001Good evening everyone. >> Good evening. >> Hello. >> I call this meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> 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. >> Thank you for joining us this evening. Please be advised in the event of a fire emergency, an alarm will sound. Please note all emergency exits and evacuate well away from the building. At this time, we request everyone please turn your cell phones to silent. Thank you for your cooperation. Good evening. Again, we will start with additions, deletions, and changes to the agenda. Dr. Chanel, >> there are no additions, deletions, or changes this week. >> Thank you. Then we will move to
002the consent agenda. Resolved that the board of education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approve the consent agenda items as listed 1 through eight. May I have a motion please? >> So moved. >> Motion by John. Second. >> Second. Any discussion? >> All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? That is carried. Uh 70 6. Apologies. We're going to move to correspondence communications. Um, Becca, will you start us off with points of pride, please? >> Yes. Eight middle high school students were selected for the 2026 All County 3 Festival. Students performed at York Central School on February 28th. Congratulations on being recognized and thank you for representing Calonia Mumford. I also wanted to give a shout out to the boys varsity basketball team because they won the Thomas Emanuel sportsmanship award for the 2025
0032026 season and I just bringing home the block is fun and exciting but to me getting the sportsmanship award is worth so much more. So I just really coach Shelton and the whole team just deserves kudos for that. Yeah, I was watching section five basketball on the section 5 network the geek and uh I saw them give their word. Josh was at the arena on Saturday to accept it >> which was really nice. >> Under the direction of Miss uh Mrs. Caroline Richardson, our seniors experienced their second adulting 101 seminar of the school year. seniors traveled to presentations that gave them important information on how to better prepare themselves for life after high school. What a good idea. >> Thank you. Uh a couple updates and correspondence. We had our first board of um board
004outreach. Becca and I participated. We pushed into the elementary compact um PTO meeting and we had about 15 20 minute discussion with the PTO parents uh about around budget issues, questions, concerns, what they're hearing. It was nice. Dr. Do you have anything to add? >> no, not really. >> It was it was nice. Uh the next one is on the 18th. I think Liz and John are committed to that one. in this room and that will be piggybacking off high school compact. >> Will that interfere with musical rehearsal? >> I think it's in I think we put it in the temporary library. >> Okay. >> Is that where you meet for compact? That's where I think we put it in. I thought it was in here for some reason. >> So I think that's what
005the advertisement said that it was here >> and I was told we were doing it in the course room but that's >> So can we make sure we have good signage day of that so nobody's confused. Is it put out on socials just to remind the community that hey, we're here and this is where we're going to be. >> Mhm. We can do that. >> Doesn't hurt to put it put it out. >> March 18th at 7 p.m. Correct. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Um I'm curious uh shifting gears to the board bulletin. Have board members noticed the board bulletin that we're putting I'm putting out. So, you sent one. >> It was It was after the last meeting. >> Two. >> Yeah. They come out the day after the meeting and they're coming
006out um in Wednesday watchouts >> and it's sort of a summary of the meeting. Um take a look at it, see what you think. Um if you think it's helpful, if it's not, it was something that the board wanted to try. So, I have been doing it with a lot of help from Sherry. Thank you, Sherry. And um those have been coming out. So, tell me your thoughts. um looking for feedback on that. >> Before we move off that, do you think that the watch out Wednesday, you think people click on all those? >> Apparently not. >> Well, it's important I think because as we move into budget season, we've been having the conversation around whether or not the information like to to your point, are we going to put this out on our socials?
007>> We tend to put something up on the socials that's more of like a communication like a date and time and it ends up getting not much click. therefore it sort of plummets right and so whether or not we keep our pattern and we put things in the watch out Wednesday because if that's where people are already looking um so it part of the communication that I think we need to discuss is where where do we really think the community is best going to engage with us. So, I met with Tim this past Friday and he, you know, he's suggesting that when we just put something out that says this is where we're going to be in at this time, that those things really don't they don't get a lot of clicks. Therefore, they don't
008really make any movement into people's algorithm. >> So, just it's just curious how Facebook works of whether or not it's a >> overall ends up being a good tool for us or not. Whereas, when we put a lot of pictures up there, it gets shared and liked and commented which brings it up in the algorithm and then more people see it because people like it. So just it's an intriguing thing to think about as we're coming into budget season and something I'm beginning to plan right now with with our team from Boseies around what should these communications be and how do we lay them out so that we best reach the community. So I figured I'd ask the watch out Wednesday in this moment. >> I worry that it gets lost in watch out Wednesdays.
009I have asked our team to post it on our board when you click on the school web page and go to the board page. They are there as well. So, if someone's going to the board page to see who we are, what we're doing, when the meetings are, they can click them there, too, as well. Um, but I do think it gets lost probably in Watch Out Wednesday. We might want to think about wanting or asking for a different avenue for that. Um, >> put the end of a basketball picture. >> Yeah. I mean, because I I see those all the times. Every once in a while, I'll see the Watch Out Wednesday >> and I'll look and there's some pictures there. I you know >> yeah that's very true and it's not us right
010it's the Facebook algorithm so it's just the way that it gets promoted and >> whether or not you can move the district's work through Facebook or if people that's not really where they go to get their information. So >> it's intriguing. >> The last thing we want I promise is a viral post about the budget. >> I mean I would be very excited if it was a viral very positive post about the budget. >> We're okay with that. Right. >> Does does Tim have the metrics on those posts though? >> He does. He does >> because even if you're not getting engagement, it'll still show. It's not really a post to engage. >> Sure. Just visibility. >> It does still show up. It'll show the views and if there is or there are, you know,
011>> we use a Boseies. So last year, as you know, we use the Boseies PR team during budget season, which we always do. This year we're switching from Jennese Valley Bosey's PR team over to Monroe 2 Bosey's PR team where we are just going to generate a little bit more support from what GB Boseies was able to offer us. Um, as you know, those are things that we care about very much. We want that newsletter to be well done and I just need the team of folks to help. They would agree with you that the watch out Wednesday might not be enough. Um, trying to figure out how we pepper that in is definitely something that we are examining right now. And then they would do the same thing and kind of monitor our Facebook
012on the back end where that team would also then say, "Listen, this didn't get any views. We've got to figure out how to how to push it." And that they would be watching just the budget interaction alone while Tim continues to manage all the components of student life and the way that our Facebook currently functions that we would have a PR team at Boseies that would be managing maybe this tail end of making sure that the community is seeing it. >> Okay. >> Can it go in parent square? It can go in parents if newsletters go in there. I mean, is that a place? >> Yeah, it can. I just think in the end, those are usually our most engaged folks, right? So, I think that's the other burning question. And honestly, that that came
013up a little bit and >> our conversation with the elementary PTO was around listen, we used to get these newsletters. >> Oh, really? Like they would show up in our mailbox. I was surprised to hear that from folks that are probably as dig digitally native um thinking that people they live next door to still go out to their mailbox to get their newspaper and nothing comes from the school until it's a budget newsletter. So thinking about how we deliver that message and maybe not what it used to look like, not maybe every month, but maybe we maybe we try to come up with a new pattern if we think that's something that our community wants. do think it's something we should be asking and listening when we're out in the community if that's still something
