001March meeting of the Oak Hills Local School District Board of Education if we could all stand for the pledge pledge allegiance to the the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all Mr Bane can you call the rooll Please Mr West here Mr hay here Mrs ibold here Mr yoron here Mrs Philpot here okay first up we have communications yeah thank you Mr President just uh just wanted to let everybody know that our bowling team our boys bowling team made it to State I I did not get the results on the girls I know our boys are headed to State um so that'll be this weekend and then we uh concluded most of our other series uh we had uh
002two State one state swimmer one state diver and then uh we also have our districts this past weekend for wrestling and then uh we'll see if we can get some qualifiers at state so kind of a light month this month so that's the only Communications I have okay thank you did have one item to communicate the uh one heart one hope uh fundraiser is going to occur on March 14th so that's a week from this Friday uh that will be at Oak Hills High School uh from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. so the one heart one hope is a districtwide fundraiser for families in need so all are welcome and we be grateful if you would attend okay thank you could I have a motion to adopt the agenda so moved second call the rooll Please
003Mr hay yes Mrs ibold yes Mr yoran yes Mr Philpot yes Mr West yes okay Treasures report thank you Mr President uh if you would find in your packet uh behind the uh teal sheet the financial report for January so I have three items to share this evening the first will be the financial report uh total receipts for the month of January 5.4 million total expenses for the month of January 11 million uh if you turn to the back side with the graph just note for the board and the community we did receive a tax advance at 2.8 million in our general funds casino revenue we did receive 245,000 for casino revenue uh just for the community to uh be aware and know our board is aware of this we do receive casino revenue uh
004but that is a very very very small portion of our overall Revenue uh makes up less than a half of a percent of our overall Revenue so when you're driving home from this meeting and you listen to 700 WLW and they're telling you to play the casino and it benefits public education it absolutely benefits public education but just realize uh it's less than a half a percent of our overall Revenue so it's very minimal uh in the grant scheme of things um moving to the permanent Improvement fund total revenue in the pi fund 564 th000 total expenses 265,000 and our ending cash balance in the permanent Improvement funds uh 2.2 Mill milon any questions on the finance report okay uh two other items I'd like to share this evening first um also in your packet
005uh behind the pink sheet in near the front of your packet I'm going to have you jump here a little bit but for our community uh the by any budget is underway and what does that mean so House Bill 96 uh Governor dwine introduced House Bill 96 in early February and the state represents roughly about 35% of our overall funding so I just mentioned how small casino revenue is State funding is a big big big deal in Oak kills and then the other pocket is uh local funding so State funding really from the Inception starts in twoyear Cycles so every July the governor signs a budget and that budget includes not just things regarding funding but it in includes uh many things regarding education uh things like attendance things like cell phone policies AI Transportation
006Suicide Prevention measures there's a number of things in the banian budget of House Bill 96 it's not just funding so a number of things but this evening I'm only going to talk on the funding part of it and what projections look like so House Bill 96 for our state funding right now which again represents 35% of our budget uh the simulations came out in February uh and those simulations aren't so promising right now um again the state operates in twoyear Cycles so we only know our budget for two years 24 months uh right now uh our cycle is ending here in June so once July hits we'll know the next 24 months but it's very difficult to project Beyond a 2-year period when you're only given a budget for two you know for for two
007years so moving forward right now again they are just simulations and they are just projections uh there's a reduction of approximately 4% each year for the next two years uh so that's a significant reduction based on these simulations uh a lot can change between now and July 1st uh By the time Governor dwine actually signs the budget uh but really just for the board and the community to be aware uh these reductions uh would have a significant impact on our budget uh and so Mr Brandt myself we've worked with our local state legislators so our state legislators are Senator blessing uh and representative uh odioso and so just as recent as today uh was texting with with both of them and they're well aware of our story uh keep in mind there's 613 different stories
008because there's 613 school districts everyone has their own story some of them maybe seeing additional funding some of them may see reductions in funding so uh we won't go into great detail on on what house bill 96 right now looks like but just for the board I did provide you a copy of what I sent over to um both Senator blessing and representative odioso so in other words stay tuned uh we shall see uh but uh right now um the projections that we received with those uh reductions um we were hoping would be a little bit more favorable we'll keep you posted as time progresses along with item two so number one was financial report number two is House Bill 96 state budget along with number two uh is the other big portion of our
