001I'd like to call Miss Haywood >> here. >> Miss Minky >> here. >> Miss Phillips >> here. >> Miss Roland Miller >> here. >> Miss Lmer >> here. >> Um let's start our meeting with the pledge of allegiance, please. Flags to our left. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Parisburg schools welcomes you to the Commodore Building and we thank you for attending tonight's board of education meeting. We care about the safety of our students, staff, families, and guests. Please note that there are exits both to the east and to the west sides of the cafeteria. And in case of an emergency, an AED is located just outside the cafeteria
002doors to our right. You are located at 140 East Indiana Avenue. Thank you for joining us tonight and supporting Purisburg Schools. Uh before we adopt the proposed agenda, are there any changes or adjustments? >> Yeah, just to point out a couple and we apologize for having last minute changes. We try not to, but there's a couple things that are minor, but we need to do 11.2. Uh Melinda Edgington, um she's a van driver. We were going to terminate her um contract for the year because the student left. The student is back. So that's why that got adjusted. So there's a break in her contract, but we're we're just re-employing her back in her contract for the rest of rest of the year. And the other item was 13.2 we pulled. It was a contract for
003a student. Um and I don't remember why we pulled it, but the board we're not going to act on it. >> They're just remaining here. >> Well, soon can remain here. So So >> current service, >> right? It's current. So we don't need the didn't need the contract. So minor changes, but just want to point those out from when the agenda was published on Friday. Again, >> just for Denise and Casey, we we don't like to make changes to the agenda, but these are, I hope, non-controversial, routine items that we just pull off. >> We vote on it, then we have to unvote on it. So, we don't want to do that. So, [laughter] >> okay. Sounds sounds like a good way to do it. Do I have a motion to adopt the proposed agenda?
004So, move uh Laura motions. Second. >> Second, Casey. Casey Denise. Um, second. All those in favor? >> I do we do a roll call. That's right. We do a roll call. This is what happens when you read parliamentary books. Okay. Go ahead, Brandy. Roll call. Sorry, >> Miss Mankey. >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips? >> Yes. >> Miss Roland Miller? >> Yes. >> Miss Haywood? >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer? >> Yes. >> All right. Um, and superintendent points uh report. Dr. Anstat. >> Well, good evening everyone. This is our January to celebrate schoolboard members. So, that's what we're going to do tonight in front of you. You've got some lovely gifts from our students and staff. And we want to take a moment to recognize you. uh this month honors members of Ohio's more than 700
005city exempted village and local and joint vocational boards of education and educational service centers governing educational service governing boards for their commitment to providing quality public education to Ohio school children. Parisburg schools is joining with other school districts across the state to recognize the important contributions that school board members make to our communities. Thank you for your service. Board of Education members Casey Haywood, Sue Lmer, Laura Mankey, Denise Phillips, and Susan Roland Miller. At this time, I'd also like to make just a special recognition to outgoing President Susan Roland Miller. In your honor, uh we will donate a book to each library with a name plate that honors your service and recognizes that you had a year of service [laughter] to this district, and we certainly appreciate it. So, in your honor, we'll do so.