014that frustrates folks that they don't they don't all get updates from us. They don't they're not all on Facebook. They're not all on Parent Square. So, what is that what is that subsection of folks that we're just still not reaching? >> I was surprised to hear from this group when we the newsletter came up. It was everyone's eyes lit up and they all looked straight at us and were like, "Yeah, we we've missed that." like almost unanimously across the the >> everyone and it was a younger group as well. So that surprised me that the younger parents were wanting a physical paper copy of the newsletter that they were not satisfied with the digital newsletter which was not what I was expecting. >> Well then I think they can see oh they can show their
015kids oh look here's your class here's on your grade. It's like something >> keep it too right >> because the kids aren't going to hop on their parents >> device to read the newsletter. >> Huh. Yeah, that's a good question. >> Consider getting rid of the paper newsletter. >> We haven't done we only do >> uh we do two editions a year. We do the budget newsletter and then at the very end of the year we do the top 10. We do like a year in review and those are the only two newsletters. It's been years. We're probably talking >> would you say seven five? Five to seven years >> since I've been here. >> Like I think we stopped like when I started. I have been hearing it from um a certain subset of
016the population, typically more um retired folks um that don't have a connection to the school that aren't connected to parents square or wouldn't necessarily be generating those likes um missing the newsletter. So >> even if we do one quarterly, >> right? Exactly. So I think that's something we can look at >> instead of hey we want that we want your money in our budget newsletter. >> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if that's the first communication you get, like we think very, very deeply about the first communication a family gets when they're moving from grade five to grade six, right? We think about things like that in the transition. And so this is, oh, the first time some people hear from us is when we send them a budget newsletter, right? So maybe even if you just
017said we're going to do one in the fall, the budget newsletter, and then one in the late spring where you at least you at least share the the programmatic work that's happening at the school and the return on investment, you know, with folks that should get it in their mailbox. So, I do think it's something we should keep talking about over the course of the next couple of meetings while we build this budget because if that's something that we're thinking about and we're we're really are hearing that regardless the subsection of people we're talking to, we we should consider addition to the budget to manage that. >> That's why I think it went away in the beginning. I think it was a budgetary piece in the beginning whether or not it was it was bringing
018a return on investment. So, >> yeah, >> food for thought. quarterly sounds good to me. >> Thank you. Uh, moving on to board self-evaluation. It is that time of year. As you all remember, we are going to use super aail for the board's self-evaluation this year. A little bit of a shift for folks. I looked at it over the weekend and it's in intense. Um there's five sections that it's going to rate us on. Vision, leadership and accountability, board governance and policy, communication, community relations, fiscal resources, staff recruitment and environment and ethical leadership. And then within those are a lot of um standards that we have to rate. Um so I am going to push this out to the board soon to start completion of this. Um I advise to start early. I would really
019like to have this done and and in in a manner to plan our next workshop retreat. Um I would like to use the data that we collect from this. So the information I'm hearing from you guys, the board's hearing as a consensus to guide what we're doing next um in terms of our goal setting. And so in August I plan to or we we we should plan to have a next workshop retreat depending on what the goals or subjects of that are um per open meeting law. We'll either make it a workshop which is open to the public or a retreat which is closed. So it's going to I can't tell you if it's a workshop or retreat yet because I need to know what our what we're the board needs or wants. What time
020frame for completing the board self-ealuation? >> I think through midappril. >> It's about a month, five weeks. >> Five weeks, six weeks. That way it gives Becky enough and I enough time to look at it for the board to look at it and then whatever we need to plan for this August retreat, if we need to bring a trainer in, we have time to secure that. >> So, yes. >> Thank you. Um, and this will be the first year you're using Super Veil. Interested to see how you guys what you make of it. Call me if there's questions or concerns. I'm happy to walk people through it as best I know it. Um, it's a little cumbersome, but I think if we invest the time in it, I do think we're going to get some
021good information from it. >> Now, these things that we're evaluating on super are they did you guys choose what >> they're do? Are they standards? standards based on like national NISVA um standards reports. >> Yep. >> Good. >> Um what am I missing, Dr. Chanel? Oh, yes. So, we're looking at August 13th or August 17th. Looking for board input on those two dates for a retreat workshop. August 13th or August 17th. They're both Thursdays. We have our first board meeting in August, August 11th. That's a Tuesday, of course. Um, so I'm looking at doing it in the evening. Uh, it or I guess I could ask evening or mornings. Evenings are better for me, but I can be flexible. >> You said 13th or 17th. >> Yes. >> So, Thursday or Monday? >> Correct. I
022will send why don't I send an email to the board if you all could get back to me. Otherwise, I'm just going to select a date because I need to move. >> I think I had already looked at those dates. >> If if one doesn't work for you, just please make sure you tell me so I can try to work around that the best I can. I'm planning to do it 4 to 7, 5 to 8. >> Um >> the 13th will be better for me. >> Okay, that was the one. That's the one I prefer. Um, but that doesn't I can do either. The 17th is sort of our backup. So, please let me know. Uh, I believe that's it for my correspondence. We will now move to board committee reports. Has there been
023any board committees? >> We had the middle high school compact committee meeting. Um we're going through with um coming up with gradebased information to give to parents so they will know what to expect and what their child is going to be expecting for that year to get them college and career ready. We are working with Mrs. Pete to get stuff on the website. Um and we're having a meeting on the 18th is the next meeting where hopefully Mrs. Pete's going to be able to join us and we'll be able to see some of the options for the layout of that. So hopefully in a few months things will be actually on the website and things will be moving forward and hopefully user friendly is our >> goal with that. >> Thank you. Any other committees
024meet? >> Technology met yesterday. Peggy and I were there. Um we talked about um tech plan goals for the next five years or so. Um and grouping that by grade level. Well, what do you say? By grade level needs. That's more for the the um having doing a survey seeing what each grade pod kind of group um would benefit most by to integrate technology in a in a practical way. >> Thank you. >> Sure. and elementary compact. Um they were mostly just meeting with the PTA talking about the the power part um and exciting ideas to to do there. And then um I'd let you guys take over with the the contract. Oh, and then Michelle, you had had it handed out the they're perfecting um the homework. uh requirements and things for the for
025parents to know what is expected for kids. So, they've been working on that for a while. >> Thank you. Anything else? >> I want to say one one thing. I will just add one quick thing. I asked a question at the end of our technology meeting um about um kids different uh skill levels and collaboration and things like that. And I want to say that I was very impressed with Dr. Chanel and the different teachers who answered that question with their whole heart about working with each child and making sure that each child gets what they need. And I I I was comforted by that. I thought that was very good. So, thank you. >> It struck you. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, it was it was really really good. >> Makes me realize why
026I can't be a teacher. >> Thank you. >> Well, that that it's hard work to to cover a whole range of uh abilities and skill levels and and working on that and keeping going and >> being successful. So, that was very good. There are no guests of the board this evening I do not believe and I do not believe we have anyone on public forum. So we are going to move to superintendence report Dr. Chanel. All right. So tonight I just want to circle back um you're going to see later on in our agenda that you're going to be asked to vote on the approval of the inter municipal agreement for Jennese Valley Boseies. So I want to take an opportunity during my report and just talk again about what the IMA is and what
027it is not. Uh so a group of superintendents we're very collegial in the region so we're really talking about how do we make sure our boards understand this from every school district's perspective and then the good of the whole right so we care about all 22 but we each care about our own districts that much more and so how do we make sure that we're clear in our presentation so uh the Bosey's capital project this is not when you vote this evening you are not authorizing the Bosey's capital project they actually have to have a a public vote and the public vote will take place so you're not in any way, shape, or form approving the Bosey's capital project. The resolution this evening allows us as a school district to have some autonomy over how