009pie so I just mentioned 35% comes from the state roughly 60% comes from residents of the district everyone here residents of the district local property taxpayers so uh property tax reform really got off the ground oh shoot about 18 months ago and what does property tax reform mean uh property values as we all know significantly increased really in the last 24 months uh they really were at historic levels uh that date way way back but we haven't seen increases of the levels that we've seen in home values uh in quite some time and so as a result the legislators are looking into the formula on how local school districts are funded with local property tax money um unfortunately and there was an article just this week in the inquire I know the board has asked
010me uh I've been asked by members of the community I don't know I'll just simply say that I do not know uh this has been an 18-month discussion legislators are going in both directions saying this is how we fix the the issue at hand uh and others have other options but when 60% of your funding comes from local tax dollars uh number one we're appreciative of the community's investment uh but number two we're very cognizant that there's been a formula in place there's been an equation in place for 50 years and so we have made decisions based on that equation that's been in place for 50 years uh if the legislators decide to Tinker with that uh certainly we'll be reaching out uh but I can assure you oills is not the only District that'll
011be reaching out because it would have significant impacts to public education because uh there may be a higher level of commitment needed by the local community so I'll keep you posted as time progresses uh with with House Bill 96 both state and local funding um and if there's no other questions I I do have one other item to mention if there's no questions on state or local funding going share some good news good news uh this evening on the agenda we have an agreement with Beacon and tri Health uh formerly Beacon Christ uh Beacon and tri health will be our new partnership moving forward pending board approval uh we've had a tremendous relationship particularly with Beacon Orthopedics a huge shout out and thank you to Dr Argo Andy BLM uh who's the CEO uh as
012well as Mike slemons who's the director uh thank you for their partnership as well as our new partnership with tri Health uh Kelvin Hangar um between those individuals Mr brand was instrumental on getting this through uh but over the last 10 years uh Beacon and now Tri Health have donated over $5 million to our school district and so I am elated to just be the messenger here to say that that partnership is going to continue through 2028 um and so just the value that they bring over $450,000 a year uh has has impacted our district from anywhere from nurses to athletic facilities um to Athletics just a number of things so a huge thank you a huge shout out for that that commitment um and again it's a significant uh investment in our district and
013we're truly appreciate itive um just one thing on the budget Steve you were talking about the possibility that the state property tax um formula could be changed and then we got the negative projections that could show that we might lose $2 million or more than that over the next two years I just want to point out that even without those thing bad things happening um the 5-year budget forecast that that Steve puts out on a regular basis they put out in I guess it was November December shows that if we don't cut spending we'll need a property tax increase in 2027 to keep us from dripping down to uh 67 67 true cash days which is below 90 we try to stay above 90 so just want let people to know that we have a
014serious uh budget situation facing us and we need to think about how we want to address that um if these things happen to the negative it's going to get even worse there are a couple good things that could happen too um so we just have to wait and see we'll know a lot more pretty soon thank you okay thank you Mr Bane uh next up we have the superintendent's report yeah it's my pleasure to introduce Beth reenberg and uh for this evening's principal report good evening everybody Welcome to jfd board members welcome we're so glad to be here uh tonight I have the privilege of talking about the jfd community but also the Outreach of the jfd community and last week we celebrated National Public Schools week and I just wanted to show you a
015couple things if you bear with me and it's going to tie into the true heroes of the night so first of all last week we spent the entire week honoring our community and talking about all the different entities of public schools that keep us going we talked about our staff our students our parents our volunteers our support staff our related Services everybody was honored last week in public schools week we talked about connection among our staff had a great time doing that with food and with friendship and we also talked about family involvement being so important to jfd most importantly we talked about student involvement and last week this is a picture actually of our stem day that took place on Thursday and our teachers and our PTA did a partnership with oills high school
