001e e e all activities I get that [Music] but I 100% agree 100% yeah good evening welcome to the uh tonight's school board and S rise for Allegiance and we of Silence United States of America stand Nation god indis with liy and justice got my glasses tonight fun call please absolutely Mrs Bei here Mrs grick here Mrs Walker here Mr bushy here Dr kraton here Mr Gart here Mr Linder here Mr sensenig here Mr Claire here all members present thank you like to uh announce the March 24th 2025 school board meeting is open to the public and is also being streamed virtually uh next executive session was held on March 24th 2025 to discuss personal matters I we need a uh motion to approve the agenda so moved second any questions all in favor I
002oppos I now need a motion for the approval of the minutes of the uh uh February 24th school words meeting so second question all in favor I post Dr X right thank you Mr Claire we have our learner of the month but before that I want to recognize one of our astute Educators if Nate Campbell could come on up so we want to our big theme this year is celebrating success and one of the things that we like to celebrate is when our teachers are honored and uh Mr Campbell was voted uh as teacher of the year for foreign language by the Northeast Conference of teaching of foreign language and we 100% agree I mean Dr flaner and I talk about when we go into the classroom that he's in charge of there's there's kids
003that are engaged they they don't I took German in high school so I go in there and they're speaking Spanish and I have no idea which end is up because they're so invested and engaged what's really cool about this is he's now a national finalist and there's five candidates left and obviously we're biased but we feel like he's uh he's the one so we're super hopeful about that and uh you know we just wanted to honor the fact that our teachers get recognized as well so let's give him a hand all right and now on to our Learners of the month first up we have Kora alzate grade two Mrs hes one up right here Baron Elementary is proud to announce cor elz as our second grade learner of the month K is the daughter
004of Emanuel and Jessica alate her her family members are an older brother Colton who's 10 twin little sisters Harper and Savannah who are four and a little brother Wesson who's three cor displays the nine bearing character treat she is respectful empathetic honest Cooperative creative courageous shows gratitude perseveres and is always honest she earned the character trade of the month in November for gratitude which was very welld deserved she is grateful for everything she has given and the opportunity she gets to experience cor's favorite subjects in school are Reading Writing and math when she grows up she wants to be a designer but also would like to be a chef singer artist and firefighter her favorite hobbies include writing and playing with her siblings while her mom cooks dinner Kora says people would describe her as
005compassionate silly and hardworking kaora has a love for learning she never complains about any task given to her and is always willing to try her best no matter how much work it might take she is also self-motivated and perseveres through any challenge she might encounter she has been doing a remarkable job with the second grade curriculum and is making great strides in achieving her learning goals additionally kaora is a great role model for her peers she is very organized and enjoys being a leader in the classroom she's a very dependable student that we can always count on to give us a helping hand kaora has a delightful personality that can win over anyone's heart she is both kind and caring to everyone around her kaora has been a wonderful Learner in the class classro this
006year and Mrs Carpenter and I are so honored to be her teachers congratulations cor you're welcome all right next up from Doon Elementary Landon Weir grade two this is faol power on mode we have some other people who wanted to join us that couldn't be here today to talk about Landon come on everybody so I am incredibly honored to recognize Landon Weir as the learner of the month for do run Landon is a learner Any teacher would be extremely lucky and proud to have in their classroom not only has he made incredible academic gains in the last two years in my onew multi-age class but he is also an incredible young person he is an excellent role model a compassionate and collaborative peer and an extremely motivated learner Lon took to the self-paced model in
007my classroom right away as a first grader and developed ownership over his learning Lon is currently a second grader working on third grade level math third grade level reading and third grade level writing skills he he loves learning and his approach to learning is mature Beyond his years he takes the time to understand new learning and how it may connect to the things he's learned before he takes advantage of every opportunity and looks for ways to push himself last year he asked me for ways to track his progress through skills while these systems existed in my classroom the Hands-On learner tracking had not and no one had ever asked me for it it was a light bulb moment for me and Landon inspired me toon inspired me and helped me grow as a teacher by
008providing the feedback on how to refine our learning tracking learner tracking system which has helped other Learners in our class develop more ownership as well and he's extremely patient with me while I'm in the process of creating new systems or the next skill for him to work on the level at which he can discuss his learning is amazing to me you may recognize him from presenting it about how badging Works in our classroom at the academic committee this past fall a great example of the type of learner Landon is came today as we were trying to make a surprise for him that I will share with you in a moment we pretended that a friend across the hall needed his help learning how to do um word problems with subtraction with regrouping did you did
009you know it was pretend yeah oh they told you no you didn't know was pretend yeah that's all right when I uh when I pop my head into the classroom Landon had not only actually helped this friend learn a math skill in a new way yeah you helped three others he was playing a math game on the carpet uh with someone else and promising another peer to hold a ruler so that they could measure the door frame together he's just a guy you can count on while still being responsible for his own self and his own learning and someone who just makes other people feel safe and valued he uh here are some things that friends and other teachers who wanted to say something because they were so excited for him today I loveon because
010he's really nice to me and he helps me with my math and my writing and reading nice thing about Landon is that he helps explain stuff to you Landon is very kind and supportive Landon is super nice and super cool I like Landon because he's funny but like he doesn't really tell the joke too many times that it gets boring he tells it like two or three times so it's just really funny Landon has been kind to everybody I like Landon because he is very very funny he is very good at soccer Landon has a big imagination and he's a great friend you were a great coach and I needed help I love how you her smart and respectful and creative andon is really good at math my friend Landon he's a pretty good Walker
