001good evening I call this board meeting to order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance Michael i al to the flag of the United States of America and to the stand One Nation God indivisible Li and justice for all I head thank you for joining us this evening please be advised in the event of a fire emergency and 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 phone to the silence thank you for your cooperation uh first we're going to start with additions deletions and changes to the agenda ad we do have one addition that you'll find at your at your seat this evening it's an addition personnel number four we actually had a teacher submit resignation today she
002was appointed to work back in her home district and so we we wish her well um that's what you'll find this evening as an addition thank you very much moving on to consent agenda resolved that the Board of Education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approve consent agenda as listed may I have a motion please so move a second I move any discussion all in favor say I I any opposed that motion is carried next we're moving on to Communications we will start with points of Pride and I will start our elementary chess club recently competed in Regional tournaments their determination and sportsmanship set them apart the Raiders demonstrated impressive strategic thinking skills and earn recognition and awards for their effort the healthy competition fueled their enthusiasm for the game of trust our elementary PTO
003recently hosted a fantastic sweetheart dance bringing together over 400 students and their loved ones for a night to remember dressed in their finest families filled the gymnasium and cafeteria with smiles laughter and tons of dancing the beautifully decorated spaces photo booth fun music and sense of community made the event truly magical this event was a reminder of the strong sense of community we share and we are incredibly grateful to our PTO for organizing such a special evening thank you to everyone including our Middle School and High School Raiders who volunteered and made this night so memorable for our students and their families the Middle High School uh hosted a lunch and learn number six of eight as we welcome New York State DEC officers and their K9 brass they shared their careers as uh New
004York State Department of Environmental Conservation officers with our eighth graders congratulations to our top 10 in their families on all of their academic achievements what a commitment valedictorian Hazel Nickerson salutatorian Lily Clement AA bazy Juliana Scott Ava amarice Rihanna Lynn Khloe CTS Grayson Funk Ryan Murdoch and Jackson Funk congratulations to sophomore James patella who won his 100th Varsity wrestling match while competing at the section five state qualifiers at hly High School in bath and congratulations to senior Ava Amar who scored her 1,000th Career Point thank you everyone moving on to board committee reports there's two board committees that I know of that have met since our last meeting one of which I just finished up with is the jese Valley School Board Association president meeting which I just had uh virtually um of course as
005you can imagine some of the discussion at that table is about the impact of uh Federal funding and how that may impact our smaller school districts Nisa uh along with our local community reps are very aware of what's going on and will keep us posted the second um committee is the negotiations committee we met last week last Thursday I believe and discussed the practice of Kum having board members at the negotiation table we will continue that moving forward negotiations for the CM K mom Teachers Association is uh when did that start Dr Chanel we actually start tomorrow evening with our negotiation process uh of course with a hope of being done before May 1st so that is on the radar any other committees that I am missing fantastic thank you next we're going to be
006moving on to Bob Harts he is from superale he is going to give us a brief presentation of superale which is the new um electronic evaluation system that we will be using to evaluate Dr Chanel yes thank you so much welome president Dr Chanel thank you so much for having me here tonight um and thank you for your business and support I'm going to just give you an overview of super eval um basically as for president Dar mentioned um when it comes to superintendent evaluations it's going to be uh it's going to make your lives uh heck it a lot easier it's all digitized it streamlines the process with one click of the button it automatically creates a post final evaluation in which you can make edits and it just drives deeper rich and more
007meaningful conversations around District initiatives what can we celebrate where do we need F that of attention um for the next school year so um uh so with that I'll just I'll jump in to the platform um how we got our start we actually um we were at tech company that spun out of the University of Buffalo your largest research University we were incubated at the center of Applied Technologies and education we were at a conference in 2015 saw a presentation by the general Council of mcus the New York State Council School superintendant jinda AKA Jazz Convoy she put together a committee of superintendents to take a look at Best Practices and evaluations they to developed the rubric which is very similar to the dis rubric um that outlines best prices in um um superintendent highly
008effective superintendence and um they um encouraged a self-reflective evidence-based process problem was that process was all paper based so superintendent were collecting evidence in three reinders those three reinders became 6 in thick they if make copies for each of you board members if board members you'd have to Le through to those three REM binders somebody would have to collect the comments and create a proposal to final evaluation uh that we president uh and we being an ntech company we saw an opportunity to streamline that process and digitize it and so it makes it easier for superintendant to upload evidence and help inform you as board members how she's meeting her goals uh make it easier for you to partake in the process and offer feedback to the superintendent uh and again just uh makes the
009the process more efficient so with that I'm just going to run you through the platform when you log into Super Emil and by the way I'm going to show you the different Avenues of support but once you get into it if you ever if you need another onboarding like this we can arrange uh I'll call board president um Dr Chanel you can arrange another maybe a virtual onboarding session but this is the main screen of super feal at the top will be your name this is just a fictitious superintendent in our demo District of Y up schools uh it's uh we're we've got some good debt in the 23 24 school year so keep it there um if you ever need to go back to a previous year's evaluation you can use this drop down