016the oakill high school students actually brand our St day and came to doas um we stand postai poai on Wheels and we sto that a few years ago because we thought number one it would be cost effective to keep something in house number two it would be a great way for us to Bridge Elementary to high school and understanding how robotics engineering mathematics really could impact these children so the kids were actually LED through multiple lessons through smar high school students last week to culminate our Public Schools we lastly what I want to do to celebrate our final our final celebration even though it was last week is to do a very very very special thank you tonight and I'm going to tell you I know I know I'm looking at these guys and they
017they don't like to be put out in the public spot I know that they are very very hardworking they are very behind the scenes but I often think of a school and a school Community really being like a body and I always say our students right here are the heart they keep us puming they keep us going leadership leadership is the brain the nervous system teachers they do everything else right along with related staff but then there's another part and that's our skeleton it's our actual facilities it's the things that keep us keep us going because our structures in O Hills I'm telling you the care and concern of this super super group of men is above and beyond Duty so tonight I wanted to turn things over to Jason so he can introduce this
018incredible crew and before I turn it over to Jason I'd like to say on behalf of jfd and Elementary in Del High Middle School the gift of air conditioning that we got this past year is more than just a facilities Improvement I'm only have through my teachers here I cannot tell you the difference that it made in the morale of our staff and students and allowing us to have this peaceful beautiful start at the beginning of the school year we immediately went into instructional time and everybody was so happy if you walked in the building in the the feel hard the air condition of course made it cooler but the feel of the building the energy the emotion was that of we are ready to go and a big part of that was because we
019had air conditioning so thank you thank you on behalf of Mark Mr Connor and myself for putting forward and really being Innovative and understanding the need for it and then making it happen and to you guys who I would see on the roof literally 600 and 7:00 at night getting this done you are un some Heroes and so we're going to present a little something for you we promise not to embarrass you but you deserve the recognition because of your hard work Andy he was here cracking on this morning um helping us with a Fess issue you don't even have to turn around and they're there day and night 24/7 holidays you know they responded to us over Christmas breaks Spring Breaks they're always there for us and they always have the best attitude they're
020they're top much proof so with that you thank you we're going to turn it over to Jason and a couple of our little friends are just going to give you a thank you too so real quick thanks sure and Mr wers would say the same thing about the same but uh I just want to uh introduce these guys and give a little background on it um what does the maintenance guys do um we do Electrical Plumbing Heating in air carpentry anything inside and out that we could possibly do and and one of the things when I started this about 4 years ago cuz I came I was on the main This Crew 30 years ago um was and I talked to the crew and we we we try to do everything we can do inside
021and house and not use outside cuz they're so amazing and I know what they can do but anyway to give you an idea we have about a million square fet over a million square fet across the district that they take care of um 450 classrooms 250 bathrooms one of the things we took over was all the kitchen stuff Kelly here before that Linda used to pay some outside these guys take care of all the equipment in the kitchens now to save money um the big one is while the kiddos are sleeping these guys are out there plowing the parking lots 4:00 in the morning I know you guys want us to call snow D you can blame them but get to the air conditioning and stuff um just a quick story I met with the
022guys we were talking about things that need to be done over the next 5 years CU we have cycles and one of the things was is furnaces here this building set up there's furnaces in between each classroom like at your house a furnace just like you have at your house and we talked and like hey why can't be air conditioning dollas just like our houses so as amazing as they are they're like we can do that so I'm like oh wa a minut people been talking about this for years been here so it took us about 3 months we made sure we could do it we went through the electric make sure we had enough power and I thought man these the boards thing I'm crazy I've only been do us for like 2 years
023so I went to Jeff Jeff backed me up he believed in us I want to thank you for that thank you um then we went to the board and I presented and said hey we can do this and the board put up a lot of money for the equipment and I I'm appreciate that I want to thank you guys for trusting in us and uh said it was going to take us 2 years I think we did it in about a year and a half um but again I just want to say thanks to these guys and I want to say from the parents to the students to the staff everybody appreciates everything you did I hear about it all the time from everybody so I was going to turn it over to you guys
