001Hurry up. call making no order. Any public comment relating to the agenda items? Any questions? Good evening everyone. Thank you for coming to tonight's meeting. Uh we're over here at Woodsc for having us here tonight. Amazing. One of our own. Um oh, first we're going to have Mr. Markley here a report. See you again. Ready? One quick comment about that. Heat. Heat. Testing test. It's really staticky and there's noise and music in the background. [Music] Um, as I was mentioning with regard to the audend opinion. What we've issued this year as we've had in the past is what's known as an unmodified in the old days they used to call it. Basically what that means the information on the audit report is presented in form regulations profession and there are no hard members uh late
002terms that's good that's the type of report you want to have any part most important PD um getting back to this uh synopsis letter I as I do each year do a little bit of financial highlights and give you some perspective over a five-year period. On the first page, there's a five-year history and most of the the synopsis is geared toward your main operating fund, your general fund. Um, on page one is a five-year history of the total overall general fund fund balance of the district. So you can see over the last uh four years you can see the growth of the fund balance um going from 3,393,000 I'm sorry uh from the negative 2,64,000 up to a plus 12,892,000 as of 6304. We'll talk about that when we talk about revenues and expenditures. Of
003course, um some or a lot of this money over the last seven years has been u able to receive the school empowerment funds of over 2 million a year. So those funds uh that you're eligible for help uh in a large part increase your fund balance positive. You keep that in mind so as you look forward to the future in terms of the funding that the district will receive. It's it's a good picture when you look at it on paper. It's 12,892,000. But there are extenduating reasons uh as to why this increase over here. So going forward uh in the future there are going to be maybe some funding issues faced with that that may uh negatively affect this number. for now. Um, it looks good. On the top of page two, I want to
004talk about the component parts of the fund balance. And the one of the more important components is one called the unassigned fund balance. And the unassigned just by its very name simply means money that is not earmarked for any particular purpose and can be used for general operations moving forward. So again, here's a 5-year history uh of what that fund balance unassigned fund balance is. And you can see uh as of 63024, that amount is 8,892,000. Now, why is that important? Why do I call that out? The reason is PTE looks unsigned fund balance and they like to measure it as a percentage of the current year budget. So I do that calculation for the board in the paragraph underneath the table and you can see that as of June 3024 that unassigned fund balance
005is approximately 24 almost 25% of your budget. And I'll put that in perspective what that means. uh at the Department of Education, section 688 of the of the Pennsylvania School Code says that in order for a school district, if you ever had to, to raise your real estate tax above and beyond the annual index increase that every school district gets, you would have to pass a budget whereby this unassigned component fund balance is at or below a certain percentage of your budget. For rock school district, that percentage is 8%. So you can see currently at 25% you're well over that threshold. So you're basically in excess of that section 688 requirement regarding real estate taxes to be had or below 8%. Now I have schools that are above that 8% level and in their particular
006cases uh they really don't care because their intentions or their plan are not to raise those things they have to be on the index but in other cases uh if balance turns to you know more negative or adverse the impact that may be a consideration the district will be an important number to monitor uh going forward. The other component of the fund balance uh at the top of page three is the assigned portion and for the last two years you have had $4 million assigned for future capital projects. So the combination of that unassigned and this $4 million in assigned funds is what equals fund balance. The total fund balance that we talked about on page one. Now let's take a look at the revenues and expenditures over a five-year period. And you can see
007the revenue table. And you can see for the 232 24 we had a decrease of about 1.4 million. Uh for the last two fiscal years I have asterisk there. The first asterisk for the 22 23 year just to uh refresh the board's memory as to why you had such a big increase in revenues in the 22 23 year and then you have the decline 23 24 year. Well, as I say with my uh two asterisk comment at the very bottom of the state, uh there were increases in the local which mainly local source revenues which are mainly taxes, your best Americans, things of that nature and increases in your state subsidies and grants like school uh funds that you received. But that was more than offset in the 23 24 year with the decline in
