001[Music] USS uh the 2025 2026 budget. Um Mrs. May has the floor. Okay. So, budget session number four, uh, a review of expenditures and revenues. A little bit closer, um, than we did last budget session. Okay. So, for the agenda tonight, a review of expenses, uh just a discussion about federal grants, um review of revenue, uh what a contingent budget would look like, uh closing the budget gap, reserve usage, and then finally talking about the propositions that will be on the ballot. So, when we look at the expenditure review, uh we've kind of gone through this a couple of times now. uh looking back at the 22 23 actual expenditures as well as um the current 2425 adopted expenditures as well as the anticipated expenditures for next school year. Um so overall not a lot
002a ton of changes from last week to this week. Uh we will see later on uh that the budget gap is smaller. So it's now down to 1.25 to 5 millionish um at a 0% tax levy increase um all the way up to about 800,000 uh budget gap if we went to the the tax cap. Um so again, these expenditures break out separate propositions. Um so we'll talk about that again a little bit later as well, but these do not include our bus purchases um any techn or transportation or buildings and grounds equipment that would be purchased with the capital reserve. That would be that se that second proposition. Um so overall again not a ton of changes but the budget gap is um a little bit smaller and a majority of that was related
003to um you know an expenditure budget is based on estimates for next school year. Um so when we look at all of our 600 budget lines that we have that make up the total $40 million expenditures for next year. Uh we build in some buffer because we don't know there could be some expenses that come up next year that we weren't planning for that we need to be able to to spend. um that buffer has been uh dropped down um to try and eliminate that budget gap as much as possible. Yeah. So, just just as a reminder for anyone who's watching at home, this is this is Mrs. May's um um first budget with with Eden School District and what she's done over the last several weeks is taken a really deep dive and a
004long look at our expenditures across time. Um, so when she say says there's some some some of the 600 lines that go into our budget have been reduced, uh, the question could be why war was reduced to begin with and it's because it takes time to to learn what is a a fair estimate of an expenditure and that's essentially what she's done to get us to where we are today. Okay. So this slide is kind of more of an FYI for federal funding. Um, so there's been a lot of talk in the news about the disbanding of the Department of Education and what that may mean for school districts. So, um, for federal grants, the district Eden does receive grants related to title one, title 2, title 4, as well as IDA 611 and 619.
005So, IDA stands for individuals with disabilities education act. It's essentially our special education student grants. Um so in total we receive about 535,000 uh that's for the current year grant allocation. Um schools have been told that even though the department of education no longer exists uh these grants will be overseen and managed by a different department of the federal government. So uh the plan is to just not really change anything and to um assume that those funds will be there for next school year. So, um, just another example of how school districts are forced to budget in a very different way than than than, uh, most other folks in society. And we rely on the on this federal funding primarily for salaries. Some of those those funds are considered pass through and and and they
006come to us and we pass them through to uh entities that service some of our our most our most needy children. Um, and as Mrs. May pointed out, we've been uh advised at this point um that uh the funding will be maintained. Um but as we know, things are changing at a fast and furious pace. So, we thought it important that the board be aware that over a half a million dollars uh of our budget is relying on those funds from from the federal government. Um, and should those go away for some reason, uh, we will have to retool and rethink, um, our budget to make sure that, um, we can cover all that that we've covered with that half million dollars historically. Yep. So, just a reminder, turn your microphone on because we are
007being we are being live streamed and recorded. It's okay if you don't mind asking that question again. what's going to happen? I um well that's that's um that's a very important question and what we're being advised at this point is the department of education more likely than not will not be overseeing the funding. The funding will continue but a different government entity will will be overseeing that. Okay. Okay. So, if we look at the revenue side of the budget, again, not much has changed since last week's budget presentation. Um, a small increase to miscellaneous revenue based on actual revenue that we are receiving this school year. Um, so again, a very small increase. So, the total revenue is 38.8 million. The one thing I did want to note on this slide, since we had talked