024you guys want to stay something or have comments or I i' just like to say you said we put up a lot of money we really didn't no because because they did all the work in in house so we were getting numbers to do um millions of dollars to do these two buildings and that no I know I it was like 400,000 yeah I'm just pointing out you guys did it for 400,000 instead of millions of dollars because of all the work they did so at least million so that that was that was unbelievable cuz we couldn't have done it um if we would have had to bring a contractor in and and do it it would cost us millions of dollars so thanks for saving the district probably a couple million dollars and it
025was not just dolls it was spring wire too and we do we did have a plan for the middle schools but we're kind of waiting on that to see how so if if something happens we have good middle schools the guys are willing been able to do that to us well as Bart said I mean it this would not have happened if you guys weren't able to do it I mean we just we wouldn't have been able to afford it and so um so thank you thank you for all your hard work and effort and making it happen for the district yeah it's it's been years um you know I have now five kids that have graduated from the district and it's been a conversation every year about the heat in these buildings um and
026I think that for you and you guys to look at it in a different way than it had been looked at before was amazing um otherwise we would still be hearing those conversations in the community but they've all gone away um which I think everyone's thankful for especially our kids so thank you very much thanks guys if I could put dollars and cents to it uh our utility costs have reduced in the last 10 years 44% so what does that mean that's over a half million dollars each year for the last 10 years and so hats off to Jason and the team so thank you on behalf on everybody in the district thank you guys for not only what you did in this project but as Jason said what you guys do each and every
027day it's amazing work truly is and then we thank you for that real real quick I want to show you there was something else that came up I don't think anybody really knows but the team cuz once we got this mindset that we can do anything so this is this is dollas just some pictures real quick um you know we ran all El conduit I think we ran over 3,000 of conduit here in Spring me we did a 33 roof units so this kind of looks similar what you prob your house right did 33 of this um so they're on roof of do and then the furnaces are inside the little rooms that are outside the building Jason actually said to me too now you're going to see the air conditioning units on top are
028you okay with it I'm like I'm totally okay with it go for it man we're good that's one of our Clos it's an outside door there's two furnaces there so that suppli separate rooms within the so we what we do an A in there and line set up the roof sitting on the roof like it does in your house and then spring wire same thing this is just a different system it's a split system I'm sorry you guys can't see um but and then we try to put everything on the roof or on the back of the building so that you really couldn't see it from the stream that's the back of the building so you really can't see that from the street um and then these are units that are actually in the classrooms
029I don't know if we have any teachers here Mr W probably they're super quiet you know they're not like anything super Qui and we also have in the hallways and stuff like that try tool hallways and then so this project had nothing to do with the air conditioning but it did so last year in May we lost a big unit on the Rooftop at delhigh which is the multi just put in 99 so the guys came to me like hey we can do this I'm like wait a minute guys we're trying to finish dolls in Spring Mar so to give you an idea this is a 30 turn you can see one one of the guys this is a picture but so I got a price to replace two of those identic ones I was
030$250,000 so that would be about $125,000 we bought the unit for like 49 and then we had to pay for a cram was about 3,000 something like that so we saved another I don't know whatever that is but uh this was a week before school started in August they were putting this unit in while we were trying to finish dollis spr so just I can think of all kinds of things they do but this is the kind of stuff that they're just wanted to show you guys thanks again guys great work we appreciate all you guys do thank you so I'm just going to ask I'm I'm not saying anything but just stand up I'm going to say your name how many years you guys been kills and then some of the kids are going
031to help me out with something here so I'm going to start just on my list is no order here Mata 13 years thank you d overberg years Andy Pitman 10 years this name's to sound little familiar because you might MTH one year har Rolland 24 years and Ryan Philly 17 years again guys just thank you for everything you do from all the staff and students and parents for guys thank you great C thanks all right we can move on to director reports yeah it's my pleasure to introduce uh our partner in Architecture Firm is Jeff Parker and Mike uh Parkinson this evening we're going to give an update uh on our ofcc uh project and some of the work that's been going on with our uh Community engagement cat team so welcome Jeff and Mike