028we are going to fund our portion of that Bosey's capital project should their vote be successful, which we hope for them. Um, right now, the way the IMA is mapped out, which we appreciate, is that as a school district, it's going to allow us to pay our portion in any way we see fit. whether we decide that we're going to try to pay it with cash, if we're going to do short-term borrowing, if we're going to do long-term borrowing, or if by year, a combination of each of those things as it so suits the district and making sure that we're handling our f our financial burden in the best way we see fit. >> Um, we had a conversation about this in our audit audit and finance committees at the Boseies level. As you know,
029school districts are in all different places and some school districts might have the ability to pay cash. In the absence of an IMA, they would not be able to do that. Um, for us, we would like to see all 22 school districts agree to the IMA. I think what's really important for us to understand is that if we do not vote yes on this IMA, the IMA is off the table for all districts. So we either have to all commit that we're going to finance the Boseies capital project in whatever way is best for each district or the Boseies is going to have to go out and they will only be able to borrow from DASE. Now as we've discussed if we have to go out and borrow from DSNY we're talking about this project
030costing us way more money in the long run than if we as a district are strategic about how we finance and pay. So this evening when you vote on the IMA, really all you're voting on is the ability for all 22 school districts to fund their portion of the capital project should that capital project vote go up in whatever way the district is best suited. Do you have any questions for me about that? >> So if one renegade school district out of the 22 votes four to three against and their president doesn't sign it, that means the other 21 districts will all pay a significantly higher interest rate regardless. >> regardless. >> And if as a district we decided what was best for us would be a long-term borrowing, we can still do that under
031this. So we are not making it so that we cannot do long-term borrowing. We're just saying we don't have to do that and we don't have to do it through a specific program. >> Correct. And when uh Rebecca says long-term borrowing, >> is there long burn long-term borrowing to me for something like this at the interest rates I believe we're capable of obtaining might be longer than what the rest of everybody is thinking. I'm I'm talking like why not 10 years? >> Sure. >> 12 years. Brown. Is that is that realistic? >> Yeah. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah. For us, it would be our own financial picture. So, we would continue to work with BPD. So, we have we have our own debt that we pay very close attention to each year. Um, so what
032we would be doing is folding this debt into our current debt and making sure that we're then managing our debt as a district to keep our tax burden as level as we can keep it, right? Versus any other way, right? So if other districts are going to tell us how to do that, then it's just going to happen for us. It would be probably cheaper in terms of what we pay each year, it would be less, but in the long run, you would be talking about much more interest on a loan that would have to go out through DASY in 20 years or 30 years of for borrowing. >> And we get state aid on every penny. We do we get state aid. It's, you know, similar to our capital project. So we'll we'll talk
033about that in the end that just like our capital project um we we try to get 100% of our project aidable Boseies is going to be doing a couple of additions. So not everything is going to generate the same amount of aid but in terms of the aidability of the project yes we will generate aid on what we borrow and pay. So, if we pay a million dollars a year just for this conversation, we would get back $870,000 every year. >> If the budget if if the capital project was coming back at that ratio of aid, it's that's a little bit more of a technical conversation, right? So, our capital project, we we will generate our same percentage of aid. So, let's say 84% is our building aid. When you think about what we're going
034to get back in aidability, our project right now, we're accounting for about $750,000 of our project not generating aid. The rest of our project is going to the Boseis capital and we might be better than that in the end. The Bosey's capital project is also going to have some portions of it that are not aidable. >> I wasn't aware of that. >> Yeah, that every capital project has that some components of it that don't generate a aid, whether it be as much aid or no aid at all. >> Okay. So when we get into the nitty-gritty, right, of understanding what Boseies is going to do, you'll start to see some of the aidability of that project become far more clear as they move into the the voting. In the end, with the IMA, regardless, right?
035Regardless, this is our only option to manage our own finances versus ending up in a long range DSM plan. I think it's best for the district obviously, but I would think if I were in charge of Boseies and I wanted 22 districts to vote, yes, I would already be able to give them the information of exactly how much of the grand total is not. And then why I wouldn't that's something I understand I understand why. >> Well, we and we've talked about that. So from the perspective of Calonia Mumford, like that's a question I continue to pose. Like this evening, you're asking us to vote up or down on an IMA. And there are definitely some components of that capital project that we still need some clarity on. So I think that's why it's so
036important that we say that this evening when we vote on the IMA, we are not approving or disapproving Bosey's capital project. They they still have the work of selling that capital project to the to the voters. >> Thank you. Will that be on the um the election with the rest rest of the budget? >> It will not. It will be a separate vote. It will not take place at the same time as our vote. >> Okay. >> It'll be held completely separately, separate day. >> Okay. So, I think thanks for separating that out that tonight what we're voting on is separate from the actual project. I think one thing uh in terms of this is it's important well I think it's important to approve this because if Boseies like Kevin was here and he talked
037about doing another project in seven years >> so you know to be responsible we're going to want to have this cracked within seven years um whereas DAS needs a 20-year payment period I think um >> we need to make sure that we're able to budget for it to get it cleared off the books in those seven years and I understand the aid coming back on that stuff. You want to have things uh structured like that. But yeah, I appreciate I have concerns like you of of what Boseies is doing. Um but this is it's good. >> Yes. It's very important this evening to pull them apart because they're they're not the same thing. >> Yeah. We'll still have the work of supporting Boseies when it comes time for voting on the capital project that we
038that all of us are able to speak to their project down to the nickel because people are going to ask us when we're out and about, right? But we're I understand we're not quite there yet. The hold up right now is around the building in Leroy and whether or not that building is going to be purchased outright as part of this capital project, whether or not we're going to attempt something different. They're in correct and they're in negotiations over that right now. So that to me is the thing that is probably I wish it was also done. I put a lot of pressure in terms of how I feel about that. I think that I would agree with you that when I'm doing this, I'd like to know what we're saying yes to. But this
039separately, we're just saying yes to our ability to manage our own finances. And for that, I'm comfortable bringing the resolution to the board and asking you to do just that. give us the the autonomy to manage the district's finances in the best way for us. >> like we always have. >> Go ahead, sir. Um at one point in the last couple months, it was mentioned that California Munford could be a potential polling pl polling place for this vote. Has that been determined for sure that it's not going to be? So, as of right now, Kevin, our district superintendent, is actually asking us. So, that was going to be the next thing on my list. Sorry. >> No, no, it's good. It's a good transition. So, we have the ability to say back to Boseies whether
040or not we want to be a polling location. Some districts are really adamant that they be a polling location. Other districts are really adamant that they not be. And I and I think it has a lot to do with the timing of the vote. And if you happen to be a school district that was getting ready to go out for your own capital project vote, you don't want your community to be confused at what is your local capital project that you're asking them to vote on and what is the Bosei. So I'm watching a lot of people say, well this we need to be very strategic about this in ways that we don't confuse our community. >> Would it be possible for us to just say no? >> It I would say it's the consensus
