001okay I'd like to call this budget Workshop meeting to order at 702 on February 27 2025 would everybody please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance Mrs Aliva would you please uh do the welcome the ground rules good evening and welcome to the budget Workshop number two being held on February 27th 2025 in the unlikely event of an emergencies please exit the building in an orderly fashion do not attempt to drive away as you may impede the arrival of emergency services please be advised that smoking and the use of Vape products are strictly prohibited on school grounds at the end of the presentation the floor will be open to questions pertaining to the presentation only there will be no public comment portion for this evening thank you uh number four we have um recommended resolutions for
002approval miss Lea I need to call for a nomination for from the board for a candidate or candidates for the Eastern suff bosis for the term of July 1st 2025 through June 30th 2028 okay I will read those nominations we have Linda Goldsmith of oyster ponds William hang of Riverhead Lisa Israel of Greenport kellyan Jennings of patock Medford and John W of bridge Hampton any other nominations there being no further nominations I will call for a vote on the nomination of Linda Goldsmith William sang Lisa Israel kellyan Jennings and John Wick all in favor I all opposed thank you and we have one more resolution um for a student trip for the New York State band director Association South Ocean Middle School 8th grade student accompanied by John uh Michael R Nikki all in favor
003I all opposed motion passed okay good okay thank you okay um what we're all here for tonight is number five uh the budget Workshop number two presented by the business office Mr Maisy Mr Sim manelo and miss Lamb better oh now I can speak for a second there for a second there was touch and go wow good save right got insurance right on time yeah we're gonna mend the numbers you see this evening for one table one laptop and a and a cell phone and potentially my pride uh it could be thank you everyone for being here this evening to join us for Budget Workshop number two as we further the budget development process and go through this a couple of quick um introductory items um as I mentioned this is the the second of
004our three budget Workshops the schedules are before you uh but this is the one that is the uh most involved this covers all the areas of instruction and bosies and I give that information to you because we're going to go through lots and lots and lots of data tonight uh it can be overwhelming uh at times because you're going to see so many numbers and I try to do do what I do every year to try to simplify to make it a little bit easier to digest this information fully aware that you're going to be seeing so many things tonight that this information will be posted on the web as soon as tomorrow morning um and I've done what I do every year and uh post uh I'm sorry highlight certain things that I want
005to call to your attention just to make it a little bit easier to see some of the significant things that are that are happening whether they are increases or decreases uh and to that point I'm going to do a little spoiler alert and talk to you about the end of the movie first but this is a really um really phenomenal budget piece that you're going to see and the reason it is is because of the people that you see behind me uh and and also to your to your right because we start this budget process in the beginning of November and we sit down as a cabinet and we start to frame out what we think it's going to look like uh and we're not sure but we have our we have our fingers on
006the pulse of what where we are standing financially what our needs are what we think is coming down the pike uh from the government and we were concerned and rightfully so as you heard in the last budget presentation uh with the aid being very nominal in terms of what we're going to get from the state potentially but the directive that we issued to our Administration was lean and mean to go after this to say do what we can to help us in in forecasting for next year be resourceful wherever you can look to find ways to save collaborate with one another to find efficiencies that's what you're going to see this evening and that's what they have done um and I've had the the pleasure really to speak with them converse with them throughout these
007these past few months to help achieve that uh and you're going to see like I said once again you know budget is there's es and flows to it but you're going to see a lot of red tonight you're going to see a lot of savings a lot of of uh negative numbers if you will in a lot of areas and that doesn't mean like I said there was short Change ing the educational process just the opposite we're finding better ways to do it and I've always said that how Pat meded we look to do things we do more with less better than anybody I know and this is yet another example of that so whether we were talking about grants a few years ago and how resourceful we were with that now we're looking internally
008because we know the onus is on us so without further Ado I'm just going to jump into uh some of these slides so the first one is our building and principal budgets um this one is the one that's actually the most controlled by us because what we do in the interest of equity is to uh provide the principles with their budgets based on three factors the enrollment numbers the number of students with uh disabilities and then a factor also for the number of English language Learners so those are the numbers that you'll see there um uh once again lots of data but if you want to really kind of focus your attention to the last three coms which is the requested budget that's what we're we're looking to put fourth right now that's what's being