006Thank you. >> All right. Any other comments? >> No. Thank you, Mr. Derer. Nothing. >> I say the the tradition somewhere along got broken. It used to be a tradition the outgoing president, we would the district would provide on behalf of the person that booked each of the library. So, we're we're trying to reinstitute that tradition. So, >> I think it's a lovely tradition. I will tell you that when I was a teacher here, occasionally I would open a book and there'd be a name plate in there from a school board member. It gave me an opportunity to talk to my students about the service that school board members give and it provided a little civics lesson right on the spot. So I I know as a teacher I appreciated it and of course our
007libraries always appreciate additional books. So we'll give you a shot to or a chance to kind of select the titles you'd like to end up there. So yeah. >> Well that's awesome. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> All right. January district updates. Here we go. Oop. Sorry about that. So, uh, in, uh, the month of January, I'd like to remind everybody of our mission statement, ensuring all students achieve their greatest potential and our vision where passion drives exemplary education. We are preparing future ready jackets as thoughtful problem solvers, purposeful communicators, respectful collaborators, persistent innovators, lifelong learners, and empathetic citizens. can tell you that I heard from the state uh superintendent today and this was exactly the theme of his talk today. I honestly he could have taken it right out of our mission and vision. Uh
008our core values are that we value students as individuals. We inspire students to discover their passion. We challenge our students and ourselves. We provide a safe and inclusive environment. We manage our resources efficiently. We enrich our community. And we are trailblazers. All right. celebrating. This is just I love this part of the board meeting where we just take a minute and we reflect back on the last month of all the fun and all the learning that's gone on with our students. So, this is at the junior high. You can see Mrs. Stutes there kind of leading the way and other there. This was trivia and reflex testing lunchtime. One of the core ideas I think Mr. Christie, Mr. Schwarz Miller, both junior high principles at one point, would agree with me that keeping kids entertained
009at lunch is a really good strategy at the junior high. A really good strategy. So, here you see our staff doing just that. The Parisburg Rotary Community Foundation partnered with Parisburg Schools Foundation to establish a new scholarship recognizing student leadership and service at Parisburg High School. The scholarship will be awarded annually to two graduating seniors who have demonstrated active involvement in the Interact Club. That's Rotary studentledd service organization. It was fun to go over there and uh award those scholarships uh through Rotary. Uh kids are very engaged in Interact Club and doing wonderful things and this will be to exemplify their service and it's another opportunity for our students to earn scholarship dollars that will be available this year. There's so much more than meets the eye happening during play in our early learning classrooms.
010Through dramatic play, children work collaboratively. They build vocabulary and practice math concepts like sequencing and counting, all while exploring everyday life skills. These hands-on activities also help our students strengthen fine motor skills, experiment with patterning beads, and dive into early science concepts such as light and translucency. Play is powerful learning at work. And aren't they adorable? >> All right. Frank Elementary School's fourth grade student council had the opportunity to work with PHS student council members to make appreciation gifts for substitute teachers. A wonderful example of leadership, service, and collaboration. Each year, a group of Fort Megs Elementary students write letters to the dogs and cats at the Wood County Humane Society in Bowling Green. What a sweet writing assignment this is. Uh writing meaningful while spreading a little kindness. And the this week the Humane
011Society wrote back and the excitement was off the charts. Students were delighted to read their replies and you can see those little darlings who wrote back. They're so sweet. At at a recent HPI assembly, they had the honor of formally presenting the Eco School's green flag to the environmental club and the entire school community. This moment celebrated the students whose leadership, creativity, and hard work earned this national recognition last spring. From composting and gardening to recycling initiatives and river cleanups, their efforts continue to make real impact. We're so proud of these young leaders. Thanks for helping us you make our school and community better every day. These fourth grade students uh always play Connect Four at recess at Frank and Mr. V named the group the Connect Four Big Dogs and bought them matching t-shirts
012personalized with the nickname Mr. V calls each of them. In return, one of the students bought Mr. V a Connect Four sweater that you can actually play on. So, Frank is really lucky to have Mr. V. We all love Mr. V. We all enjoy him very much. And you can see, I mean, how lucky are we to have this as our one of our recess monitors. He's just a wonderful guy. >> A fourth grade class had a blast in Miss Jen Beiel's music room at Toe Elementary as they learn to play using Boomhackers. These are color-coded hollow tubes that create musical notes when they're tapped on a hand, a desk, or on the floor, and students followed along with an app on the Clever Board that gradually increase the tempo. Mrs. Beal even switched out