041of the board. It would really be up to you. Do you want to send out mailers? When Bosei sends out mailers to our community and they say the polling places are in Leroy or they're in Avon and there's lots of polling places and we are not listed. If we're comfortable with that, then we're not a polling place. If we feel like we don't want our community members to have to travel to Avon or Leroy or Burgon in order to vote, then maybe we say, well, we would be a polling place. So that that is that is a question I have. You don't have to answer it tonight. I think it's worth pondering for the next couple of weeks and we'll talk about it when we're together again the next time. But we do need to
042decide if we feel like by not holding it here are we disenfranchising our community or by not holding it here are we saying we don't support the the project? Like what are things people would read into that? And I think those are the questions that Kevin is kind of asking back. like if we want to support this project and we want our community to be able to vote, we're not in a predicament where we have to go out or we were planning to go out for our own capital project vote. If if that was happening to us, I I probably would feel some sort of way about conflicting or confusing the two, but we should be we should be in a good place. >> Do we do they have a sense of when that vote
043is going to be? >> They haven't said the date, but they're definitely leaning toward early June. >> So after a budget vote. >> After our budget vote. Like so that's important to me when I'm considering this. >> I mean obviously we're coming off of a year where we had to go to a second budget vote. of do I think about a June vote being held here that you know if we end up having to hold our own I hope that we don't have to do that but I have given it some thought and that's been my that's been my piece back to Kevin it's like wow for every single one of us actually in this financial landscape for every single district you could be in a situation where the May vote doesn't turn out the
044way you hoped it would and so to have a Bosey's capital project vote in June a lot of people in the room that are under a lot of fiscal stress this year were like oh boy I hope We all hope we clear the we clear the hurdle. >> Who seems to think that this building thing in Leroy is going to all be taken care of in the next 40 days that they can vote on in June in 8 weeks, April, May, 10 weeks. Is it is it possible that that vote doesn't happen then? Or is it possible that that the building part and Leroy is going to screw the whole thing up? >> I wish I could give you the answer to that question. It's been my burning question every time we are communicating about
045it. Do I Kevin is very hopeful that he is going to be in a good spot and that his timeline is going to be kept. I would say school districts across our region are also very hopeful for that June early June vote because in an early June vote if that capital project goes up and we have fund balance we could make a decision with our end of year fund balance with an open project that's been approved. we could actually charge to it, which would allow you, even if all you were going to set aside was $150,000, right? At least you'd be able to get some movement toward what that next summer's first payment would be. So, there's a lot of districts that in preparation for this have started closing down their spending and trying to
046manage their fund balance to end up with enough fund balance to give this capital project a good chunk to get to get ahead of the game a little bit. So, there's a whole slew of superintendents that would like to see this happen in a vote in early June. As we've debated early June or moving the vote into September, moving the vote into September means you lose an opportunity with right now in this year with any fund balance that you might have to get a jump on the game. So, there's some strategy to trying to get it to happen in early June and some pressure for us to stay on that deadline. So, you're there's some competing interest there. And I would say for us, I agree in watching our budget right now and the management
047of our budget. I agree that if we could get a capital project vote that goes up at the beginning of June, we would be able to move some fund balance to be able to manage this liability that's coming our way. >> It would be in our best interest, too. So, >> great questions. All right. and your concerns are very valid and been vocalized lots of times, you know. So, as we walk away from this meeting, I would also just say if there are other concerns that you have, don't hesitate to send them to me because we are all communicating as a group there. I would say all 22 boards of education are feeling exactly the same way as you are right now. That's the consensus I'm getting from the group that we're all we're all
048sitting here saying, "Okay, let's cross this finish line, but with with high quality and lots of really good details." >> Thank you, Dr. Absolutely. Uh there is no old business. So we're going to move on to new business and we are going to move to budget presentation number two of the proposed 2026 2027 annual school budget. >> Oh no last time. That is breaks my brain. Nice pictures of >> Isn't it a beautiful picture of the elementary school? I love it so much. Tim captures some shots that are just like breathtaking. This is definitely one of them. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, here we go. Budget presentation number two. I think before we get started this evening, I just want to say aloud that as we are working through each of these budget presentations, you are
049definitely seeing drafts, right? So, we are still estimating things, we are still waiting for information to come in. Um, so when we are presenting, no one should view this and think this budget is complete. These are the numbers. You're just you're looking at preliminary numbers as we know them to date. Um we hope to have an on-time budget from the state and if we do you'll see some really solid numbers. Um but as we work our way there you're going to see a lot of projections. So this evening we're actually going to talk about the instructional budget. The instructional budget for us is the largest component of our overall budget. It's every single thing that students touch. And so just think if I'm a student and I'm experiencing the day I have teachers. I'm maybe
050receiving special education support. the Chromebook that I'm using, my technology, the book I signed out from the library, that I'm playing a sport, even our school resource officer is inside your instructional budget. So, every single thing that makes the kids day that they interact with directly is inside our instructional line. What does this budget do for us? So, you're going to see our first draft here. Uh, this budget does provide everything that you would expect from a Calom education. So, we could go through the list of all the great things which you will um at some point see in my budget newsletter, but just thinking about the coursework that we offer, all the extracurricular activities that we do, every single thing that we had last year and then some inside this budget for full opportunities.
051Also, inside this budget, you are going to see full day universal pre kindergarten uh which we have decided to go full speed ahead with. Um an increase for special education programming. You've heard from the the administrators and they've shared with you what their needs are. Their needs are inside this budget draft. A STEM teacher at the middle high school would be a new teacher in terms of programming there. That's the second year in a row that we've seen that request along with some other requests around making sure that we have some lunch monitors trying to free our teachers up to give them access to students during that homebased time. And this budget is also going to account for uh one of my priorities, which is to increase access to dual enrollment coursework. Uh when we
052get together next time, you're actually going to see some of my budget priorities. I'm going to do a separate presentation, which is going to be a little bit different than what we've seen in years past. Uh that's where you'll see me beginning to talk about newsletters and sort of what the board is starting to think in terms of communication, where we might need to see additions to the budget. And also, I will dive pretty deeply into some dual enrollment access. the appropriations for this budget. So, you've already seen general support, transportation, community service, benefits, debt service, and transfers. So, this evening, we're going to focus on that instruction line. Uh you will see that our instruction line year-over-year change, we are asking for an increase of $446,2710. It's an overall percent change from last year
053of 3.81, 81, which would cover all of our programs and all of our increases in instruction with all the administrative priorities in there. So, let's talk a little bit about revenue. Uh, so I am um looking at all of our state sources. So, when you're taking a look at overall revenue for the school district this year, we did see an increase uh just over four just over 4%. I think it was 4.6% in total in foundation aid increase. The average across the state of New York, most school districts only saw a 1%. That that increase for us actually puts us in a pretty decent space in terms of coming in knowing that uh our foundation aid increased. Why did that happen? Well, there's a couple reasons why you would see an increase in foundation aid.
