001Good evening. I'd like to call this May 19th, 2025 Sennsylvania Board of Education meeting to order. Adam, can you call the role? Miss Hoffman, here. Mrs. Conklin, here. Mr. Lavallet, here. Mr. Feller, here. Mr. Bowden, here. Thank you. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. 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, thank you. We are with you, Dr. Mley. Thank you, Miss Hoffman. Good evening, everyone. Um, a couple of things to mention tonight. Um, I've had the pleasure over the last week, actually over the last several weeks to attend so many wonderful events that are showcasing um, our students and their achievements and their talent. It's been absolutely amazing
002and a true bucket fuller um, filler rather. Um, I also want to say congratulations to all of our educators, uh, staff, support staff, administrators that, um, have recently been nominated for educator of the year. I believe those went out on a website um posting today in social media. It's nice to see so many people recognize our employees for demonstrating excellence in what they do every day in order to support our Sennsylvania students and families across the district. And to be recognized by parents, by students, by their colleagues really says a lot for someone to take the time and write multiple paragraphs. Some of the uh recommendations are two, three pages on the impact that some of our employees, albeit principles, um folks who work in the cafeteria, educators, custodians, a variety of capa capacities, that
003they take the time to make sure that we all know what our folks do to go above and beyond to make sure our children have what they need in our buildings every day, outside of the building every day, to make sure they continue to thrive. So, thank you to those individuals who took time to nominate someone in our Sylvania schools family and congratulations to those who were recognized. Also, this is our last board meeting before the last day of school, believe it or not. Um, and I just want to recognize that I believe it's next Friday, we will have our retirement lunchon, um, where we have a chance to recognize some of our very own for their dedication and commitment to our Sylvania schools. Um, not only the children that have gone through our doors
004of our buildings, but also again our families and one another. So, I'm really excited about that. Um, I was also pleased to see this weekend that our district digest, it's been circulating. It's been mailed out to all of our communities. And what I'm really proud about is the front page. And no, not my picture. It looks a little bit like a glamour shot for those of you who are old enough to know what that is, but um, just to highlight our students and their philanthropic ways is just another heartwarming um, message. And I'm so glad that I have the privilege of highlighting our students for those folks who don't really interact with our kiddos on a regular basis. We have a lot of folks in our community who may have some children in the school
005or may have grandchildren in the school or they're empty nesters. And this is one media that we can use to make sure that some of those empty nesters or folks who have retired or even those who may be snowbirders that have recently come back to town have an understanding of the great product, our number one asset that we have in Sennsylvania. And we all know that to be our students and what they do to pay it forward. So, um, just highlighting some things about our kids and what's going on in our district. I went to a orchestra concert last week, a band concert. I have a couple of middle school concerts, one this week, one next week. Um, just excited to spend time with our kiddos. And um, just want to say for those folks
006who are here and tuning in, I know summer I think is is it seven or eight days of school left? Anyone counting? Anyone? Anyone? I don't know. Dr. Vince is back there grinning, so I don't know. Eight. Seven. We'll go with seven. All right. our seniors are already kind of, you know, they're done in a way. But anyway, um, rest, relax, rejuvenate, um, stay safe, spend time with your family and friends, make some good memories, laugh a little bit, soak up the sun. Um, and for those of you who are not seniors, um, and for those of you who are not retiring, we look forward to seeing you in August where we'll start a whole another year here in just a few months. So before you know it, the um pumpkin guy will be back
007and the turkey will be on the table and we'll be celebrating. Okay, too much. Okay, too much. All right, that wraps concludes my superintendent report. Thank you. And then I think we're still with you for commendation. Yes. And um we have a crowd of folks here tonight. It is always a privilege to recognize our students on behalf of the board of education. I want you all to know that are here this evening. Our board takes great pride in being able to recognize our students effort um albeit academic, athletic, uh in kind gestures, phil philanthropic um artistic talent, performance and the list goes on and on and they take great pride in recognizing our students publicly. I know that we do have some students on the agenda for um actually for uh ACT scores, but Miss
