001e e e Mr lender here Mr senseny here Mrs Walker Mr Claire yes eight members present thank you uh i' like to make an announcement that we uh did have an executive meeting this afternoon or before this meeting and it was to discuss legal and personal matters this meeting February 24th 2025 is open to the public and is also being streamed virtually I would need an approval for the agenda second Mo in second all in favor I need a motion for the minutes of January 27th meeting I'll make a motion second young lady over there a second be okay one is of the month okay so we're switching it up a little bit tonight school board we're going to do my student report first um and then we'll do Learners of the month so we're
002doing the student report because uh Mr Han is going to head to the girls game as soon as the kids are done presenting so uh we're going to let that go first and then the Learners of the month so joh thank you thank you um we have eight students here come on up here guys here from uh various Sports from the winter season and from some activities that we have going on at the high school so have them they're going to introduce themselves tell you a little bit about what's going on and uh what they're doing in the community as well all right so I'll let them start I'll start with au all right sry um so I'm talking on behalf of rifle this season we ended out you are I'm Aubrey Myers um we
003ended our season very strong um so if you're not familiar with all stars it's basically they top take your top 12 scores and they averag out and rank you like top 10 then you declared All Stars we ended with second fourth and 10th and for individuals which would be like LST 11 in League we were able to take first place third place f place and 10th and as a team we won won all individuals um placing first you hi my name is Avery yast um I'm a varsity cheerleader so the varsity cheerleaders are currently finishing up our winter season and supporting the boys basketball team as well as the wrestling team um we've worked hard throughout this year to bring energy and enthusiasm to our crowd um we've made a lot of gross this year
004growth this year mastering some more complex stunts and building a really strong connection within the girls on the team um and we look forward to continuing to cheer on the boys basketball team as they try to go to States yeah I I'm for the basketball team um we had a really strong year this year we finished regular season 20 and2 and nine and one I believe in section play and that allowed us to clinch the section title for the first time since 2023 so that was very nice um we qualified for League playoff play District playoff play and now we are currently playing in a constellation bracket for the Ninth Place in States so we have a game against Calico tomorrow um been really awesome seeing the community come out support the team and we
005all talked with Coach H and we're looking forward to the spring um helping out with a community bring cleanup to get back and help out the community for coming out supporting us so hi everybody my name is AJ hrew uh I'm with the wrestling team uh we started out slow this year off it was an okay start not exactly what we thought was gonna happen but then second half of the year we came back strong uh won a lot of matches and as a team we really found ourselves and started just winning and then like I think we had four guys with over 30 wins this season individually which is a huge milestone we have one uh District champ this past weekend uh his name is birie dockerty so that was really cool to see
006him win individually uh we had five total athletes make it to the District Tournament which means they had to place top four at the sectional tournament and uh two of them Advanced to the state tournament which is going to be next or yeah the following weekend uh March 6 7th and 8th at the Hershey Giant Center yeah and that's Barrett kefir and birie dockerty so yeah overall we had a pretty solid here but yeah I think there's a lot of lot of good things coming with the wrestling team most pins in a single season too oh yeah Brody Dockery did break the team record for the most pins in a single season forgot about that one yeah new record for that um I'm Anderson pner I'm representing the men's and women's swim teams uh the
007uh boys accomplished a forign four uh record this year which is the same as we had last year but we're we're down one so we're happy to see the same record continue uh girls went 0 and eight but the team's growing so looking for a little bit better results next year but um we have seven guys competing this weekend at uh districts out of our eight so that's always great to see um we're pretty confident that uh these guys will also make States as well so and that'll be March uh 12th and 13th I think so that's what we're looking at now so yeah hello everyone my name's Jared hi I'm rean okay oh sorry so so we're gonna open with student council Jared is my co-president um so far this year we've planned the
008homecoming dance um Trunk or Treat which was a very fun event um for the community and the younger kids and we're very thankful for the construction to be done so we had the parking lot in the back we've also had a 3v3 basketball tournament which helped which um those proceeds went towards our minithon and in the winter right before Christmas break we had we had a hot cocoa bar and baked goods for our faculty and staff and currently we are planning for our big fun biger biggest fundraiser from minithon um unfortunately our Valentine's Day dance which is also a fundraiser for minithon was canceled due to weather circumstances but we look forward to that um so for those of you that don't know minithon is a fundraiser for poor diamonds um all the proceeds go