011and he's always focused so he was very nice and he was my first friend in kindergart so that I really like about all the kindness he shares this is great congratulations for being the mod of the month I think you're very good at learning and very good at being nice you're very kind oh hion you're my you're so nice to coach Bron is the best friend ever so kind he's always there a helpful Coach and he's with all in all a really great friend to everyone he helps us learn good job for getting student after to month I hope you have a very good day Landon explains stuff really good Landon is night hey Landon this is Mrs Kim I just want you to know that we are so proud of you I am just
012so thankful for you and all you do for my classroom the the way you coach Learners the way you're always there to help if I need you or if another learner needs you and just the smile you always bring to my classroom we are so excited for you and congratulations congratulations Lon we are so proud of you congratulations Lon I'm so lucky and proud to be your teacher all right next up from our Middle School Brooks Gro grade seven Mrs sharp so at the middle school level I'm one of several teachers that Brooks has and I asked them to kind of send me some stuff so I could collaborate put things together about Brooks so as a district our mission is to ignite passion and purpose to empower differen makers while teaching at the middle
013school level has many challenges one of the greatest rewards is watching Learners passions ignite Brooks grw is being recognized tonight by the seventh grade team because we have witnessed him Fanning the SP spark into a flame this school year each month we recognize a select few students who embody two specific traits as we consider who to present the school board we look for a learner who displays all of these traits they include being a reflective learner a responsible citizen honest respectful a collaborator a critical thinker displaying a positive attitude and having an innovator mindset as I reflected on what Brooks's teachers wrote about him I see all of these characteristics and this is the following is what his teachers submitted to me Brooks has grown to be a hard worker in and outside of class
014he asks questions and puts forth his his best effort to succeed he does a really good job of staying on top of his schoolwork and uses Barron time when he needs extra help he is focused and determined to do his absolute best Brooks is the kind of student who shows us every day that hard work humility and a positive attitude are keys to success whether it's tackling a challenge ass challenging assignment or supporting a class meet in need Brooks consistently gives his best effort but it's not just about the work he does it's about how he Pro approaches every situation Brooks also has a great sense of humor that brings light classroom Brooks knows how to make others smile and can help make difficult tasks seem more manageable but what makes Brooks truly exceptional is
015his ability to understand his own limitations and struggles he doesn't shy away from challenges nor does he pretend to have it all figured out instead he faces each difficulty headon acknowledging where he needs to improve and using that awareness as fuel to rise to the occasion it's this kind of self-awareness and growth mindset that inspires those around him he sets an incredible example for others not only not by being perfect but by being authentic resilient and ferment I could not think of a more deserving learner to receive this award Brooks's hard work kindness humor and unwavering commitment to becoming the best version of himself truly represents the spirit of our School community and we are lucky to have him as part of it Brooks is just genuinely a pleasure to have him my class this
016year he shows up each day and works hard Brooks is a hard worker who always has a positive attitude he's not afraid to ask questions and takes redirection and stride he always tries to put forth his best effort he works well individually as well as working with other groups he always wants to make sure he is doing his part to ensure success Brooks takes advantage of the opportunity to take a second look at his work and demonstrate that he has worked to master new material he uses class time and baron time wisely to complete assignments and request request extra help when needed it is my pleasure to recognize Brooks Gro as the Manheim Central Middle School student of the month for March and from our high school L Lucas Worthing grade 11 Miss Hatfield good
017evening it's a pleasure of mine to introduce Lucas Worthing as learner of the month for the high school when I uh was asked who we should nominator if I had any suggestions I posed Lucas's name out there to my team of colleagues and everybody was resounding oh my gosh he's perfect that's a wonderful suggestion because a year ago we wouldn't have been standing in the same boat Lucas has grown tremendously since last year when we couldn't even get Lucas to attend school more than 15 minutes at a time he was nervous about school had a lot of anxiety about school was really struggling to make progress but something clicked something clicked this year and Lucas has just come out of a shell attendance is no longer an issue he has joined the bowling team which
018is a huge accomplishment of him just getting out of his shell and becoming more comfortable and being around other people and interacting in his school Community his grades have been absolutely fantastic he is working so hard and so diligently to keep his grades up and do well in all of his classes is he recently passed his learner permit test on the first try with a 100% I might say and it's just it's amazing to see the growth that Lucas has made over this past year and we just learned this evening that he was accepted into the MHL program for next year it's one of a multiple Pathways that Lucas has is exploring at this time for his final year of school next year and so now he's got the decision to make of which pathway
019he wants to choose to better himself for his future and these Pathways wouldn't have been in existence a year ago so just the growth that he has made and has opened up the doors to his future and I'm so excited to see where his final year goes next year and all the great things he's going to accomplish as a young adult entering into the world so it's a pleasure to introduce Lucas as our learn thank you Mr Claire thank you I understand that nobody has signed up um to speak tonight so we will go that's right families did you want to stay for the rest of the night you want to go home and go to bed get out of here thank you very much everybody thank you you have to stay okay you take
020picture make we're going to have somebody signing up someone did sign up yeah oh someone did oh I'm sorry she told me nobody I'm sorry then uh the board encourages citizens of the district to come before the board to present their petitions inquiries or other Communications of Interest board invites public citizens of the district comment on any top that is written on the board's jurisdiction as outlined in board policy 903 the board requires that public participants be residents or taxpayers of the district anyone wishing to address the board during public comment will need to be in person if you wish to speak to the board please sign in prior to the meeting prior participation in the meeting is a prerogative of the board president who will establish the amount of time allowed for speaking out