008uh Lavallet, Miss Lavallet has informed me that those are a list of Northview students and not Southview students. So, I'm going to have to circle back to make sure we acknowledge those students who earned a 26th or higher on the ACT. And we have some folks here um that also uh earned SAT scores. So, we will circle back to make sure we highlight some South View students in that way. But tonight on our agenda, we have a number of students to recognize. And um what we're going to do, so we will call your name up or call your name, you will come forward. Uh Miss Hoffman will hand you your certificate, shake your hand, we'll have a photo op if you're individual or as a team. So, we'll make sure that we can capture this
009special moment and make sure your parents have a chance to capture this special moment. And I'm going to apologize ahead of time because I'm going to do my best to pronounce your names correctly. So, I'm asking for forgiveness ahead of time, but I have my candy spelling list. We're going to do our best. So, Miss Hoffman, would you like to join me at the podium? I would love to. Alrighty. We have a stack of certificates. It's so nice to see the room just full. It feels good. Um, but I do want to make one important um item known. I don't know if Mr. Orbansky who's joining us this evening made it clear to everyone but after we go through the uh commendations feel free to after the pictures when we move on through the agenda
010Miss Hoffman will share that you don't need to stay for the rest of the meeting but stay or stay that's right five-year forecast important information so we are going to begin first with recognizing some of our students from career career um career tech, career education and technical program. Um first uh we have several students who participated in the business professionals of America. And we're going to begin tonight with recognizing Iman Abu Shawish and her advisor Gerald Bassik. I don't know if Jerry made it tonight. Mom, come on. Next for Distributive Education Clubs of America, uh, which is DECA for those of you that are my age, um, we will be recogn recognizing Gavin Ballard and his advisor Andrea Martin. Gavin, are you here this evening? All right. Well, we'll give him a round of applause
011anyway. Congratulations. We also have um the Business Professionals of America in Advanced Word Processing Skills. We have Emily Buchanan and Patrick Ser. Either one. Okay. All right. Clap. That's right. Acknowledgement. Trying to get rid of used to this new microphone. It's pretty neat. All right. Next, we have from BPA for administrative support research project. Sophia Del Signner. Sophia here tonight. Okay. BPA for integrated office applications. We have Kelsey Coupe. All right. Kelsey. and her advisor, Andrea Martin. I don't think Andrea's here. Congratulations [Music] also for BPA for exempt extemporaneous. Thank you. Thank you for your support and help there. Uh we have David Lou. I don't think Davis is here. And Byron Jones was his advisor. Byron's back there. Hey By, we you're going to have several more opportunities. Uh we also have for interview
012skills for BPA. We have Justine Mcpante. Mcpante. Also, uh Brian, you were her advisor as well. Byron and I did say Brian. I'm sorry. It's Byron. Thank you. I knew that we spent time together. So I'm apologize for that. For health occupations students of America, which is HOSA under behavioral health, we have Adrien Seedman and Melissa McCafferty was the the adviser. She's the adviser. Are they here this evening for BPA? We also have computer network technology where we have Hendry Shao and the advisor is Byron Jones. For BPAC plus programming, we are recognizing William Smith and his advisor Tammy Ramsey. Congratulations. Congratulations. Next for educators rising in the area of children's literature prek we have is it Ensley Ensley Aninsley Aninssley Soldner is she here this evening and her advisor is Ryan Eckles. Next for
013BPA BPA with health research in regards to a health research presentation, we have Karen Spy. Karen is here with Patrick Seyer. Congratulations programs lately. Next for BPA advanced spreadsheet applications, we have Lauren Stucky and Andrea Martin as the adviser. Is Lauren here this evening? All right. Congratulations for BPA graphic design promotion. We have Elizabeth Thomas and her adviser is Tammy Blue. Come on up, Elizabeth. National national champion right there before us. That's fantastic. Congratulations Next we have Jesse Wong for BPA Fundamental Accounting and Cheryl Bassik again as the advisor. Jesse is here. Okay. So our next group for recognition is for the BPA final financial analyst team. We have Carson Alman, Sam Rooney, Luke Tucker, Isaac Vins, and Gerald Ba Bassik. Number one in the country, by the way. Number one in the country. Congratulations,
014gentlemen. Congratulations. Perfect. Oh, did you run a Next for BV BPA Java programming, we have Nicholas Hot Sadicus. Nice. Thank you. Yolanda Hugh and the advisor Byron Jones. Byron, we're going to get you up here for a picture eventually, right? We're going to set them all together for you. Perfect. Next for BPA, I think it's ethical leadership and decision-making team, we have the following students. We have Ash Molator, Charlotte Palowski, Theodore Ravkco, and advisor Byron Jones. Next, for BPA visual design team, we have Hannah Hill, Riley Zimmerman, and Andrea Martin. Any of those folks here this evening? All right, congratulations. Then we have the BPA esports team. We have Jonathan Krolock, Matthew Lee, Cameron Mthany, Mthany, no Methany, Meth Man, thank Many. Thank you. And then we have Nash Mura and again Byron Jones, advisor.
