. So that goes through page 12, which is all instructional and there's no big crazy. We did build in the two teachers in those. Yes. those line
021items that that we're going to Does that include all the legacy cast too? No. That's towards the towards the end. Yeah, those are really big numbers. I didn't see anything. I know. Yeah. Yeah. Those guys like, "Hey, what's happening here?" We're saying all kinds of money. Jen on page 12. 1 2 3 4 5 six seventh line from the bottom. The first one for programs for students with disabilities instructional salaries. Is that people that are shared between buildings as a because there's no designation for building. That is where I have the the special ed teacher I'm going to hire because I don't know what building they're going to go to. Right. That's what I figured. Okay. And there's one other person in there too that I forget what it is, but it's a person that
022shared. Okay. Yeah. But that's where the the money is from the one teacher that I don't know where they're going, so it's easier for me to put it in that code than have to That makes sense. So 2250s are all your special education costs. Again, there's lots of these as well. Uh the first two pages are all salaries. So 13 is all salaries. Um and these are your teachers, your aids, and um some secretaries. And then you get into again the um equipment, materials, and supplies, contractual monies. Um there is uh when you get on page 15, you're going to see some large increases there towards the bottom of the page. Yep. Those are kids that are in residential h housing and we increase that because we believe that we may have one other student
023attending residential. So I have to plan for that. Um and then you look at the 225490 code. Those are all the kids at Boseies. That has gone up significantly and that is because we've had five children move into our district that were already seated in Boseies which means we take over those costs which is a lot. Five kids to move in that are already in Boseies is a lot housing for them. So um just um so right now we're we have a and if we have and this is no buffer. I have no buffer in this line. So if we have a family move in with two special education students that we have to send to OCE I'm over another $200,000. I have no buffer in this line at all. It's when you have the
024family that moves in that has three kids who all receive that service. That's true. Yeah. So, and the thing is if they've got a seat within a program you because there's no want to honor that. We can't get kids in. No, we've got I can't tell you how many Oh, yeah. We've got three or four on a waiting list. It's it's hopefully that expansion takes. I'm hoping that expansion will help. Correct. Obviously, it'll increase that's why we're building in this so that we can accommodate for these these students. But, but we're not meeting the needs of some students because of that in my opinion. Mhm. Yeah. Obviously, we can't turn away uh people to come here, right? No. Right. So, in the event that this scenario happens, do we have anything like set up for
025that or is that just going to come from reserves? That I'd have to look through and see what we can and cannot do for the remainder of the year. That's what that's you hope for a warm winter. Yeah, warm winter. I mean, this year we're buying children's school supplies again, which we have the capacity to do. If you find yourself in a pinch, you're not you're not able to do that. Fine, right? There are just there are things you have to do. Okay. That so we have avenues to take from a different line item I guess or Yeah. It's then it becomes crunch time. The problem the problem is it adds up really quick. Special education students can add up. It's an expensive service but it's a necessary. No, it's it's your cheapest kit at
026Boseies is probably $70,000. Yeah, but it can also go the other way very quickly too and they could all leave all leave and then you've got this money left over next year, right? And and there are families in the greater North Country region that do district hop like that. They're very transient. It's Yeah. I mean, we have the same thing up at Sarah. You get this influx and you're like, and then all of a sudden they disappear. Yeah. Yes. M so is so with these I'm asking because I don't know um like state aid would or is the state help with any of if they're high threshold kids which means they have to meet your threshold you can get you st like some kind of reimbursement or something but they have to re reach a
027certain threshold oh so kind of like the deductibles um I guess I've never thought about it that way but that's not wrong it's not wrong no that is yeah there is so most these aid even on the lower level, right? It just there's an increase if they're stackable or there's not no aid at all if they're not stackable. We all kids are stackable. Okay. But it depends on the threshold if you get money back on them or not. Most of the kids at Boseies reach the threshold. It that that attend Bose because like I said, the cheapest ones probably that we have is probably between 65 and $70,000. I remember it was like 25 grand. Yeah. And that was full services. Yeah. No. And that's that's like the the le that's the program with the
028least amount of support is that dollar amount. So what's the programs with the most support? That's the one that's how high does that go? It can go up to $160,000 per child. Per child. Yeah. Thank you. But they they truly offer things that we can't. We would not not for the same money. There's no way it's possible. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Yep. And we don't know what's going to happen at the federal level for rules on all this too. We don't. It could all go out the window tomorrow. So the next code is the 2280 codes. Um and that is um your occupational ed. So that is the FFA program the teacher um per supplies um it also is um CD tech. So the big number uh 2284.90 is our CD tech. Again we get