008Ezer fund uh that you've been receiving over the years. You can see uh that decreased by almost 4.3 million and naturally for all the schools the Ezra's money is starting to phase out and will be unfortunately unavailable to districts going forward. And that's one of the one of the items that when I was talking about possible negative impacts on the fund balance going forward. you know, when you lose the the average money, whether you used it for capital purposes or you used it for operating purposes. Naturally, as that goes away, you're going to have to turn back to your general fund balance to uh spend those monies that were formally funded by these hers. So, that obviously that's an important cautionary note uh as to why the revenues uh dropped and and the potential effect
009that's going to have on the district going forward on that fund balance that we just talked about. on the top of page four, a five-year history of the expenditures of the district. Um, you can see this year, and I've asterised as well, for the 2324 year, we have an increase of about $4.3 million, uh, 13%. And I note the two main reasons for that increase. Uh, additional capital improvement expenditures that you made out of the general fund of about $642,000 as compared to the prior fiscal year. And probably the largest reason was the transfer to the capital project fund of $2.8 million. Um, and that's important that that uh that increase in expenditures, that $2.8 million transfer. Please note that, you know, that's not money that's going out to a third party vendor, in other
010words, leaving the district. That's money prudently being set aside in the capital project fund for needed capital projects. So you really just basically transferred that money from one pot to another. So that's important to know when you're trying to take a look at why did our expenditures increase. They did increase, but some of that money simply uh was transferred to another pot within the district. Um how did we do budget verse actual? Give you a five-year history of the actual and budget results. If you look at the last line for the 23 24 fiscal year, um you can see that actual revenues were over budget by $4.7 million. And then below that, I give you the what happened in each of the categories. Your local source revenues, which are again your taxes and interest and
011things of that nature, over budget by 1.2 million. State sources were overbudget by 5.3 million. That was mainly because your basic subsidy uh was overbudget by a little over 2 million and the school improvement grants which are not budgeted each year just as a conservative measure uh those funds came in at 2,635,000. So that's the main reason why uh you were over budget for the 23 24 year and again and uh the school empowerment funds uh the day will come when they go away and those results will be a little um little bit of a decrease or drop off from what you're noticing now in terms of your actual revenues and then federal sources were under budget by 1.8 8 million. And that's basically because that's the Ezra's money. It's tough to calculate each year
012over a three-year period that the EDR's money has been available, how much you're going to spend in any particular year. So, in prior years, it may have been overbudget. This year, just happens to be under budget. Those are the three main components of why actual revenue exceeded budget for the 23 24 year. Taking a look at spend expenditures. How did we do budget versus actual? Again, if you look at the bottom uh line in this column, 2324, the actual expenditures were over budget, actual overbudget by 1.5 million. And then I give you the three areas, the most notable areas where their budgetary variances. Regular program instruction was under budget by 1.3. Capital outlay was overbudget by 930,000. And the last one is probably most important in understanding why actual expenditures were overbudget. And the actual
013amount includes operating transfers to the capital project fund which I talked about previously of the 2,847,000. So if those monies had not been transferred um to the capital project fund uh your general fund would have been under budget for the 23 24 year. So once again just want to put that in perspective and and also reiterate the fact that again those monies were kept in-house and transferred to your capital project. So in the beginning of the year uh you had budgeted to have excess revenues or profit if you will of a million416,000 but the actual results for the 2324 came in better than projected where your revenues exceeded budget or I'm sorry your revenues exceeded expenders by 4.6 million. So just again a little bit more budget versus actual comparative information on the top of