009towards pediatric cancer um this year our theme is Carnival it's on [Music] April one of those Fridays um uh right now our goal is to go out to the community more and try and get some local business businesses to help sponsor and we're just trying to um educate people on um the importance of Four Diamonds and what we do um so then we also here to help go over interact Club um so for interact Club this year we have over 160 active members which beats the average for most interact clubs in the county have around 90 to 110 members and we have more than 1,855 hours of community service this year which is amazing and we have been serving all over Lancaster County um Talk us with a highlight um so one of our most
010popular events it's um hope at the star Barn um it's an all day event and we bring like a hundred volunteers for this it's a lot of fun we we help out a lot um they they they tell us every year they couldn't do it without us and we love we love helping them out um and then we also help out at Water Street in Lancaster so Mrs wise um will take a van of students there they'll leave school early and then they'll help serve food um they'll clean up and do all that stuff for the people there and we've also we Vol we have our volunteers at Pleasant View a lot and they like they like helping with various events such as bingo games and they went caroling in the winter and I think
011our members just enjoy getting to know the members at at Pleasant View um another place in the community is home on Ferdinand um some of our members have been we're decorating for Christmas and just helping spread holiday spirit and also breaking leaves and just helping take care of the place in general um and then we have some upcoming events we're going to help out with the elementary school f Festival uh Junior Achievement stem day and then we'll help out at the food pantry um and penin and finally we wanted to thank our amazing Rotary Club that helps make all of this possible so last year we had five members attend Riya which is a Rotary International um event that happens at the beginning of Summer at Messiah University and most other interact clubs only have
012one or two or three members to and and we were able to send five people to RI which is so amazing and we're just thankful for retor for making everything happen for us thank [Laughter] you my name is H Nicholas Mam and I'm here representing the Aon stages upcoming show Mama Mia um we have our opening night on March 27th which they invited senior citizen night on March 26th at 6m on March 30th at 2m um I am a senior and I I'm the male lead as Sam carmichel and one thing I've enjoyed is just experiencing the show anyone and everyone um the way we interact with people and the way we just get along um get along is just amazing and extraordinary um if you like listening to Abba just come see the show
013you will be sitting on the edge of your seat the whole time I guarantee you and uh we have been working so hard so please come out and support and yeah thank you Dr whitel we just want to thank all we we're blessed with a community of kids who loves to participate and give back and all these kids you know make our community better so thank you very much and hopefully with our young kids here that are Learners of the month next uh you know they're recognizing the role models of all of you are so thank you very much appreciate it give him another hand safe travels of the game thank you thank you all right moving on to Learners of the month first up we have Dean piger grade three Mr ank presenting Dean
014all righty good evening so my name is Nate ank and Justin far and I have nominated Dean pottinger as our learner of the month for February Dean has set an amazing example for his fellow peers and is constantly modeling our Baron's best behaviors in fact last month he was also our class's choice for our character tra Champion for the month of February showing empathy throughout the year and he's not only empathetic towards others but he's also responsible and and highly respected among all of Baron Elementary a few weeks ago Dean completed a research report all about tornadoes in our extreme weather unit and throughout this unit he modeled great perseverance and he challenged himself and he also demonstrated the ability to rise up to these new challenges Dean's uh positive behavior and attitude makes him
015a role model for not only the third graders in our class but the fourth graders as as well no matter of the task I know Dean will exceed my expectations I he's going to set the bar high for others and one highlight from this year relates to when Mr fair and I made the decision to move Dean from my my third grade whole group math class to Mr Fair's self-paced math class to give him an added Challenge and this decision was was made after seeing Dean Excel not only in math but also as a positive example for others uh when asked what his favorite part of school is he describes that he's that he enjoys doing math with his friends and reading and he's also mentioned how he has future goals of becoming a veterinarian