009proposed uh the next column over is the increase or decrease uh obviously the red numbers in the parentheses are the the decreases and then what that means in terms of a percentage so overall for our 11 buildings we're looking at just over $47,000 for an increase or 6.62% I've also made another change to the budget this year instead of putting the summation slide at the end starting with it for the certain areas where a director uh or directors have come together for a department uh put that at the Forefront so you can kind of see this and then you'll see the detail that follows because I think it may tell the story a little bit better um but in the areas of Health fed and Athletics um you're going to see two areas already highlighted
010where there's zero increase for health and fad I'm sorry I said that and then inals you'll see no data there I'm going to get into why um we've an increase there the big one that's the big driver for this is in the area of of Athletics and then there's also a um money line a significant increase on the transportation line but as we dive into this like I said really uh Mr kco is looking at this and saying that he feels that we can still uh sustain the programs uh in the areas of health and fed with the same exact budget for next year uh which is really very much appreciated because when you start to look at the other areas you're going to see areas of increase uh we want to try to offset
011that wherever possible now inals you'll notice there's no data whatsoever ever that's a new code that we're looking to create because this was a long-standing concern that was brought forth by the extracurricular committee where they were um uh throughout you over the course of all the buildings inconsistently categorized under extracurricular so now we're creating new code for the purposes of really trying to manage these numbers and keep track of it so right now we're putting $1,000 each per building and next year when we look at this data we'll have a better feel for what that looks like and see what kind of tweaks we need to make and in the areas of of of Athletics there's a couple things that I wanted to just uh highlight uh number one in the area of the coaching
012stiens and really this is across all the secondary schools but I just I highlight sometimes just the one row for you to see so as to not make it too overwhelming but this proposed increase is due in part to some significant ads that we're going to have at the at the high school level which is having a JV assistant coach for boys and girls soccer and boys and girls lacrosse uh the last one is the athletic chapons and really it should be the chaperon line with the security line because this is in line with superintendent goal number six our continued efforts towards Safety and Security and and like I've said many times throughout various presentations that it's never going to be a oneandone it's not something that we were going to put in place three
013years ago four years ago and say we were done it's something we're continuing to work on and we're always looking at that and Mr CCO has an eye on that of how we can do that better by increasing our chaperon budget by increasing our security budget in these areas because we know how necessary that is continuing with a Athletics now you'll see an increase on the uh the equipment line for Saxton so if I take you back to two budgets uh two years ago we talked about the um uh retrofitting of the room downstairs in the Saxton basement and made that into a wrestling room that benefited all three middle schools well now we have this room really that's largely not being used here our old wrestling room this is part of that Vision that
014that um Mr Cox had and Mr kco has taken up where we're looking to implement that over several years now to retrofit that space here and the thought process is we can make that space usable for competitive dance for um adaptive physical education and also a dedicated space for radar Academy which was new to the building this year so they wouldn't have to utilize the big gym we can use a small gym space for that purpose by doing the floors and the walls that are in there now and then lastly the official fees that's another one that goes up every year uh significantly because first of all more increased competitions but we have to make sure that we are staying in alignment with the the uh the invoices that we're receiving for our competitions now
015moving on to the areas of humanities reading and library and this is another one this is what I was talking about you talk about the collaboration not only with with myself but amongst directors and you take a look at this page and it should just jump out at you that you've got red numbers uh all across it's a wonderful thing to see when you're doing budgeting we're talking about to the tune of nearly $84,000 in savings by these by their efforts here and so we'll take a look at this now so in the areas of Elementary English which is responsible for nearly $21,000 of that the two that I kind of called out for you were the English um supplies um we're going to see some increases there for the replenishment of classroom libraries Mentor