014page six. Uh those of you that have been on the board in the past have heard me talk about um a consolidated balance sheet. Up until now we've been talking about the general fund mainly which is your main operating fund. And that's really the most important item that you you you manage each year and you budget each year. But our rules and regulations require every school district to include what what I call a consolidated balance sheet, much like a corporation does where you include long-term assets and long-term liabilities on your balance sheet. And let's take a look at what the school district looks like when you do that. So in this uh table on page six the first line governmental activities net acquisition uh you see a figure of almost 8 million7.9 uh well Mark
015and when and you began your presentation you told us we had over 12 million in fund balance but now when we do a consolidated look uh we were down to 8 million the main reason for that is because Stell Rock school district like all school districts are required on that corporate balance sheet to showed their proportionate share of the pension liability at peasers uh and the other post-employment what they call oped liability pers and if you look at the bottom of this table below this table the first bullet point you're going to see as of 63024 what stow rock's obligation was for the pension liability you can see a figure that's almost 23 million oped liability there's a there's a pers level and there's a district plan, the combination of those is 4 million. So
016when you add those two numbers up and you put a liability like that on your corporate balance sheet, you can see how it's going to drive your fund balance, your net position down. But keep in mind, so this is requirement at the very beginning of my presentation where I said my opinion was unmodified. Well, in order to be unmodified on this corporate balance sheet, so to speak, you have to put these paper entries, as I call them, for these obligations to pers uh for OPED and pension on that balance sheet. It's not as if, you know, tomorrow morning you have to write a check to Pasers for $23 million. It's just an actuarial calculation that needs to be shown. So, I just wanted to bring that to the attention of the board members. um about
017half a third of the way down on that table uh on page six food service operations. The second line under that change in net position just a fancy way of saying did we have a profit or loss for the year. You can see this year uh we had excess revenues or a profit if you will of 198,000 compared to 266,000 last year. uh still to the good a little less and below that are the three main components of the cafeteria fund. And you can see the reason for the drop off was more most notably in the food service operating revenue which declined about 52,000. The expenses in federal and state subsidies were fairly constant between the two years. So I just wanted to point that out for the board. And down below on page six,
018the the last three bullet points, that capital project fund where you transferred those monies in that I've been talking about this evening. Ended the year with a fund balance of 2,790,000. Again, these are numbers as of 63024. I'm sure they've changed as of today. Um, capital reserve fund just at a small minimal fund balance of $173. And then just of note, your long-term debt obligations for bonds and notes uh decreased over a million dollars uh and it stands at about 7,285,000 as of the end of the year. And then uh the last comment is um talk about is on page seven uh federal uniform guidance financial reporting requirements. This is just a a professional courtesy, what I call punch list of items to consider when you're handling federal funds. You know, PTE sent out monitors
019to audit the Ezar's program. And as a result of that, just over the course of the last three years, I've reviewed their monitoring points. And, you know, they they've hit school districts on a variety of of issues, some not so important and some important, but these are the main issues that they tested when they were looking at the Ezra's money. But the reason I show you this punch list for for your sake and for your business office and your federal programs folks is even though the Ezar's money is going away, most if not all of these federal compliance issues that the PD monitors looked at with the Ezar's funds also apply to funds that you get on a regular basis, which is your title programs and your IDA money and any other type of federal
020funds that come down the pipe. This is kind of a good referral list to use to make sure you're in compliance uh with the uniform guidance who serves as the Bible so to speak over federal program expenditures. So I I think in a nutshell everyone those are those are the important issues to go over with the board. First of all, uh the unmodified opinion that we issued for the year and then the highlights of the district's general fund for not only for the current year but give some perspective on the prior uh four fiscal years uh related to that. But if anybody has any questions on what I've gone over, I'll be more than happy to answer them. Or if you get a chance and you're looking through this thick report at some later date,