008about on the previous slide, federal grants, the federal aid listed here isn't related to federal grants or anything, it is our Medicaid reimbursement from the federal government related to um Medicaid services that some of our students receive. So, it's just a reimbursement of those. So, let's take a let's take a a quick look at this at a little deeper level. So, our state aid is going up by 1.7 million, about 5%, right? Um that's in the governor's budget. That's in the governor's plan. As we talked about last time, uh the House and the Senate have have their plan. And now is the time when when the two houses and the governor uh negotiate and come out with the final budget, which is due by April 1st. We are not expecting it by April 1st. We're
009certainly expecting it before you are asked to adopt the budget on April 22nd. Um our 5% increase is 3% more than most schools in the state uh received in the governor's budget. she um um went with a minimum of a 2% increase and then our our increase was based on updated metrics in terms of our our impoverished uh um stakeholders and a couple other changes to the foundation aid formula. Uh the Senate, I believe I shared last time and maybe the no both the Senate and the House, both houses uh want that minimum to go up to 3%. and we don't know if if that happens if they'll if it'll also positively affect us at 5%. You know, it would be great if we went to 7%. We wouldn't be having too many hard conversations
010then. But I also want to draw your attention to county sales tax. Um we are projecting 1.9 million in in revenue from sales tax. Um this is probably one of the trickier projections in our in our budget and certainly the trickiest when it comes to sales tax based on um you know the things that are going on on nationally and internationally. Uh our area certainly uh benefits from uh Canadian shoppers uh and you know they they they pay our sales tax. So if if that goes away I would anticipate that uh that number dropping as well. Right. Okay. So, just a little talk about what would it look like and what would it what would it mean if the district had to adopt a contingent budget. So, if the vote should go out in May
011and fails, the board has two options. Uh they could go out for a revote in June, which they could propose to the district voters the same budget or revised budget, or they could at that point adopt a contingent budget. If the revote should fail in June, the district must adopt a contingent budget at that point. So what does a contingent budget mean? What would it look like? So a contingent budget tells districts that you cannot increase the tax levy. So taxpay taxpayers technically don't pay any more as a total to the school district. However, individual tax bills could increase or decrease depending on the overall assessments, uh the distribution of um assessments in each town, um so on and so forth, things that are out of the control of the district. So, while the tax
012levy in total wouldn't change, individual tax bills could change. Um it would eliminate equipment purchases for next school year. So, on the first slide where we had um total equipment purchases for next year, that would be zero. uh we would have to eliminate the capital outlay project. So that's the $100,000 capital project that Mr. Sitzman reported on last budget session or last meeting uh which is the $100,000 project at Eden Elementary. That would no longer be allowed to continue. Uh we would not be allowed to allow outside um agencies to use our facilities at a free chart free basis. So we would have to charge them for using our facilities. uh it would eliminate any school bus purchases and it would also eliminate um other non-contingent expenditures in order to make sure that we stay
013at a 0% tax levy increase. Just can can you clarify when you say outside agencies are you talking anybody not affiliated with the school or would that be like town affiliated clubs and things like that? It would be anyone who is not a district employee. Wow. Okay. Mhm. So, town town wreck um we don't charge the there would be significant fees. Um anyone that wants to use any part of our facility would have would have to uh would have to pay. That's not an US thing. That's a state mandate. That's a state mandate. Absolutely. Okay. So, this is another repeat slide. um from previous bud budget discussions. Um so this is the difference the cumulative difference between um what the tax levy could have been if the district had gone to the tax cap um