016texts um and other texts that support diversity equity and inclusion at each of the buildings so you'll see those numbers across the board but those numbers are more than offset by the decreases that we see on the textbook line now fair warning about the textbook line when we do our textbook budget and you're going to see increase and decreases like you do every year but we never um will not hit our number because we receive textbook Aid that's a big part of our Aid um and we always make sure that we are going to spend the minimum in order to get back um the most we can on that so M kenned will look at these budgets for all the directors we make sure that were're hitting the right total but you see in this
017particular budget like I said you're looking at large drivers there for um the textbooks at the elementary level in the area of social studies there really is almost no activity this is largely a flat budget um being that it's only up $500 but in totality you see that number at the bottom overall for the elementary Humanities we're down just over $20,000 now moving on to the area of reading um one of the things that Miss Moser and I were talking about was that there are less conferences offered locally that offer us um the the PD that we really need so she's reduce that line uh in accordance with that and then like you see you'll see also see ac across the lines of all of the elementary areas for supplies that these decreases are tried
018to the amount of Wilson groups that we need uh particularly though in the middle schools and we've eliminated uh the related consumable materials that are that are required um the program that we're implementing next year does not rely on consumers to be purchased on an annual basis so that's significant and that's what helps us realize nearly $10,000 or at a drop of 11 a half% on this budget line in the area secondary English um the two things to want that I'd like to kind of highlight here is on the supply side we're looking at an increase primarily at the high school and that's attributed to the books that are needed for the advanced placement classes in literature and language uh and then on the textbook side once again you'll see some significant decreases there but
019this was interesting um as I'm going through this with Mr hanle this is a this reduction is largely due to the number of novels needed but changes to uh our five-year agreement are permissible throughout the course of that so we can be down this year and be up again next year so like I said there's that ebb and flow that I was mentioning now on the secondary social study side uh we we're looking at a $66,500 drop in the area of contractual uh that's because what we're looking to do now is create a new code so I'm going to kind of direct your attention now if you go to the bottom that's a brand new code for field trips for humanities taking some of the monies out of there of the contractual code and pushing
020it down toward this new code because we want to have this code allocated for field trips to uh various competitions such as model un and you're going to see more of that um throughout this presentation where the directors are looking to make more opportunities available for our students now in the library um Miss Lombardo and I were going through this and what she's really done now in just her second year is take a look at the existing inventories of supplies and as she's done this uh in the course of a short ten years she's revealed that there's adequate availability of supplies and this has prevented presented rather an opportunity for savings so it may only look like it's to the tune of $4,400 but I want to once again kind of reinforce what I said
021at the beginning uh everyone took this uh initiative this challenge if we will very seriously and people look to make Cuts where they could and I I really find that um refreshing you're going to see one that's that's I think a a $7 drop and that's all it is but if that's all can be that's all can be but just having that mindset to go in and trying to find ways to reduce uh is really helping us toward achieving our goals now in summary for the stem program of Elementary uh and secondary math and science you're going to see another significant drop there in totality of just over $80,000 it is largely coming from the science area at the elementary level but once again the two departments combined to present uh really favorable numbers for
022us so on the elementary Mass side uh really nothing there negligible it's almost what you would call a flat budget it's down just over $1,500 um but on the science side as I mentioned you'll see here in the supplies area the decrease P across the elementary codes these codes are lower due to the projected number of science kits and the number of manipulators that are needed uh but there once again if you look at the bottom you'll see that big change in the textbooks of nearly you know $75,000 how we have lower textbooks needed in the form of the number of licenses that were required for them uh you're going to hear me say that later when we get to loot uh quite the opposite uh secondary math the proposed increase is for our math
023Olympiad teams so once again trying to uh make more opportunities available for our students participating in these types of events and on the secondary science side um that increase I've highlighted not not a significant number but just to you know share with you like Mr St Stato is looking at this and saying that we need to replace um microscopes that have reached the end of their useful lives and that's what's you know what's pushing that that code up slightly so here we are now at enl World languages and bilingual programs and once again not to beat um the same horse but it deserves beating because here we go with a budget that's nearly down $69,000 in totality across these these areas uh the large driver of this is the uh dual language area and we're