010and go back to the previous year's evaluation and instead of having to go to a district public office and pull up file it's pinned to the superintendent self evaluation but Dr Chanel would to how use it with her leadership team that's where those folks would show up enough about last name we also have the board Stu evaluation here as well so you just click on the board self evaluation it goes to the board self eail you're not having to log out of one platform and into another but tonight we'll focus on the superintendent uh self evaluation so the first step in the process is really it's foundational to Super eval it's you know what is going to be evaluated and what is evaluated is completely up to you as a leadership team it can be
011just on annual goal specific to Cal monford it can be on a rubric it could be on parts of a rubric it could be on goals in a rubric whatever is evaluated uh or whatever you would like to be evaluated it can be replicated and and put into Super Fe that so one day is where those um custom goals will go 1B is where the rubric resides and it allows you to select and deselect competencies out of the rubric so you can make uh the evaluation a little more focused and here in 1C you have the ability to adjust weights and ranges for the different you know domains and your um uh uh and ordinate goals once Step One is complete this is just a reminder that the superintendent and the board agreed upon the
012goals now it goes over to Dr Chanel where she would go into the superintendent self evaluation and then upload evidence in reflection notes around those areas being evaluated to help inform those board members how she's meeting her goals let's face it uh you know being board members you do have lives outside of HEB board members although at times you probably think so but this allows Dr Chanel to again help inform you how she's Meeting those goals and so underneath here and this is just an example of a goal around increasing reading proficiencies underneath that goal there's a space for Dr Chanel to really u spell out what that action plan is what are the deliverables you know so at the end of the year there's no ambiguity as to what success looks like two key
013critical factors to a healthy leadership team are set up their expectations and open minds of communication this is where Dr Chanel can go in and really just um you know point you know what is that action plan what are the deliverables again to remove any ambiguity so underneath the goal is a rubric and then underneath the rubric is a place for Dr Chanel's Reflections and comments throughout the year as well as uploading supporting evidence you know PowerPoints B documents links to references um reference Pages up your website um pictures videos whatever the case may be this is way more evidence than what's needed usually it's one or two exemplars but Dr Chanel has the ability to um go ahead and upload those notes and evidence and then just prior to submitting the evaluation at the
014end of the year she will give herself a self evaluation um on how she feels she did in that on that particular goal and that's also backed up by the reflections comments and evidence once the uh self evaluation has been submitted to the board and S to a year on evaluation each one of you will get an email notification stating that um the evaluation has been submitted um now we are on pegy penners as our fictitious board president in our demo District you can tell we're on step three the chevron's pointing to the right here this is the Board review and evaluation of the superintendent so this is where each one of you would go in individually go into the um the evaluation and as you scroll down again there's our first goal around increasing
015read proficiencies you would scroll down and underneath each goal each section that's being evaluated is the link to the superintendent Reflections and evidence so as a board member everything is right in front of you you go ahead you read the reflections and evidence or take a look at the reflections and comments take a look at the evidence based on that evidence based on those comments you simply click on the performance level on how you feel Dr did in that area and then you yourselves can offer feedback in the form of text and or you can also upload supporting edits if the goal is around communication with Community you're at a community event you take a selfie with Dr Chanel you want to upload that in the super email you can go ahead and do that
016but each one of you would go ahead R down the rubric offer feedback then with one click of the button board president D would click AR complete that's just saying you know you're moving on to the next step without having all board members to can be evaluation for whatever reason the Ard member Falls still it does not hold up the process you can move forward so with one click of the button all of those comments have been correlated all of them have been contextualized underneath each area being evaluated um all of those ratings have been averaged and this is where you come together as a board and create a proposed final evaluation how you want Dr Chanel to see the feedback and what those ratings are this is where it takes place in step four
017this is a neat little data view as a leadership team team are we in alignment there's the superintendent self evaluation versus the board's uh average are we in alignment you get a green thumbs up when you're exactly an alignment or is there you know a u a significant disparity between rages and that's what we're looking for right we don't want to talk about the you know hey the green thumbs up where is there a significant dis between ratings to make any edits um on the um uh the evaluation itself you just click on that that Orange Box go to the edit uh button click on edit and all the edits are made online so it's not heading to do this manually if I scroll down underneath that first goal and I click on feedback and
018comments there the comment uh from board member heart net that relates specifically to that goal you don't have to do the evaluation in Latin okay um but this allows you to uh you know make any edits you can say Okay Sydney wants her name reacted great okay everybody's saying the same thing and you want to summarize the comments um you can you know uh here you can summarize summarize the comments and you can also change the rating on the rubri so again how you want uh Dr Chanel to see the feedback that is where that takes place instead four Mark that once you uh Mark that complete an email now we go back to Dr Chanel where I'm going to refresh my screen here now we're back on the superintendent view tell we on step