013the boom whackers throughout the lesson to add to the challenge. So, the room was full of creativity, focus, and lots of smiles as students explored ways this hands-on learning in engaging ways. Blastoff. Third graders at Woodlands kicked off their learning with a fun tableau striking poses to imagine what it might feel like inside a rocket ship preparing for a launch. They also spent time thinking like scientists and engineers as they engaged in chalk talk, analyzing the most critical elements of the Eagle's moon landing. Their curiosity and teamwork were on full display as they explored what it takes to make a successful mission. And I'd like to call attention to the PHS Winter Spotlight Festival. We are so grateful it is not this weekend. Um the festival dates are January 30th, uh January 31st and February
0148th or February 1st, I'm sorry. The times are there. Um the ticket price, you can get an all weekend pass for $30 or Friday and Sunday day passes for $10 each, a Saturday day pass for 15. They can be purchased at this website, parisburgtheater.ludis.com, lutus.com or at the door. There are no stinger passes, however, for this production. The Winter Spotlight Festival is a three-day event featuring three stages of entertainment, including one act plays, which used to be kind of our winter thing, but now we're adding layers to that. Uh, so also comedy, sketch, and improv shows, cabaret acts, the Parisburg's Got Talent competition, and much more. Even a live Dungeons and Dragons campaign. So, uh, you can link there for the schedule. Uh, so go into the board agenda, click on the links, and you'll
015find the schedule there. And, uh, last but not least, certainly not least, superintendent appointed committees. We talked last month about the appointed committees, and I think we have finally settled on meetings. Thank goodness. Um, for operations, uh, uh, I'm sorry, for development, Susan Roland Miller. This is a committee that will meet as needed. uh when things come up in development, it there's we will pull together that meeting as as needed. So, I'm sure sometimes it will meet more often than others, but for right now, we're working on a schedule. Uh operations will be Sue Lmer and Laura Minky. They meet in person on the first Friday of each month at 8 am. personnel will be Casey Haywood and Sue Lmer and they will meet virtually on the fourth Wednesday of each month at 10 a.m.
016and the Parisburg Schools Foundation, Susan Roland Miller meeting on the second Tuesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. and pupil services Denise Phillips and Susan Roland Miller meeting virtually on the second Wednesday of the even months only on the even months at 3 p.m. And I think all those dates Hannah has already shared calendar invites with all of you I believe. And that is my report for this month. >> Wow. All right. Thank you so much. Uh and we we have no public comment. So we can move on during this time. That would be when we want to go back there. Okay. So, while we would normally just plow on through, uh, we're going to take our little packages with us and go to the back wall, uh, out in the hallway so we can
017be get our picture taken underneath that beautiful, uh, banner that to sent over to us. Uh, so we will take a fivem minute break and be back at oh, let's be generous, say 6:20. I like even numbers. Okay. All right. We'll take a a short break while we do that. Thank you. All right, we are back to it. Um, we are ready for Mr. Dur's report, please. >> Happy Thursday, all. >> Thank you. Um I have uh I have struggled with what I call a monthly report. So I'm giving a report in January. So I'm calling the January report, but it's with December financials. Okay. >> Okay. >> So I've gone back and forth on this. So I think I've got myself straightened out. But uh one of the things you're going to see over
018the next couple of months where I where I don't have a lengthy presentation at the end I'm going to talk about the monthly financial reports. Not through all of them. I'm going to pick one or two of them. You know, I've always made the assumption you can look at them and figure it out, but that's probably not a good assumption. So, I'm So, tonight I'm going to spend the just a few minutes at the end going over the first couple reports because they're they're I kind of have them in order of importance anyway in there. So, they're just kind of heads up. So, first thing is we always look at is the cash end of month cash balance. We're trending like we always do year after year. Again, you know, when people look at our
019cash balance at the end of July, why do you have to have that much money? This is why, right? So, we'll have at least one more month um and decreasing cash balance before we get our hopefully in February, we'll start getting tax payments, but that's a conver that's another conversation which we may hit on later in this meeting. More specifically for um this this fiscal year. Again, the purpose of this is to show you the trends. Um, our expenses vary a little bit, but really it's the revenue that's up and down. Expenses are pretty well predictable monthtomonth and just the expense the revenue is what drives things. And January is a little bit better because we get income tax payment, but it's, you know, that income tax payment covers one payroll. All right. So, let's
020um talk about where we are on our general fund. We are at 100 true cash days. Last year at this time, we were 108. So, you know, certainly comfortable, and those have been around. No, I I wish we could stay at 120 all the time, but that's just not realistic where we are. Our revenue is down 3.5% year-over-year. The nice thing is there's going to be a correction in that as we get that the the first half taxes because the new levy kicks in, right? So, we'll have half those levy revenues in there that we and um our expenses are down 3%. Which again is is great. That's over year-over-year and that's a reflection of you know the reduction efforts that we made going into this fiscal year. I want to point out one thing.