024going to start off with that and you're going to see um right from the top we first of all created a new account code at the top um you'll see there's no history there for the 8,000 but largely that came from the reduction of the line below it under the travel on conference this is where we used to have the PD uh code before uh but we don't need as much PD we want to be able to track that better but we've now moved it out so we moved some of it out but really overall the reduction is to the tune of like $21,000 um in that area and then on the supplies uh the supply side this reduction is largely due to the toolkits that we purchased last year and were no longer needed
025so that's why you'll see those significant decreases of uh roughly like you know 60 $65,000 across those those elementary schools now in the enl area uh this is again is a new account code for PD to capture that and um that one is going to be offset mostly by the number of textbooks you'll see those reductions down below but that code is going to be up approximately $7,600 in totality now here's what I mentioned earlier about load so when we talk about the textbooks the licensing agreements that we need here are going to be more to keep up with the new standards so that's why now you'll see an increase so like I said when we look across all instructional areas you're going to see like I said some up and some down here now
026you'll see an increase um but on the contractual side I don't know why probably didn't have room on the slide for it but you'll see the the contractual code is down nearly $177,000 that's at the top of the slide um but we did create a new code here as well for field trips for secondary enl and load and this is primarily for college visits uh for the U transportation to these Long Island Latino Teachers Association College visits so something once again to help benefit our students looking to pursue um higher education Now we move on to Art and music um no red here we're going to go through some of the reasons here but this is one of the codes that has um like Athletics it has uh U salaries in it with with with
027regard to stiens that show up in the co-curricular area so on to Art I just highlighted one line because I thought once again was prudent but Mr Brinkman found a way to make a purchase for significant piece of equipment in this year's budget uh thereby enabling him to lower next year's budget uh that was for a pottery wheel but that's a kind of prudent thinking that uh we can really appreciate because then you look at this this uh budget in totality and we're looking at only $1,700 in terms of an increase for art with regard to music uh one of the significant lines is on the equipment rentals we have more and more and more students now par participating and to make more instruments available to them we're finding ourselves needing to uh not only
028buy but also rent uh instruments so Mr Brinkman looks every year to replace older outdated obsolete equipment but um the equipment budgets um and they do have some like I said they do have some increases there but the fluctuating number of rentals uh we're looking to push that up too because um like I said luckily like I said our our program is very strong and to bolster it make sure that we can include as many students as possible that's what that's there for and here's what I mentioned earlier about like the co-curricular so um you'll see a significant if ific increase of $7,000 on the um the co-curricular line and then again on the supplies line those are for in large in part I should say not not only for but but large in part
029due to the extra extracurricular Cub for Spanish theater as you know which now uh second year uh is doing wonderfully and also for the lights um and supplies and the set materials and things that are needed for that production Now we move on to home and careers technology education business education and CTE and um you'll see here uh that we're going to have a $177,000 increase in totality uh but some some fluctuations within that I'll kind of go through quickly right now uh in the area of home and careers once again it does say a 12% drop but is largely a a flat budget because it's only a $42 decrease in that budget line uh on the business Ed side though uh the contractual code this is another new code we've established um once again
030to keep better track of because we're doing more and more of this but uh membership registration and fees for our local uh and National associations such as Long Island business Teachers Association New York State Career Readiness Educators Association and also our participation in the Virtual Enterprise program now moving on to teched uh this is for the three middle schools but there's a proposed increase here for the purchase of a CNC router that introduces middle school students to computer AED manufacturing through Hands-On projects helps them develop crucial stem skills but really um um probably most important helps them prepare for career in manufacturing and engineering and when we talk about the things that we're doing for our students to prepare them for a potential career in a trade or some kind of skill these are the