015Next this evening, we have um a group of elementary students that are here. We have the Maplewood Allstate Children's Chorus. We were aware that some folks were not able to be here tonight, but we are so pleased that Amanda Ramsey has brought several or pardon Remy Rey. That is an S, isn't it? Thank you, Amanda Rey. The students are Sophia Arnold, Irain Gray, Eliza Lindsay, Sophia Pace, Greta Promei, Pomerani, we have an Amanda Rey, Holden Reie, Sam Smith, Callie Stewart, and they are have a handful that are here. We're going to get a photo. Love your shirt. Congratulations. It's like great. All right. will and one remaining award that goes um is major and significant. Um we had um a group of students through out of the loss of a former cougar uh Charlie Bower
016set out on a mission even prior to her losing her battle to raise money in order to help those who suffer to find and work with the medical personnel to find a cure to help um those who suffer from leukemia and lymphoma. and cancer. And uh we had three of our students from North View, one or one from Northview, two from South View who um raised so much money they knocked knocked it out of the park. Like they broke a record in the history of the competition. The competition I believe is student visionaries of the year. Is that correct? They raised, hold on to your seats, over $260,000 to toward cancer research. And we have these students here with us tonight. We have Camden, Camden, Bugganski, Jack Bower, and Paige Leuda. And Deanna, your advisor,
017come on up. Is your advisor here? Hannah here. Congratulations. [Applause] That's right. I just want to say um Oh, yes. Awesome. I know exactly what it is. Thank you. I want to say I had the opportunity to attend dance for a chance and I know this was part of their fundraising efforts and it was amazing how so many students just rally behind this purpose and this cause and it's because of what you did to make a difference that will impact lives moving forward. Um, I also chose to highlight your work in the district digest because I want everybody in this community. Everyone needs to know not only what you've done to make an impact for folks who are going through a challenge now, but those moving into the future and giving us hope. I will
018tell you it's because of our students, our children like you make me have hope for the future. makes me realize that our future is in great hands. Even when there is turmoil and challenge and loss, our future are in your hands. And I'm confident we are going to be okay as a society, as a nation, as a community. I know I'm on my stump speech, but it just touches my heart to know that we have such great kids that get it. Because when I was your age, I didn't get it. When I was your age, I didn't get it, but you get it. So, thank you for being you. Thank you to all of our students here tonight who have done the best of the best in their chosen fields and career education. Thank you
019parents for being here and investing in your children and being our partner so you would make sure that your children will thrive. And before I forget, Byron, come on down. You are the advisor extraordinaire. We weren't going to let you just walk out of here. So, congratulations. All right. Yes, you are. Miss Hoffman, it is my pleasure and honor to recognize our students officially for item 3.1, recognition of achievement on the behalf of the board of education. I'll move approval. I'll second. Any comments or questions? Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. And thank you, Mr. Bower, for this great stick. I do actually have one. It's taped into my kitchen cabinet that I see several times a day, and it reminds me that I can do hard things, too. So, thank you for that. Thank you. Bye, Alyssa.
020Okay. And with that, we are to Oh, we have to vote. I'm sorry. Julie, yes. Greg, yes. Dan, yes. Tammy, yes. Kim, yes. Thank you. And with that, we are at the first opportunity for public participation. Okay. Seeing none, we are with you, Mr. Folk. All right. So, it's May, so it's time to do our uh semianual financial forecast, 5-year forecast. So, I'm going to start with that. Uh I'm going to throw a quick presentation on the screen. Um and um again, this is the midyear we do our we do the November one. Um, so I wanted to focus on how we're doing this fiscal year, you know, with 10 out of the 12 months, kind of give you an update on some things happening this year, and then obviously talk about the future. So
021talk about the next couple years. So um, we're going to go over our revenue expenses, our fund balance. Um, you know, you'll see throughout the forecast our revenues are growing, um, you know, on about average about a little under 1% every year. Uh but just like the last couple years, our expenses are are rising um at a little bit higher rate than our revenue uh is coming in at. Um so we'll talk about some of those highlights uh moving forward. Um so I kind of wanted to design this uh cuz it'll go on our website uh and design it in a such that you could really, you know, see the buckets and and and really get an understanding of where our money comes from. give the examples of of what we're spending our money on.
022Uh but this slide is just a just an overview of fiscal year 25, which is what we're in. Uh we're looking at a total revenue of 104 million uh and our expenses uh 110. And I and I'll kind of go into why that is uh such a variance in in a little bit, but we still have an ending fund balance at the end of June. Uh should be uh little over 31 million there. So we are um nothing's changed in terms of the the pi graphs here. Uh we we're still 68 70% of our revenue comes from property taxes. Um and then uh the next big chunk is obviously the state of Ohio. Uh and then the state share of taxes is considered state money as well. So we're we're about 7030. Um, and that
023continues to be has been the trend and will continue to be the trend uh with the funding formula that's in place. Um, expenses wise, we're we're about 80% salaries and benefits, which obviously I've said this for the last couple years, we're a school, we're in the people business, and and our salaries and benefits will always be always be the two highest buckets. Um, as you can see there, um, the green or the orange line, uh, is that expense line that will continue to be slightly over revenues, uh, throughout the forecast. And then that gray line is our fund balance. So, as our expenses, um, continue to be higher than our revenue, uh, we're going to see our fund balances go down, and we'll talk about why here in a little bit. So, uh, pretty much
024just, you know, a thousand foot view of of our money, uh, coming and going, uh, for Sylvania. So, now I'll just talk about the highlights of of property taxes. Again, Dr. Mley talked about, um, our, uh, district digest um, and I talked about it in there, but as we all know, our valuation increased um, by about 29% this year. Um but our revenues stayed, you know, pretty consistent. Um and we only saw about a 2% revenue increase. And that's uh from the House Bill 920 um effect. Um as our rates as our values go up, rates go down. So we continue to to to collect around the same amount of money each year. Uh we just see the increase a little bit on new construction in inside Millage. Um, so our rates did go down.