021in this first column which is forecast 2526 those are the numbers from the fall forecast and they'll be updated with the February forecast. So, for example, real estate taxes, you see the forecast that does not include the new levy yet. When we update the forecast, it'll include the new levy. And we'll we'll talk about that a lot at the February work session. But I just want to give you a point point out there'll be some tweaking among all the numbers. But um and by the way, and with the new I was always this way anyway, but my forecast and the budget essentially match. So that's why I use use them kind of interchangeably. Not everyone does it that way. I always felt like my forecast and appropriation should all be in alignment. So, just a
022couple things on the um on the I want to point out on the revenue side. You look at all other revenue and you'll notice we're down 6.6%. That is all due to earnings just because our cash balance is lower than it was last year at this time. So, we're earning less less interest. Interest rates are down a little bit but not that surprisingly not that much yet. We've been waiting with the interest rates cut at the Fed. We expect to see that. We've not seen them, you know, tremendous impacts yet. On the expense side, just want to point out we are down year-over-year on salary and benefits. And this is directly due to the you know reductions in personnel. It doesn't look like you you look at that's you know the percentages don't look good
023big but [snorts] think about you know 1% on you know $46 million is a lot right so that's and and some of the reductions on personnel we already we already recognized last year particularly the custodial staff um issues that we had purchase services and supplies we're doing very well. This is the one area where I feel like um really, you know, we have I won't say more control, but this is the area that we have more discretionary spending, right? And you know, I know copying um you know, quotas and stuff like that, that's kind of a bad thing with some of the staff, but it's it's real savings in there, you know, and that's it's it doesn't show up at a single line item itself. It's not huge, but that's part of the things we're
024doing. We really do count paper clips and purchase services is down. That is primarily driven by student needs. Um special education is the biggest driver of purchase services. So depending on our our needs there and you know supplies, we're getting ready to start budgeting again. And one of the things we do with a budgeting process is unlike some governmental agencies where if you you don't spend it, you lose it. I don't have that philosophy. If you don't spend it, good for you. We'll talk about next year. I'm not going to decrease your budget next year just because you didn't spend it this year. We'll have a conversation with department heads and the building principles. What do you really need? Well, I didn't spend all my supply this year. I didn't need it, but I'm going
025to need it next year. Great. So, I don't want ever to punish someone for not spending >> Yeah. >> money. It's okay not to spend it. >> Yeah. >> And that's that's, you know, in in the world, as you guys know, government agencies, that's not always the philosophy. It's so strange. >> I want to talk a little bit about um debt and capital. Um I I've grouped these together because you'll see our c actually our capital outlay that budget's going to end up going down because I had we had I had double [snorts] budgeted the bus lease in capital as well as in debt service. So there'll be a correction there. But the debt service is our bus leases and um our energy project that we did for the high school and all the LED
026lighting. And then um the the the House Bill um 264 project which we got a few more years on that's that 340,000. Um and I don't know what we did with on that project. Probably was Windows or something somewhere. Were you here Katie when we did that? So it must have happened right after you were >> maybe at the beginning of it. Yeah, >> but the bottom line is we're tracking great. We're right on or maybe slightly slightly when I say ahead better than expectation. All right. And so there will be the forecast I will kind of try to rightsize some of those numbers. The net cash flow we're looking at right now 400. I think we're going to end up being more like break even, maybe slightly positive. So there's some good there's some
027positive notes there. Couple other things real quick unless there any questions on that before I move on the on the um agenda. You're I'm asking you to approve amended appropriations. No major changes there since the last one. There was some grants that came in and some tweaking of student activities. It was $200,000 change from the fall to now. But and most of those, you know, sometimes we don't have all the budgets for student activities or they need to increase those budgets. That's what the appropriations handle. There's a few grants in there and stuff. Um forecast, I'm g I'm going to save that. Um and we have a work session to talk about that. Um there may be a few comments at the end we can make about the updating the forecast, but in terropy tax