016because he loves taking care of animals I'm not the only person in the building who notices this outstanding learner Dean's talents and positive attitude are noticed by all of his teachers and staff members within Baron Elementary and we're very proud to nominate Dean as our learner of the month and he exemplifies all the qualities that we look for third grade student all right next up from do run Celia Hopkins grade four Mr lineu almost a smile uh good evening board members uh fellow staff members uh be Nation Families my name is Mr linebach I'm a three4 multi-age teacher uh tonight I have the honor and the privilege of introducing do runs leoner of the month syia Hopkins uh one of my favorite parts of being a multi-age teacher is having my learners for two years
017uh this is my second year having the opportunity teach uh this Stellar learner uh every day I become more astonished and proud of her um as you know we focus on the bar and Difference Maker qualities here at Manheim Central School District to the best of my ability I'm going to spend the next several minutes uh humble bragging about all the unbelievable accomplishment she has already achieved as an innovator uh silly does not just enjoy learning she craves it within our classroom many of our units have accumulative projects that allow Learners to have some Choice um she's always sell selecting topics that not only interest her but also are usually advertised as challenging topics her hunger for the knowledge does not just end here in the classroom um you can find silia juggling and riding
018the 5- foot unicycle at unicycle club or sorry at uh circus Club um solving complex math equations at math club learning about her local plants and Wildlife on Environ team just a few of her extracurriculars that she does um which I'm sure will only expand as she gets older uh reflective learning learner Celia always is looking to learn from her mistakes even though she doesn't make many of them uh when she does make a mistake or an error she reflects on not only how she can be more efficient but more effective in her learning uh and that extends to all parts of her life uh for example recently while teaching Learners about how to download a map from an iPad app we're using she informed me and showed me that there was a quicker and
019faster way to do so saving me time in the future uh collaboration selia knows that knowledge is power uh she also knows that more brains equal more power uh during individual projects you can often find her collaborating with those around her sharing ideas technology tips uh and especially resources during group project she's often found listening to Partners ideas first and then sharing her own she truly understands that being a team is more than just giving your thoughts but listening to others uh as a critical thinker when it comes to critical thinking I think of three words for s calculated uh methodical and creative when given projects assessments writing prompts many of her peers will just jump on the first idea that comes to their mind Miller's sorry Celia's first step is actually backwards she takes
020the time to truly think about the options that are before her weighing pros and cons for each idea her creative mind allows her to create multiple solutions to any challenge that comes her way um when she does finally set on the idea that she does uh it's amazing to watch out her brain Works through all of the things uh lastly uh responsible citizen Celia has been a key role model within our classroom uh even last year as a third grader she was often found and asked help following or sorry fellow classmates she's one of the most caring and empathetic Learners first uh to help those in need and ask a friend if they're feeling upset last year silly was given the opportunity to help some kindergarteners while they work through their self-paced math progressions sadly
021due to scheduling she was not able to do that this year even though she asked me if that was ever going to be a change um just shows you how much she loves helping and how much she loves learning in general uh in closing I've been teaching interacting with children since I started working at summer camps at the age of 16 I've estimated that I've met about a thousand kids at this point in the short period of time that I've interacted with students in that time I only have a handful of Learners that truly stood out to me silia is one of those Learners and I look forward to seeing what not only she does for herself as a learner but our community and the world around us uh once again please help me in
022celebrating our learner of the month silia Hopkins all right next up from our Middle School Tyler Klein grade eight Mrs Shelly oh well I'll maybe I'll read this to him later that's okay I can um hi my name is Lauren shell and I'm delighted to represent the eighth grade team in honoring one of our eighth grade Learners Tyler kleene I have known Tyler for a little over a year first through my musical theater on film Leo and more substantially having him in my eighth grade ELA class this year from the second I met Tyler I recognized his Zeal and passion for music the Arts knowledge and learning in general that truly impressed me during Leo's last year I learned the tile is well versed in all things Hamilton which he showed is not just because
023he watched the musical on Disney Plus instead Tyler has challenged himself to read and finish the 818 page Ron trau biography of Alexander Hamilton and earlier this year he also set his sites on reading The Federalist Papers and has future plans to read CH chal's biography of George Washington and probably all of his others also um all of these I feel are impressive at any age but I feel like as an eighth grader that really stands out to me um in class Tyler is conscientious he's astute um and he pays attention to small details weaving information he gleans into his verbal and written responses he never never fails to impress me with his understanding of deeper meaning and his ability to apply these to life beyond the text he consistently goes above and beyond in