025Our effective rates decreased by over eight over eight mills. So we our general fund has an effective rate of 30 mills. So we have a voted rate of 80. So over time that's gone from 80 mills down to 30 o over time. So um I don't think we'll see as big of an increase um like this in the future. Uh I think this was across the statewide uh values um in most counties skyrocketed just like ours. So um as you can see there collections uh gone up about 2% um and when I talk when I show you the actual numbers. Uh I'll show you what that means. But we did have a delinquent public utility uh which is about 350,000 that we did not collect that I thought we would get um at the beginning
026of the year. So, our public utility money um is less than anticipated and it's because of that delinquency. So, we will collect that next fiscal year as well as two payments next year. So, we'll actually get three payments next year. So, our revenue will be significantly higher in public utilities. So, so forecasted revenue, uh, again, I looked at an average, um, and and we're looking at about 1.56 that I think we'll get on average increase moving forward in the next 5 years. Public utility uh, increases a little bit higher. Um, so that's about 4% uh, moving forward. So, here's the next bucket of money. Um that's about um you know in those three buckets it's about 25% of our our revenues for the year. Um and we are we've talked about this in the last
027couple months. We are in a state budget year. We have about a month and a half left. Uh we're still it's still unknown at this time uh what we're going to land on. You know governor's budget came came out we're going to get 2 million less. the House version came out. We're going to get, you know, roughly a half a million, $400,000 more. Uh, and then so the Senate's version has not came out yet. So, we're still in limbo there. Uh, and you'll be able to see when we when I show you the actual numbers there. I flatlined revenue for um for both unrestricted and restricted um the buckets there. I just it's I didn't really want to factor an increase, didn't want to factor in a decrease. We just don't know. So, I just
028took the conservative approach and flatlined it. And we will I'll obviously update at the July meeting the ending budget because we'll know by July 1st uh what that is and and I'll obviously update that in July and then in our November forecast. I'll see I'll show you what that looks like for the next 5 years. Um state share of taxes um which is your homestead and rollbacks that we all have uh and our property tax bills. we get a little credit locally. State picks that up and and we'll see a small increase there in the forecasted period. Here is just our our all of our other revenues uh which it make up Medicaid reimbursements that are that our our staff um submits a lot of work. They do a lot of really good work in
029and getting some of those uh reimbursements back from Medicaid. we will see almost double this year than what we're normally getting. Normally, we get a payment in July. We actually got it in April this year. So, we we're going to get about 880,000 this year in that and it's normally only about 400. So, we have seen an increase there. Um, we've talked a lot about over the years about interest revenue. Um, we're still I I thought that this would go down this year with rate cuts. Rate cuts did not happen. So, we're still um slated to get over $2 million in interest revenue, which helps with our we have high fund balance. The rates are good. Um we've laded some investments out, so hopefully uh we'll still be able to collect some decent money, but
030Star Ohio, uh which is our basically our savings account, um those rates have gone down and we're seeing about a 12% decline there. but our our uh fifth third investments have been able to pick up the slack. So, we're seeing a flatline there from the previous year, but we're going to we'll definitely see that number decline over the next couple years. Uh and then we have fees and AP testing fees that we get and then um special ed tuition. We have students that are foster placed or court placed in our district and we're able to bill back um we're able to build back those other schools on where they came from. Uh so that equals over a million dollars for us. Um so forecasted revenue there uh it will decline significantly over the next 5
031years. Um, I mean, even next year it'll go down by 400,000 because we won't see those double Medicaid payments. Uh, and our interest revenue will decline. So, so this is how it all shakes out. I know it's kind of small and I I'll be able to email this out to you guys, but um, that first kind of orange arrow is is what I wanted to talk what I talked about earlier with that public utility. So, we're getting 3.7 this year, but next year it's going to go to 4.7 um because we'll have a full year of the increase of the appraised value and then we'll be able to get that 350 from delinquency. So, that's why that's a million dollar swing. And so, you'll see in fiscal year 27 that drops down to to less
032than we got in fiscal year 26. Not a decline in revenue, it's just a decline in timing of when we receive that money. And then that second orange uh arrow, you you'll be able to see that decline in uh anticipated decline in interest revenue there. Um taking it from a from a high of 5.4 in fiscal year 25 and we think it's going to go down to uh about 2.9 uh at the end of the forecast in 29. So 104 million this year we anticipate to get um and then it rises to 106 million um in fiscal year 29. So we talked earlier it's a steady growth but you know percentage-wise and dollar figures it's it's 104 to 106 over a 5year period is not that you know not that significant um in terms of