014since the inception in the 2012 2013 school year uh versus what the actual tax levy was in each individual year. The cumulative difference amounts to 1.9 million. Um, so again, this is what the board of education has chosen to keep in our taxpayers pockets u maintaining financial stability um of the school district and understanding our operational needs uh while also understanding um the fiscal management of our taxpayers. Frankie, how often I've been on the board was it nine or 10 years now? this nine or 10th budget. Mhm. Um, how often have we come out below what what was acceptable? So, I think once since I've been on the board, we tried to exceed uh with a supermajority and that was voted down. And then how often have we gone in less? I I think it's
015almost every time, but it's almost every time. I'd have to look back at the exact numbers, but originally when the tax cap um inception, I want to believe the first three or four years it was at the cap or near it. Um and then every year since then has been less than the cap. Okay. So, so I guess I guess my point is so we we have almost always the board and all of us have advocated for going out below what the maximum allowed. Correct. Y Okay. Okay, so this is just the model showing um our total revenue um our total expenditures um and then our tax levy at each iteration from a 0% increase all the way up to the tax cap of 2.58 uh with the budget gap um at each iteration. So
016again with the 0% increase, we're at about 1.25 25 million budget gap all the way up to the tax cap at about 833,000. So with what this is showing is if even if we go to the tax gap, we still have about 833,000 of a budget gap that we would have to we would have to meet. When we look at reserve usage, um this is another repeat slide. So this is just the 1,66464,000 um that is built into the revenue side of the budget um for our workers comp, our unemployment, our ERS and TRS. Um this is not related to proposition 2 uh which would be the capital reserve for purchase of buses, transportation and buildings and grounds equipment. Um which we'll talk about later. Um okay. Okay. And then lastly, just the propositions that
017would be on the ballot in May. So, proposition one would be our general fund expenditure budget um of 40,76,000. Um it would include the capital outlay of $100,000 and then it would also include whatever tax levy increase the board feels comfortable going out at. And then proposition two uh would be the use of capital reserve funds for our bus purchases, our transportation and uh buildings and grounds equipment uh for a total of 1,182,000. This proposition is using all of reserves to pay for those expenditures. So there is no taxpayer impact. going to be done with these buses or you know whe um what the governor has established is that um after 2027 we can no longer purchase diesel or gas buses. Okay. So, we well a little bit of time. It's 2025. So, we we
018are um proposition number two is designed to purchase the number of buses that we need, maybe one more than we would typically. Um so, we make sure that we have enough quality buses to to to run our to pick up our children, deliver them safely as we work towards that transition. And remember, we're not going to be the first transitioning to a zero emission bus. We are probably going to be the caboose purposefully. Uh the Senate is uh has a proposal in their in their budget presentation to delay that 2027 two years through 2029. Currently, by 2035, the entire fleet has to be zero emission. Right? That's 10 years away. Um, we are probably three or four weeks away from getting our final report from Wendell, who is doing the infrastructure study on what we
019need to do and what it would cost to add uh charging stations and fire suppression and any updates that we would need to the to the transportation department building. Our our just just for uh charging stations and fire suppression at $7.4 million and that's without even touching the building, which would need significant upgrades and and expansion. So we are we are lobbying hard with with various organizations to slow this down. Okay. Um could we go back three slides please? There we go. So I just want to board I just want to talk to you about this a little bit and I'm going to draw your attention to the orange line uh about midway through that uh through that slide and that's the levy increase. And you'll see on the on the furthest left column underneath
020that yellow rectangle, 0%. So if we don't increase the levy at all, our budget gap currently would be $1.2 million. And then as we make our way to the right, if we if you um prefer a levy at 2%, we would have a $927,000 uh uh budget gap, 2.25, 887, 2.5, 847. And if we go to the allowable tax cap of 2.58, our budget cap is $833,000. Now, I will tell you that we in one time in our time together, we did um have a 0% uh uh budget that um even though our financial adviserss cringe when we do those things, um that was at a time where the federal government sent an awful lot of money to schools. um our and we were told to buy stuff. Well, how much stuff do we need?