031kinds of things and this thinking to introduce this at the middle school level um is only going to help bolster our programs and speaking of as we move into CTE um you'll see some of the things that we're looking to do there um Mr McLoud has has proposed an increase for the purchase of a state theart ACDC training system uh this is designed to introduce students to the basic principles of electrical circuits but what I really appreciate was using this system leads to additional industry certification so once again putting our students out there into the workforce with uh some advantage over their competition um on the travel and Conference side again a new account code this is for registration and hotel expenses to participate in our skills USA uh not only at the regional level
032but also the state and National as you've been hearing the last two years and started with Mr Ruiz right we've got some kids doing really great things This Is Us recognizing that we need to make sure that we're there for them and so money has been set aside in that line for that purpose and then also on the field trips uh at the bottom there that's a new account code for CTE business Ed and teched uh for for field trips to local exhibits and workshops and trade shows such locations as the yapan correctional facility the beauty show that's held at the javet center the flower Workshop in the Garment District or the youth business Summit those are just some examples now we turn our attendance our attention rather to guidance and summer school um and
033Mr zantino has pointed out that the the exam costs are decreasing did I say that loud enough Michael the exam costs are decreasing and a significant decrease of nearly $21,000 in that area Alone um which is the big budget driver for that area uh in the area of summer school you've heard us talk about this now a little bit the big piece was this was funded the Summer Academy I should speak the Summer Academy was funded by the monies we we received through the ARP grant that going away we've been discussing as a Cabinet ways to still offer some program for our students in the district and and Kudos Miss Kennedy because she's really come up with a good plan to reduce that um in terms of how we're going to have that offering and
034more to come on that but what we're going to do though is one of the components would be be to take it away from the middle schools and push them back into the high school where it used to be uh from what I'm told years ago so that's why you see that that increase on that payroll line in that code and that will be house at high school if I didn't say that already okay now we're looking at CMC districtwide data and Adult Ed um you'll see CMC once again here's something we um like I said not a large budget but looking to find out that we're laminating less and less materials therefore we don't need to keep that much money in that budget line and there therefore for the reduction um on the districtwide
035data largely the flat budget that I said it was a $7 decrease my apologies it's a $7 increase on that line um but it's a very it's a very small budget uh to begin with and then on the adult education line um I just highlighted the the contractual expenses because we see that uh almost $1,000 number but that's large in part due to our contractual increases that are in line with the uh Ed driver educ ation program now moving on to instructional Services um Mrs Kennedy has been very busy and we've been talking about this at the cabinet level since easily November if not December um just kind of going through how things can change with all the things that have been brought in over the past few years largely the the PD um and
036the support that we've needed to provide our teachers as we've rolled out um a new Ela and new math programs and um the reductions in the building contractual codes it's really across all those codes and you can see all the the red numbers there uh we're only going to need the screener next year um we're not going to have the needs for this she's also placing teachers on special assignments that will enable us to do our training inhouse and turn key as opposed to relying on outside agencies to do that and provide that to us at a higher cost the summon total of this if you look at this uh is the large driver it's it's well over $700,000 in that area alone it's really significant um what really uh highlights really takes away from
037that that total being even more significant is what we're seeing on our Charter Schools we're seeing increase enrollment on our charter schools and as a result you'll see that increase for $137,000 to deposit sorry did you have a question oh yeah yeah yep now for uh people Personnel Services Health Services attendance and psychological Services Dr Lucas is not here to uh be with us this evening however um not to be outdone she's got savings to the tune of nearly $189,000 across those areas it comes large in part from what we're seeing in our professional and Technical codes um our classification rates are dropping uh that's large in part due to the response to inter intervention supports that we receive through the implementation of speech language pathology olist and our occupational therapists they have provided these
038supports to the students at the kindergarten and the preschool levels and as there was direct result of this we're able to see uh decreases of nearly $100,000 or actually should say just over $100,000 in these codes and then with the uh public and private tuition lines you'll see uh decreases of approximately 85,000 and that's attributed to students graduating or aging out of our public and private placements and that you know like I said in the total that was 197 198,000 right there um the uh Psychological Services is is largely flat um in terms of the total budget with nearly just I mean it's only a $300 increase and registration was completely flat in terms of its proposal Health Services the two that I wanted to just call to your attention were our contractual lines for