021you either need to call my office. Obviously, I always entertain those calls. be happy to answer any questions or if you need me to come back to a future meeting to maybe explain something to the board in a little bit more detail, I'll obviously be more than happy to do that. [Music] Thank you very much. I appreciate the board. Thank you. Can someone pass me a water over there, please? Water. Thank you, man. Up next, we're going to have Mr. Agnu was the project budget presentation for 2526 school year. That's all right, sir. Relax. Have a seat. I just want to stare you right in the eye. Um, my wife often tells me that she is not a numbers person. And so once if we're for whatever organization maybe we're a part of once we
022start talking budget numbers she kind of glazes over and tunes out. So obviously we just heard a lot from Mark in talking about the audit. We're going to talk about more numbers here. So if there's any point here that you know I I don't want to I don't want to overwhelm us with with with a bunch of numbers to where it just becomes white noise. I want I want this to be meaningful for you folks. Please, please interrupt me or if there's anything that's just, you know, I'm not being clear about or whatever the case may be, you know, I I want I want the information we're giving you to be meaningful and helpful as we work down continue down this road um towards towards a final budget. Um to give you just an idea
023of of where we are at this point, when I say we, um there have been many people involved with with putting this this budget together. Um we have met with um you know all the department heads, principles and and we've met with with Chris and with uh Mr. Hower and and Zach Simpson. We've met with um all the all the leadership of Stow Rocks to um get input to get needs, wants, things of that sort, as well as evaluated information we're getting from the state, information we're getting from the federal government. Um, so a lot of things have gone into putting putting this report together and and you know, as we sit here today on March 20th, we we are we're we're we're very confident in these numbers. There there there might be a few
024tweaks that need to be made as we push toward um having a final budget before you, but we do not unless there's something we don't know of at this point, which we don't think there is, but you know, I don't want to speak in absolutes here. um we do not anticipate any major changes between this budget that that we're going through today and what what the final one will look like. But that being said, there is still time. You know, we're March 20. Um we have time if we do need to make any tweaks, if there are things that the board is curious about or or you know that we need to change or anything like that, we can certainly we can certainly discuss those. Um so going through the the PowerPoint that we have
025here in front of us. Um the preliminary the preliminary highlights that you see there. Uh just just a couple of of things to highlight. This ready to learn funding that we're getting. You're going to hear about that throughout my presentation. Uh this this is this funding has increased for us for 2526. Um and so that that's a good thing. And so that's that's helping us um obviously offset expenses which one of the major expenses that we continue to battle with is uh tuition expense for students that are that are uh seeking education outside of of Stow Rocks. As Mark was talking about, our ESRE funding is going away and that's a that's been a big chunk of our federal funding. As federal funding goes down, the tuition rate that we calculate that that we have
026to pay, it's called a 363 rate. We calculate that based on Stow Rock's information. And then that determines the tuition rate that we pay to charter schools, cyber schools, things of that sort. And there's a special ed rate and a regular ed rate. As federal funding goes down, those tuition rates go up. So that that is that's something we're going to have to deal with here as we get into 2526. So just want to bring that to your attention. Health care costs we are hearing from the consortium. There's a 9% raise in those. Um on to the next page, page three there. Not not a lot to say there. That gives you a very broad view of our revenues. Um we're we're at 39.4 million on our revenue on our budgeted revenues. And we're going
027to get into some more detail on those here in just a second. If you look on page four, you can see there um uh once again that gives you kind of a year-over-year the budgeted 2425 versus 2526. The main increase there related to our state revenues of 3.3 million is that ready tolearn money. The the biggest chunk of that is ready to learn. Um we do anticipate u um basic ed funding going up as well. So that's a smaller piece to that. And then the next one is our tax revenue um as we've been planning for and talking about of raising our real estate taxes to the index. And there's a the next the next page actually gets more specific on that, but that's but you can see there on each one of those other