019five the chevron's pointing to the right my glasses I need my eyes here if I click on the proposed board evaluation now this is where Dr Shanel can go in she can see that comparison chart okay are there any blind spots um you know or as a leadership team are we in alignment Dr Chanel can see the evaluation and any of the changes that he made it's area for post evaluation Reflections and comments it U creates a summary page for a personel file as I scroll down here to the bottom there's a uh an area for General comment by both the superintendent and the board and once you had that discussion at the end of the year first Dr Chanel was signed off I sign electronically confirm board and discuss the evaluation not does not
020necessarily any agreement with the final evaluation for the more sign additional be made would you like to continue in sign so first Dr Chanel would sign off that goes to board president D board president D you would sign off it would digitally archive issues evaluation um create that summary page and then it would start the 25 26 school year where you put in uh SCH in Stu there so but that is uh super eal uh in and up sh uh I know that it's um you know quick a lot of information here but like I said this is tonight was just an overview an opportunity to thank you in person and uh to let you know that you know when we do need help or assistance uh we can do another onboarding session or underneath
021the help section here when you log in super Emil under the contact us section we have a 1844 number that gives you a live person on our health desk uh and then school hours this help button becomes a live chat you can live chat with somebody on our help desk so it's not AI generated you're actually talking with real life person yes so um but that is uh that's super about so um thank you for having me out receiving any questions while I'm I'm here uh any comments or I do believe it's going to be a shift for our board we have been doing paper um but I do think this is the step in the right direction um setting Dr Chanel to be successful and for us to be successful over there we can
022use this as well for our board evaluation and that might be the next step depending on how this goes you have our thoughts on that um questions concerns thank you very much for coming thank you appreciate it very much thank you it's all your yes is there anyone before public forum no have no public for this evening we're going to move on to Super intendent report I'm going to hand it over to Dr Chanel all right so I want to speak on two things this evening uh you'll see that I gave you data for January of 2025 our Middle and High School honor Ro percentages uh compared to last year you'll notice that our overall percent of students that have made both the honor role and a high honor role collectively are down this year
023from last year uh I would say from a teacher perspective uh what what you would hear from teachers if you were asking them is everyone is pushing really hard to put expectations back in place and to make sure that our kids in particularly are writing more um so the challenge is here and we just continue to tell our kids that we're here to support them and uh let's go Raiders right let's get back to where we want to be uh next up I want to talk a little bit about uh an issue that was brought to our attention last week I think this is certainly important for for the public uh last week we were made aware that we sent tax bills so basically to give a backdrop here we when we Levy taxes for
024our school taxes we actually run a school tax collection period during that period our taxpayers are asked to pay their tax bills at a five-star Bank um as you guys know we had some glitches with five-star Bank this year right so we had to reflect on some of that um not issues of our own doing but certainly things that impacted uh our our voters our our community so we also um when we're done collecting taxes and it sort of closes out we send tax bills that post did not pay onto their local Town and County for those school taxes to actually be reeved and so there was a batch of taxes that were not collected we sent them on to the town of Wheatland for them to be REM led into the Town and County
025tax and it was left off of the Town and County tax bill so basically what I will tell you right now is I'm not satisfied yet with a plan moving forward basically what they're sharing with us is they will relevy those taxes next year in 2026 which means for the 33 people who did not have their taxes levied this year they're going to see they're going to see school tax that looks like it was more than double um so I do have some phone calls in to the New York State Department of Taxation I'm working with Monroe County treasurers trying to understand from their standpoint with their response to me whether or not that's their own procedure in which they in the way in which they function as an organization or if there are some
026laws that are governing the inability to re those Taxas so for right now I have to tell you the jury is out uh of course I have had conversations with our school attorney and I'm also looking from that that lens to make sure that if there is something that we can do there is a law that would allow us to push to have something reprinted for our taxpayers I think it's in their best interest that they not have compounded tax next year when they open up that 2026 do you know if by chance these 26 did you say yes 26 30 33 I'm sorry 33 T people from the town Wheatland by chance were they all people that were just common PID their taxes or are they people that have a mortgage that you're going
027to see 89% increase in penalties and all that stuff in terms of the 33 names that are on that list it ranges everywhere from Residential Properties to a couple of businesses um so in terms of amount Ed everything from you know a few hundred to thousands you could be dealing with people that have their mortgage asro I don't I'm not sure of that I'm not I mean I I guess I would have to ask that question of the bank like is that a possibility like I ask would be great as they say I ask for mine right so it gets paid on my behalf so these are these are 33 School tax bills that did not get paid within the window of time that we've requested they'd be paid so kind of think of it
028as collection right we have we have 33 taxpayers that that would be my guess right quite as bad as a do 3 it's still terrible yeah thank you though of course thank you for looking into that is there any questions you have people going out knocking on their door and saying not yet I can tell you that I do believe from what we understand we got a phone call Mrs whoose actually fed a phone call which is how we learned that it was an issue so when Mr nardone started making phone calls on our behalf to follow up around what occurred and try to get the facts of the situation it's when we learned that the county had actually also received at least one other phone call they hadn't told us but they had known