033of revenue growth but again that is with a flatline revenue anticipated for unrestricted state aid and restricted state aid. So once we get that new budget, once once that comes in, we'll be able to update those numbers and I'll be able to show you an estimate in July. Expense side of things, again, 80% of our revenue comes from salaries and benefits. Uh we do have negotiated agreements in place until July 1st of 2026. Um retirement changes. uh in this fiscal year alone we went from 30 a year ago today you retire at 34 about September it went down to 33 and then starting July 1st it's gone down to 32 years so we did not see a a significant number of retirements so we're about normal as we as we have been in the past
034but I anticip with because those the late change of 32 was just like last month, I think. So, I believe we'll see maybe more than the average retirements next year, uh, with it being down to 32 and they have a year to plan. Um, so we'll we'll see how that goes. Um, our substitute wages and overtime uh continues to be high. We're doing some things to to manage that. Um, and I'll talk about some staffing reductions um, in a couple slides and just not hiring through attrition and things like that. On the benefits side of things, um, we did a we had a major focus on health insurance uh, this past fall that it touched on on the first forecast. Um, but we avoided spending about $9.4 4 million over the past two years uh
035with a change of health insurance uh coverage and and companies. So um that has tremendously benefited the forecast um in in terms of lowering those uh costs over the next couple years. We do have an average of about 4% that we're averaging um that we're forecasting as an increase over the next five years. benefits a little bit lower than that because we do have our health insurance rates locked until one of 27. Uh so that will be a positive there for our bottom line. Next up is uh purchase services and you'll see on the left I just those are our major that that accounts for probably 90% of our our costs in this bucket. Uh with our utilities, our special ed fund, college credit plus we've seen an increase over the last several years. uh
036repairs and maintenance. You know, we've had the roofs, we've had the pool, uh HVAC unit. We've done a lot of things. We got some asphalt work coming up. So, that that that's that bucket. Uh technology services, you know, we have internet, fiber, all of our our maintenance agreements with our our servers and things like that. Uh we do have over 10 nurses uh throughout our district uh that we have a contract with Prometica. Um, and then our resource officers and then insurance. Insurance did go up last year. We phased that in. So, we'll see our insuranceances go up a little bit again this coming July. Um, working with Ohio School Plan now and in negotiating that moving forward. But, um, we did see about a $50,000 increase last year. So, overall um kind of a
037higher than average increase this year. uh util we expect utilities to level out. We just passed an agreement a couple months ago uh negotiated our rates down from what we were paying through the Ohio School Council and Power for Schools. So that's that's been a significant increase over the last couple years. Uh but overall, we're hoping to keep our increases from 26 to 29 at about 2 and a half%. Maybe a lofty goal, but but we're going to we're going to see what we can do there. Um, on the purchase services side, supplies, uh, again, um, a pretty large bucket. Uh, we're looking at about 4% of our budget. Supplies, instructional supplies, obviously we're in the kid business. That's almost a million dollars. Software, textbooks, um, transportation costs, and we have a we have a
038large fleet, 400,000 in in fuel every year as well. So, um, we did see a decrease this year and that's result of one-time purchases from fiscal year 24 for science or reading. So, we spent about almost $400,000 in science or reading curriculum, which we did get reimbursed from the state for that. So, um, on the expense side though, it looks like we are we we lowered our expense, but it was a it was a wash on on the bottom line there for the science reading. So, we're looking at almost a 2.5 2.55% increase uh moving forward in the forecast. We're looking at uh tightening up our belts and and lowering some technology bud budgets and school budgets next year uh to get a little bit of a savings on the supply side. Um relatively small
039items here. Capital outlay. Most of our expenses uh come out of our permanent improvement fund. Uh we did have some debt that was passed in 2014. Those will be paid off um at the last year of our forecast. So in November uh when I when we roll over the forecast, our last year of our forecast in November, we'll have zero debt. So we got five years of payments left on that House Bill 264 energy project. Um and then other objects um will increase over time. Um, another portion of our vehicle insurance audit fees. The biggest line item here for other objects is just tax collection fees. So, we we we get we record our property taxes at gross and then we book the expense of the county charges us collection fees. Um, so they're over
040a million dollars. They went up about $75,000 this year. So, as as our revenues go up on that side of things, our expenses go up as well for the collection fees. Um, our last line of expenses, um, we have two transfers. Um, we transfer money, um, every year. We started this about 3 years ago for our severance fund. We really just wanted to have some consistent budgeting here. Um, so we transfer every year to our severance fund which pays out uh for our certified severance payments. So this past year um in the last couple years we transferred 850,000 and 26 to 29 uh we're going to be for we're going to be uh transferring 900,000 and I think a the reason why the bump cuz I think of those retirement changes I think we'll see