028items the funding is going down with federal being uh the the biggest portion of that. Uh, next page, page five talks about our real estate tax revenue. And you can see there on the left hand side, the lower hand, the lower end of that chart on the lefth hand side, the impact per household. Um, I believe that's information that we shared with you last month as well. Page six. So, this this gives you a little little idea, a little more information on our on our um on the revenues that are expiring. You can see the the the and the 1.3 million there. The second line down was our 2425 budget, zero and 2526. Once again, that's mainly ESSER money that is um that is no longer available to us with that new state funding, the
0291.6 six million being the um uh ready to learn page seven. This this is a valuable uh a valuable page for us here. So sure we all hear about you know the federal government, the US department of of uh education and whatever is going to happen there. We can't predict the future but we do know that there's some discomfort there. What does that mean for us at Stow Rocks? What does that mean as far as our funding right now? We we are we are um we are keeping all of the title money as you can see there in our in our budget. Um that could change in heartbeat. Um that could change. And to give you an idea, if you look in the lower chart there on page seven, those are the number of positions
030that are funded by those specific grants. So that gives you an idea of if that funding were to were to go away. That's going to that's going to make us very uncomfortable and um you know could cause well I don't want to speculate. We'd have to cross that bridge when we came to it. But you can see the impact that that would have have on us there or have on us here at Stocks. Yes sir. Not they're they're teaching teaching positions. Sure. Do you want like like position titles or Yes. Like teachers or aids or building and it all goes by the need of the building. So that it's not like the title and title are all rolled into title one and that pays for two primary features and um the other title one I
031want to say there are two I'll have to exact um numbers, but I want to say three um primary teachers are paid out of the title one just one and then there is also um I want to say four upper and then five are those teachers talking to them right now. I won't care about that. But we don't know that. very fast. However, [Music] Sure, it's a good question. Okay, page eight. Um, we're getting into the expenses. Now, here on on this side, you can see the broad categories that we have in the chart there. Um, that gives you an idea of of um on a on a broad perspective what we're looking at. We'll get into some more detail here as we as we move along. Um on page nine, that gives you year-over-year
032budgeted change. Um the salary and benefits, you know, overwhelming majority of that it's tied to our our union contracts of our employees and and um the increases that they experience as well as the 9% increase in the benefits. I'm going to talk about charter tuition in just a second here. Those other things are the other items there. Debt service, those are those are scheduled. That's according to a a scheduled payment uh schedule that we have. In addition to next year in 2526, we begin paying back the $1 million PDE um non-interest loan that we received and it's $100,000 a year. So that is included in this budget. page 10. So, this gives you an idea of of where we stand with new andor vacant positions. Um, each one of these is included in this budget
033that we have before you and and you know, those have come through conversations with with the leadership here of the district. Page 11, our tuition costs. Um so we are projecting you can see there on the far right 670 students that is based on where we currently are today with with the number of students who are in in charter or or cyber schools. So you can see the increase over the past couple of years as far as the budget was concerned. We are budgeting 670 and like I said there are increased uh tuition rates which puts us at that $13.1 million projection. Moving on to page 12. This gives you um a little more specific information on the on the tuition cost. We just want to make sure that you're you're seeing, you know, the
034detail on that and and and how we're building that that budget. It breaks it out by regular ed. And you can notice in that center column, special ed, the tuition rate that we're were responsible for is 42,000 per student for the special ed students. And that's that's difficult. Um I know every district that we that we're whether we do the audit or we do consulting services with every district is fighting that battle and um it is what it is. But for right now that's that's the tuition rate that we're paying or will be paying. Moving on to page 13. This gives you uh once again taking a 30,000 foot level at just our fund balance where we've been. Um Mark was talking about this quite a bit. You can see our projection here, our best