024the name of learning and doing his best in all of his classes one of the many impressive qualities Tyler possesses what strikes me most is his kindness and helpfulness toward others in our Ela class I encourage Learners to make peer nominations for our monthly celebrations and many of Tyler's peers have nominated him for these qualities I'd like to share some of the statements that they have made about Tyler here tonight one learner shared that Tyler quote is focused and he helps me get my work done another learner stated quote he helped me revise my essay on The Outsiders kindly pointing out some things that he thought I could improve in he really encouraged me finally one of Tyler's peers remarked that quote when I was second guessing myself with my essay he offered to read
025it and help me with whatever I forgot or didn't understand Tyler's peers obviously appreciate who he is and what he brings to the classroom and on behalf of the eighth grade teacher I'm here to say that we do too we couldn't be more proud of this young man and all he has accomplished so far thank you thanks Mr CH okay so next up for the high school first we have Bailey hackenberry presented by Mrs Anderson uh last month they were ready to go but they were waiting till seven o'clock to come over so in my defense there were a lot of seven o'clock years in everyone's defense was o' for a long time so we got them here convincing I convinced her was s o' even after I read so some people I'll tell you
026um well thank you for she already has her certificate too so well thank you for allowing me to come back and and present Bailey hackenberry to you um I got to meet baile in the nth grade when she entered the a program at the high school and she was in my in a class and at that time she was was just this bright little smiling girl with a million-dollar smile who didn't say much of anything at first but she liked horses and I knew right away we were going to be a kindred spirit um because that's one of my things as well so she stuck with us in the egg program and it was one of those deals where again I say to a student uh I think you should try this or try this
027with FFA let's do this she said Okay and she believes everything I tell her and she did it all and um I have to tell you just what all Bailey has accomplished in four years not only is she an academic Allstar in agriculture uh getting straight A in every class that she's ever had she goes above and beyond in her learning um in her sophomore year I want to make sure I have that right milk quality so we'd never before had a career development team that studied milk quality and products she was one of the first members of that team that we'd ever had at Manheim Central they were second in the state and they went on to compete at the Big E in Massachusetts um representing Pennsylvania at that level at a national level
028which was incredible but wait there's more so in her junior year um she and a team of students decided they were going to do farm business management now I don't know if you know what that is but it's about 30 pages of accounting for a fictional farm that you've never seen before in your life um Bailey was teaching me throughout the entire practices Mrs Anderson it's right there and I couldn't you know she was just grasping the concepts beautifully they won the state of Pennsylvania her team went on to National FFA convention in August or October and they were a gold medal team and we were n ninth overall in the nation for Farm business management so that tells you just how sharp this cookie is if you know what I'm saying in the meantime
029she is our chapter president she is the County FFA president she has basically spent hours and hours uh coordinating those organizations and at the county level it's even more alling because you've got you know 10 a programs and she's managing everybody's schedules and and planning events for the entire County she's also served on the Manheim Farm Show Junior board since 2022 um she was the Manheim Farm Show Queen and 2024 we competed last January okay so she competed at the national or the state fair Queen competition she was a scholarship recipient full scholarship for a week-long Washington leadership confer conference through FFA at the national um conference in in Washington DC where they learn to become ambassadors for agriculture and advocates for agriculture so she spent an entire week of her summer dedicated to learning
030how to advocate for agriculture um she has continued to travel with FFA she went with us to Costa Rica in the summer of 2024 and got to see an international approach to agriculture as well um she's currently on the 2025 a sales team with Dr keninger looking for for her third uh State win and State title and we are delighted to have her we know that she is going to pursue a degree in a business after graduation so folks I could not be more proud to represent or to present Bailey hockenbury as our representative from the I program and student of the month thank you next up from the high school Bryce stech grade 11 Miss St ready U I am very proud to be here today to present Bryce stake to you as a
