001of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Can I get a motion to approve the agenda? >> I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. >> Second. >> We have a motion by Marsha and a second by Kela to approve tonight's agenda. All in favor? >> I. >> Um >> And the minutes. >> Yeah, I was going to say. I need a motion also to approve the special board meeting minutes of July 15th. >> I will approve the special board meeting minutes of July 15th. >> Second. >> Okay, I have a motion by Marsha and a second by Luke to approve the Sorry, not July 15th, May 13th. I was reading the wrong to approve the agenda
002meeting minutes from May 13th. All in favor? >> I. >> Okay, um let's move on to 2.0. I am Do I need to gavel open that or not? >> I think Okay. >> So, I'm going to open public comment regarding the 2026-2027 budget. There's any public comment. Okay, then I'm going to close that. Let's move on to 3.0, fiscal report. >> Okay. So, as you can see from the reports, um right now I am um saying that we're going to end the year at um 1,315,833. And as I say every time, I have to give you the worst case scenario. Um this is complete through May. There is a few things that I still need to add for the month of May for the bank statement, um, some deposits so the revenue is not full
003um, solid yet. Um, however, and then I have June to do as well. So, um, we still definitely have time. We have a ton of um, open purchase orders that need to be closed that will bring more money into that ending bottom line. So, I'm still extremely confident that we will make the 1.7 that is part of our budget. Any questions? >> Okay, let's move on to 4.0, the Superintendent's Report. >> Um, in your packet in section four, you have the May enrollment. Um, you'll notice that our May enrollment has dropped to 1158. That has caused some concern both in this year and in next. So, let me explain that. So, as far as this year, that brings our average for the year down to 1179, which is 21 students below what we budgeted at
0041200, which means we are going to In essence, we received the more money than we should have. That adjustment is going to happen in May of '27. I believe that with our high cost disability students and that, it really is going to be close to a wash or it will be something we can mitigate at that time with our current budget dollars. That's this year. If you look at the number of kiddos that we've lost and you look at the number of graduates, currently, we have 36 graduates at the high school. We've had 58 now graduates at Winter Lakes. Plus, there's a few other students that we believe will graduate at CHS. With the all of that and rolling everything over, we're going to start the year at 11:18. I set this budget at 11:30.
005So, I've asked Denise to make an adjustment at the state to adjust this to 11:15 to give us a cushion. That is a decrease in overall potential revenue for next year of a $179,000. And in light of that, there have been some staffing adjustments that I have made this week to accommodate the $179,000 shortfall by switching from 11:30 to 11:15. And in essence, we are we have some open positions that we're not going to fill. And we have some resignations. So, um I am going to retire as a superintendent of the Cook Hill School District. I have named Jeff Billy as the interim superintendent moving forward until the board makes a decision on what you would like to do as a long-term solution. Um our food service director, Marcy Gallagher, has also retired. I have
006um hired Susanna Bemis as our food service supervisor. And we are going to post for a half-time food service secretary. Um I have hired Sierra Britton as our maintenance and custodial supervisor. Um I have moved Tanya Singo from Winter Lakes Elementary to our special programs director. And I've hired Chris Anderson to be our Winter Lakes Elementary um principal going forward. We have um, transferred an EA from CHS to Winter Lakes Elementary, um, and then we will not backfill that position. Winter Lakes High School secretarial position will be will be filled as a half-time position, not a full-time position. And we also have additional savings by we are adjusting our contract. We contracted with the the the ESD for speech services. Um, Jeff Tilly was able to, um, negotiate with Katherine Wright to come back and
007that is actually a savings of 15,000. So, with all of those shifts of hiring >> [cough] >> people with less experience, [clears throat] that covers that loss [snorts] of 179,000. So, we are still whole, but we're doing that through attrition. There's and and some strategic moves within the district. There's There was some correspondence, um, and that correspondence is in your board packet. Unfortunately, some of the things that were brought up have now passed and we we made attempts to communicate with people, but we were unsuccessful in getting meetings scheduled. >> Any questions for the superintendent? All right. Let's move on to 5.0 then, discussion action items. And I do believe 5.6 has to be done separately, right? >> Mhm. >> Okay. >> Yep. >> So, if there's any questions, um, or discussion on these items?
008Okay. If there's no discussion, can I get a motion for approval of 5.1 through 5.5? >> Make a motion to approve 5.1 through 5.5. >> Okay. I have a motion by Marsha to approve discussion action items 5.1 through 5.5. >> Second. >> I have a second by Sharon. All in favor? >> Aye. >> Any opposed? Okay. >> [clears throat] >> Um, I move that the Tok School District Board of Directors approve the 2026-2027 budget for the fiscal year ending June 30th of 2027 and in the operation amount of 26,686,760 and I also move that the Board of Directors approve taxes for the 2026-2027 fiscal year at the permit rate of 4.2522 per 1,000 of assessed value for general fund operations. >> Okay. I have a motion by Marsha. I need a second. >> Second. >>
009Okay. A second by Caleb for the approval of the budget and also the the taxes for the general fund. All in favor? >> Aye. >> Any opposed? Okay. We'll move on to the consent agenda. >> Do we have any motion or motion for that? >> I'll make a motion that we pass that we accept the consent agenda. 6.1 through 6.10. >> Second. >> Okay, I have a motion by Sharon and a second by Marsha to approve 6.1 through 6.10 of the ascent consent agenda. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay, we'll move on to 7.0 staff and public comment. Do we have any staff or public comment? Okay, this meeting is adjourned. >> Yay. >> You made [laughter] it through.