021We'll buy what we need, but we're not buying stuff just to sit around. Um it was also that was also the time where uh our stakeholders approved the capital project that this library was part of. Um so we had extra funds. We utilize those towards salaries. Um, we only in in the last five years, the only new position that this district added was a was a school social worker, right? Very easy to justify that. So, we did not increase our staffing based on federal funding. We essentially gave back to the taxpayers and and didn't increase taxes. I cannot advise to do that again. Okay. Um, if this board feels we need to go out at 0%, obviously you are the board of education. We will we will heed to your your wishes, but we're talking
022significant and deep cuts to um to staffing and to programming. Um that's the only way we can get to 1.2 million. Uh it really is. Um, if we go all the way over to the right, 2.58. Um, that is a reasonable tax cap. Uh, there was a year where our tax cap was 7.49%. Which is a number we are never going to ask our our our taxpayers to to attempt to afford. I think we we went out at 2% that year, right? So, left five and a half% on the table because that was the right thing to do. Um if if the flavor is is to go out at the tax cap, we still have $833,000 uh of a gap uh to uh to fill. And we can do that a number of different ways,
023but we can't get to those ways until you remind me of what's important to you. And other than Mrs. Delpent, the other board members were the you were the board that hired me. And what I heard from you from the beginning and what I listened to in meetings was a a a a very large sense of pride in terms of class size. And one of my first meetings, we we talked about um adding a a a teacher at the elementary because there was a bubble of students and then that teacher would move up so that our class sizes would be be maintained. And I can tell you that in in the in our primary building and in our elementary building, we have class sizes between 17 and 19. Um I think kindergarten might be might
024be might be around 20 um at most. I can't remember there. Don't don't quote me on that on that grade level though. And if you want me to maintain that, if that's what's important to this community and important to the board, I need to know that. Um, if that's no longer important and we're going out at 0%, that gives me some direction on where to look. Um, I think our class sizes are fantastic right now. If you're asking for my recommendation, we should maintain what's important to us. Um, and what was important to you 5 years ago. Um, but let me hear from you on that. I mean, as I I am all for maintaining lower class sizes at the primary and elementary level. I think I think our goal should be to if anything
025if if we're reaching financial struggles to then see those slowly increase as they age up. But I think it's important to give as much differentiated instruction when they're younger and that's much more manageable when the class sizes are manageable. Um especially at the kindergarten level, anybody who's ever taught kindergarten, it's or preschool, it's not an easy gig. It's I mean they're cute, but it's like hurting kittens. So, you you really do need small class sizes to make it work to make to give everybody every kid an opportunity to learn. Yeah, I 100% agree with that. And especially I think today, you know, we see a lot more, you know, kids are different than they were 10, 15, 20 years ago. They have a lot more needs. So, I think to increase class sizes, especially at
026those younger grades, would just be harmful. Right. Um, I agree. Don't know how to use my mic, but there's a small class on that. I don't know people in a class but still make sure that they don't start that and I believe we have a wellrounded curriculum in our middle school and high school that Yeah, that our services. Yeah. So, so when it comes to uh secondary staffing, it's it's it's not as it's not as it's a little bit more difficult to discuss because as you pointed out, Mrs. Grunderer, it also has to do with what courses we're offering, right? And there and you know, Mr. McDunnana and I had a long conversation about that today. And for example, we have two math teachers retiring, right? and and we have talked about if we're going
027to shrink our staff, let's do it through attrition because we have really good people here who really care about our students, who really buy into the the whole culture of our community. We don't want to lose anybody. And I'll just gave you an example. I if if you came back and said, "Let's not replace any of either of those math teachers," it would decimate our math pro program. We would only be able to offer the the basic courses. Um, and I would say that even if we didn't replace if if you told me not to replace one math teacher, last year we had a discussion, we had a retire, we had a retirement, we anticipated we might have a couple more that uh this year and and we do. Um, so the thought last year
028is we can although not an easy person to replace, we can we can maintain what we offer currently by not replacing one person. But that ship has sailed and I and I'm going to recommend that we we replace both of those math teachers. If we don't replace one, your upper level math courses are gone. Right? Those are some of your smaller classes. You know, when you have, you know, an an AP Cal class, you may only have five to eight students in it in in a school our size. Um, quite frankly, I worked in one of the largest high schools in Western New York. we had an AP uh calcul BC class that maybe had 10 or 11 kids in it, right? And so what I just want to point out too, when you look