029probably a week prior to us that our submission to the town of Wheatland did not make its way into the tax levy um so right now what I would say they they're they don't have any plan for any form of communication I certainly would not regardless what the solutions are and I'm I'm not going to stop until we have good advocacy for our taxpayers but regardless what that solution is I would not allow was 33 folks to not be communicated with whether by Monroe County did not print those tax levies correctly or if it ends up having to be us and that we contact all 33 folks to let them know that this is happening and excuse me these 33 folks should know that someone out there knew about this for 5 to seven business
030days before they chose to do anything about it because that that's just that that's just on I did send an email this afternoon to to Monroe commi Department of tab station just asking them to know please send me back an official correspondence where they kind of explained to me in a very official way what occurred so that I can understand it and I asked them in that correspondence to please address whether or not my request to have bills reprinted and sent today why that request can't happen whether or not that's an internal procedure that they're that they're not able to do or if they're leaning on property tax law and and are unable to Levy now that they have already submitt a tax bill so that's where we're stuck I think until I get that
031communication and as I mentioned our school attorney is also there you know in in terms of the attorney that we we you're used to Sarah and hearing Sarah's name but Sarah works for a firm with lots of people who specialize in lots of different areas so there is someone that um specializes in property tax who is going to be reaching out to me tomorrow with some more advice for us as a district on making sure that we Advocate to all the way to the end thank you you're welcome right in the same ve to this um have we resolved the five star issue with the Lost payments can I ask Jeremy to weigh in on that yeah so any issue that we knew about with a taxpayer that came up to us we resolved that
032issue and that taxpayer was refunded any penalty and any stop loss that they put on their check if somebody did not come to us we did not fix it CU we didn't know about it but anybody that came up to us I know two people for sure that came back to me and then the people who uh the checks were just returned I dealt with that without even communicating to the taxpayer so what happened was the checks were returned to me we recorded them as paid and I worked with five star to get that through with no Bon so I would say the majority of people um it didn't even get to them they didn't even know it was just uh it took an extra month or two for their check to clear the bank
033um but then two people actually did get hit with a penalty they came in uh we worked with five star and festar said yeah we'll take care of the penalty just show us proof of payment they came in and we took care of it thank you I'll just add if there's anyone out there that still feels like their tax bill wasn't handled well by festar they were charged an extra amount of money they didn't realize they could call the school and we would Rectify that I just want to say that publicly this evening obviously we will not stop advocating on that piece either if those folks still exist out there thank you um moving on to Old business there is none so we're going to start with new business budget presentation number one the development
034of the 2025 2026 annual school budget Dr Chanel and Jeremy are going to do this for us please this will be our first handon presentation and can I take the second and also say unfortunately for us it will also be mine and Jeremy's last presentation this is Jeremy's last board meeting with us um I just I just want to say that while we delve into this last presentation that Jeremy has been very dedicated to our district for the past four years uh I can tell you from my vantage point that we are better because he spent time with us uh I certainly in my learning curve in the very beginning uh have said to Jeremy that virtually every part of the school and its function as an organization I'm pretty comfortable with except for the
035business office and so I was really looking forward to sitting beside him and learning uh which I've had an opportunity to do Jeremy is very organized uh he is definitely leaving us in a place where the rest of us being able to learn from all his notes and comments that he's leaving behind and um I would say maybe more so in this budget development than typically as he works really hard to set us up for success I just want to publicly say thank you to Jeremy thank you for all his effort see here we go all right maybe try okay there go all right so for tonight's agenda I'll just walk you through a little bit of how this presentation is outlined uh we always start with our mission vision and beliefs so who are
036we what do we stand for because every budget that we build should actually be building back to our expectations um that we've placed you'll see our budget calendar budget guidelines budget guidelines and we'll talk about that in detail but really that's the board's way of um working alongside the administration to make sure that when we're making decisions in rooms that you're not in uh that we are doing that still within the confines of agreements that have been made across this leadership team we'll talk about our decision-making criteria how we assess things when we have to make decisions to cut and of course we're going to dive into some of our proposed budget which Jeremy will um do some teach pieces on for us and finally that proposition for a new school bus so let's start
037with our mission statement here at konia mford Central School District in collaboration with our community we take pride in providing safe comprehensive and rigorous educational experiences in order for all of our students to graduate e as ethical responsible lifelong Learners who are both College and Career ready and I I would do amend that and and say both College and Career ready because I don't think it should be one or the other uh it is definitely our mission so our beliefs I will not read this to you all but basically whenever we are talking about ourselves as a school we're we're laying out for our Community really what we believe so I would say our big key takeaways here is that when we are functioning on behalf of this community that we care very deeply about