021of respect for this comments should be limited to under three minutes for your convenience a timer will be visible for your uh references not here participants are asked not to make comments that are personally directed abusive obscene rev and I apologize good evening uh my name is Ena hu I'm a resident of Manheim and I have three girls that attend the school to high school and one in Baron um I know many times you usually receive a parental comment regarding their concerns for their children's wellbe I come tonight to emphasize that it is as essential to speak out about the well-being of a classroom this is my daughter's first year at the high school life skills and we want to acknowledge the tremendous work that is being implemented on a daily basis to get our
022children ready for adulthood in every aspect of their life whether it is for independent living and being able to take care of themselves to the best abilities uh for training and gaining basic skills to have a job in their future or for giving them opportunities to gain connections with the Manheim Central Community every time Mrs Troutman exposes our children to training it is another opportunity for them to learn a new skill and open up their Horizon to new career paths for their future I also want to thank the district for including our children in all possible ways for them to be part of the Manheim Central Community through unified track MC perk and laundry services to mention a few not only uh it is not only provides training but also allows our children with different
023abilities to build relationship with their peers it further teaches other others such as General Ed PE to be appreciative thankful and open-minded about their PE true abilities I hope we can continue to build on to it and provide more opportunities in the future so okay um need a motion for 7A I'll make a motion questions all in favor I I I did that on purpose and before we bring it up for a motion um you know somebody said can we v no for this next one but we really we really can't but uh Brian the Chief Financial Officer has been with us board and everything else is leaving us to go to Downingtown high school we are very happy for the job he has but we're going to miss him tremendously uh with that anybody
024else would like to say anything before you make a motion congratulations Brian service great you're going to be missing you still might get a phone you're still resident so I'll answer the phone okay I have a motion to accept the the resignation of Brian Howard make a motion second all in favor I POS Brian all right now I think we can take seven C through K C through k I'll make a motion have some people here right I think I was gonna say I think we have some people here yeah and um do we have any any questions all in favor I post okay and we have some people that are here so how about we start with Mrs Flinch ball stand up just introduce yourself your new ro hi I am Megan Flinch ball
025you already know some of you because we had your children in class because for 10 years I've been teaching Spanish my great colleague Nate Campbell um here at Manheim Central before that I taught for almost 10 years at seleno high school and now I am excited to move into the role of assistant principal at the high school congratulations we've we're really proud of the fact that we people from within who want to step up in these leadership roles and we've been able to do that last year now again this year and we just feel really blessed uh to have people in house that want to lead in our district and we also have some of our elementary teachers Miss miosi and miss van scoten let's go in that order hi my name is Kayla myosi
026I'm currently long-term subbing in onew multi-age and I'm excited to transfer over to full contracted position one Mage and I just want to thank you all for inviting me into your man welcome and congratulations hi I'm Elizabeth F I also right now I'm a long-term sub at a one and two multi-age classroom in at Baron Elementary and next year I will be moving to Elementary to be three and four multi Ag and I want to say thank you and I'm really excited to be staying thank you congratulations all right very good thank you yeah you may also go you might have to get stuff ready for you go to B stay or you can stay here yeah thank you very much for coming and Mr Campbell congratulations we're all pulling fantastic job thank you I
027guess we're back to the superintendent report yes couple things before we have our student representation um presentation we had a leg legislative breakfast last month I want to thank all the board members and cabinet members who were able to attend we had one of the biggest groups that attended uh and I appreciated the support as we were speaking on really important topics that we have gotten some positive feedback on so thank you for that also just want to recognize this is our this is my third year here in this position so it's our third year together and I want to just thank the community for uh taking me in and I just feel really blessed to be here so it's been a great three years looking forward to many more in the future so thank
028you we have another teacher that's here oh okay we hi what are you hiding for hi I'm Cameron hus I just accepted a full-term long-term sub position in kindergarten at Baron Elementary um coming from graduating at Manheim Central and still living in the community it's been my dream to be back here as a teacher so I'm really excited and I thank you all congratulations sorry about that not the only one that Miss that's right all right so now we have Mrs Troutman who were spoken about earlier and Miss McCully with presenting our special ed Department sort of auxiliary it's these one that are presenting to the so um I'm Gail Troutman I teach the high school life skills class uh the focus in our class is functional academics Independent Living skills and job training skills
029so we are here to be able to talk about one of our job training skills that we work on Manheim Central Park um I'd like to introduce Alexia gerlitzki who's a present student in our Manheim Central Park and Zachary Miller who's back as a graduate and has moved on in as a graduate into a different role so um I I think we'll have first Alexia if you could tell everyone what it is that you have learned from being working Manheim Central Perk Manheim Central Perk taught how to give service one favorite of Manheim Central Park answer is and baron got it you have something you'd like to share one of my favor things about Mrs tman class was going to Manheim Central pum are they going to uh th schools and and seeing lots of