029those numbers from Boseies. They do a three-year average and you get the average which is nice because we know what we're budgeting. Previously they didn't do that and it was a nightmare budgeting for this because you have to estimate how many kids you're going to have and this is so much better. It was only 15 years. So we're getting there. Yes. But it's I'm glad it came. Um it makes budgeting much much much easier. So um then we get on to 2610 on page 16. Those are all our library costs. Again, most of those are people and um some supplies, materials and supplies, some voting services. Um 2615 is your audio visual. Very it's a very small budget. No increase to that. There's more people there. just some um equipment, some supplies. 2630 is your
030um computer tech people. So that's Gary's office, all his people in there and all the materials and supplies and equipment and contractual obligations. And then the Boseies culture is very large for them too because we have a lot of services obviously through Boseis um that they offer us that we get through through them and the ner um all the ner services are within the 263490 code as well. I have one question when you say contractual um who who's the contract through is that through the school is that through aid how's that like broken down? So it's us of say for our boiler systems we can contract with whomever for for whomever, right? For our elevator services, for our trash removal, um there's so many things I could that I could go on and on and
031on. So they're contracts we we go into with the with a vendor as a school. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah. Other than hiring somebody to do that work basically. Well, they're bids. They put in biz, right? Um, some are bids, some we don't do as bids because sometimes you like the elevator people, they're one place Albany North, right? So, some of it we're so And well, we go out to bid for our trash removal, too. I mean, we only get Castella. That's all we have. That's it. So, yeah, it is we're where we are, unfortunately. Sometimes we don't get a whole lot of interest in some of these things, but we do try. Yes. And the the other the big thing is too once you find somebody that's good and they're responsive, you hang on to them.
032You want to keep those because it's so hard to get people to come up here from Albany and all that that when you find somebody that's willing and and they actually commit, you try and hang on. Yep. Okay. Thank you. Yep. And 285 2805 is our attendance person. Um and 2810 is our guidance. So, all of our counselors are in there and materials and supplies. 28. How about guidance? Why the huge jump that Cumberland had? Is there an additional body? They had an additional body. Could they and they bypassed an AIS person and hired an additional um counselor. That was something they they wanted to do over there. So, there was a reduction in another area. So, yeah. So, they they did not get an AIS teacher and then they filled it with counselor. They
033thought the need was greater there. So that was a building decision. Hey Madre, can you hear us? Okay, perfect. Let me turn the volume up. And how about the increase at the high school? We've hired um a counselor that got paid more than on the previous council. What page are we on, guys? I was trying to get 18. Okay, we're on page 18 of 19 of the budget document for you. Sorry about that. So page 19 is those are all our nursing services. So again, it's our nurses and their equipment and materials and supplies and contractual and our um school doctor is al she's also in there and she has agreed to do another year which is great because when she stops I don't know what we're going to do. School doctor Lorie Robinson and
034I don't know what we'll do when and she's she's just doing a yearto-year contract right now because she's on ready to retire and she's great. She's very accessible. She's responsive. It's great. So I was very happy she's gonna stay one more year. So uh 2820 is our psychological services. So our psychologists are in there and you guys just salaries 2850 our hope. Can I ask uh the drop at BHS? Is it just a change in staffing? There's a $23,000 drop. Yes. They they had some movement. There was a whole bunch of movement there from one building to the other. Okay. So, there's a realignment. Yes. So, one of the higher paid persons went to middle school. Okay. So, um that's same thing for the one below it that the middle school got the higher paid
035person and then the high school got the was Yeah, just a shuffle. Mhm. Um 2050 are co-curricular activities and then 2855 is all your athletics very few changes there and then you get to page 22 and you're at 5510. That's all our transportation costs and there's a lot of contractual stuff in there because we contract some of our stuff out and that we can't do body work. Some of the body work we can't do and all that good stuff. Bus monitor increase. We have the addition of bus monitors this year and tons. We have we we have a bus monitor on almost every bus now. I think there's only two or three runs. Yeah. Yeah. That don't have one now. So, yep. um huge increase in that. Uh 5530 and 5540 again are all um