038the learning environment that we create for kids it drives the decision making of This Collective group uh we want to be collaborative with our community and making sure that we're taking care of our kids in their future we want our kids to feel respected cared for and eager to learn while they're here we want our Communications to be transparent and frequent we want to provide all of our instructional materials including our equipment facilities and the things that our kids are experiencing every day to be topnotch for them uh this budget will take care of those pieces as we're moving through it um expect we expect that our faculty and staff will utilize ongoing professional development it's definitely a goal of mine to build that professional development budget line which you will continue to see as
039we map out a budget expect high levels of dedication and Improvement in excellence from all of our students and persistence from them while they are working through challenging tasks we want appropriate caring and healthy behavior from all members of our school Community not just our kids but all of us collectively we continually seek to be Innovative to implement and solve problems and provide the best educational experien is possible for our students we want our community to feel like we're communicating with them and in those Communications that we're consistently bringing them back to our mission our vision these beliefs and of course the values that we hold so dear we also want to take time to celebrate individuals and group accomplishments with the highest levels of Pride so our budget calendar tonight is the first night
040where we're really going to begin uh delving in uh we will continue that process with an we're hoping by April the 8th that we are adopting a budget a proposed budget by the board um if the legislative branch of government in the state of New York does not approve their budget and it delays us uh we do have April 21st set aside so currently we do have both of those meetings on our calendar if we are so lucky uh to have an adopted budget by April the 8th uh the 21st meeting is typically canceled on our behalf uh May the 13th is the public hearing on our proposed budget and of course May 20th not only will we vote on the school budget but we will also elect Board of Education members what is our
041decision-making criteria so when we are building a budget and again when we are assessing the budget that we have to try to right sizee it and make sure that it's healthy these are our decision-making criteria the board uh worked together as a governance team to really set this criteria to make sure that we are maintaining programs we put safety first so you're always going to see in our decision-making criteria that we are taking care of the safety of not just our students but our entire School Community when we're making our decisions we want to retain programs that we have in services for our students especially the ones that need us most we want to make sure that graduation rates stay as high as possible that is in fact our overall mission is to graduate our
042students ready for the world we also care very much about the programs that we already have and if those programs are still supported by data and research we want to maintain those programs when data and research is no longer supporting the retention of programs that we are using that data to to adjust the things that we have in place we want to provide financial means and care for our communities Investments that's our facilities and our infrastructure uh you will see some increases in the budget uh last year to this year in that particular area to make sure that we are taking care of our facilities uh the board did approve the 2526 Capital project which is also going to be sign significant for us and taking care of number four in this upcoming school year
043we also want to make sure that our budget is taking care of services that are necessary to operate our district in accordance with the law and to make sure that we are providing um and preserving District initiatives so that's actually one that the board added a couple years ago uh we got our in a place where we had to make some cuts and we actually decided to cut in an area that we had been busy growing it was a program we had been building for a couple years straight and we decided to to cut that so the board asked us to add number six to our decision-making criteria so that we are taking into consideration if it's been a board goal and it's been part of what we've been building that it not be first
044on the chopping block our assessment criteria we are going to cut if we must in this budget as far away from kids as we possibly can the achievement of our students and the activities and experiences that they have while they're at school is certainly our number one priority next on that criteria would be any services or programs that we offer that are not mandated by the state of New York we care about the functions that could be absorbed and handled reasonably by others or by other means um you will I will draw your attention back to reasonable I think that's something that I've been speaking at least in in terms of my role as principal and we'll carry over as superintendent what does it really mean when we say say reasonably by others there is
045that Tipping Point where we can no longer cut we can no longer maintain programs and assign responsibilities to others uh based on that term reasonable programs that could be accomplished reasonably by other means uh we definitely do a fantastic job as a district at partnering with neighboring School uh as you know we've increased a lot of participation with Leroy which has been fantastic um we also use our bosies and we maximize programs that they have to make sure that our kids are getting l of opportuni so we are really good at number four I am going to hand it over to Jeremy for General support awesome thank you so much all right so General support this is all your 1,000 function codes so school districts have broken down into an rrange of budget codes the
046first four digits after the letter is the uh function so General support is anything from 1,000 to 1999 it includes anything from your board of education your district office which is your superintendent and business office all legal facility Insurance everything in that means so right now you'll see an increase in the budget of 6.63% primarily the biggest increase in that is actually a reclassification of expense we had our shared food service director classified as a 2,000 function code last year we actually expense it in a 1,000 so it's just transferring that expense over to the correct code and budgeting for it appropriately so we don't have to do that transfer a year end in addition as dranel said uh we are increasing the budget heavily for equipment I remember last year uh we gave an