030people my favorite me I'm Central PK jobs froming money and knocking on THS and saying MC pum deliv D I'm C and to count money and use the IAD I also Le about food safy and Custom Service even though I graduated I they get to help with me and I'm cental pump by sticks on the B goods and cing the inventory I like wedes day [Music] mornings because I get out the from the big Goods to the high school and see Mrs D them and some of my friends thank you Mrs tman froming on class to them through manim Cal that was great all right and just to give you a little sense of what Manheim Central Park is like um I'll take your speech here uh Zachary's going to come around with a sample
031and Alexia has a little information she's going to pass that out to you while I talk to you a little bit about what perk is you can go down want to do it on your own give so I'm thinking it it'll help my presentation because they're coming with food okay so man essential perk is a cafe pickup and delivery service um it we have been in service since 2016 I think we are probably the only Food Service that has survived as well as construction at the high school um Manheim Central Perk has provided job training opportunities for 33 students over the past nine years it has prepared filled and served over six 6,500 all profits of Manheim Central Park provide increased learning opportunities for the life skills students it is what pays for our community-based
032instruction when we go to the restaurants or to the theater or any Le time of activity all the money comes right back into their learning um we it was started as we're saying nine years ago through in fee Grant that's we had put in that was what purchased our uniforms our delivery carts our coffee makers all those things for the generosity of MCB all the baked goods that have been supplied by the same Baker for the last nine years Mrs Rachel Miller who is Zachary's mother and continues to be able to support us yeah that that would be a Zary I love your T-shirt Zachary yes and and also to really I think the main thing to drive home is none of this learning could have happened without the support of our Manheim Central Community
033we started out just at the high school as a delivery business we had to revamp because of the construction and things uh Jo run and baron opened their doors to us and said you know we can continue your learning so every Wednesday we go to Doon and baron for the last couple years and now as we are back at the high school with the beautiful construction we have what is a a center the baron bites so we house our Manheim Central Park and that way it's set to come as a pickup or we do as a delivery service so our business is growing and because of that they're learning so we thank you thank you fratman puts a lot of this work back to her students and acknowledging them but we do have a wonderful
034teacher at the life skills classroom i' like I staff could stand uh Teresa Brisa my par educator and Susan ditler we also have another thank you thank you thank you and Mrs Troutman and Company you don't have to feel like you have to stay either enjoy your and now I'll hand it over to Mr howlet for the iu13 budget overview and the man on Central budget overview so we'll start with the iu13 uh budget overview and and basically there's there's two pieces that that are here for the approval I just want to note that the services that we have for our students that go to the iu13 services that's not part of the list uh that's a separate contract that we do a little bit later so the budgets that we have here are their
035General operating budget the core program of services which is uh $ 2.17 million and is a 3.24% increase of in expenditures uh there is no uh direct charge to us for that that kind of stuff comes through indirectly through service fees uh the general operating budget the instructional Media Services uh that totals 1 point 1, 37476 it's a 3.87% increase in expenditures and our share for that is $3,825 up from $ 31,1 18995 last year so are there any questions on that again this isn't this isn't the uh large some of money that we spend for them for services that gets done on a contract around May and that's kind of as of service as we incur those costs hey man I'm Central budget there uh there are some challenges with our budget and I
036just want to make you aware that there are also challenges with other District's budgets we're not alone if you've been following the news you'll see that a lot of a lot of other school districts are in a very similar position that we're in um with our budget for this year open this up and get started there we go so uh I'd like to start off each budget presentation showing you where we're at uh with the current year to date after we loaded uh the February uh financials we're pacing currently at a little over $400,000 deficit it's good and bad it's good from the standpoint that we were budgeting a $1.2 million deficit it's bad from the standpoint that it's a deficit so uh we'd like to get that close to to break even so um
037when March Mar really when March loads that's when we get the real strong feel about how we're going to finish the year sometimes uh there's timeing issues between months like here I had to adjust for uh payroll being off uh we have one full payroll in addition than what we had last year at this time so but that's already I've factored that in there so before we get into the revenue assumptions uh I or to the budget I just wanted to point out the assumptions I made so I did put a 3% millage increase there that's not a recommendations it's just I put that in there because because it seemed to make sense at this point uh each 1% is yielding about 403,000 of Revenue now I do want to point out that a 3%
038increase in our in our millage does not in equal a 3% increase in our overall Revenue because uh real estate taxes are about 60 to 65% of our total revenue and therefore when when we would do a 1% or a 2% increase that doesn't equal that for the total revenue budget The Collection rate is has been upgraded it's the same as 2425 we were pacing as low as 96 on that in the last couple years we're up close to 97% on the collection rate that's a good sign uh that means we're getting that our current real estate taxes a little bit sooner rather than having to collect them through the laner county collection the majority of the new developments that you see the commercial uh construction that's going on the new apartments and and those
039uh those developments like the properties across the road a lot of them are not in yet uh they're not the county doesn't have them processed they don't have them on our tax roles so that's a it's I'd love to have them on the tax rols we'll get paid for them uh but it's comforting to know that there'll be some increased assessment coming uh down the road it's not uh not enough to cover the budget but it will be you know several hundred, doll of additional of additional um real estate taxes so that's that's good to know moving forward right question for you on some of these do you know will it be when the Project's completed or will it be like with some of the different developments as they're finishing one unit moving to the
040next will those come on as they're occupied I've been told they they will they're supposed to add them on now we're we're dealing with an upcoming reassessment in ler County that they're prepping for so their staff is pretty busy doing that're they're not they don't have a ton of staff at the family assessment office so I think that's backing up some of the other stuff we will get paid for it when it when it comes on retroactively uh one thing to uh to know about like the apartment uh the rentals that go in that's an income based assessment on that rather than our typical in the house where they use a um they use a uh value yeah an assessed value there they use um there they use a um income based so that's interesting