031member of the science department um we voted on student of the month and obviously we chose Bryce um part of the reason that we chose him is because he has so thoroughly involved himself in the Sciences since he has been a freshman at the high school um he's currently ly taking AP Chemistry with me um he also has an internship with Miss McClure where he is working through a research project um and in his sophomore year he even took AP biology and was extremely successful with that one of the things that I have found most impressive that Bryce has done recently um is The Internship that he's been working with M McClure on um that research plan that he developed he got to go to the University of Pennsylvania to present a poster um and
032he received first place in that presentation of his research plan there uh so he's continuing on in this semester with completing his experiments he's been working on setting up um some of his known acid Solutions and setting up his experimental design in the greenhouse um and he what he is working towards is a better understanding of how acid rain affects plants um Bryce has also participated in the Science Olympiad for three years years and has earned medals in several Regional and um state level events as a junior Bryce plays a leadership role in um is and is an important active member of the Science Olympia team um even though as a science department member uh I wanted to highlight his Stellar science career so far in high school um he is also a very well-rounded
033student uh this year's schedule has included AP calculus apus government and AP English Language and Composition he's a very busy man um he even finds time to participate in dramas including last year's The Sound of Music and this year's you can't take it with you and the upcoming Mama Mia on a more personal level Bryce is always extremely respectful to both faculty and his fellow students and is often happy to offer a kind word to anyone Bryce has an excellent work ethic and a strong desire for excellence personally I appreciate Bryce's patience as well as his ability to think outside the box um when I prepare for lessons in AP Chemistry is it's my first year through this class I often think what is Bryce gonna ask in class TR myself to answer those questions
034um so we're just really proud of all of Bryce's accomplishments both within the science realm and outside of science um and we're pleased to honor him with this month's student of the month okay we also have Awards outside of our building Mount Joyce CTC uh Daniel daml grade 12 Dr Whit CTC usually gives us like a script of what to say Unfortunately they didn't give me anything but we always like to at least uh recognize our our CTC students so Danielle uh she's also I know that Danielle plays softball because she came to me asking me and she this is a like me it shows what kind of student she is she's planning in the spring she's like Dr whel I know I'm gonna have to leave early because we're going to have softball games
035can you help me figure that out and she's already planning that and that was two weeks ago so she's an outstanding presentation for for us here at Central we want to congratulate her for being recognized as a not Joy CTC student of the month thank you and also Langer County Academy Alex where are grade 10 Alex attends Langster County Academy I'm pretty sure that most of you folks are all familiar Alex came to us and transferred to Manheim Central um and and had to make some adjustments and I think he's found a really good home at at at least a home school at Langer County Academy and they just Rave about all the work that he's doing consistently coming to school and starting to get engaged when he was here struggling with that engagement piece
036but um we're happy that Alex has has found a niche to to serve his needs and uh he'll be making his way towards graduation and when he first came here that was um kind of a question mark for him so I think it's a testament to our district and the people that we have supporting students and also the options that we have for students that you know we could find something that was better suited for him to to help him get to his goals so thank you I also uh think we should also give a hand to the parents who put up with an awful lot helping their uh youngsters so yeah um now you people are dismissed to go home go out here and get pictures whatever you uh would like to do surewood
037that's not you take pictures specialist tonight media specialist I think think um next part would be if we had any public comments nobody signed up so we will go on with Personnel I would like to have a motion for 7 a through J that moved second yeah okay any else if not all in favor I post move and where's Brook you're hiding behind the uh Podium apologize book would you like to introduce yourself to the do a quick introduction hi everybody my name is Brook COV and I am the new life skills support teacher at Doon Elementary School um I first fell in love with the life skills environment actually right here at Manheim Central Middle School in one of my first ever field placements in undergrad studying early childhood and special education and I'm
038so grateful that I get to continue my love of life skills here in this District um I can't wait to get to know all my Learners and my colleagues and I'm so thankful to be here with you all tonight thank you and welcome just a side note unsolicited Brook to shair and I've shared this with you a lot of times that how welcome she felt here immediately when she started the interview process and coming into our buildings so forth so that's a credit to our whole team you you may also stay for the rest of your something thank you okay we get to superintend attendance report I already shared our Student Activities report so I'm going to go right to Mr how and the budget update okay so I'm going to go into this budget