032and we appreciate you being here thanks superintendent also an AR to give you a little update they're getting Chick-fil-A all right well um I guess this is the more boring up not us our goal is to give you just a brief update of what's going on with in regards to the master planning effort that's been happening um so in December of this year um the bond issue the construction bond that was used to build rapid run middle school is going to be retired uh and that creates an opportunity for the district um the value of that Bond um the value of the Village of that fund is roughly about $60 million total okay um we've also been approached by the ofcc the Ohio facility construction commission um and they are uh oakill is in line
033for funding from the state the great thing about that is that um the state is willing to pay 61% of the bill for construction dollars okay so if we start with the this $60 million that equates roughly to the millage that's about to be retired um that equates to about $94 million in construction funding from the state for a total of about $153 million in potential construction funding right so the first step of that is to really begin to figure out what's what is the master plan right what's what do we believe the needs are in the district what what makes sense to happen first and so worked so we really believe that a a solid master plan is founded on three things primarily uh it has to be good for students good for schools
034good for burning it has to make sense financially right and finally it has to be community supported and we found that the best way to develop a community supported plan is to have the community create that plan so to to that end we the district has helped us ass assemble what we call a community advisory team this is a a timeline of the process and we are kind of right in the middle uh in March we've got what we're calling a 17-week engagement period and we are meeting about five or six times with a community advisory team of about roughly 30 of your friends and neighbors and we are also having uh lots of focus groups as well as a community Forum but I'll get back to that in just a moment so we are
035where we are we've worked to hard to Define and to understand where the district is today from a facility perspective we have reviewed facility assessments uh with Jason and his team um we we have worked to understand what the building capacities are um the state has also done um an enrollment projection I'll say that the state's enrollment project are notoriously Ultra conservative so no doubt there there's some debate between whose numbers are are are accurate um and there's also been A needs assessment as far as you know what needs to happen there the other thing that's happening is community engagement and just at our last Community advisory team meeting we really began to identify what the pieces of the puzzle might be how we might can of solve this challenge um so as I mentioned
036we have a community advisory team of about 30 people uh we we' been met twice um of our of our six sessions and um we've also had three focus group sessions so we're learning a lot of getting a lot of insights from them we ask the community advisory to to help us identify Community Values cuz we work with a lot of school districts all day every day um and one thing that they all have in common is that none of them are alike right everyone is unique and different so we don't want to go in assuming that we understand what's important to the people of Oak Hills so we ask the community advisory team to identify some values and it's maybe a little too small for you to read but they came up with eight
037academic Excellence fiscal stewardship transparent communication Community Unity student wellbeing districtwide balanced opportunities facilities as a community resource and finally being strategic and Innovative with our resources um Mike if you would go back one we've asked the focus groups and the community advisory can kind of rank those for us and not surprisingly academic Excellence is number one on that list um number two on that list is a transparency you know it's really important to the community that everyone understands what's happening and why and then the next to our TI fiscal stewardship fiscal stewardship and Community Unity so I think that's a really good kind of top four for Community Values well it ties into those three pillars it does right all right so upcoming we've got four more Community advisory teams I will say that that
038community advisory team is a standing committee we're we have tasked them with understanding a lot of information um a lot of detail and so you that group being uh a group that meets regularly and we kind of build each session on what we did before okay um we we have about half a dozen more focus groups scheduled and I'm sure more of those to come and uh then in March we're going to be scheduling later in March a couple of community forums to bring everyone up to speed on what the realities are any questions sir I would let the board know that we will be doing a focus group with the uh sta all the uh staff on March 10th uh at our end service so we'll be at the high school we'll be doing
039a focus group session with all three levels uh still working with Jason and his team on maybe how we meet through our classified folks as well do focus groups on March 11th we'll be meeting with our parochial principles uh over at District to do a focus group and then as Jeff said we'll try to get into our community groups as well as uh in our neighborhoods if you will inviting parents in to hear this this simmer presentation and giving them an opportunity to uh be engaged in the process and give us feedback as well so again thank you to Jeff and Mike I know you guys have been really really busy with us and we appreciate the constent back and forth uh from your home to the West Side uh before long you'll be adopted