054For us, our increase in foundation aid is connected to our wealth ratio. So really, as you see the community starting to decline in wealth, the state of New York starts to increase foundation aid. So I would say inside the walls of the school, the board has supported some of the changes that we've begun to see in our demographic. We have a full-time social worker that we added a few years ago, we've talked a lot about the needs and the demands of students. We added crisis interventionists last year at the elementary school. Right? So we've been talking about how the demographic is changing. And finally, the foundation aid formula has caught up to that. And so we did see an increase in foundation aid this year. Capital outlay project. I skipped last week or last time
055we were all together because we weren't quite there yet. So this this time I'd like to share with you our capital outlay project plan. Again, a capital outlay project. We plan for a $100,000 project each year coming out of or in inside this budget each year. So it builds for us both a project that takes care of our campus and to John's, this is one that we get aid on in its entirety, right? So we're going to generate building aid on this. Just like last year over here in this building, the 612, we focused on our HVAC system. Last year we did some transitioning from pneumatics over to electronic controls. We are now going to begin looking at some of some controller upgrades. So, as we be as we have rolled out a new system
056inside our school, we've actually switched over to what's called Ecosstructure. We've had it at the elementary school for a bit. This year, we made that full transition at in this building over to Ecosstructure. We're realizing that some of the controllers that are in this building, so think about them as like a like a mainframe or like a brain. Some of those controllers are not communicating as well with Ecosstructure as they did with our old system. And they're not supported anymore. as you know when technology changes right they don't no one supports that so you can't buy some of these things new uh day automation is helping us quite a bit right now they've actually been in we have four areas in this building I would call them servers um that have that are it that
057are working fairly decently with controllers three I'm sorry three of them are working fairly decently one is really struggling so we want to make sure that as we're upgrading our system that our system is in constant communication with Ecosstructure which is where we can see all of our HVAC units and what's happening with them over time. We also need to do some exhaust fan upgrades. So, what you'll see inside this capital outlay project is that we're going to ask for the HVAC system in its in in these components and then we're going to begin to assess the camp this building with campus construction and with day automation and our facilities team to begin to identify exactly which controllers we need to prioritize first. So, this will by no means take care of the entire building,
058but it is going to allow us to replace a couple of pieces that are creating blind spots for us right now in our overall system. So, that will be our priority. So, I'm going to take you back to the revenue slide for just a second here. So in the revenue slide you see that the real property from 2025 to 2026 budget to what we're proposing for 2627 is an increase of $155,968 which puts us at that tax cap of 1.97. So whenever we're building the budget we always come out with the revenue at the tax cap and then we will continue to have conversations uh collectively around what we are going to set that levy at. So with that, I wanted to share this slide with you just to give the board an idea of
059what it looks like when we are uh and the community as well an idea of what it looks like when we are levying tax. So I've asked Brennan to kind of break that down for us where you're looking at, you know, if we were to go out at 0.5 means we would be collecting another $39,000. Uh, the number I like to focus on is what does it really mean when we're talking about 1% of our budget? Because I think it helps or 1% of our levy because it helps us understand that for each 1% that we collect, you're talking about $80,000. So if we were to go out at our cap at the 1.9684% for our budget development and forecasting. So a couple things that I want to draw our attention to. The governor's proposed
060budget is what we begin to build our budget off of. So the revenue that you're seeing even coming from the state is in the governor's proposed budget. We are still waiting on the one house budget which will solidify her budget priorities and the priorities then of both houses. You did see in the governor's proposal that she's increasing full day universal prek aid up to $10,000 per student. Uh what I did not realize until this past week is that when she built this budget, she actually put in there a mandate for full day prek for the year 2829. So school districts that don't make the move this year, if they're still half day, will have no choice. Half-day programs will no longer generate aid under the governor's budget and her proposal. This is a $561 million
061increase in school aid built into the governor's budget for universal prek alone. >> So they're providing aid now. So say starting 2829, will they still provide that same level of >> they are? Okay, >> they are. One thing we can say is that we don't usually see a decrease in foundation aid, right? Sometimes you don't see increases, right? >> But if it stays, >> it stays we could stay flat. So, a lot of districts only seeing that 1% which is um you'll see that in my third bullet there. Um but just in general, Governor Hokll's proposal is increasing overall school aid by 4.3% or that $ 1.627 billion increase to school aid. 73% of New York State schools are only going to see a 1% increase in their foundation aid. We are not in the
062mix. Don't tell your friends in other schools that we are not in the mix. that that 1% uh is definitely very stressful in a time where school districts are seeing escalations in health care costs upwards to 30% depending on their consortium and what they offer to their teachers. So to see a 1% increase in foundation aid for them there's a lot of conversation happening across the state of New York right now around how to make those two things reconcile. Uh for Calonia Mumford, we are going to see a projected increase of $366,000 in our foundation aid. >> Dr. Chanel. >> Yes. >> So there's the we have the 4.34 increase needs to be finalized, of course. Of course. And we're seeing that because of decreased wealth. Is that a one time one-year increase or does
063that mean it will be steady? Like I'm I know you're laser focused this year and I am too, but I'm just like long term, will we continue to see those or are we going to go back to the 1%? >> We could very well go back to the 1% like everybody else because what you what we understand about foundation aid is that we don't go backwards but we might not go forwards, right? So if let's say and this isn't a good one because I've got all your state sources in there together, but let's say that our foundation aid I should have pulled that out separate. I'm going to bring that to you next time as a separate number. >> I'm sorry. I was thinking that way like what do we anticipate for next year as
064we're thinking and >> so I would say if every other if every other let's say 73% of New York state schools are only seeing a 1% if by next year we've already seen the increase in foundation aid because of our wealth our foundation aid went up 366,000 right so we already went up next year if we go into that we might only get a 1% on top of our total foundation aid that's what's happening to school districts around us. So, yes, we have to think like that. >> Well, districts, what I'm hearing is are are there's big cuts happening all around us in districts? >> Definitely in this state of the game because we're all in draft, right? So, everyone around us is looking at what their gap is and they're saying, "Oh my goodness,
065what can I do to close that gap?" 100% that's happening. So, I want to talk about a couple of hot topics in education to your point, right? What if next year we only get 1%? So, we do this is the part of budget development. I I I've joked about it a couple of times that I've heard superintendent say this for years and I always just like, okay, now that I have to build the budget and take accountability for what this looks like year-over-year. This is the these are real things we have to talk about. So, hot topics in education right now, March 9th through the 13th is when they're telling us we could see the release of the one house budget. Um, the biggest issue that's being addressed right now in the state of New
066York, which you're going to see in both houses, and if you're paying attention to it on social media or the news in any way, you are watching a major push for tier six pension reform. So, it is true right now that more than half, I'm going to say I'm going to throw a number out there and tell you it's getting closer to 70% of the folks that are employed in the state of New York are tier six. Tier six is now the largest tier of folks that are employed and they are pushing very hard for tier six reform. So I want to talk about that a little bit right now. Tier six retirement eligibility. So let's just say teachers. Tier six is is everyone that works for the state of New York. But for this
067evening we will focus just on the component we care about most. We care about teachers right now. Tier six the current eligibility to retire is 63. Uh us tier fours, we get to go at 55. So it moves it to 63. Annual cost to schools to change tier six from back to matching tier 4. So going to retiring at 55 and having 30 years in would cost $371 million to schools. Currently, tier six members pay 3% of their salary to TRS, increasing 6% if salary is over a h 100,000. If we had to match tier 4 annual cost to schools to change this to that flat 3% would be another $245 million, $1.18% of payroll across the state of New York. the annual cost to align tier six members. They currently can earn 35% of
068their final average salary at 20 years. They wanted they want that moved to 55% at 30 years. The cost to go back to tier 4 like benefits would be another $90 million. It is the largest conversation happening at the state right now. And if you paid any attention to the news this weekend, you saw Governor Hokll standing in front of these unions, telling them that she supports them, that she wants to move in that direction. You saw the comproller say that the state of New York can afford that. I think the challenge here is being torn between the idea that as a school district, we're going to have to manage the finances of either of these decisions. Teachers typically retire at 55, which means when they retire at 55, we see breakage in our overall