036transportation 7140 on page 23. Those are our community that's our rec center. So um we always put in the contractual there is a maintenance on all of our equipment. They come twice a year and then they do the repairs that are needed as long as we have the money to do their we have a little bit of money in there for repairs. And then materials and supplies. She tries to update those things that need to be updated. She's very Shan Hman does it. She does a great job. Um so she she's on a rotating basis as to what needs to be replaced. She's great. Um so then now we get into all the benefits. So 20 page 24 starts all of the benefits for all of our employees. So the 9010 is our employee retirement
037system. So that's ERS, so our non-instructional group. That is where we had the biggest increase in percentage. Um so you can see it went up 11.223% overall. And then the 9020 is our our um TRS, that's our teachers retirement system. So those are all our fees for there was very minimal increase very I actually I think it went down 05, but obviously salaries went up. So you got that shell game that you play um social security your FICA ready that's all that's your 9030 code can I go back to employee benefits the state retirement the expenditures to date is because those lag behind they did lag okay okay you look at that and double it for the rest of the year but we build like one quarter of what we're supposed to pay or something
038for which one so if I'm looking at uh state retirement the very first line It's 302 expense so far. Yeah. But we budgeted a million, right? So, and we also their their year runs um April 1st to March 31st. Totally different than anything else just to throw another wrench in everything. So, we actually have to acrew money because they can't make it easy. No. No. But a lot of these we could look at and go, "Okay, we're about halfway through the year in expensive like salaries." Yeah. We know. Yeah. All salary, most of the salaries are all incumbent pretty much. So, but for the year. Okay. So yes, so that's what we're looking at for uh FICA. Um the next one is workers comp again that is given to us through by boseis that figure
039because we have the consortium through our local Boseies. So that is where that that it's all based on on our experiences here at Beacon Town though. So um unemployment 9050 960 those that's our health insurance. So, we're at over $12 million in health insurance that we pay out in here. Scary number is that's what's killing everybody. Well, when you look at the when we do the audit, that's there's a million dollar check once a month that goes out for health insurance. Yep. But without that, you don't have to be boarding. Correct. Um in 9070 um that's a that's where we pay um when someone retires we take monies out of their they get their sick time it's built into their contract that they get paid a percentage of their sick time based on the days
040they have that money comes out of that line right there which one tax out their annuities yeah fair amount okay so teachers have it that they're per their contract if they have however many days they get a percentage of those days of that dollar figure and it goes into a do we also have an ablar reserve for we have ablar is fully funded and then we also do this as well um then you have the next page is our debt service so 9711 9731 th those those are bonds and bands we're paying off for debt on our capital projects Are those um high interest or are those like a 5% like this the bonds rate? I I mean each one has a different interest rate. Okay. Um but these are all eight too. I got
041you. So So what we end up netting for cost is not a whole lot if you do it right. that you got to plan it all out. But to Eric's point, what is like when when we take these bonds, what is like a normal interest rate that we're seeing on those? Um, I haven't been out to bond in several years. We're going to find out really soon, Pedre, because our capital project's going to go out to bond once we get our bids. So, I'll be able to tell you a current right now with the climate, I'm probably I'm going to be happy if we can get a 6% to be honest with you. Okay. Okay. Um but if interest rates change down the road, we have the option of refinancing those at the lower rates.
042We're not locked in long term. And we look at that all the time. Um fiscal adviserss is our financial planning people and if they know rates are going to go down, they will contact me and say, "Hey, obviously that hasn't happened in a long time because rates have gone up." Um Yeah. So, but previously I' I've refinanced bands and bonds before because it's been a huge savings. Sure. So, but yeah, we haven't been out. I'm guessing if I can get a 6% I'd be happy. I'd be very happy with that. Thank you very much. Quickly. Y um and then inter then where where are we? Interfers. Our buses are in here. The buses are uh at the 995900. And again, we got to remember that if they charge us more, we may only have three
043buses instead of four, depending on what happens with steel and all of that good stuff. [Laughter] Petra, we feel the same way. Yeah, I'm very discouraged. Oh my gosh. Steel and aluminum tariffs. Oh yeah, you must be seeing that with what you're doing right now. Oh my god. Am I? Yeah. And then there like the inter fund transfer to the cafeteria. We have money set aside just in case the cafeteria has a down here down here and they have it in the past few years which has been wonderful but previous to that it was it's pretty typical to have um a a negative and is the full funding for all students that's this a state decision or is that a federal government decision the community elig eligibility? Yeah, it's so it's passed through comes from