039presentation I'm going to preface it by saying that I've made all these budget calculations with a 0% millage rate I'm going to go on record saying that's not my recommendation but I wanted to put a zero in there so we could have discussion based around that and know exactly what our shortfall is moving forward so this is the uh aggregate Financial forecast uh after January's uh financials were loaded and uh tweak we had to tweak it a little bit because of some payroll differences but right now we're heading for essentially a break even uh performance in uh 2025 uh just a little bit uh under 133,000 uh that will probably change uh when February and March gets loaded usually March is when we feel uh best about those numbers uh keep in mind that uh
040there is a savings that's already baked in there from the refinancing of the bonds so uh that that's where we're at C close to break even uh with with about a $586,000 savings in there looking at our fund balance history coming across the 2425 with the 133 in there uh looking to just take that out of the unassigned uh fund balance to cover that uh deficit if you look down below you'll see the change in the uh committed for future capital projects uh that was the amount um that was the amount we moved just recently to cover the athletic facilities moving forward you can kind of get a glimpse at what the uh shortfall is at a 0% looking at our uh budget history going back the whole way to 1718 uh just kind of
041reiterates so you can see the high level revenue and the expenditures uh you know Broken Out by category salaries and benefits major category there uh I want to just point out Down Below on the 2526 at this point and we still have some budgets out there that we're working with the directors on uh so there's some numbers that aren't finalized there's some estimates in there uh but we're 3.37% increase uh the budget directors were asked to come back with a flat budget uh in their in their uh departments in some departments as possible in other dep departments like facilities where utilities and some other items factor in there it's hard to keep those items flat so we're flat where we can be and then uh just kind of looking at the increases in utilities and
042other areas like Cyber Charter and uh and transportation down below I always keep track of the new revenues versus the uh change in expenses so the the goal is to have our new revenues EX ceed our new expenditures and that that has not been the case uh when we kicked in coming through uh with some of the inflationary numbers and we discussed that last year at length Surplus deficit over time I've seen this uh pattern in a lot of school districts uh start going back to 134 we were showing some really healthy surpluses we had a lot of good assessed value growth and uh that assessed value growth has kind of dried up and you kind of see the trend line that comes down there and I I just want to point out that this
043is net of real estate we did we did have uh several real estate transactions during that time and I did uh take the SR impact out we were paying for a good bit of multi-age teacher salaries with Sesser funds and so I did back that out just to show the actual impact net of those transactions looking at some of our Revenue items I won't go all through all of these and I'll go into some highlight some of these in detail uh looking at again a z% millage increase was factored in here you see local revenues coming in at 48 million 597 th000 and that is less than what we projected last year um we did one of the things we noticed in our current real estate is we we typically have a collection rate on
044our current uh bills around 90 96 is what we budget in um we actually came in around we're coming in close to 97 which is actually a positive thing because that means more people are paying their real estate uh bill on time so I did budget uh 2526 back at 96.5 because that could be just an anomaly for this particular year but because we normally go around the low 96.2 96 so I I feel comfortable with the trend that we can go to 96.5 on that collection rate what I wanted to do was show different millage rates here we're trying to let you get a um a look at what each millage rate increase would look like on the Surplus deficit and you can see there's there's no millage incre increase this year that gets
045us back to a budgeted Break Even of course when you look at budgets we we hope to outperform our budget number so there's a lot of things like health benefits and other things that we have to be very conservative with our budg budgeting to make sure we're covering that so um we hope that we outperform the budget so keep that in mind when you look at those numbers as of now anything that's in our repertoire uh to to go with a millage increase will not get us back to a budgeted uh zero want to talk briefly about the governor's proposal uh the the the key thing in there is the ready to learn block block uh Grant the adequacy piece once again uh we will uh hopefully get the adequacy piece if you look uh