047equipment replacement plan to the board uh that states if we were at our capacity and what we really want to put in the budget and following that replacement plan how much would we need in equipment so we did throw a lot in there and in addition Insurance increases everybody's seeing it in their homes we're seeing it in the industry there's two major uh insurance carriers the one that we don't deal with is actually going up like 30 to 40% we hear the one that we are dealing with is going up from anywhere from 10 to 25% % we are about that 15% so we're at the low end we're working with our insurance provider and he's assuring us a good interest rate for next year or interest increase for next year Transportation this is anything
048with a 5,000 and this is anything to get kids to and from school and two and from Sports so you'll see a 5.68% increase there again you're going to have your salary increases that are contractual in addition what we did this year we had yearend Surplus last year that we actually utilized to purchase new bus radios so our old bus radios it was very tough to get a signal once those buses were off our campus which is a safety concern the new radios we have I'm not lying I can be in my house this bus could be in Buffalo and you're going to hear them clear as day so it really enhanced our security there is a reoccurring cost with that but remember we do get Transportation Aid at about 74% so really if an
049increase in radios I'm going to make up a number is about $155,000 it's very close to that the net cost is only 25% of that and you're going to see that when we increase the revenue budget as well community service this is our Community Education Program it's going up 1.53% in here there's some contractual materials and supplies expense in addition the uh stien that we pay our Community Education director this is just a contractual it's not contractual I'm sorry it's a board approved rate that's usually happen in the reor minuts we have that going up about 3% and then uh employee benefits this is a big one so uh last year I think employee benefits health insurance in particular went up about 6 to 7% in the aggregate this year it went up 12.4% so
050there's three major plans that calonia mford has healthy blue blue point and the high deductible forgive me here but I I can't remember which one is which but the healthy blue and the blue point one is going up 10% one is going up 12% those are those are actual numbers and then the high deductible plan is actually going up 14% that is normal because when the high deductible plan came out a lot of people weren't going to that plan and the people who were going to that plan were quote unquote the really healthy people they weren't going to the doctors they weren't submitting those claims so now as time is progressing and districts are moving people to that high deductible plan and remember in both of our in our two biggest uh negotiating units it
051is a plan the only plan that we offer to our staff um now they're starting to see that expense come in and the premiums have to increase so the high deductible plan has been increasing at a higher rate than other plans for the last 2 years and in the aggregate they're going up about 12.4% in addition this is all your F expenses your TRS expenses which is just a percentage based on salaries and then our ERS bill is going up about 25 to 30,000 this year and it's just because of increases in salaries over time and finally Debt Service you'll see a big increase here 22% last year uh if you remember I believe we saw a big decrease the reason for this is because the 2025 26 Capital project is now coming on of
052the books slightly so we are not going out to permanent financing and we'll get into that permanent versus temporary financing in a later slide but there's no principal payment next year but there is going to be that interest payment on the temporary borrowing so that is why you see an increase right there in debt service don't be alarmed any increase in debt service is going to be offset by an increase in building Aid at roughly 84 cents back on the dollar um so now talking about that band versus bond so ban is just a fancy way in the industry we we call Bond anticipation though it's a one-term temporary financing so what it means is uh think about your home when you go out and you borrow money out a home and you get a
053mortgage that's more like a bond a ban is anything that you go out for one year or less on but you can renew it up to 5 years we utilize banss when we go out and purchase our buses and the reason we go out to ban and we don't go out to bond is because that price can change year-over-year and we want to be able to be flexible in our budget so so we utilize bands in addition you'll also utilize banss when a capital project starts you'll remember we had a $15 15.23 million project that was approved by the voters in December of 23 um we are using 2.75 of our capital reserve so the difference is about 12.4 million 12.48 million that is what we're anticipating we're going to spend however prices are not
054going to come in at exactly that so if we go out and bond that whole 12.4 million right now well we only spend 12.2 we're actually paying interest and principal expense on $200,000 that we didn't have to borrow that's a waste of money to our taxpayers so what we do is we need we need the funding to pay the contractors The Architects in the short term we utilize those banss and once we know the project is getting complete then we go out to permanent financing which is that Bond we pay off the band and then it it lacks us into a 15-year payment schedule you'll see a bond goes anywhere from 5 15 to 30 years 30 years 5 years is on buses uh which we don't do we ban 15 years is on a
055capital project and 30 years is on a capital project when you're doing an addition so when we build a new school you can actually get that financed over 30 years so it's less of an impact on your taxpayers and when you do go out to bond you have that dunar schedule again think of it as your amortization schedule for your house it tells you exactly what your principal and interest payments are from the time you sign up on that bond to the time it matures this is a snapshot of all the debt that we currently have so again you'll see up at the top there the 2025 26 project again as as I mentioned you will not see a principal payment that's why that number is zero in the 25 26 year but if you
056go down to the fourth row there you'll see an interest payment of that 382,000 that's obviously a guesstimate as of right now because we don't know exactly what the expense are going to be we don't know any change orders potential change orders that are going to happen but this gives you a good snapshot of what our interest and what our principal expenses are for the next 3 years again I know you're probably looking at it Jeremy it's going up a million dollars from 2526 to 2627 yes but remember there is no tax impact on the community for any of these projects so simply all that's doing is the money's going up the expenses going up the revenue is going to follow in the building a when we went out for the 2017 the 2019 or