044the federal government pushes down to the state and then comes to us. There is talk of moving the percentage from the current is it 60 right now? No, they're saying they're going to move it to 60. Okay, it's at 40 40 right now. So would we be negatively impacted if that happens? But right now we're good through 2028 as long as the federal government continues to fund it. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. When when we when we say we're good, we need to be real careful with that language because um what the federal government decides to do tomorrow um I mean we we have absolutely no understanding of what that could be. Yeah. With any of this stuff. I mean our our title grants could be affect We have no idea with anything federally funded what's going
045to happen. Yeah. No. And I I I almost think and and Dustin, you and I talked about this, but from a budgetary standpoint, it would make sense to look at those like programs that we consider necessities. Like I I feel like this board would look at free lunch as a necessity and figure start to look at contingency plans. Well, we will still if if children qualify for free lunches, they're still going to get free lunches. Yeah. And how are those funded? Those are funded through the state medic well Medicaid, I guess, is a federal program. Uhhuh. This is this is the point that I'm making is the free lunch program is all tied to federal funds. So, I mean it if if that is something we feel is important, whether it's through Medicaid, whether it's
046through uh you know, the these grants, whatever, like those are things that we, you know, just we we might want to start thinking about contingency plans for. And I think one of the things too, like watching the state level, it is pretty I'm pretty confident that should something happen at the federal level that the state is going to try to figure out how they can make this work. just like that is what I'm seeing right now. Again, they would have to figure out how to find the money. State reserves are pretty strong right now. That's why their budget is that's why the governor came out with what she did for school funding because their reserves are growing when we're being told our fund balance can't be above X. The state is they socked away quite
047a bit of money. No, they socked away quite a bit of money during the pandemic. So, if something happens on the mass scale, I mean, you've got New York City that's going to take Yes. tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. I I don't think there's anything wrong with having contingency plans. It's all I'm saying. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Okay. I uh have one question. And I vaguely remember when I first started here, there was uh we were trying to reduce a percentage allowed by the state to have a certain monetary value in a fund location. I think it was we're at like 12 or 14 designated fund balance. It's 4%. And is that reflected in this? No. Okay. No, savings account. That that's a total different thing. Yeah. So, so you would when we talked
048about at the beginning, whatever's left over in our budget goes into the fund balance. into the fund balance, right? Are we uh are we going to be affected at all by the uh the cancelling of the uh um what the grants that that go towards helping uh uh school communities buy like local produce and stuff like that? No, that's not going to affect us at all. Yeah, I talked to Roxy. We don't use that right now. Um, we go through the we go through praise and the um US Department of Defense is where we get a lot of our food from. Fruit and vegetables we get from the US Department of Defense. And so yeah, I know it sounds so strange, but no, no, I mean I I understand where you're coming from, but as
049long as we're not taking part in the the the agriculture program, then then cool because they're not going to reduce the Department of Defense budget. Right. No, I was surprised when Rox said, I'm like, Department of Defense? Yep. Okay, we're good. Well, I mean, I say that in just a little bit. And nobody sitting here has a crystal ball. Yeah. No. Neither does anybody in Washington. No. Yep. No. Okay. So, that's how And they they still are asking that number, the 4% to be increased. Gotcha. It has it hasn't been increased yet, but yeah, the push is to get it to 10% of your your budget. I don't know if that's going to happen or not. So, the capital outlay going from 100,000 to 250,000. I don't know if that's going to happen. But they're
050fighting for it. It sounds like the salary for the Boseis employees is probably going to make it in um to start to increase which would help us with aid back on those salaries. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Because right now there's only is it 35,000. 35,000. I think it's 30. Okay. 35 retire max. Maybe hasn't changed since the 1960s. Whatever the number is, I think it's 30,000. Lost Patty. So an employee there 60 some odd thousand plus benefits. They couldn't get him in before. Did they bring it up even $20,000? That's f money. Uh, anything else? So, anyone have any more questions for J? No, you got the answer for every one of my questions. Sorry about that. No, that's okay. I just want to make sure I can get you back in. Oh, good. Number three,
051clerk pro 10. Oh, we're going to do an executive session. All right. Uh resolve that the board of education pro appoint John as prom for this meeting. Can I get a motion? Thank you. Second. Thank you. All those in favor. All those in favor. Opposed. Motion passes. Executive session. Let's see here. We got announce who we're bringing into it. We're bringing into it. We're leaving. Yeah, they're going to leave. Oh, they're going to leave. Yep. Yep. They'll just be fedic. Wait till they leave. Yes. Thank you. Yes. Thanks, Jen. Very much. Appreciate it. First, uh resolve that the board of education enter executive session to discuss the employment of a particular person. Can I get a motion? I'll move. Thank you. Second. Thank you. All those in favor? opposed. Motion passes.