035estimate um is to end 2425 um there, you know, the the $ 122.8 million. And if you incorporate into that the projected surplus that we're looking at for 2526 of 883,000, that would put us at an estimated ending fund balance at June 30 26 of 13.7 million. Moving on to page 14. This kind of gives you just a broad summary of of the presentation here. I don't I don't need to go into I don't need to read each one of those bullet uh bullet points there, but that that that basically encapsulates what uh what I've shared with you here today. So that's where we stand. Are there any questions? Is there any any thoughts? Is there anything that I can shed light on as we continue to um raise taxes? Wait, sorry. Oh. So, so
036as we continue to raise taxes, um maybe it's a a question for our office. How are we at like where are we at right now on all of our taxes? Like are we collecting more than half of our properties now? Are we getting like a lot better than we were last year? You know, our Yeah. Our historical collection rate has been in the mid 80s. 80 85 86%. That's the number. No, that's okay. So that's and that's been fairly consistent at least over the past few years. Um so that's that's what we use. So what are we what are we doing to going after the ones who are just being defiant? Um I'd have to defer to Kelly or to yeah to her office on that. Just the ones who just aren't paying our delinquent
037taxes. Like what are we doing about that? We have a whole section of our office that makes those calls and sets up payments and goes after them. That's what Liz Satler comes in and talks to each year about. So happy to have her come to any meeting to fill the board in on how that's going. I remember talking I just met Forest like you know are there like any hearings happening like anything happening anytime soon recently you know stuff like that right you know what it's a totally separate part from what I do dayto day so I don't want to there is always something happening um let me get together with them and find out exactly Yeah. Um I I think in that meeting I think we had I think we had said we were
038we were anticipating a balanced budget, but we were at that point in the process we wanted kind of that $500,000 cushion. We weren't quite we weren't far enough along in the process to be able to say, "Hey, it's going to be balanced. we're going to have a deficit, we're going to have a surplus. Now that we fast forward two or three weeks down the road, um we're much more clear on what our revenues are looking like, especially that ready to learn number. Um that has come in higher than we were we were anticipating. And that has really made up the biggest chunk of of putting us in a surplus position and being able to to have the positions that that we were we were discussing at the finance committee. The ready to-learn number and the
039increase in state subsidies is based on the governor's proposed budget. Is that correct? Yes. Okay. People, please understand that the governor ne ends up negotiating that with the legislature. So just because it's there and we want to get that money, there's still a long road ahead to see where the Democrats versus the Republicans are with what that money is going to be. So I don't I'm not trying to be a Debbie Downer and I understand the optimist the the optimistic view in this current budget but understand if the Republicans get their way some of that money that the governor wants to send to schools including Stoox may be less and I understand that we've underestimated the ready tolearn money that in his budget It's closer uh there's like another million dollars for I can give
040you I can comment on that specific right but understand that any money coming from the state right now that's the governor's proposal we won't know till the budgets passed what we heard from representative Kulich was that it might be a long time after June 30th before we know the answer go ahead so Dr. SOFO is 100% correct that um you know state state money and and and even now as talked about federal money um while we try best to budget and try to anticipate we do come at it from a conservative mindset with a ready tolearn specifically um the the one number we're seeing is 2.1 million the other number that PD has given us is 3.8 8 million. That's a that's a wide range. So, we split the difference. In the budget, I think
041it's about 2.9 of ready to learn money that is currently sitting in in this budget that sits before you. So, um you know, we we want to be conservative, we want to be mindful of that, but we don't want to go I don't think we want to swing that pendulum all the way to the other side. Um, so that that's that's the number we arrived at about 2.9 million for for ready to learn. I I I would like to make one other comment rewinding back to Mark's presentation. Um, I hope I hope that this is helpful. So he he talked about the budget to actual and there's there's a big piece of this that I think is is could be helpful to us as we digest the information he gave us. So the the revenue