039for our health services contracts um with um the related Services reive nursing Services uh sets up about 3% or $55,000 um that's in accordance with the bids we received as is the medical examiner a medical medical exam that's for our school doctor now bosies there are there are four pages for the bosis I've just tried to select a few for you so you can see them because there are quite a few but some of the more notable things um on the top line there that increase is attributed to a new program that we're looking to bring in called Bardock it's a new software program which is going to make um the managing of board policies agendas and minutes much easier um for not only us but also for the community in terms of finding things
040it's really beneficial uh with archiving of information and having things um current and up to date so we uh we we seen um the preview of that gone through it with the it uh staff in our district and we're looking to bring that that program in uh on the communication side you've already seen the benefits of what our public relations firm has done for us uh but this includes our social media messaging print Communications and photography at our district events and we're looking to continue that and actually um increase that some more next year and then on the security line you're going to see significant decrease as Mr Ahern entered almost a year three now his Reliance on needing administrative support is lessening and we recognize that and we're able to see a savings of
041nearly $43,000 in that line um nothing on on this particular slide of of note but moving on to uh again on special education in tuition this is again attributable to students attending outside programs our in-house programs and bringing students back um has really helped us to see a decrease here of nearly $100,000 um and in particular U the ease program is successful in keeping students at the elementary level um within our district on the o Edline occupational education the reduction in that account code is due to lower number of students that we see uh bosis has a way of doing three-year billing with us and we were on the the the bad side of that several years ago we were build for more students than we were actually sending we're starting to see now the
042benefits of this so kedy and I have been uh unfortunately not winning that battle with them uh with regard to how they do bilding but we're going to that's going to work now in our favor now next few years you're going to see that should see that continually going down between that and the number of students that we keep bringing back through CTE and then uh to wrap up Bose's um a slight increase on the Athletics line uh we're looking to increase the number of athletic events that we do recording services for um so that will now include baseball softball and volleyball matches and lastly uh you'll see that $25,000 decrease on the handicap Transportation line because we have less students now requiring U specialized Transportation so here's here's the slide here's here's the bragging
043slide that I told you about at the beginning nearly $800,000 in savings and once again wouldn't be um attainable without like I said the people who see to your right and the people you see behind me and I can't thank them enough for their efforts um but that represents a nearly 2.7% decrease on a 20 uh8 million area for this particular budget for this section of our budget I should say so now just to wrap up we always talk about the property tax cap as well at this budget meeting and the reason we do is the draft must be filed with the state no later than March 1st and we've taken care of that already we have the ability to to amend that but we share that data with you because at the last uh
044meeting I was telling you about what what things look like and we shared with our administrators and with you some of the things that concern us so when they say well our property tax growth is only 1.007 that's negligible we're not seeing an increase there we talk about CPI in the 2% tax cap and what does that mean right what does it mean we have to take the Lesser our tax cap can only grow by the lesser of 2% or CPI whichever is the lower number so CPI is currently at 2.95 but we can only grow our tax levy by 2% and I always share that information because when CPI was 8% in in previous years we're paying for those things in through our goods and services that we're procuring we don't have a means
045of saying well hold on we're only capped at 2% so we're only going to pay 2% we pay the increases that we're faced with and you saw that at the last budget Workshop when we saw double- digit increases on health insurance ins cyber security insurance and all the different insurances that I was sharing with you we're forced to have to pay those numbers but this is the reality of what this means when you put this into this complex formula so the formula and it is on the next page I put it in there for your edification but the formula yields a maximum Levy of just over $134 million what that means when we compare that to last years that's an increase of 3.27 4 or 2.4 9% and like I said this is that that