041as well and I I would hope that would be good news for us with the with the rent that they're charging on some of those that we would uh that would be a good assessment and then also you've heard about the the adequacy uh Michelle you do you look at the the legislative updates and everything you probably see that the adequacy amount is the amount that uh last year the state added do the ready tolearn Grant to try to make up that difference you remember the lawsuit that was in the one school district where they were having to um kind of U make the the funding more fair that was part of that initiative last year we got 475,000 additional or 478 actually um and this year when it came out they have that amount
042in it the governor's proposal there's mixed opinions we heard some opinions at the legislative breakfast that yeah that's going to go in uh last last week or a week and a half ago Amy and I were at the um pasbo the PA School business officials and they said I'm not sure I would budget that if I were you so I want you to know that that amount is in that additional amount is in these numbers so if that doesn't come through then it would it would be another $475,000 or that would that would add to the deficit budget and then here's the governor's proposal if we don't get that 478 920 it's pretty poultry on the uh the rest of it I mean we're actually losing money on year-over-year if we look at the the
043basic Ed funding the special ed funding need a lot to be desired that Cyber Charter transition that we got last year or this year uh is not in the budget for next year although they are looking at a um a fixed tuition for Cyber Charter and if that comes through uh it was proposed at 8,000 if that comes through could be a million dollar savings for us we're hearing it's probably going to it may come through but it's going to be much higher than the 8,000 minimum budget history at this point right now with a 3% and that adequacy amount in uh we're looking at a 1.3 million deficit the expenditure growth is set at 3.75 uh we we did stay flat on a lot of budgets where we could unfortunately there's things like software
044updates utilities those types of things where we really couldn't stay flat uh but on the site budgets on all the school budgets uh they're flat year-over-year on technology um hats off to John dimore he was able to keep his technology budget relatively flat within 10 or $15,000 of last year's and we're still working on some things there so where we can we're trying to move some stuff around to stay as level as last year Revenue growth is 2.55% f balance analysis a little bit different look I've been using the other one for 10 plus years uh this one just kind of shows a progression of fund balance if you look over in 2425 what I just said where were predicted to have a $429,000 deficit you can see there the the revenue and the expenditure
045and then the transfer to other funds down here where we use that for the athletic field project the capital funds that would leave a fund balance of approximately $1,728 th000 and then uh moving into 2526 with an operation uh deficit of a little over a million and then 300,000 baked into that number for um food Serv to uh level the Food Service deficit that would leave us with uh 18.4 in fund balance approximately down below I added the equivalent months of operation so that that fund balance of 19728 would hold us for 3.2 months if we didn't get any other money uh and it was 26.6 4% total of the uh budgeted expenditures for25 26 of course unassigned fund balance has to stay under 8% of um next year's budgeted expenditures and it will here's
046the millage rate increase different millage rate increases and the impact on the budget and you can see I have the the three uh there at the 1.3 million and if you go down to zero it's would be a $2.5 million deficit budget and then at 4% it would be an 895,000 uh deficit budget I just added there a 3% increase in millage rates we resulted in approximately $100 per year for the median household we we don't have the new median but last year's medium was 199,000 I want to kind of introduce a new topic we we we always compare millage rates but one of the ways to compare where we stand against other districts in the uh Langster L and is uh to use equalized Mills then equalized Mills is kind of a it standardizes
047to market value so it's it takes all the local taxes that we collect uh including uh earned income taxes and it Compares it to the market value as determined by the state tax Equalization board so this is a year old because that's the that's the newest information they have but when you look at that we're the fourth lowest uh equalized Mill of school district and really what that means is uh our local effort is lower compared to the rest of those school districts and for what we provide and what we've done construction wise that's that's a pretty solid number and a good place to be so I just wanted to point that out uh it's another way of looking at how much we're asking our local taxpayers to to fund the district's operations as soon
048as the new afrs get posted I'll be able I'll be able to know where we were on the 23 24 so looking at some of the expenditures I wanted to do this uh it's an impact of major expenditures so I took labor benefits special education Cyber Charter Transportation uh utilities natural gas oil and electric and Debt Service and I looked at the actual for 2324 projected for 24 25 and then what we're proposing for 2526 and looked at the year-over-year uh change and that's looks like I have a change change there so double changes uh and then the required tax at at 43,000 per percent so what percent of a tax increase it would require to pay for that increase and so I'm not going to go through each one but looking at Labor uh
049the $998,000 would be about 2.48% tax just to cover uh the um the change in labor benefits are net of the reimbursements uh so I I took the uh peers and the Social Security reimbursements out special education less payroll and cyber and we'll we'll see a couple slides here uh on special education and cyber in the next thing so if I added just those major categories up it would take a 7% and of course our base index is a 4% so we can't possibly make up that differential uh with with a with a tax increase in one year special education I I just want to point this out uh a lot of these things are State policy issues so there's we have to somehow find a way to make them work but a lot of
050them really need to be addressed at the state level this is going back to 1415 and if you look there it's the special education the labor and the bennies and then the operating cost is the light blue the red line is our cost our net cost so it would be our special education cost total minus the state reimbursement and you can see that line growing majorly went from $4.4 million to we're we're projecting 9 almost 9.5 million net cost in 2526 and look at the green line and that green line is what the state has given us the increases that the state has given us so it started at a little over $1.5 million and we'll be getting a little over a $1.9 million so do the math 9.4 minus $4.4 it's a $5 million