040over here uh so we appreciate the constant effort that you guys give us thank you thank you for the opportunity yeah funding for this project really comes from two sources it comes from local wealth and it comes from enrollment and as Jeff mentioned uh the state is notor notoriously conservative with their enrollment projections so Mr Brandt myself uh really kind of looked at it with a grain of salt and said you know can we can we have them sharpen their pencil because it's real money in our back pocket and they were able thank you really to the Township particularly green uh Frank birkenhauer uh and Adam gsman uh they were able to identify additional developments and potential developments uh that yielded oill 61 additional students in their enrollment projection uh which yielded $2.7 million in
041additional revenue for our district so uh pleased with the partnership and collaboration uh with Green Township other any other questions for jeffre Mike really appreciate you guys coming out and giving us an update and we'll uh we'll look forward to seeing you guys soon all right thank you guys thanks mik it's okay they cover both of those under director reports right yeah okay has anyone signed up no okay do we have anything under old business even uh no old business to report okay we can move on to new business first up as treasurer's recommendations thank you Mr President item number one I recommend that the Board of Education approve the minutes of the regular meeting of February 3rd and the development session of February 24th as attached so moved second call the rooll please Mrs
042ibold yes Mr yoran yes Mr Philpot yes Mr West yes Mr hay yes item number two I recommend that the Board of Education approve the monthly financial statement for January 2025 as submitted sub moved second call the roll please Mr yoron yes Mrs Philpot yes Mr West yes Mr hay yes Mrs ibold yes item number three I recommend that the Board of Education approve the following donations from the rebold foundation curtain Candace Hunter okay mini dance bi3 Joe burrow Foundation uh JF dullas PTA spring Meer PTA Oakdale PTA Thomas C Mason as well as the Oak Hills athletic boosters as submitted so moved second call the rooll please Mrs Philpot yes Mr West yes Mr hay yes Mrs ibold yes Mr organ yes item number four I recommend that the Board of Education approve the
043following appr appropriation adjustments as submitted so moved second call please Mr West yes Mr hay yes Mrs ibold yes Mr orgovan yes Mrs Philpot yes item number five I recommend that the Board of Education approve the agreement and the addendum with Beacon and tri Health effective August 1st 2024 through June 30th 2028 as attached so moved second call the rooll Please Mr hay yes Mrs ibold yes Mr yoron yes Mr phot yes Mr West yes than move on to superintendent's recommendations thank you Mr President item number one I recommend the board approve the resolution for Ohio High School Athletic Association membership as attached so moved second call the rooll please Mrs ibol yes Mr your yes Mrs Philpot yes Mr West yes Mr hay yes I'm number two I recommend the board approve the following
044Oak Hill's Local School District student trip as attached so moved second call the roll please Mr ran yes Mrs Philpot yes Mr West yes Mr hay yes Mrs ibol yes item number three I recommend the board approve the following policy revision as attached this is related to student services so moved second any questions no can call the roll please Mrs Philpot yes Mr West yes Mr hay yes Mrs ibold yes Mr yoran yes item number five I'm sorry item number four I recommend the board approve the following Personnel actions a through r as submitted so moved second call the role Please Mr West yes Mr hay yes Mrs ibol yes Mr yoran yes this is philp yes that's all I have this evening thank you thank you um again no one has signed up to
045address the board so we can move on to board discussion just yeah go ahead say that the item we have listed um is March board development topics yeah yeah so I thought maybe that would be a good time by then we we'll have three of our cap meetings as was was discussed this evening and thought that would be a good time for the board just to kind of work through some of those models and some of those uh uh renderings that have come out you know as Jeff said last uh we had a really good session both sessions were really good but we really got into the meat of it uh last week and we had our our groups start to look at the models and and come up with those and so you know
046we'll be able to kind of pair those down hopefully at our next meeting uh March 11th and then we'll turn around and and I thought that might be a good time really just to have some time with the board with SHP and our team to go through where those options kind of kind of lie if you will from the from the committee and the group and and and you can kind of see what they've come up with and then we can start really having some discussion around you know moving forward pairing some of those uh some of those options down that really would would make sense as we gear up for uh these Community forms as well as uh working towards a final plan because once we get that final plan and the board approves