069budget. Your tier sixers, which you're not really experiencing yet, they're they're teaching inside the walls of our schools right now, but they're not even close to nearing retirement. You're used to seeing a cycle of breakage where folks are retiring. These guys, if they work until they're 63, you're going to go a very long time in budgets where you're not seeing breakage. So either way this moves, the district has to start preparing itself for what it looks like long term to either manage tier six or to manage the return to tier 4. Either way stresses our local budget. Either way, hot topic and we're paying attention to hot topic. Full day prek mandate for all four year olds. Hot topic across the state of New York for us. We had the space. There are literally school
070districts that do not have the space to open full day prek. So for them to receive this mandate, if they've already done a capital project, they don't even have the ability to build. How are they going to do this? They're going to have to try to find local partners, offer their full day prek off their own campuses. That was a bone of contention in Albany as superintendents were lobbying back uh when I was there last week. I'm going to tell you no movement on electric on electric buses. It was it was actually quite astounding. I would say that the governor's office more or less told us that the two-year waiver should be enough and for us to stop asking. Um they're taking a lot of political pressure right now from green energy. There are a
071lot of lobbyists in Albany that are really pushing hard. Uh there was a release of a letter that came out uh late last week, I believe, where a ton of Democrat legislators have actually written to Governor Hokllo and signed their name to it and said, "Don't cave to the pressure. We should be on the forefront of electric buses." Um it it was interesting and I would say that's what I felt when I was in the room was listen, we gave you a two-year waiver. We can't talk about it right now. So, I feel like maybe it's on pause and it's on mute at the same time. It was also acknowledged that there are districts in the state of New York that have gone been trailblazers and gone full speed ahead to electric buses and that
072that is not working out for them. So, the advocacy that was happening in the room in Albany with the governor's office on behalf of every district in the state of New York was alive and well and the governor's office said, "We've heard you." In fact, at one point, one of her reps representatives said, "We can talk about this all day or we can move on to a new topic. Should we move on to a new topic?" So, they're they're done talking about it for right now. But you're watching superintendent, especially if you're watching social media. A few of you have sent some posts in our chat to say, "Hey, are you guys seeing this?" After that session in Albany is when you started to see a lot of superintendents come right out on their social
073media and say, "Bam, that's not working." because we did not get a lot of movement in that room and it isn't going to work. So, I'm going to work on our waiver. We do the two-year waiver. I think we should be good to get it. Uh I've got to put They actually had first told us wait till 2027 and now they're saying no. It doesn't matter when you submit the waiver. It's still going to be for the two-year period. So, I'm going to start working on that to make sure we're good. You will see some school districts in our region putting an electric bus up next to their budget vote to allow their community to vote the bus down because it earns you a lot of points inside the waiver. If we can earn the
074points without having to do a no vote on electric bus, that's going to be my first decision. If we cannot, you I will be coming back to you and saying the only way to do that is to put an electric bus up to vote. And I would say that we do that sometime in the fall, far away from our budget, so folks understand it's not the bus we're actually gonna buy that is diesel to put in our garage. Um, so more to come on that, but there is a waiver out there and we do have to qualify for the waiver by earning points. Last and I would say certainly not least inside education right now is this federal school voucher tax credit. If you have not read about this, this is this came from the
075big beautiful bill. And this tax credit is a oneto-one dollar fordoll match. If you donate money to a they call them scholarship granting organizations or SGOs. When you grant money to you give money to an SGO, you're going to get a dollar for-dollar credit back. The SGOs are actually being um built across the nation and they are funding more along the lines of your private schools. So you are going to watch a lot of advocacy and I will say where I fall on the advocacy is every dollar that leaves Calonia Mumford and goes to a private school is another dollar that we would have to raise from the local community in order to keep our programs here. So the balance there is not that you don't want people to have free choice. You want them
076to be able to do what they want to do in terms of decision-making for their families. But then understanding what that means for the concept of your community school and that a community takes the responsibility of that collectively. So these SGOs are going to be interesting. Uh I will tell you that it is also worth researching. So I'm researching what will it take for Calonia Mumford to become an SGO because if that's where the tax credit is going to come, maybe we need to launch our own SGO. So you have to watch the flavor of what's happening at the state and at the federal level to see whether or not we should sort of jump on a board, right? That would allow us to become an SGO and you're going to see that start to
077happen in in local school districts around us as well. >> Could you brief >> that could cost us so much money? >> I I >> sure fire away. I I'm lost. I at first I thought when you said that the private schools Would you give me a a a brief example of what an SGO what would it be like saying that we could when we spend a million dollars on a kid to go to Mary Kariola we get >> so let's say that let's compare the SGO then to a foundation or to a not for-profit that you are an organization that money can be donated to and then with your board you can vote to spend that money however you want. You're talking about donating money to uh for cats. >> Yes, if that's what
078you wanted to do. Right. But in these cases, when it comes to the federal school voucher, right, it's going to open the door for folks to donate money to private schools through these SGOs, which will then increase like their endowment. Think about like a private college that has an endowment. These private schools are going to increase the amount of donation they can take, which means they can offset what it costs for a parent to send their child there. They would be able to offer scholarship instead of families having to pay for private school. So that it's >> why would we donate money out of our budget, right? >> Yeah. I don't I wouldn't donate money. What I'm saying is if we if this is the way in which schools will be able to help their
079community get tax credit, you could have an SGO where people then donate the $1,500 to Calonia Mumford's SGO. It's then in our it's then in our coffers, right? Where we could then say to your to your question, maybe we fund our athletics through it. You know, what do we pay for out of that? We would decide. So, if this is the new game, John, we're either going to have to Well, for right now, we're going to fight it right now at the state of New York, we're going to fight it. And the reason being, and this is just the simplicity of it, and and this is this will come from like that same passion that I have around why we should care about every single child that comes to us in the state of New
080York. If you are a private school, you do not have to accept students with disabilities. They don't have the same rules that we have. So it's it for us it always feels so unfair that they don't have to operate by the same rules that we have to operate. So we ha we have to provide a free and appropriate public education to every child that lives in our community. But not every child that lives in our community would be eligible to go to a private school because based on their needs whether they're academic or or physical or behavioral a private school could say no to them. So what we are hoping for in terms of NISCUS, your superintendent group, is that we at least begin to lobby the state of New York to say like if
081this is the direction that we're going to go, then private schools should have to operate under the same rules that we have to operate under. And the state should see to that there should not be opportunities for them to then discriminate based on a child's academic needs. >> I thank you. I I get it. Um, >> are are they arguing that the private schools don't get state aid >> or federal aid >> and so they're trying to balance that? >> I I honestly think that and I'm >> you know I I'm just >> Yeah. No, I think in the end this is a this is this is a school choice movement, right? And so when you see the school choice movement coming from the federal level, you've seen it in a couple of ways. We
082New York State, we have a lot of charter schools. I actually didn't put that up there, but charter schools are actually also becoming a bone of contention. It just doesn't matter as much for us, so I left it off my bullet. Um, but charter schools um are a way in which public dollars are removed from us and sent to charters. So, public schools, it's not about or private schools, it's it's still going to be that school choice, which you can't get in this area from a charter school because we don't have charter schools. So, they've they've overpop populated those the cities with charter schools. So you you're starting to get school choice and now they're starting to expand into other areas where how do we then make school choice more affordable for folks that live