028reform and that kind of thing, but that's coming up. Um not on here just so you you'll get emails. Our audit is done. The draft is out. You should be getting copies of it if you haven't got it. and it won't be out for the public until it goes to the auditor states office. They do a quality control check on it. Audit's clean. We just got to decide if we want to have a um an audit conference and unless you have questions on it, there's there's not much to talk about. Clean is good. >> So any questions? Let me talk about our financial reports. Okay. The first thing and I'm sorry I will this is small. The first part of the report you'll see is this cash and reconciliation. This is probably the most important
029thing we have in this in the document. What this is it it we balance make sure our what our system says matches what's in the bank. That's really all this does. And I can tell you talking to other people, there's this is not this is like rule one with treasures that you reconcile every month. We actually reconcile daily. We check daily to make sure that we're on track. We have so many transactions. If we wait to the end of the month, it'd take me days to close. Right. So, we check this. Um, so if you can zoom back out, Katie, I'm gonna blow up a couple things. So you'll see total balances. And if you can see that any better, the total balances that is from our bank accounts. So we take all our investments
030in our bank accounts and subtract out anything we know is in transit. Just like in your personal account, if you've written checks, there's float time between the time you write written it and the time it's comes out of the bank. Well, we have that same kind of float with some payroll. Um sometimes with mainly with payroll, but sometime other outstanding checks that we've written, but we haven't been cashed yet essentially. And so we take all our balances, subtract those out, and that should match our total fund balance. And you can see those two numbers do. And that number comes right out of our financial reports. I don't do anything to get that number. Our financial system says that's what the number is. They need to match. Now, there are things that could happen that that
031cause it to match. It's within the system. If they don't match, obviously, we assume there's an issue on the bank side, but sometimes and it's complicated, but typically those numbers should got to match. We don't close without those numbers matching. >> Oh, that's good to know. >> So, we reconcile daily and then we then we then we monthly before we close the month. And because we do it daily, we pretty much can close in a couple hours on the second thing I want to show on here. This is that what I talk about adjustments to bank balance. And these like outstanding checks. There's actually a report in your packet. It says outstanding checks. That number matches that report. I'm not generating it. The system's generating it. So there's no there's no there's no well I
032say there's no way there's not fudging this is like you know someone putting their thumb on the scale we're not doing at the we've got to match what's in the system not the other make the system match what we've got okay so any questions on that I just want to point out as board members and your fiduciary responsibility for the finances that's one of the things that boards some districts are in trouble because they haven't matched or there are adjustments that they're going, what are those adjustments for? If there's an adjustment, there should be a good reason for it, right? So, it's something to look at. If you don't look at nothing else, make sure we balance and you look at our adjustments. The second report I want to talk about is our cash summary.
033Now, this is a long report. It's nine pages. It's all of our funds, right? The most important fund is not the first one. That's our general fund. That's where almost our operating dollars come out of. And I've got highlighted here. First column, that's the fund balance. So that's the actual amount that is in the fund at that point in time. So I'll show you here in a minute that matches what's in the bank. Okay. [snorts] The next column you're going to look at is unencumbered balance. So like our general fund, you'll see we have $3.8 million in incumbrances. That means we have purchase orders sitting out there 3.8 million. So we'll write like you know like for um our health insurance we may have a PO then and then we'll write another big PO. Instead
034of writing POS every time for every invoice we have some bigger ones ga you know gas is an example electricity those kinds of things. So we have $38 million in encumbrances. And so the the unencumbered balance is what we have left less what we may have to spend. Now the important thing is in the fund I look at the fund balancing column look for negatives the because sometime so if you go down if you look down probably about halfway you'll see a negative in a fund balance a negative $16,000 on uh for DPIA I know it's negative it's okay it's in the general fund but that's because there's we know there's more revenue coming because we get DPIA money every month in our state foundation payments. So, there's some things are going to be negative,
035but I know there's revenue to come in to cover it. Some things that are negative and it there's not very many that happens. I'm going to go this can't be negative. You got to correct it. And that happens sometimes with athletic team accounts sometimes with student activities. Their accounts cannot go negative because they don't necessarily sometimes if there's a fundraiser going on, they'll go negative because their fundraising money are coming in. But I look at that every month. Actually, I look at it more often than that because I'm looking for negatives. Right, >> Randy? What does uh DPIA mean? >> Sorry. >> Disadvantage pupil. What's the I stand for? It's economically disadvantaged students is what it is. >> Okay. We don't get a ton of it, but we do we obviously get we do get