029at the number of students enrolled in certain courses and a district our size, you can't look at the just the number of students, right? You need to understand that those students deserve the same opportunities for that for that challenging level of coursework that a student in in a neighboring district that has a lot more students. than it does. So you don't want to you don't want our students to be punished just because of the zip code and where they live. And so sometimes we have to have a tolerance for some smaller classes at at particularly at the upper levels. Okay? That doesn't mean that we and this is some of the work we started today don't have to take a real hard look at at where our enrollment is and whether there's some some micro
030adjustments that that we can make. Okay. Well, actually, we need more than that. That's as but but that's as high as we that's high as high as I'm going to recommend we go. I would go ahead. Sorry. Talking about you know your micro shifts. I mean I Jack and Marlene I think we can there was a period of time where we did make some pretty significant un unfortunate but necessary cuts to staffing and programming. Um so I think we've done a lot of hard work even prior to your tenure to try to rightsize things. That doesn't mean like you said there aren't like small adjustments that we could make at some point. But and I always think too when people talk about staffing and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think now we're hiring
031a lot more onetoone aids, classroom aids than we have say 1015 years ago. I mean, you know, I think that that's I'm guessing I'm assuming, but um just based on our monthly meetings, how many were approving? And I think people forget, they're like, "Oh, our classes are, you know, our our district is getting smaller, but our needs are getting bigger." And I think people forget that. And I think that's something important to keep in mind where, yeah, you know, our numbers might be lower, but the need is greater. So, we do have more staff that we we need. Um, and I think sometimes people forget that or don't want to acknowledge that. And by people, I mean the public. We know. Um I I would simply add that um the board has consistently come in
032lower than the cap. We're all taxpayers here. We're all homeowners in Eden. We're I don't know if we say we're proud of raising taxes, but we're proud that it didn't go up as high as we could have. And this year, I don't see a way that we don't go to the cap. I I mean, we've gone over the numbers. There's other meetings uh regarding the budget. We've fine-tuned things. We've cut jobs in years past. We've taken hard looks with all administration at right sizing, um combining services, all those sorts of things. And you reach a point where, you know, there's only two ways to move. Either you lower expenses, which we tried to do, or you raise revenue. And in and this this year um I would advocate for going to the 2.58. Um other
033years I have said you know even though I think one year was like two we can go to two and a quarter and we said let's just go out at [Music] two just you know to save the taxpayers but I I don't see a way to not go at 258 this year. Okay. Okay. coming. Is there a realization that if this loses that you won't be able to purchase the supplies or anything? That would be really a pretty powerful situation. Well, I mean, that's part part of why we're having this meeting, so we can have uh um an open discussion, open dialogue as opposed to a business meeting where you're voting on things. And it's really not, you know, a given give and take like we're having right now. My my hope is that if
034people aren't watching at home right now, that they that they watch online and they hear how committed all of you are to keeping taxes as low as as possible, but maintaining our class sizes and maintaining our student programming. um a a contingent budget, to be very honest and be very fair, would not impact most of our stakeholders in the community. They wouldn't know a difference. But those who participate in in the town recreation department certainly are going to. Um those who have uh family members or who who teach in the district or work in the district, they're certainly going to feel it. Uh and and the bottom line is your taxes still might go up. So, the community needs to tell us through their voting what they support and what they value. And if they
035value the high quality of education students can get in this district, and they really can, then then they'll show us when when they vote. I mean, we're at we're at between 96 and 98% uh um graduation rate. And and that's an outstanding metric and one of the tops in Western New York. We have we have students who who go on to do what they choose to do post high school whether it's collegiately or through the world of work or the armed forces or or whatever it is and it's because of the quality education here. It's a lot to be proud of as a community. Do we know besides this the summer wreck program how many other town organizations use the school? I'm assuming um the one I can think of that's in the winter would