047it then obviously uh if the board ultimately decides to move forward with that then we kind of get into selling that plan if you will going out in the community letting folks know what that plan is and starting to um you know get them excited and energized behind that plan so I didn't have any other topics I can certainly add that but I really want to give the board just a an entire period if you will just to really take our time and look through that and have discussion around where we are in the process and what might make sense as we start to pair down uh some of those plans if that makes sense for you guys I think I think that makes a lot of sense but I Al think that we need
048to start talking about the whole financial picture for the district because um if there's even a possibility that we need to go out for a levy um in two years we need to remember what happened last time we ran a levy so I don't think we can count on that on that happening so we need to look at do we need to start doing something now to kind of maybe push that out as long as possible um and have a more in-depth discussion than we do it a normal board meeting okay yeah so if I can make the suggestion uh to hold that in April with the May forecast being approved in May um if if that's acceptable for the board I think we'll know a little bit more inform hopefully know a little bit
049more information at that time um I think also then behind the scenes uh particularly with Staffing uh is starts to ramp up a little bit more um I think that timing may make may make some sense as well I think for a major discussion but I think that we ought to we ought to talk about maybe more briefly just you know 15 20 minutes cuz I honestly you know we get we get the fiveyear budget projections all the time I don't think that people really understand on understand that that you're looking at fiscal years and then you're looking at opportunities for l Etc um and it kind of just kind of goes over people's heads I know I get sometimes a little mixed up and I really have to stop and think about fiscal year
050versus calendar year and what do these numbers mean and whatever so we can look at it and and I agree later on right before we start doing hiring um that we need to have a more in-depth look at it and we'll have better numbers then too I understand that because the the uh forecast will be updated but just looking at the December forecast which now maybe getting a lot worse is is not good sure so y yeah so absolutely provide an update and you know the unfortunate part is is really the timing uh not not based on our discussion but the timing of when the budget will be approved you know house bu 96 won't be approved until July 1 right well by that time right you know really for all intents and purposes 2025
05126 school years underway but certainly having a discussion about it uh absolutely we we'll have some material to discuss I I think to your part your point Bart is is Steve said I mean if we wait till June or July to have that conversation we're we're behind the whole fiscal year I I think is the point and so if we anticipate that there's going to be uh it certainly looks like in The Proposal there'll be some some cuts and so I I know our district leadership team is already thinking about that now we have to put a plan together of how to address that but I I think that's probably a wise decision to start talking about why before we get into next fiscal year are things we can currently do to help you know
052uh the cause if you will in the event that that these proposal or the banial budget comes back with cuts because that by then we're we're we're in a whole fiscal year already so we wouldn't be able to do anything until the next fiscal year and then what happens is those cuts become if we have to cut those cuts become deeper right right because you only have one year to spread it out versus over M the year but you know again I know our team's already talking about ways that you know where we can you know look at all of our budgets and and see where we can maybe that process yeah I just I just realized it's complex um a little bit complex for me but I've done budgets since 1992 my whole career
053I love doing the budget the budget here is 10 times bigger than the budget that I dealt with but it gets a little confusing because we did calendar years there's it's like there's a whole bunch of variables you know so Steve's got to make a projection but there's like six or seven things that can make it better or worse unfortunately most of those possibilities make it worse not better but we need to understand I I think as a board it would be helpful for us to understand what all those different variables are and the likelihood that each one of them is going to occur and what we can do to hopefully push that off as long as possible and not make any cuts that affect staff or more importantly students great okay so if you
054guys are good with that discussion as well as again uh SHP coming out and again having just an open discussion with us um you know we can we can have that conversation I think that'll take probably the bulk of our time if not more so yeah and we may need to continue that yeah the conversation in April definitely around the budget okay anything else under board discussion this evening nope okay then can I have a motion to adjourn so moved second call the role Please Mr hay yes Mrs ibol yes Mr Yovan yes Mr Philpot yes Mr West yes thank you all for being here have a great night thank you