051increase over that period of time in net Special Egg costs and we got a $400,000 increase in the state special education amount so those are the types of things I'm talking about when we're talking about a state policy issue I mean that's kind of diabolical um to see that we we only got five you know $400,000 additional when we increased $5 million so is this a Manheim Central problem or is it a Statewide problem well this comes from uh the pba's 2025 state of education report you may have just gotten that uh it came out recently you might have gotten that from psba I it's good reading uh I pulled a couple charts just to show you here this is the special education enrollment as a percentage of total enrollment and you can see um
052the growth that they've had Statewide uh on enrollment so not just a Manheim Central issue pretty much an every school issue Cyber Charter I have off there to the right the what I talked about the the house bill that was passed in 2023 proposing a flat tuition rate again that would be over a million dollarss of savings for us just showing the growth here from 1819 where we had $650,000 Cyber Charter cost we're we're looking to have our highest year yet at 2. and hopefully that's not a hopeful budget number but I'm hoping it's going to level out or maybe even decline a little bit next year um but if that legislation comes through in any way this chart's going to look a lot different that should Spike down pretty drastically and it would be
053a massive massive boost to our budget and most budgets across the state here's another uh chart uh this is uh um oops there we go these are some just uh challenges for the coming year uh the top one was listed as budgeting for next school year so 48% list has uh said that that was a major challenge for them Staffing shortages student mental health Needs school facilities uh big needs and looking down there from a budget pressure standpoint we don't look much different than anybody else does uh the top one was Charter School tuition payments special education cost coming in at 52.9% of the respondents inadequate State funding health insurance those are all things that I think you've heard me talking about and and our administrative team discussing so again we're not unique when you
054look at every school district across the state and then what actions uh what are the anticipated actions due to the budget press pressures 73% said they're going to be raising local property taxes 53.5 drawing from fund balance uh 43.6 postponing uh Renovations and maintenance and 32.8 % said they're reducing Staffing or eliminating positions so looking into the future a little bit you look here at this is at 3% for uh 2526 and then 3% through 2829 or 2930 actually um and you can see there it go ranges from the 1.3 budget deficit to a 2.75 budget deficit in 2930 and then this is at various millage rates so if we were to go zero this year that's what it would end up looking like because of the compounding effect so uh a decision in this
055year will impact either positively or negatively future uh years as well future budgets so we always like to look out four to five years and then here at three that's what I showed you if the State fully funds the adequacy amount so the way this is supposed to work is they're supposed to add that at 478,000 on annually and it compounds so it adds to next year's and eventually we have several million dollars put in place but that is in heavy debate right now so but I did show a model there where that 478 comes in every year through 28 uh or through 2930 and you can see if we stick to the three that's significantly lower um over that period of time any discussion questions what the special education what was what's their decision
056or what they're pushing for right now with the state as far as funding it's I don't we haven't seen anything significant as far as funding or reducing the mandates that end up costing every District money uh you know there's there's and again like you saw tonight like we want we're going to support our kids 100% uh but there's Transportation tied to some of those mandates and Staffing is definitely a challenge you know we talked about some of the challenges in Staffing in general but we don't see anything coming down the road for special ed that's significant uh they're F the CH the if they help us with cyber then that money could go other places but so that's encouraging the Cyber piece but the special ed piece we haven't seen any yeah but that line
057really helps what the state did that one chart you had yeah just the green line yeah yeah I mean that's we we could we could use some help and that line looks the same all the districts have about the same thing speci I heard the numbers are different but the the the curve looks the same on the chart so I'll pose it to anybody but how much of it would we say with the increase has come around with additional reporting red tape other things that the state's putting in place uh back on the school districts administratively and other things that it's costing to actually run the program not actually the money that's getting spent student themselves i' default to uh Dr ax or Dr Flannery on that so maybe in the mandates and more so
058maybe in the litigation that can come just with special ed in general um certainly it's it's super costly but you know we obviously want to be able to support our kids in need and we do see need getting higher for our students I think is that balance I was just looking at how much do we actually get to spend on the student compared to all the other part that's where I mean spending the money on the student I think is fantastic it's all the other stuff that doesn't actually really see to the end result for them sure what's the best way for the state to hear that or are they hearing it or are they I don't know how that works like where's that information get to to to they would feel the pressure from
059communities saying this has gota yeah I mean we did the legislative breakfast that was a big one because we focused on this I know Michelle shared the um the date on the hill whatever that's called yeah so it's part of my report but yeah the psba advocacy day which is May 13th so yeah that's some a time when we could go up we could schedule to meet with some legislators and talk about that um I think another part is psba is uh they're running a Cyber Charter funding reform campaign so they have information for us on our my psba so that we know who to reach out to what we can share with them um so yeah that's ways that we can definitely try to to advocate for giving us a little bit more funding
060like they should be um and also I mean everybody everybody in the state of Pennsylvania can do that too I mean it's the more that we talk to our legislators and say you know you guys need to step up if you're going to ask you need to step up and and help us pay for this so I just encourage everybody to to make their voices known yeah and what do with like I got to fill out that survey so there is affirmation in like Brian said it's a really good read because it's we you do get a sense that we're all fighting those same battles and the more voices the definitely the better you know we were at went to the legislative breakfast and we heard this and we heard that what they're going to