036be the Eden Wrestling Club who uses the auxiliary gym. So they would be charged for it. think, you know, I'm just trying to think of other other clubs so people can understand the how wide, you know, it wouldn't just affect those kids who go to, you know, summer wreck, you know, there's the the winter wrestling and then are there any fall programs or if there's I think there's also there's still swim club, adult basketball, and I think they do they used to do adult volleyball. I don't know if they still do. Yeah. Anything that's not an Eden Scholastic team. Yeah. I'm just wondering what other town things town things there are. EA would be one of them. What's EA? Eden Athletic Association. All your baseball. Like what? Oh yeah. Like sorry here. Um lacrosse. We
037have adult programs. We had um winter instructional swim this winter. Um adult pickle ball, two volleyballs. Um there's a bunch of our community members that are using it, but they don't realize that. Yeah. No, I think it's good to have that list because, you know, I think of summer wreck, but yeah, that's why I was like, what else is there? But yeah, that's a that's a lot. That's a lot of stuff. I mean, as far as the tax cap, I think it's our job as the board to educate um our community members out there, let them know what we have done. And I mean, yeah, they see that big book I don't like that we send out at budget time, but really the message is I've heard great things about our school and every time
038I ask people about it, I've heard lots of good things. People have come back that have stayed in our community to um raise their children that went to school here because I'm always amazed at how many people stay here um cuz I was not born here and raised here. Um, and that is our job as a board though to go out and educate the community and say, "Here's what not necessarily what you'll miss, but this is what you're getting." And we're just asking for a little bit over that 2% that we've always asked for to maintain what we have, but we really just need to go out there and educate people and then encourage them to ask questions. Go ahead. Yeah. Excellent, excellent comment. And you're going to see a very different uh um book
039this year. It's a little different little different flare much more significant highlights on all the great things that are happening here. That's fantastic. Well, you got someone with a little bit of style running the show now as opposed to me. So, let's um move one slide forward for me. Okay. So, this is this is reserve usage. Yep. This would be just with what was presented for the general fund budget. Um, so if we did want to take that budget gap at the tax cap, um, and add that to the 1,64,000, our total reserve usage for the general fund budget would be 1,898,48. So again, that would just be bumping up really our ERS and TRS um, expenditure or usage of reserves. So that's our employee retirement system and our teacher retirement system uh, employer contributions.
040Um, and that would really just be maxing out the use of that reserve. I guess the one caveat to that is again, um, once you use your reserve, it's like your savings account. That money is gone and is not available for future use. So, we just have to be mindful as we're planning for future years. Uh, if we're going to spend more reserves, that money is just not there. Yeah. And let's talk about the ERS and the TRS reserve, which you've targeted to to fill that gap. Um ERS uh is why don't you explain it? Let's see. What's ERS for? So ERS is our employee retirement system. So think of like our teacher aids, our clerks that are part of our CSEA unit. Um they're part of the state pension system, which is the employee
041retirement system through the New York State local retirement system. Um so when they retire, they get a pension. um the employer pays um a percentage of their salaries towards that pension system each year. Um so next year it's slated at about 13% I believe. Yeah. And so each year we are given what the increase is going to be. So and it's increased every year. It's never gone down. I mean that the increases have been more modest recently. Um, but whatever our increase is this year, 9%, 10%, whatever it is, we have to either utilize our reserve or our general fund to pay that. It's a bill that comes due every year. And TRS is the same is the same description, but for teachers. Um, so teachers, you know, our our costs or district costs aren't
042just salary. It's salary, TRS or ERS contributions. It's FICA, uh, and obviously health insurance, which is a a a huge cost. Um, the district is going to, um, be saddled with an increase of about a4 million dollars in health insurance costs for next year. And, you know, at about a 7.9% increase, which is a good 5% less than what the what the average is. So, we're supposed to be thankful that it's only going up 8%, but I'm hard it's hard for me to be thankful about this. Um, so I just point that out because, you know, we're utilizing that reserve for that specific cost and we're going to have that cost the following year. I agree with that strategy as you and I have talked about before to use those those two reserves to fill
043the gap. But the other thing we can we can have is we can have hope, but hope is not a plan. And we can hope that when the when the final budget comes out that at the very least we get what we think we're getting today. And then the hope would really be that we get some more and then perhaps we can use a little bit less of that reserve and and and save that for the following year. Yep. Right. But hope is not a plan. You can write that down. Okay. So, are we in we in agreement? Let's utilize these reserves to to to fill that gap. Let's maintain our programming, maintain our staffing at this point. This is just a discussion. You could change your mind between now and April 22nd. For sure.