041more retirements which will bump up our severance payments. Um so we'll we'll hopefully end the year with about 29,000 in that fund. So, um, what if we if we do see an increase next year on top of what I already project, we should have we still have about $30,000 cushion there. So, that's why I want to do for just to keep leveling out in the on the budget side of things. And then um we passed this new fund uh last month, but we're going to transfer some money to a capital projects fund. And then we'll use that money to as a budget reserve for future needs, vehicles, roofs, parking lots, you know, capital U maintenance related items. You know, we obviously went through the MFP process and the capital planning. Um there's some things that
042we need to do and really need to stay up with the times uh in terms of you know possibly some furniture and again we you know we want to budget for roofs and and maintenance related costs. I mean we have we have a lot of square feet uh a lot of HVAC units so uh we wanted to budget for that. So in fiscal year 25 we have a transfer of $6.7 million um for that. But again that's just not money going out. we're we're reserving that that budget reserve for future needs. So here I wanted before I give you the the the final look at the expenses, I wanted to kind of give um our community and you guys just a picture of kind of where we've been over the last six years in terms
043of in my world in the accounting world of schools by function, right? transportation, capital maintenance, uh, special ed. So, I wanted to give you um a six-year increase on on a on a several different items that I think are easy to understand. So, transportation, bus fuel, maintenance parts, um you know, actual purchase of busing, it's increased o from 2018 to 24, $1.3 million, you know, so over time, 27% uh increase over that time. custodial maintenance. Uh we've done a really good job of of going out to try to find any savings we can with our supplies throughout the year. Uh that's increased about 800,000. Special ed uh has been about $3 million increase um from 2018 to 24. So you in in the back of the forecast on average we've we've increased our expenses by
044only 3%. That's pretty good considering the inflation and and what we've dealt with with rising costs. But special ed has has been on the on the higher side of that. Um IT services which is our you know um Chromebooks we have 10,000 Chromebooks. We have um you know fiber in our buildings you know to keep con to keep us connected every day uh comes with a cost and that's increased about 500,000. Um and last another big one um student support which is pair of professionals, counselors, social workers, um you know, you know, some intervention support for our students, OT, PT, uh speech and hearing that's increased about 1.7 over six years. And then our regular instruction, which is pretty much everything else, right? um has has increased at a little bit lower uh rate uh
045from some of the other buckets there. Uh but has increased about six million um or 16% over the last six years. So just wanted to kind of kind of paint that picture on on kind of where our money goes in in terms of the functionality of a school. And then what we have planned for for next year, uh we're hoping to um to to reduce some expenses by about $2 million. Um our enrollment has been leveling off slightly decreased this year compared to last actually. Uh so we're looking at um some staff reductions throughout the district, hoping to get about $1.7 million. um contracted services, uh 102,000 materials and supplies. Again, the smallest bucket, only 4% of our revenue, but we're hoping to to find about $175,000 savings there to get to a total of
046uh $2 million. Um think it's obtainable. Dr. Mley, Mr. Zeroff done a done a phenomenal job of of looking at everything uh throughout our district and and you know that's we're looking to to achieve the $2 million savings. We're we're still eyeing every Monday morning with our enrollment and and seeing where our class sizes are, but um we think the 2 million is obtainable. And so here's it all looped together. Uh so fiscal year 25 uh that first orange arrow is is highlighting our benefits. Uh not not a big increase there. We're that's that health insurance savings um and and lower increases than what we've averaged. Uh transfers, you'll see that big transfer for our budget reserve for our capital projects and then it levels off back to the only the severance payment. So, uh,
047total expenses for the year about 110 million, uh, and growing to 118 million. So, that $8 million gap there and increases over time. If you remember to about 15 minutes ago on the revenue side, we went from 104 to 106. So, again, our expenses are are growing faster than our revenue. Um, so this is a summary of of it all. We do have an ending fund balance projected uh at over 31 million and that will uh slow slowly decline as you move through the forecast. Again, state budget we we flatline revenue, right? The last budget, state budget we had, we received $2 million more. If I mean I don't think this is h gonna happen but say we got $2 million more in the next budget next year we're only deficit spending by 1.8 million
048that could that could help uh lessen that uh decrease there in our fund balance. Um so you just never know. I will definitely update in July with the state budget and um obviously in November we'll we'll take a hard look at um our fund balances and and our revenue and expenses there. So again, thank you. Um you got any questions? Love to talk to you. I plan to um I'll submit the forecast by May 31st. I will put this on our website. um along with the numbers and the notes to the financial forecast and I will put this presentation on on the website as well. Thank you. I have one question. I I thought it was important that you highlighted our increase in expenses when it comes to serving students with disabilities over the past