0572020 project and the 2526 project we promised our voters a 0% increase in the tax levy with that means is let's say we have uh in our budget right now uh $5,000 of the tax levy goes to pay for debt we promised the community that we wouldn't increase that Levy for future projects and go from 5,000 to 10,000 so there's always that local share but we want to keep that local share consistent so that we're not burdening the taxpayers and what we do as a school district is when we have those uh funds at the end of the year when revenues exceed expenses we like to put that money in the capital reserve so then we can give it back to the taxpayers later so that's all we did with the federal money is we
058put it in the capital reserve a lot of it and then we're using that money to offset any tax impact on the next Capital project so please remember that and again you'll see that debt service is going to stay kind of flat once you get through for the next 10 years until the next debt falls off the books but there is 0% tax impact to the voters this is actually proposition number two um which we'll put up to the community proposition number one will be of course the overall School budget uh at our last meeting you all approved the proposition number two as uh transportation and purchasing of a new bus one thing to point out with this new bus is we are paying attention to the laws and how they may or may not
059change at the state but we have to prepare for that um with needing to keep all of our temperatures controlled so this particular bus that we'll be buying is a little more expensive than buses that we've bought in the past and that's because it will come equipped with air conditioning so overall uh taking a look at budget to budget you'll see here uh in just the categories that we presented to you this evening what the percent change is and overall total at about 8.97% so a couple of things to point out to the board uh this particular budget that you're looking at the 2526 is really what we would put in if we were building the perfect budget right this this just like last year takes care of the equipment replacement plan so there's money
060that's put into a line uh as as you know this is only a small percentage of our budget it's right around 14% the number that you're looking at here tonight so there's quite a bit more expense for us to share with you and then the revenue side uh so we did just want to draw your attention to the fact that it's the ideal budget does that mean that this we're going to get all the things that we wish for uh this particular budget line also has all of the administrative priorities in it the addition of a full-time staff are we going to be able to do all those things this year that's a great question for us as we move forward and kind of balance uh the difference between our expenditures and our Revenue in
061this um we also have a capital outlay project so each year we do Capital outlay uh this year we've made the decision to spend time in um here in this building with some of our valves that we have so we actually have an old system uh it's actually original even in the new high school Wing it's the original system it's running off of pneumatics which basically as Richie would describe it to if he was standing here it's like lots of air hoses you that are running to try to keep our system moving and as those air hoses age they get tiny holes in them which means air is always leaking so just think about a compressor that you have at home and if the compressor has a small leak in it the compressor never shuts
062off and so a lot of the heating and cooling issues that we have in this building right now the ability to kind of keep it sort of normal we've been unable to do because the pneumatics are are actually creating some issue for us so in this Capital outl project we are going to replace the pneumatics with electronic valves uh which will allow us to be have a lot more precision in the way that we're handling Heating and Cooling in the in the building what questions do you have for us quickly um I drive my truck with the air conditioning on with the windows down just how I am me too these kids on these buses if the kids's cold can you roll window met absolutely so it's not going to be a big deal to
063buy spend this money for this bus to keep it 61 deg when the kids might be cold they're going to put the windows down absolutely perfect and again we we do have some summer runs as well so using this bus primarily for those summer runs uh you know there's always like three or four that you're always going to have so utilize those for for that and then also for any special ed run that you have maybe during this the school year when you get into that May and June months just to help you out at at some point though all our buses will have air conditioning 50 years from now it's an assumption because of what the governor is trying to put through with the temperature control on the classrooms we anticipate it's going to
064move to the buses uh we only thought it was a $115,000 increase in our bus again that's aided at 74% and that 15,000 extra is paid over that 5 years and returned at 74% over those 5 years so we think it's a good bang for our buck because what happens is if you don't put air conditioning in the bus and then you do it on the back end it's going to be way more expensive probably not going to work as well and so you don't want to be caught off guard with those uh mandates if you can get out in front of it for a cheaper price we think that's the way to go great great idea I'm not I'm not questioning any of it but my final question quickly please the radios okay we
065get 74 cents on a doll for those two right I'm just curious you can push a button now and you can hear someone in Buffalo right oh yeah yes when did all a sudden you couldn't hear someone in Buffalo it's like how old are these radios the the older radios we had the ones are being replaced I mean a radio should always work radio radio so the the bus radios would always pick up chatter like especially with the dispatch radio so we have three base radios that two at each school and then one that the transportation director has those would be able to pick up buses but now any radio that any admin carries that has that bus channel can also pick it up so think about it like this when you have a principal