042came in over budget at about 4.7 million and the expenses came in over budget at 1.5. However, as you remember he talked about there was a there was a large transfer $2.8 8 million from the general fund to capital projects that the the majority of that if not all of it was empowerment fund that we pulled out of the general fund and moved over to capital projects and then we used that money to to on all the 10's um um capital projects that that we did here at the district. So if you take that into account, we really were under budget on our expenditures by about 1.3 million, which that is fantastic to be under budget by that amount that amount. That is that is that's that's fantastic. And our revenues therefore were not necessarily
043um and I I don't want to get into all the the debits and credits, but if of that $4.7 million over budget on revenues, 2.8 A to that was really empowerment money. So you would have to reduce that amount to about 1.9 over budget. So if you the bottom line is is really our our revenue budget was over by 1.9 and expenditures were under by about 1.3. One other thing, I promise this is my last point. I I am I am I apologize. we should come here every month. Um [Laughter] uh um in this budget that sits before you, there is no empowerment money in there. Okay? So, we don't want we're not counting on that. And that is not there's, you know, we've been getting two these these $2 million incremental payments over the
044past several years. There is no $2 million in the revenue budget that sits before you just to be That's all I have. Promise. Up next, we have Mr. Dan Rinkis with PEN SP awards. I don't want to mess it up. I was going to say pen supra or whatever, you know. Well, good evening everybody. And to echo what Chad said about charter uh student and what Nancy said as well, definitely not just st rocks. I've done a tally over the last couple of weeks. I've had 10 districts either reach out to start charter student recruitment uh you know recovery programs or continue them. So, and that's 10 out of the 13 that we serve. So, it's an issue for sure. Um all right, on a brighter note, um so we uh bagged some hardware at
045the uh Pensburgh Awards. Actually, the uh the annual conference is taking place right now at State College. And uh so I'll take you through it. Um, Pensburgh is the Pennsylvania School Public Relations Association. For those of you who uh who don't know, it is an organization of school PR professionals who work to improve communication education and support student achievement. Um, go ahead to the next slide there. Um, yeah, there we go. Sorry about the formatting there. Um, the 2024 Excellence in Education Communications Contest. That's what this was. uh they started taking um nominations or submissions for nominations in January and reviewed them in February and the AIU and its external clients won 18 awards. Uh last year I think we won like three. So it's a big deal as you know I've said last month
046at the same uh space that we had grown a lot and we added a lot of talent. Um so Starox was represented with two of those awards. We had the video category. I think I mentioned it at the last meeting. What it what's it like to be a Star Rocks kindergartener? Uh that was a video I put together last spring. And then uh Melissa Myers, who uh you know also works for Riverview and Northgate along with some internal AIU projects. She uh subbed in for me in November covered the PBIS pies in the face uh events at the primary center. And uh as we go through here, we'll see both these the video. You go to the next slide. I don't know if we can play it here. We might not have the audio for
047it, but that was little Moses who's now in first grade and still with the district. which is great. I don't know if that won't play, Chris. It's okay. Yeah, you can go to the next one. Um, that's on our YouTube page. So, you can see that there. Um, and then if you go to the next page, you'll see Melissa's fantastic photo of uh Oh, there it is. It's like one of my favorite photos ever. As soon as I saw that, I was like, you have to enter that in some kind of competition. That is assistant principal Tim Liperulo getting pied in the face in in style. Uh so those are both award of merit winners. Uh they were basically silver medalists uh in the competition. They have the award of excellence, award of merit and
048honorable mention. Um so I just wanted to present that to you but also say thank you um because we couldn't have done this without you guys. not only board but administration, teachers. Um, your support of our efforts in Star Rocks the last three years have been critical to our department growth and attracting talent to to bag these awards. U and that'll continue to make communications not only for the Star Rock school district but all of our districts better. Uh, a rising tide lifts all votes and all that. So, special thanks to Heather, uh, Denise Grimmie, uh, the teacher who let me into her classroom for a whole day. Uh, Moses and his mom, uh, Dr. Mumal and Tim. Sorry, Tim. It's totally worth it. and um and the entire primary center team because both of