061do what they're not going to do two days later they went to another school and said the opposite you know so they don't what did they do at the other school well they never they're not you know to us they seem like they're going to help in this and that seemed that was the best right but two days later they go to another school for breakfast and they don't say the same thing any other questions for Brian as far as budget that year one more one one more budget coule no he has to come back next year at this time be in the audience yeah this budget yeah we'll finish out this budget forgot to tell you have to get get rid of the red didn't we yeah I could do that in a spreadsheet
062still might have commas around last one is just distribution of policies 220 705 808 for first read please take a look at that for next time my report thank you assistant superintendent report Dr Flanery and so as we look to the spring we're always looking to Staffing presentation that kind of comes in um preview of the budget and as a first Glimpse at that today um M Miller is going to provide us an overview of what Staffing looks like in terms of some basic recommendations for 2526 and then she'll go into a deeper dive in the next meeting hello is good evening everyone um if you can take a look at the snapshot this is something that we propose or look go over every single year we kind of well for one in the past
063three years we actually have retirements this year so we're going to be talking about attritional savings um just kind of a preview here uh we do have multiple elementary teachers that um retired we were looking to replace one to one so there's three total uh we'd be looking to replace all three um the other part there is um the full-time media specialist was split between Duran and baron we're considering replacing only um like a 0. five instead of a full position as that person there's already a full-time um librarian of Brett so this would just be like the bearing um and making sure there's still Library services at baring Elementary um we also are proposing a restructured position so we had a retirement in our computer science uh department at the middle school um and
064instead of replacing that person in that department um we consider the the increase needs um social needs students and then therefore proposing uh replacing restructuring that position into a counsel position um other considerations um we talked about Staffing uh we have our Co babies coming into play here um so we're seeing an incredible increase in kindergarten registration already um we have the whole summer to kind of get things going um so we always kind of put in there that we might be hiring like an additional staff to help meet those needs um at this point we're kind of looking at a higher 8% higher um increase than last year um kind of already talked about the increase in Special Ed but also for consideration is the increase um in ESL numbers they're continuing to escalate
065in severity and number as um and I'll go into detail with more data next month obviously um and then also autistic support you know we have like IU support right now if they would pull out we need to consider bringing in um a classroom teacher and Par Educators in that classroom as well and what that looks like so that's kind of the snapshot um obviously um our principles did a huge um undertaking and figuring out how to fit in the budget constraints that we have while also trying to meet the needs of our kiddos um so they made some pretty hard decisions and know just thank them tremendously for trying to make this all work but if there's any questions I can help address in the April meeting um open up put the floor to
066any questions now you very much thank you thank Youk you and I just mention for those of you that have you know been here for several of these Staffing presentations um this is the first that we're not recommending additional trying to take what we had trimmed down and or restructure to be able to so thanks to Nikki for her work on that as well that concludes my report okay thank you the treasur report Dr gr yes thank you Mr Claire uh good even good evening everyone for the treasury report there are three items listed in tonight's agenda for approval these items include the financial statements and budget transfers for February monthly invoices for February and the athletic field project invoices I reviewed these documents and all the material was in order he spoke with Brian
067and confirmed they were prepared with the approved procedures and my recommendation is that we approve these reports is there are there any questions for myself or for Brian in regards to the financial documents Dr do you want to add d and e also to it the change orders and the renovation invoices Mr lender yes I uh must have an old I'll make a motion please please do we have a motion and second on the floor anybody have any questions if not all in favor I I oppos move thank you Dr greaton thank you business operation faili committee report nothing to report except our next meeting will be April 14th uh 4M in the district office academic committee report Mrs Walker nothing to report our next meeting will be May 5th at 5:00 pm here as
068well Activities Committee Mr snik our meeting will be April 14th at 5:00 p.m. okay General action items I guess we better take a separate approval of the Lancaster Lebon iu13 budget Mr Claire I would make a uh request that we take an extra few weeks to review that document and uh discuss it internally before we would approve it but uh I'll leave that up to the board to decide what does that do same first let look at thetimeline I agree with what you're [Music] saying I was going to say just let's move no but I think it's due by May 1st he say he thinks May 1 so we do have another month everybody okay a motion we're going to table it second Mr lender all in favor I POS P the IU budget one
069month okay Dr kraton okay thank you approval of the agreement to participate in Lancaster Lebon virtual Solutions we'll move second second okay any questions all in favor I I okay then we can take I think we can take uh c e f [Music] e I have a motion second questions all in favor I I opposed okay and on that uh if you see on G the approval lettering for stock and leader who now merged with the STX and its dump uh we will keep our main like lawyer we keep we keep Brook this gives us more resources and a Lancaster op that's that's really good uh I think we can take uh motion from h good Q I'll make a motion second over Miss McCall you have a nine o'clock curfew then I'm not that
070much fun I think we're that all in favor I board representative report L Leon IU Mrs P last Mee March 12th our next one will be on night go back and tell them we're going to I'll make sure to stand up L County CTC report Mr okay Brian I think you have some couple slides we're getting back to the students now workers talk about something else huh something fun yeah yeah hang on a minute there we go it's now Willow Street this time I still have to go back one more time to get to the rest of them will street we have a few and uh it's good this is uh that's Cameron echelman he's a senior and he uh sometimes they get confused on what they're doing and what their hobbies are that that's