083in other areas. And so this this definitely appears to be a school choice movement. >> Yeah. Which I struggle with in some ways because again you want people to be able to choose whatever they want, right? But then you're talking about the disparity between folks that have the money and can send their children someplace else and folks that need the community to invest in the community. And so the more of this that happens, the more watered down your school system becomes because our foundation aid is based on our student enrollment, right? So for every child that we lose to a private or to homeschool, right, it costs us in terms of foundation aid. So we end up with less to try to do exactly what we've always done. So it just gets more and more
084challenging as a community to talk about what is the good for the whole. And I would argue that those that need us most are not going to end up in a voucher system. So, it just it has some I'll call it civil rights for me. Like it feels that way sometimes that like it's our responsibility to provide and I don't think we would have an issue if everybody had to provide the same way we had to provide because now their costs would also be different and they wouldn't be looking for a voucher program. Our next meeting we will share a more refined budget. uh every single day we learn something new about what is coming and and what we should expect. We will begin trying to close uh our gap which for us is not
085terrible right now. Do you remember the number off the top of your head? >> About 380,000. >> Yeah. Say say right around there. So say say 350. Right. So we've put in all of our administrative priorities and we definitely have some room to move. Uh I'll go back to that slide. We have some room to move in terms of our revenue. you'll see like our appropriated fund balance and our reserves as I mentioned to the board the last time um that we're building our guidelines. I'm leaving that open. So right now with that gap we we actually have some room where we could come back and talk about reserves. We are going to talk about our reserves. We need to do some fundamental shifts inside them. We still need to take care of that unemployment
086reserve uh based on the controllers report and move some of that money. I've got some strategic decisions that we should make as we're right in the middle of this budget development that will allow us to not necessarily create revenue, but to have you to have reserves that allow you to pay bills out of them. So, we'll talk about that more. It's one of those things that we should talk about in isolation to make sure that it makes sense. So, we'll circle back to it. Um, but there's definitely some some room in revenue for us to consider. Um, we've been working hard this year. I worked at Boseies for seven years before I got back into a school district. Really understanding how Bosey's aid is generated and the kinds of things that we can do to
087take programs that have been funded through the general budget, get those programs moved over into a BOSIES coaster line, which then allows us to generate that revenue. You're going to see that from me in my um in my next presentation where I talk about my superintendent push for next year with dual enrollment. We're finding ways to create revenue. And by finding ways to create revenue and giving kids opportunities, you're in a win-win situation. And we have found several of those this year where we've been able to move money out of general support and into places where aid is going to generate. So, we're going to talk a little bit about how this budget, we've got some wiggle room because we've moved some even teacher salaries from from general support into Bosey's Adidable lines. So, I
088look forward to talking to you about how we're going to close that gap in strategic ways and then circling back to what that might then mean for uh that real property uh levy. Questions about that? Fantastic. Um obviously we're going to continue to monitor the one house bill if we do as we start to close out that gap. The board has set decision-making criteria. We reviewed that the last time we were all together, but that's also in this presentation um to make sure that we are abiding by the big picture here as we make those kind of strategic decisions. Save the date. Uh we do anticipate that by April 14th, we'll be adopting a budget. On April the 27th, we will get together on that Monday night to vote on the Bosey's budget, which is
089imperative for Boseies that as many of us as Ken are in that Bose or on that Monday night and vote for their budget. They do need us to do that. May 12th will be our public hearing and we will ask our community to come out and vote on May the 19th. >> So, when you put the save the date up there, I'm thinking, wow, April 14th. It's moving >> a month off and and we're looking at this these tax levy numbers, right? And the board really hasn't had discussions >> about what what the comfort level is. >> Correct. um what that will need to happen soon. next next meeting I would say like I I'd like to be able to bring you some of those revenue pictures and kind of show you what we were
090able to do and balance that back against you know I I was telling Brennan I sat in a session I think I finally understood and I'm I'm going to help us next time we're all together really understand what it means when we say that we're not going out at the cap just like with foundation aid where we got that increase of 366,000 right and from there every percent from there is based off that base number, right? Your tax levy is the same way. So, it is in it is really hard. And so, looking at this slide, it would be really hard. We could never tax our way out of a tier six change, right? We we could never do that. 1% on our tax levy only gives us $80,000, right? $80,000. That is it. So,
091we're in a we're in a decent place this year because we saw the increase in foundation aid, but man, what if we don't next time, right? And I think really understanding that it's our responsibility to try to plan for the long range health of the district. It's we have to keep our eye on the prize in terms of what are we hearing coming out of Albany? What could this look like for us in year two and year three? Because whatever we don't collect, we can't go back for. And then you have to balance that with some of also what we heard from our community members which was you should see my electric bill, right? So we want to make sure when we're having this conversation and you're thinking through this that you are beginning to
092think about what do we really believe the community can tolerate and that for us and helping the community understand that a 1% tax levy is $80,000. Thank you. >> Absolutely. >> Any other questions? >> Liz, I think you brought up a really good point about the foundation aid, and I was wondering if we could get something to show what our year-over-year >> um >> runs are on that because if we go back to 1% next year, well, obviously our costs are still I mean, we're 3 4% across the board no matter what. >> No matter what, >> you know, so maybe it Well, >> it makes our jobs really hard. Yeah, >> it does. It does. And I I do think that that's the struggle that we're in, right? And I just outwardly we can
093say that that I also would like to see our school budget go up the first time, right? So, how do we do a really good job of making sure that we're having these conversations, that we're feeling really confident about the information, that we're able to communicate about the budget, that when folks have questions or concerns, that if they're not able to get their questions answered by you, that they're sent to me or to Brennan so that we can help things make sense. But in the end, a 1% increase is $80,000. It doesn't scratch the surface of of the increases, >> you know. So, I look at this budget and where we sit right now and I think, oh, well, maybe a STEM teacher, but then you have to ask yourself, can you keep a STEM
094teacher in year two and in year three and in year four, right? So, we're still in the same sort of spot that we that we were in last year, which is to go up. Could we handle it in one year? Sure. when we're looking at the projections or the the volatility of what things might look like across the state in the next couple of years. Geez, I don't know, right? So, you're going to see me next time talking about areas of revenue that we've moved. Have I moved enough into a Bosey's line to generate enough aid to pay the cost of a teacher? I'm so close. I'm so close. I'm so close. So, so close. So I think in the end like if I can if I can show us how we do that to
095create revenue that that revenue I then just it's not the way the budget works. Close your ears, Brennon. But then that revenue is kind of like asterisk for, hey, that's actually how we fund that STEM teacher, right? >> Yeah. Is it sustainable? Right. So, I I do think you're going to see some things from me next time in terms of how I'm attempting to generate revenue that might allow me to say to you, I'm feeling pretty good about that. At the same time, I pay close attention right now to those hot topics because even if I can generate the revenue, we may need it. >> We may need the revenue to do other things, right? So, we're still a couple weeks out from there, but definitely good questions. >> So, you want to see Foundation
0968 year over year? How many years would you like to see? 10. >> It's easy, Mike. >> Yeah. I think just what Liz said is next year, I mean, let's say somebody makes more money. Are we in a different classification? And are we back at one or even under one? Has it been under one? >> It hasn't gone under one. Uh, last year it was at 2%. This year it's at 1%. A lot of districts are saying, "Geez, why not the 2% hold harmless?" Like, "Why why are we not hitting that?" >> You might see it come out of the two house budget. You just did not see it come out of the governor's budget. She made she made full day prek for four year olds her primary push financially. And then she made full
097day prek for three year olds in New York City a very big push. So, they're going to see both of those in their funding. They're telling us forecast that >> I don't think it's hard to get that foundation aid stuff. So, I'd say 10 years. >> Oh, yeah. It's it's easy. >> Would be good to see >> because then we've we've got the teachers contract which is is I can't remember three and a half, four something in that area and it's going to keep coming like it will. I mean, you you've got some we call it breakage. It might not be the best way to say it, but folks retire at 55, you get some breakage. Like, we're managing some of that this year better than we thought we would be able to manage it.