049those entries came from that building. So again, thank you. Thank you. That's good to hear after this all these finances. That's good to hear, right, man? Oh, man. Sheesh. Not just you. That's a That's a good pickme up. That's a pickme up. That's a good pickme up right there. Now we'll go into the agenda. Wave and approve the reading of the February 20th meeting minutes of the ST school board of directors and wave and accept the reading of the February 4th regular regular list of voting meeting minutes of Parkway West CTC board of directors. Any questions? Financial management. Mr. Agnner. Um for the sake of time I I have I I have nothing specific to say. I'm certainly willing to answer any questions on the on the list of payments there. Most of those are
050just our standard monthly monthly items. Thank you. Any questions? Item number two, approve the admin administration recommends that the board approve the proposed AIU program of services budget. Any questions? Any comments? Approve Michael Hower, Cameron Cullber, Adrien Roberts, and Shazowski to be signers on AE Lawson and scholarship account at First Summit Bank and approve uh Jenny Martin or Rego Zin and Chad Agnu as authorized users for AE Law Simarship account. I'm laughing because um you know we're always signing some stuff at the bank and uh yeah, some of us ain't been there yet. Let's just say that because ain't no point in going with the change in a minute. So next under operations approve the following ABC employees for 2042 25 school year. Any questions? Number two approved donor's truth projects awarded for Chelsea Cruel
051classroom project wait all senses matters all senses matter to have a great learning day. Carolyn Smith, classroom project super steam and Katherine Waninger Waninger. Thank you for correction. Classroom project headphones for all. Anybody want to talk about those by chance? I have to comment about any of those projects. Okay. Approved PSBA contract for job postings on career gateway portal effective February 2025. Any questions, concerns, comments? All right. will just stop me if anybody has any. Approve a services agreement with combustion services and equipment company for federal maintenance of boiler and burner units from from March 1st, 2025 to March 1st, 2026. Approved the agreement with Sunb Belt Staffing LLC to provide preventional services. Acknowledge a 4% increase in fees with the AIU for marketing strategic communication services effective July 1, 2025 per the 2024 27
052sign agreement. Approve the transfinder proposal to add stopfinder geo alerts and sorry to the transfinder contract for 2025 26 school year retroactively approves the Vikings sport association facility request for up gym on February 23rd for their annual banquet. It was fun by the way. um approved the lease agreements with AIU3 for the preschool early learning preschool early intervention classroom located at the primary center room 10 C and 12C from July 1 25 to June 3028 and approved the facility request from revival today to use the high school football field on May 24 22nd 24 25 from 5:30 to 10 p.m. Any questions about any of those? Next on to Coco leadership. Any questions about the filter metrics. Number two, approve the co-op. Approve the PIAA co-op application for high school baseball with Nazareth Prep and
053the invoice for the application for $100. Approve the Leeway Enterprise Invoice for the purchase of track and field uniforms at a cost uh 560. Excuse approve attendance at the 2025 Southwest Conference invitational for middle school girls and boys track on May 8th 25 at Peri School District. I'm looking forward to that and girls. That's what I'm talking about. They might have to work their butts off track and if you can tell approve attendance of the 60th annual Butler Golden Tornado Varsity Invitational for high school girls and boys track. They also been working hard. It's been it's been busy out there on that field after the school. Approve additional uniforms needed for the varsity baseball team from Joe's Bros for additional cost of 556. Did they win yesterday? They put up put up about eight points
054though. It was a closer. Did they win yesterday? I heard they I heard they were doing really good. They were doing really good. They went into the uh Got it. But I heard they they were playing their butt off. They were butt off. They were upset that they lost. They felt that their potential. Oh, I like that. Okay. Thank you. And approve the safe spaces algebra 1 and summer enrichment program for middle school, high school students held June 10 through August 14th. Under board policy none. Educational leadership. Any questions about the fulfillment professional development matrix? I cannot talk questions, comments, none heard. Approved contract with the AIU3 to provide oversight management of federal programs from April 2025 to June 2026. Any questions about this? I did have a question. It got answered. So, I appreciate
055it very much. Anybody have questions about this at all? All right. Before we go into personnel, do you have anything at all, ma'am? We want to wait till executive session. All right. So, from here, we will break and go into um executive session and we will not be coming back. Our next scheduled meeting will be Thursday, March 27th, next Thursday at the high school cafeteria unless otherwise noted. Thank you everyone for coming out tonight. This meeting will now be adjourned. Thank you very much.