049six years. I this may be on the spot but something for all of us to think about. Do we know what percentage of students the number of students that we have? because it's not like we had the same number of students, but we've seen a higher increase in the number of students we're serving. Slightly, but it's actually more of historically, and don't quote me, but historically our percentage of students has been plus or minus a percent. We have not seen a a change in the number of students. We've seen the change in the costly cost of the services that we provide. So perhaps the need some higher needs are more more contracted services in terms of potentially other placements and things like that. I think it's important for our folks to know who may watch
050this later. It isn't so much that the population is growing, but more that the needs are more intense and those are more costly. So thank you. Y Okay. Thank you. Anybody else have any questions for Adam? Well, I know Adam never wants to toot his own porn, so I just wanted to note that the uh his projections for 2024 and actual 2024 were only about $100,000 off on a right with 90 some million dollar budget. So, yeah, that's impressive. Pretty incredible. That's Yeah, that's very impressive. Try to uh try to be as accurate as I can. So, well, and I want to echo your sentiment there. Um, this is my fifth district that I've worked in and I will tell you, Adam, that you take some pretty complex information and make it easier for Joe
051public to understand revenue, expenses because board member. Yeah. And Joe board member or Josephine board member. But I do think it's important because it is complex. I mean, a lot of people will say for a school treasurer, you're the only one that knows all the intricacies. And that is true. But to take that and make it easy for folks who want to click on this later or call you to um ask questions. I mean this is very thorough and the graphics are amazing. So thank you. Thank you. So uh we'll do consent agenda. So 5.1 minutes from April and May. Um and then treasures report. This just pretty much just summed it up but um for April month ending April 30th. and then one availability of funds, one then and now uh for the month.
052I'll move approval on a consent agenda items 5.1 through 5.3. Second. Any comments or questions? Adam. Julie? Yes. Greg, yes. Tammy, yes. Kim, yes. Dan, yes. 5.5 is just a depository agreement with Signature Bank. We do have an account with Signature Bank. We have also have some debt with them as well. Uh so I wanted to get an updated um depository agreement on file. I'll move for approval. I'll second. Any comments or questions? Adam. Kim? Yes. Greg? Yes. Dan? Yes. Julie? Yes. Tammy? Yes. 5.6 is the financial forecast uh that needs to be submitted by May 31st. I'll move for approval. I'll second. Any comments or questions? Further comments or questions? Adam. Greg? Yes. Julie? Yes. Kim? Yes. Tammy? Yes. Dan? Yes. That's it. Thanks, guys. Thank you, Adam. Thank you, Adam. We are with
053you, Dr. Mley. Thank you. Um, I am recommending item 6.1, which is the appointment of Mr. Andrew Ward as principal of Whiteford Elementary School effective August 1st, 2025 through July 31st of 2027. I'll move approval. I'll second. Comments. Yes, I knew you was coming. Right. Andrew is here with his family tonight. He brought his bride and his four children. Um, Andrew has uh served as an assistant principal at Springfield um middle school. I'm not sure if they're a junior high or a middle school, but um nevertheless, uh a little bit about Andrew, he received his master's from Concordia University in school leadership. He also has a master's from the University of Toledo in school counseling and a bachelor's from the University of Toledo in psychology. Is that correct, sir? All right. Um, also he served,
054again, I already said he's been in Springfield, I believe, since 2013. He also worked in Northwestern local schools and again he's here with his family tonight, four young men. Um, and he resides in Parisburg. So, welcome to the family of Sylvania schools. I don't know if you have a few words or anything you would like to say. Come on up. Come on up. Bring them all. Introduce us. That's a stair steps right there. Okay. I love the matching outfits. You guys should go get your picture taken. Amy, you should probably get the family. Um, first of all, thank you very much for approving me. I really appreciate it. It's been uh 2012 I came to Springfield and my wife Lisa actually has been a Sylvania school's teacher for I think she just finished her year.
055That's where I know her from. Sil um is a Silvin. So, she's a reading intervention teacher. We actually met at Sil when I was doing my school counseling internship years ago. So, um, so this is Lisa and this is my son Rowan. He'll be in eighth grade next year. And this is William. He'll be in sixth. And then this is Noah. He'll be in third. And this is Oliver. He'll be in first grade next year. So, we live in Parisburg and we're excited to both now be part of the family. So, thank you very much. Really appreciate it. Thank you. And welcome. Thank you. And we will get a photo op in front of the sign. So once we approve you, if you don't mind, would you I think it's perfect. Adam, Julie, yes. Greg,
056yes. Dan, yes. Tammy, yes. Kim, yes. Congratulations. Congratulations. [Music] How do you think the building. So, we're like double just so well coordinated. I know. It's cute. It's so well. I wish my kids would My kids would have been running. They really congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. Okay, we are still with you, Dr. Molly. Do you have to motion? Oh, we did it. Yeah, we did it. We did it. We're done. How did I miss that? All righty. Acceptance of gifts. Item 6.2. I recommend the approval of an anonymous donation of $1,000 toward the North View flag pole and a donation from Frickers in Sennsylvania of $200 toward the North View flag pole. I'll move approval. I'll second. Any comments or questions? Thank you very much. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Very generous. Adam. Julie? Yes.