071some trouble with me I like the other stuff too but uh he he wants to go to Cleveland Brothers everybody's heard of Cleveland brothers and uh actually right now there's there's a little bit of a waiting list but he's going to wait it out he's uh he's looking I do know a little bit about gas transmission of the natural gas and they actually have uh and I was talking to them about it 12 cylinder Cat engines which are huge in those compression stations that like if you have a line here another mile you have another one to compress it push it that's how they do it across that's how they'll do it up to main you know that's get up there but anyway he's very interested and uh so he's he's he has his application
072in that cat and uh caterpillar and uh that's where he wants to go he's sticking right with the big guys that was that's his goal he's on the list hobes are hunting and he likes junat County and need archery four-wheelers I guess we all like those right and uh he works right now he he helps out after school at the chicken par and he has dogs his pets he has dogs and cat two cats that is scam Brody we don't have Brody go good next one he he was out on a co-op ah cam what almost like C Camden said moer he he's a 12th grader also and he wants to go to uh he's with the automotive technology as you see there uh he's going to go to a four-year College he wants to
073go but Steve he's he's really into the coding on a car I don't know too much about the electronics on a car but he's into the coding I'm sure there's a lot of coding to do with all the electronics right he's into that big time the electrical stuff he's learning a lot there and he wants to move on and go to a co-op but wants to that take it call to get out there he likes hunting trapping Fox and and that's he works at home so just helping out and that's C Dominic Dominic he's also a senior Dominic Orel and uh he's in the automotive technolog also and of course he likes cars but he likes the high performance cars and he's a he's he keeps he's applying at in the co-ops he's applying at
074the dealerships car dealerships to get a job there working there and uh he got his uh air condition certification I guess when you go get your whatever I don't know too much about that you have to be certified so he's working on all his all his search to do that and uh and inspections and he might right now he's working a little bit for br CER everybody knows BR CER so he has a what his Hobbies he likes to work he likes to work on his truck and he's been working on an old truck and uh he got it fixed up so he can actually drive it and I said you got a license and so he goes yep and he does work at McDonald's also so uh and I guess keep back there to
075him that the best thing about that is his one hob is snakes and his dad uh they have they have yeah they they breed them then they have pythons and all kinds of stuff they're yeah they're like $500 ,000 a piece you know I was having fun talking with this guy he wants to keep doing that I guess it's a nice cash a nice cash gig so now if they get loose so that was one of those FES okay that's done Dylan Dylan was interesting because I knew it right when he shook my hands do you guys know him he play yeah yeah he's a uh he's a football player very very I could tell when I shook his hand he did something else but uh uh he s he's send Collision Repair but he
076doesn't want anything to do with it so he's gonna go to I think he's checking he wants to play football he's going to laana laana County so Granton up there and he wants to play football up there and he actually had bod help him do the long snap snap he's a long snap so you guys know that about him and's I didn't noce he's in track he does a pole vault you guys know that he he does a big pole VA or Sprinter and he loves to work out so he's at the jimm all the time very strong guy and that's Dylan and we have Bray Bren heisy and uh he says he has you know I always ask him how the like class he has a lot of fun in class he gets to
077meet they help each other on all different kind of projects he's learning a lot and uh but he doesn't want to do any body work he just that's separate sorry about that he just wants it and his future is uh he just he wants to do a co-op but then he wants to go to Ohio there were some college I didn't get to talk to him in detail there's some you know autot Tech College in Ohio I'm not sure what it is I don't know if you got ever heard of one out there and uh oh what else uh and he at home he has some cats and some dogs and uh he likes to do camper tours travel with his family and they get down to Chick te every year most is that where
078the horses go so he's down there that's braen and I'll be going back there I have an appointment to finish up our Willis Street students uh you my calendar here but it's April I have the rest of for next month very good thank you PBA legislative report M Ginger I shared two of the things already um one being that they have their Cyber Charter funding reform campaign going on so please check that out and let your voices be heard um is there any interest in going to the psba advocacy day I have some interest just depends on if somebody else is gone right I'm kind of the same way so it's May 13th so maybe we should talk about that and see if that's something we wna yeah if it works out with work schedule
079all we send emails phone calls let they you did say something about you you have to set up a meeting with her so we have to we'll have to schedule it on my psba and then they will schedule schedule the legislator legislators that we need to meet with or we say May 15th 13th so okay we can talk about that afterwards a little bit more um the only other thing that they offered was uh there's another AI Symposium that's May 1st it's virtually um from 8:30 to 12:30 so it's talking about integrating AI tools into curriculum and uh getting kids ready to deal with an AI ring W so if you're interested in that that's another opportunity uh to get a little bit more exposure to the world of AI um other than you know
080budget which he talked about pretty thoroughly um and possibility of some changes at the federal level with the Department of Education U includes thank you um L County Academy um we have added five more seats from war right and we are talking to the school district of Lancaster um we may go full circle because we may end up back at Park City using the space that we used before um to help with the um increase in the numbers that we have uh we're just paying too much money to buy steel for where we're at now um Dr U remember I don't even know her last name uh she's doing an outstanding job and we're getting a lot of work done with the students and she will become the one of one board meetings to give
081us the report herself and head my report all right informational items um the upcoming school board meeting information the uh um April 28th 6 o' here um board comments anybody and we had more and more students involved great and that's all very nice anybody else have any make a motion we adjourn second we don't need we you got it we'll see you thanks everybody thank you very much