066who has and Dr Chanel can probably talk to this better than I can but if you have a bus that's off to both and they're coming in at lunchtime but they're running a little late but you need to keep the lunch line open you can now communicate to that with with the old radio system it would take the Bose bus would be about 6 minutes out before the radio would actually allow them to communicate with us our new radios think of them more like cell phones they're they're running off of towers got and so it's allow I mean they could take these all the way down to Swain to ski and still be able to talk back to us on the campus so yeah there are two radios that that we have two portable ones
067um Mr Otto has one and I have one that allows us to take those radios home with us so we'll go back two Saturdays ago we had we had a snowy day we have buses out on the road we also have radios at our houses that allow us to communicate with the driver of that bus to let us know if they're having any issues or need any assistance um it it actually allowed us last week to support Mr Otto in a way that we've not been able to support him in the past he had a family wedding and Jeremy took the the radio home so that could handle any bus issue with the three or four buses that we had out and allow Ron to actually you know have a little bit of a life
068so the radios I think safety mechanism for our drivers this is huge uh they will have reception with the radios in places you wouldn't get cell phone reception so and if they needed to use a cell phone let's say there's an emergency on a bus they can't just use their cell phone to call us they would have to pull over during an emergency and then use a cell phone because the radio was out of range now they can actually just pull the radio down they can radio right back to all of us that have radios that there's something happening on the bus and that they need support I wasn't trying to come no it's just I'm excited about it it's the coolest thing the next the next thing we might have to design and I
069went and sat with the bus drivers maybe two Fridays ago now and I said you know the new bus that we're going to buy is going to have air conditioning and they looked at me and they said there's going to be one bus so maybe it's like um the Raider five on the go and you're if you're the bus of the month you get there okay everybody on board with really good behavior for the for the hot Ms thank you any other questions awesome thank you guys thank you thank you J yeah thank you thank you thank you very [Music] much we're going to move on to new business number two approval of election inspector rates resolv the Board of Education on the recommendation of the superintendent approve the election inspector rates for the 2025
0702026 budget vote head inspector head election inspector rate of $25 an hour and election inspector at $19 an hour I have a motion please I'll make the motion second second any discussion all in favor say I I I any opposed that motion is carried moving on to number three approval of Mo MOA result that the Board of Education approves the written agreement between the superintendent of schools and the Cal calonia mord Teachers Association and an employee of the district executed on February 25th 2025 may I have a motion please yep can I have a second second any discussion all in favor say I I any opposed that motion is carried appointment of the genese area healthc care plan board member resolved at the Board of Education upon the recommendation of the superintendent appoint Dr Rebecca
071Chanel as the jese area healthc care plan primary board member for the 2024 2025 school year can I have a motion please yes a second second any discussion all in favor say I I any opposed that motion is carried number five approval of Mo MOA resolve that the Board of Education approves the written agreement between the superintendent of schools and an employee of the district executed on February 25th 2025 have a motion please I'll make a motion second second any discussion all in favor say I I I any opposed that motion is carried finally for new business number six approve approval of Consulting agreement resolved that the Board of Education approves the Consulting agreement between the superintendent of schools and Jeremy nardone executed on February 25th 2025 may I have a motion please yep a
072second second any discussion all in favor say I I any opposed that motion is carried I just want to make note real quick that we do have some new business at the after Personnel after executive session which which is a little change for us in the back backup notes Dr Chanel did speak to that uh and that is due to us not wanting to move on some P or some new business before we do the Personnel so it was just a logistical thing um but if anyone that watches us frequently um may know that that doesn't change but we are going to go to Executive session resolved at the Board of Education adjourn to Executive session at 6:5 5:00 p.m. to discuss the employment and the employee history of particular persons and confidential Student Records
073protected by furpa May a motion please second second any discussion all in favor say I I any opposed that motion is carried see you soon welcome back uh from executive session resolve that the Board of Education return to regular session at 8:19 p.m. I have a motion please I'll make it second second any discussion all in favor say I I any opposed that motion is carried we're moving to Personnel we're going to do personnel number one approval of musical stiens resolve that the Board of Education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approved the following stiens for the 2024 2025 Middle High School Musical as listed may I have a motion please oh I'm sorry Liz you're going to have St I'm abstaining yep uh motion please I'll make it second yep all in favor I
074I any opposed that motion is carried we're going to do Personnel 2 through 4 right [Music] here resolve at the Board of Education upon the recommendation of the superintendent approve Personnel 2 through 4 as listed may have a motion please I'll make it a second second any discussion all in favor say I I any opposed that motion is carried moving to new business new business 1 through 4 resolve that the Board of Education appoint the following interim officer is listed effective March 1 2025 number one number two designations resolve that the Board of Education appoint the designation is listed effective March 1 2025 authorizations number three resoled that the Board of Education approved the authorization is listed effective March 2025 and number four resolved that the Board of Education appoint Bruce krown as inter business
075administrator can participa Cooperative fitting effect of March 1 2025 may I have a motion please I'll make it a second yes any discussion all in favor say I I any opposed that motion is carried we're going to move to adjournment thank you everyone resols of the Board of Education adjourn the meeting of February 25th 2025 at 8:21 may I have a motion please I'll make it a second second any discussion all in favor say I I any opposed motion carried have a good night thank you everyone