036some DPIA money. And and you notice DPI, gifted, English language learners, student wellness, they're all broken out separately. That's because of new rules with the state. I got to break them out separately and they can be negative because it's okay because at the end of the year, I'll make them positive. If they're negative, money is going to come out of the they're in the general fund. Money's going to come out to wipe them out. And what it makes it easier to counting. If we get $300,000 in gifted education, I'm going to show it we spend more than that. And then when they ask for my report, we're going to say we you gave us $300,000, we spent it. We can it's easy way to show that we spent the money that they've gave us. Same
037with student wellness. We that's where our biggest um and we like for example all the the school nurses a the aids are paid out of student wellness dollars >> disadvantaged pupil impact >> aid. There you go. Thank you. >> Sorry. [laughter] >> I want you I I've got circled down here a a a negative big negative number and bond retirement fund. You'll see unincome balance negative 229,000. Right now the fund balance is positive but there's a big incumbrance. Well guess what in the spring we will get some tax revenue for our bonds and that will go positive. So the p the purchaser has already been written to pay interest on the bond in June but we haven't got the revenue yet. That's why that that's negative. So I'm going all the way to the last
038page out. So that was the first page page nine. I just want to point out a couple things. number one fund balance 40 42,517,000 that matches exactly what was on the cash reconciliation report. >> Yeah. >> And there's actually there's a bunch of different reports that have that same number and we when we before we close the month we make sure those numbers all match on all those reports. So that matches our reconciliation. And the other thing is these two columns monthto date received and monthto date expended. when I do my um graph with um our cash balance, that's where those numbers come from. >> So they they're coming right off these reports. [snorts] So there there you go. There's there's your quick lesson on those first two reports. Um any any questions on it?
039>> Any questions for anybody? >> Okay. Some of the other reports I won't quite go into this this depth, but these two reports are really important and they tie together. I just want to want you to kind of have an idea where the numbers come from. You may not remember it, but just know the numbers are all tied to each other within within these reports. Any other questions? Uh before we get to asking for um the agenda items, finance committee met um I previewed the forecast with them. I will before I on the work session, we'll be spending a whole time on the forecast. That's why I'm not going over it again here, but just between now and February 4th, Monday, well, this coming Monday, weather permitting, I'm going to Columbus. We're having a big
040meeting um treasures across the state, some county auditors talking about the calculations on the property tax reform items because I can tell you right now I've calculated where I think the impact's going to be and Miss Mickey may want to comment on that here in a minute. But again, no one's done it yet really. the, you know, if you got your tax bill from the county essentially said, "We don't know how to calculate, I'm paraphrasing, we don't know how to calculate this yet. We'll catch up with you in the second half." That's, you know, so those calculations aren't built in your tax bill yet because the county auditors don't know how to do it. >> Oh jeez. >> So, it's So, we're And then on the 4th, is that when our next is the 3rd?
041Whatever our work session is that Wednesday, whatever that me morning is, when I get done here with the work session, I'm going down to Bowling Green, the treasures in Wood County. We're meeting with the tax budget commission to talk exactly about how this calculation should work in Wood County. So, there's things happening. So, you know, there's some things that could be tweaked between now and and that review. So, >> um, Laura, I mean, I think you want to make some Laura has and and Susan has seen the forecast at this point. I don't know if you guys want to make any comment about what you've seen to kind of >> um like Randy said, there's still um quite a bit to look at and figure out how this is going to go and we have
042to wait for the state to explain that all to us. Um but basically looking at what we had forecasted down the line um we're looking at with this property tax reform a decrease of 9 million over four years. So we will definitely need to have um a plan by fiscal year 29. So this tax reform is at this point looks it's going to impact our beautiful levy that support by at least a year. It's going to shorten the cycle of that without other reductions now. So that's kind of the bottom line for the tax reform. >> So you're saying that's your best guess at this particular moment. So is that kind of forecasting out that reach that you're doing, is that what we're seeing happening for example at TPS that they did the same thing?