046formula that I talked about and I don't know if the pointer will work I'm not sure but here's like here's your your tax B grow growth factor here's your tax levy growth factor and down here at the bottom other the numbers you see with regard to your increase in terms of the dollars and terms of the percentage and as a quick reminder before we take questions the next budget presentation is scheduled for March 19th at 7 o' here in the Saxton Auditorium and U that might be moved just a quick public service announcement that might be moved we are scheduled to have a preview for the South Ocean musical much in the same way we did the first one for the high school so right now it is scheduled for this but if it is
047does change to the South Ocean uh cafetorium we'll be sure to let you know but that budget we're going to go through um Staffing benefits uh in fund transfer to Capital revenues the tax rate we'll have the estimates for you as we do every year uh a fund balance analysis and the financial plan projections and with that I'm happy to take any questions that you have estimation on how much we're saving with the CTE program as compared to shifting them all off to Bose so we do we have it I don't know the total but I know we save approximately uh is it 20,000 per student roughly 16 I'm I'm sorry at one point um it's a three-year rolling average so I do believe this year we locked in durine at 67 students um at
048one time we were at like0 students so that's a significant uh decrease uh and roughly I do believe it is roughly about 15,000 plus uh a year per student so I mean it's a significant difference over the last few years so and our lock in again 67 but we're not still sending 67 students yet um because they're on weight list because bosis does not have space for them so right now as uh Mr Maisy says we may be sending you know 58 students but we get charged for 67 next year that 67 will go down again cuz it's based on that threeyear rolling average and the rates have increased more drastically than I would assume the rates yeah uh usually at least over 3% that's great I I I also would like to add to
049that is that years ago um I'm not sure if any of you were on the board but years ago um the CTU program was one year through both SE and now we've been able to when we brought it back in house it for that same the those dollar values of savings of having inhouse quality programs that many of them through CT are twoyear programs that lead to licensing um so there's more bang for the buck in terms of programmatic impact for our students as well if if I can just point out one um we also will have a savings this year Dr R and I actually have it in the um board update Roc our Junior RC we used to have to have a 100 students in enrollment we just received notification that the requirement
050is down to 50 students which is a significant savings for us because we were paying for 90 students even though we didn't have 90 students but that was the least we could pay for so now we are able to drop our budget by almost 40 students um and that's significant I think last time we got an update we had about 57 students currently enrolled for next year which will be amazing because now we we do not need to worry about the program um you know being collapsed because we already have reached our quota and that will be even independent of any other District Reliance to cooperate and participate um so that is really great news for us we won't have to worry about being on probation for low enrollment any further questions does the community
051have any questions I have a question Frank sorry sure um just I don't know I if I missed this or i s do we do we have a trainer in middle school or did that not work out because of contracts or are we we we definitely tried um to get one it has been a challenge so yeah it's still there we're still trying yeah it's been we've been unable to fill it we have issued two rfps yeah two RPS for that um so I know I wasn't at the the first meeting I don't know if you talked about it but I know that there are some and we talked about this before some doors in high school that did not get the locks is that worked in at all or what's the plan for that
052go on Frank you're not allowed talk about budget Workshop number three until we get there but that's what I was gonna say that's quite right it's quite right but we are don't spoil my surprise yes we but yes your concern is being is going to be addressed it's something we've been working on for the last few months but we're going to discuss that the next next and then the last question that I wrote down because I you know saw in the library and I don't know if that's the next one too I know it's new that we just had a presentation from generation citizens so are we in discussion of maybe how to start some of that in the near future or future maybe okay next month I can't wait to next month's meeting I'm
053so excited thank you okay all right such a ham sorry did anybody have any other questions thank you thank you did the community have any questions anybody from the community want to come up and ask a question if you're curious if we have this much fun in the budget development process the answer is overwhelming they yes usually they're more emphatic when they say it but that's okay okay so can I ask the question question you all gave Mr Maisy a standing ovation when you first came in do you still feel the same way I think he did a good job any board comments I just want to say um thank you to all the administrators and anybody that sharpened their pencil for all that red because that was an amazing thing to see that there
054was so much savings and that goes to the credit of all of you working to make sure that we can move the district forward without spending excess amount of money so thank you for the business office for getting that all done for