044Yeah, I think so. Um, I mean it makes sense and because we don't really it's not like we have these things to cut either. I would also add that it's not like we're adding a bunch of additional stuff. I mean really we're trying to maintain our existing district and inflation is still above depending on who you talk to 3%. And so that's still lower than inflation. And so, you know, I mean, it's it's it's hard to keep prices and and expenses below the rate of the cost of everything going up. Okay. Anything else? Want to go to your last slide? Okay. So, next steps in the budget process really is to adopt the property tax report card and adopt the budget. That's about it. And that and the budget adoption will be April 22nd. 22nd.
045No, that's not the vote. That's where So, we will have another budget presentation. We will have a balanced budget to present to you. We'll explain how we got to that balanced budget very likely utilizing the reserves that we talked about today hopefully with also an increase in in state revenue. Um and then you will as a board vote or vote to adopt or to not adopt the budget that's present presented to you. If you don't like the budget that's presented to you, then we'll take a recess and Frankie and I will will um square your way in office and figure out what changes we can make to to get to a point where you're where you're satisfied. But our charge as of today is 2.58% utilizing those reserves to to fill the gap. Okay. Um
046again, so April 22nd is the next u meeting where we'll be we'll be talking deeply about the budget. It'll be the last time we can change make any changes to the budget as a board. Okay. Once it's adopted, it's adopted. And then May, when is our budget our budget hearing? May 13th. May 13th, we'll have a budget hearing. And as you'll recall as a board, that's when people tend to show up and and want to hear about the budget and recommend changes, but it's too late. Changes have to happen by the 22nd or they don't happen. We have a budget hearing on on May 13th. 13th and then the vote is on May 20th. 20th this year. May 20th. Yes. Remember I don't hear. All right. We're working together. There we go. So May 20th
047is the is the district vote um for the budget and also for uh the three three trustee positions that are open. Right. Okay. Mr. Sortio, can you hear me? A Tuesday. Yes, it is a Tuesday. Yeah, it's a Yeah, it's a t Tuesday, May 22nd. It's a statewide uh date. Uh except for the big five. So, unless you're in Unless you're in a big city, that's when you vote on the school budget. Frankie, was back Oh, sorry. Can you go back to the prior slide? I just had a question. Um about the second prop two. Yeah. Um I'm just curious how um what building and grounds equipment just out of curiosity. Do we know it is the um cafeteria tables at the middle high school? Okay. Yes. So we have we've taken a really hard
048look at some of the requests that we got. We've looked at um you know depreciation tables uh regarding trucks and front loaders and a whole bunch of other things. we didn't know really understood what they were uh and pushed a lot of those asks uh further into the future and focused our purchases on on buses and things that are going to directly positively impact the students experience kind of what I was curious out of curiosity how much how much is a bus do we know about less than 1.1 million but it's more than a dollar um two 200 small in case I ever want to buy a school Think about 100,000. Okay. No more than that. Maybe 200,000. Maybe in maybe in NT there were 100,000. In Eden, we buy a little lesser ones. Yeah.
049Hey Jeff, can you hear me? Alan, I hope they do. I hope I hope we have to move it into the auditorium because there's so many people that want to hear how hard we're all working to to make things affordable for for them and wonderful for their students. Yeah. So we just but I'm not going to hold my breath. We need to let the public know and yeah find ways hopefully of Jeeoff wasn't there a technology reserve at one point we're not doing anything for technology this year. So we are not it there is a capital project reserve for technology. We are not going out with a proposition next year uh for a technology reserve purchase. Uh mostly because we have the smart schools funding about 475,000 that we have to spend uh that we're
050going to work on putting a plan together to purchase some of that technology equipment next year with that funds rather than technology will be replaced but we're using uh we're using grant money essentially. Any other questions? Thank you. Okay. Thank you. All right. Well, that concludes our uh our board um our board meeting for tonight at 6:47. Thank you all for your for your input and your direction.