043That's that's a question that just boggles me. >> TPS's issues are different. >> Okay. How the law impacts depends on your your appra reappraisal cycle and the and the size of reappraisal and your reliance on local property tax. >> Okay, >> we're very heavily reliant on local property tax. So, and we had a reappraisal year in 2023. As you'll recall, we had a nice boost that year. Well, they're essentially undoing that boost. And then the other thing is the other big change is the 20 mil floor is no longer the 20 mil floor. Our two fixed sum levies are now part of the floor calculation. So we would normally get a little boost. This is 2026 is an update year. We'd normally see a little boost. We're not going to see that anymore. The really
044the only new revenue we're going to see is from new construction essentially. So essentially just picture our property tax revenue for the next five years being flat. We won't see essentially any growth. Well, and I would say too on this, we know um you're going to see this slowly roll out through the state over the next three years. And those of us who did recently pass a levy, we're going to probably hit at the tail end of that. But it does it does depend on when your revaluation is happening and your adjustment. So, you'll see some schools who thought they were fine and they're going to get kicked to the front of the line basically and start to have issues. Um, I I think it'll be also interesting to see what the valuation increases are
045and that then might well it will affect what we get from the state. Yeah, that's the other thing our message is going to be is the state's adjusting, right? Reducing the impact in local taxpayer property tax, which is which is fine. We understand that if we ever get back to being formula funded based on your wealth, they're not taking that cut back into account. We're going to look even wealthier as a result. So, we're going to get a whammy at this at this end where taxpayers get a a break, which again, can't fault that, but the state's not going to make that up. In fact, we're going to get penalized for it. [snorts] So, it's it's it's going to be interesting how it comes out. Now, we got one more year on this bianium, right?
046We're in the second year of the bianium. The November election is going to be it's going to be all about school funding. I I really feel like that's going to be the number one issue, school funding in the November election. >> And remember, our state share is about 20%. And that's from our wealth and then we get a little bit of a bump from our enrollment and our performance. So, we'll see where that goes. Um, and then one of the examples that Randy gave us during um the finance committee was our levy that just passed. Um, we put that on as 7.83 and through recalculation by the county and I don't know if is this all the way certified yet? >> You're you're going to approve the rate tonight. >> Okay. Um, that will have
047dropped to 7.75. So 08 um is what it will drop by and that is just due to the increase of the um property wealth totals within our district. So, >> I I think just to we've kind of said it, but I just want to highlight the only reason that our state funding went up this year is because we actually for the first time ever ever got rewarded for growth. Um and I so I think when you look at Toledto schools they actually there there's also a hit that they took because of the the loss of students where before that wasn't necessarily calculated in um there's a lot of other factors uh as we've mentioned for that that bump that we've gotten is is the only bump and it's not guaranteed after next year. So, not
048only will we not see any increases due to revaluations, we're going to see a loss of funding probably from the state because of the wealth and that growth that we are getting right now, which is the only reason we increased a little bit this year um will not necessarily be there. So, that's uh you know, we're we're looking at a loss of funding past next year is basically. >> All right. So, no, it's not doom and gloom, right? because the levy [snorts] put us in good shape for the next couple of years. But ladies, this is all ladies here. Um, we're going to have we have some work to do. It's so it's we have time to take a deep breath, get a superintendent hired and look at some other priorities, but shortly after we
049we got to back out that discussion. What are we going to do next? >> So, be very vigilant on our spending. >> Yeah. Mhm. Well, it shows that we're doing a a nice nice job and improvement on that. So, that's really great. Well, Casey Denise, how' that land on you? Okay. [laughter] All right. Um, >> thank you for the discussion, folks. >> Sure. Our pleasure. So, don't we approve the treasures report? >> So, I we 2. >> Yeah. 6.2, 6.3, and 6.4. And I have recommended that you combine them into one action and mot 6.5. >> Gotcha. There it is. Okay. >> So move. >> All right. Second. >> Laura and Susan. Any discussion? All right. A roll call. >> Miss Minky? >> Yes. >> Miss Roland Miller? >> Yes. >> Miss Haywood? Yes. >>
050Miss Phillips? >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer? >> Yes. All right. Superintendent committee reports and board topics for discussion, please. Um, do we have anything from community engagement? Did y'all meet? I didn't see any minutes. No. Okay. Is there anybody on here? Finance. I think we just got Did you want to add anything from the finance committee? >> Covered it all. >> Okay. Um policy I don't believe there was any policy meeting. Um student achievement I see Mr. Sweller shaking his head. No. All right. Um development didn't meet. Operations didn't meet. Personnel didn't meet. Pupil services. It's been quiet so far. That's the way to get through a section. Okay. Well, I I do want to so um development committee didn't meet but I did attend uh Parisburg Schools Foundation meeting this month. >> Oh, okay.