057Kim? Yes. Dan? Yes. Greg? Yes. Tammy? Yes. Thank you. I recommend item 6.3. You will see three overnight field trips as noted in the agenda. I move approval. I'll second. Any comments or questions? I didn't get to go to all these cool places when I was in either. No. Right. Not even close. Nashville. Adam, Julie, yes. Greg, yes. Kim, yes. Tammy, yes. Dan, yes. Thank you. I recommend item 6.4, which is the service agreement with um Bittersweet Incorporated for uh extended school year services. I'll move approval. I'll second. Any comments or questions? Adam. Julie? Yes. Greg? Yes. Tammy? Yes. Dan? Yes. Kim? Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Josh. We are finally with you. All right. I will recommend items 7.1 through 7.5 on a consent agenda basis. 7.1 are licensed new teachers. 7.2 are our
058new licensed retires. 7.3 is one retire rehire who's taken advantage of the year two option on theou 7.4 four um is the reduction of time for our social workers and 7.5 is licensed extra duty. Go ahead. I'll move for approval on a consent agenda basis. Items 7.1 through 7.5. I'll second. Any comments or questions? Adam. Tammy. Yes. Greg, yes. Dan, yes. Julie, yes. Kim, yes. Thank you. I will recommend items 8.1 through 8.4 on a consent agenda basis. 8.1 classified new hires. 8.2 are classified contract non-renewals. 8.3 are classified summer programs and 8.4 are some classified personnel changes. I'll move for approval on a consent agenda basis items 8.1 to 8.4. I'll second. Any comments or questions? Adam. Greg, yes. Julie, yes. Kim, yes. Tammy, yes. Dan, yes. Thank you. I'll do uh item 9.1
059and 9.2 separately. Um 9.1, I recommend uh the supplemental and teaching pupil activity contracts uh for next school year 2526. I'll move for approval. I'll second. Any comments or questions? Adam. Kim? Yes. Greg, yes. Tammy, yes. Dan, yes. Julie, Ebstein, thank you. I'll recommend item 9.2, our athletic volunteers for next school year, the 2526 school year. I'm move for approval. No second. Any comments or questions? Adam. Greg? Yes. Julie? Yes. Kim? Yes. Tammy? Yes. Dan? Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Josh. Okay, we are to board reports. Start with you, Greg. Um, just a couple things. Had a um Sageard board me, Sageard or Savior Recre, one of the two. They blend in. Um, but every I passed out a um Sentenna Terrace VIP card to everybody. That is compliments of Mike over at Wreck. And
060that will get you into the non-national concert events. So, Pizza Plus and other the dance parties and other things like that. Um, and then the only other thing Oh, you're welcome. Don't thank me. Thank Mike. Um the only other thing we had a facilities committee meeting a couple weeks ago where we talked about some potential savings with some energy um you know LED lighting um maybe some look at some changes to the HBAC equipment to kind of help with the utility cost. So thanks to Adam for putting that together. Look forward to pursuing that. Awesome. Okay. Thank you Tammy. Um not much. We had a finance committee meeting a week ago. Um, but we pretty much just went over the financial forecasts that we you just saw. So, I don't have anything else. All right.
061Thank you, Kim. I have nothing. Pan uh was at the same finance committee meeting and um we had a a meeting with Sennsylvania Prevention Alliance. They're doing great things preparing for their 40th anniversary. They've got some have have had some great events recently and some others coming up. So, yeah, very exciting. Um, I don't have anything to add. Did we talk about foundation at the last one in the career tech? No, we've got to go to the in the career tech breakfast at Lords, which was fantastic. Steve, thanks for inviting us. That was a great event. It's great to see what our um career tech kids are doing. So, thank you for inviting us. I saw the lemonade day at Highland. Oh, yeah. Lemonade Day at Highland. We forgot lemonade dance island that we went
062to which is really that cool program where all the third graders they're doing like little entrepreneurs are opening lemonade stands. I feel like we should all just go by like on a lemonade run. So I saw on Facebook that weekend a lot of there were a lot of lemonade stands from friends. Oh yeah. So yeah it was pretty incredible. So that was a really cool event. Um I don't can't think of anything else. So this is second opportunity for public participation, but as we've cleared the room, unless you have something you'd like to say, then I would move we go into executive session for the purpose of items to be kept confidential and employment of a public official. Yep. And we will not be taking action after. Second. Adam. Julie? Yes. Greg, yes. Tammy, yes.
063Kim, yes. Dan, yes. Thank you.