098is probably because we've had some other positions go unfilled that we've been able to manage that. But next year that management should in this budget that we're building the management of that in the next few years is still pretty good is we're going to get some we have some retirements coming. >> I keep on thinking of one one thing is that last year when when the budget went down we had a 2 something or other percent increase. Right. >> Yes. And for for those those of us who didn't follow how that was that was over 2% which is what people thought. So at least we're below 2% at least >> agreed that that's a that's typically a strategy too. You see a lot of folks that won't go over 2% because >> well because that's
099that was the understanding that a lot of us had. Yeah, I listen I agree with you and it's something that again kind of a mute point at the at at this stage in the game but something that school districts will say even now that it's almost impossible for us to go out above. So, you know, you you limited our ability to to to tax >> and then you've got sometimes for some folks the community pressure is to to tax more because they want to have three languages, right? school districts across the state of New York look so vastly different. >> Some people want the ability to do that and they can't get it without a majority vote, you know, but for us, I would agree in communities our size, people expect to see it below
1002% because they would have to follow it closely to better understand how the property tax cap is calculated, >> right? >> Any more questions? >> Thank you. >> Absolutely. Thank you guys. All right, we're going to move on to number two under new business. Take your seat. Thank you. Approval of intermunicipal agreement resolution of the Calonia Mumford Central School District Board of Education. Whereas Jese Valley is proposing a capital improvement project to include additions, alterations, and improvements at the Betavia Mount Morris campuses and may include the purchase and/or donation of real property. And whereas the funding for the 42,885,649.39 capital improvement project is proposed to be secured through an inter municipal agreement between Jennese Valley Boseies and and its 22 component districts. And whereas the Calon Mumford Central School District wishes to enter into the
101IMA to fund their share of the project. And now that therefore be it resolved, the Calon Mford Central School District approves approves the MIA IMA for its share of 1,721,173 of the total projected project cost of $42,885,649.39. Further, it is understood the IMA shall be circulated to the 22 component districts for their consideration. Should a district not vote in favor of the IMA, the Boseies will pursue financing through the DASA via a resolution that will be put up for public vote and must be approved by the majority of town total voters for the project and the and the financing to be approved. Be it resolved that the Calonia Muffford School District Board President is authorized to sign the IMA. May I have a motion, please? >> So moved. >> Motion by John. A second. >>
102Second. Any discussion? >> Makes sense. >> All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? >> Motion is carried. 6. The second was >> me. Yep. I'm just making sure Sherry heard. Sometimes the back she can't hear. >> Your explanation was >> very helpful, >> commendable. I mean, it's kind of common sense, but not necessarily, but you were very thorough. >> Well, lots of, like I said, a lot of networking and collaboration with superintendents. Daryl McGlaughlin, the superintendent of Perry, does such a great job. He's our president of our association and he does a nice job making sure that our thoughts are well articulated and that we all share with our boards really important facts to make sure everybody gets the same message. >> Moving on to number three, certification of evaluators and lead evaluators.
103Whereas the education law section 3012-D subpart subp part 30-2 of the regulations of the commissioner of education require that administrators receive specific training as a condition of performing teacher and principal evaluations pursuant to that section in subpart. And whereas administrative administrators so trained are eligible to be designated by this board as evaluators and lead evaluators. Therefore authorizing the performance of evaluations pursuant to that section and subp part and whereas certain partnership administrators have received the required training. Now therefore be it hereby resolved pursuant to education law section 3012- C sections 30-2.2 2 and 30-2.9 of the regulations of the commissioner that the following partnership partnership administrators are certified as evaluators and lead evaluators. This is for Jessica as may I have a motion please? >> I'll make it. >> Motion by Becca, second. >> Second
104by Peggy. Any discussion? >> All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That motion is carried 6. We're going to move to executive session. Resolved that the board of education adjourn to executive session at 7:19 p.m. for the purpose of discussing the following matters pursuant to public officers law. Discussions concerning the employment employment and employment history of particular persons and matters leading to appointments and resignation. I have a motion please. >> I'll make it. >> Motion by Becca. Second. >> Second by John. Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. 6. We will be back. >> Resolve that the board of education return to regular session in 8:20 p.m. May I have a motion, please? >> I'll make it. >> Mike second. >> A second. >> Second. All
105in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Carried. 6. We have personnel 1 through seven. That is to include one resignation of extra class advisorship. Two approval of substitute. Three appointment of extra class advisor or resignation of department leader. Five resignation of food service helper for purpose of retirement. Six appointment of supervisor of transportation. And seven approval of inter scholastic coach. May I have a motion please? I'll make it John. I'll make >> by John. Second by Mike. Discussion. Congratulations to Janet Bonlander who has been employed with our district for 30 years. Fantastic. And and wish her well in her retirement. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? That motion is carried. 60. Resolved. We're going to move to adjournment. resolved that the board of education adjourn the meeting of March 10th, 2026 at 8:21
106p.m. May I have a motion, please? >> Second. >> Motion, John. Second, Peggy. All in favor say I. I. >> Motion carried. 60. Have a good evening. >> Thank you everybody. >> Thanks everyone. Thank you.