051>> And um I just want to highlight out in the hallway, they are they are responsible for the um boards that are up on the wall if you saw those that recognize the award educators who have received awards. Um so those are there and some I understand some schools are jealous and they want those in their schools too. So they're looking into that. Um there was a lot of kind of just reorganization and looking at last year's numbers and preparing for this year. They are going to be uh shifting around the deadlines for the you know kind of the mass application for scholarships and they're in the process of scheduling the um scholarship dinner that's everything's being moved up a little bit earlier. So there will be an earlier deadline for those and that will
052be announced obviously through the school. >> Are they thinking of having the dinner not in May? They're moving it to April. >> I think it based they're they said earlier >> earlier. Okay. Earlier in May. >> Yeah. Okay. >> They were working on dates. >> Okay. All right. Sounds good. Thank you. Um any other discussion? Well, hearing none, we'll >> if it goes into minutes. >> Okay. For the consent agenda, is uh are there any further adjustments or um discussions for the consent agenda before we take a vote to approve? >> Um hold on a second. I think I hear an um >> there there was just a minute. I just wanted to highlight. >> That's okay. Go ahead. Take your time. >> Which number is it? Um, there we go. 12.1 the travel stipen.
053>> Randy, would you like to elaborate on that on what you've seen in the past and practices? So last year or year a little over a year ago the board approved a stipen for the athletic director instead in lie of doing expense reports every month. We did an analysis of how his travel and that amount was equivalent to or less than what he was spending. Now we've asked to increase that stipen because now they redefine the region. He's traveling a lot more to Cleveland area and plus the IRS mileage went up. So it's it's it's a it's a makes it simpler in my office and in his office. And it really and by the way his travel budget comes out of the athletic budget does not come out of general fund. That's important also to
054recognize. So it's but it's it's a it's a it's a wash pretty much. It just reduces the amount of paperwork required on both ends. And it's not unusual for obviously for certain employees who travel a lot to have those kind of stipens. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. There any other questions? Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda then? >> So moved. >> Susan. Second. >> Second. Casey. No further discussion. We take roll call, please. >> Miss Roland Miller. >> Yes. >> Miss Haywood. Yes. >> Miss Minky. >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer? >> Yes. Okay, scrolling down and we don't have any. No wish to speak. [laughter] He says no, I don't want to speak. All right. If I um before we go into executive session
055then, do any members have any any other things that they wish to add or questions, thoughts? No. All right, then. I'm um do I need a motion to go into an executive? Okay. >> All right. Do I have a motion to move into executive session then? >> So move. >> Laura. >> Second. >> Susan. >> Roll call. Randy. >> Miss Minky. >> Yes. >> Miss Roland Miller. >> Yes. >> Miss Haywood. >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer. >> Yes. And oh, I have to explain what the executive session is for, don't I? Sorry, should have done that first. All right, we are going into executive session for two reasons. Preparing for conducting or reviewing negotiations or bargaining sessions with employees and also for the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion or
056compensation of an employee or official or investigating of charges or complaints against an employee official licency or student requests a public hearing. Um, sorry, I should have done that first. So, we kind of did that backwards, but that was the cherry on top. So, with that said, there is no no business afterwards. Um, we are now moving into executive session then. Thank you. 655.