046in the estimated 2425 we had the 478 this 478 920 Builds on top of that uh piece uh to try to get us up to where we should be uh determined based on the formula if you look at the basic education funding that that's a little Slimmer for us than it has been in the past and the amount that the governor put in for that category is a little bit lower special education is abysmal I don't know how else to say it um looking at our early identifications with our you know incoming kindergarteners uh that's that's not even going to cover one of those students probably the cost for for one of those students so that that is something again I think Mr CLA made a comment earlier that needs to be addressed by the
047state that's just that that's not sustainable to continue on with the cost we're incurring in special education and to get that increase from the state so that's that's something that our our community and uh the board here should be reaching out to the state uh to your elected official to to say that that's something that really needs to change Cyber Charter transition that line item is not in the budget this year so we won't get that 170 115 that we got uh last year or this current year the ready to learn block the foundation piece that was always there that's been $ 31,6 65 uh for uh the last as long as I I can recall and then the adequacy piece I touched on little bit there from the secondary Career and Technical Ed the
048total State increase would be about 419,000 I think this budget is going to go through I think this one's going to pass I don't know if it'll pass by the time you have to make a decision but I feel good about this it's not extravagant I can't imagine that there's going to be too much push back against the education piece in this budget however I will point out that 49,83664 while that's nice to get we it's already spoken for pretty much there is a proposal out there for a flat tuition model for cyber or for Charter Schools it's getting more traction than it has in previous years but I I really don't think it's it's going to get past this this year um it just it just seems these things always seem to fail right
049at the Finish Line I don't think it's going to get there if it did though that would be a big win for us and uh we can always hope but if uh right now the the main proposal that's out there is regular Ed at $8,000 flat and special ed uh with a multiplier that comes out to $3,120 I cranked that through this year's model uh where we're projecting this year to end we're projecting about 2.35 or 2.4 million in Cyber Charter costs tuition costs to the district which is sizable for a district art size and if I were to put those flat tuitions in that would save us between 1 and 1.5 million so that would be a big win for us it would be huge for us again I wouldn't hold all of our
050Collective breasts here waiting for this one to come through but it's certainly a proposal we should keep our keep our eyes on St Revenue here's just a detail I I won't go down through there the the really key points you see a lot of things in here like the transportation subsidy um the uh State share of retirement and the state share of of Social Security the plan con amount in there I don't really talk about those as Revenue sources because in order to get more Revenue we have to spend more money so in order to get more Social Security reimbursement we're spending more on salaries and consequently we're incurring more expenditures for for payroll tax same thing with the feesers so I don't really those are reimbursements not really flat out Revenue sources but we
051do show it as Revenue really they net against the expenditure account Federal uh I pointed this out before the SR funds in there uh from 2021 20 uh 22 23 and then into 23 24 they're dropping off it'll just be title funds moving forward and the Ida uh federal revenue looking at the expenditures by um function and so you can see the comparison there 3.27 increase in those the expenses by object get a look at those I won't go through each in detail you can see the change in in salaries though on the top line and the benefits costs that's the primary growth uh the the other the other growth is um special education costs I have a placeholder in there we're going to zero in on what that cost is going to be later
052on in the spring here uh but I do have a placeholder to increase that transportation we expect to go up several hundred, um keeping our eyes on electric there's a action item on the board agenda tonight to approve the uh the uh hedging agreement uh for uh electric U moving forward our current rates expire in November and so we're keeping our eyes on that the the high school's fully fun online now with the electric bill and uh the kilowatt hours used are coming in a lot higher than we'd expected and so to that end we're going to be having a an energy survey done at the high school to kind of pinpoint where that's coming from and what we can do to uh help contain that cost growth future forecast so looking ahead to 28
05329 uh we're looking back a couple years and then looking at the current year in light blue uh 2425 and then 2526 moving forward these numbers calculated with a uh 0% millage this year and assuming a 3% increase in 2627 through 28 29 and you can see the Red's generally not a good sign uh so so again we're a couple years out a lot of these estimates and these projections get toned in a little bit and usually get better uh than what we're looking at again this is just an impact of the inflationary pressure we've had on both of uh our supplies and purchases and then on the um wage side as well here's a look at that same forecast period using the various millage rates that you have available to you uh of course
054I have have them done by 1% but you can go anywhere in between those but that's kind of of the way it looks this is the first time I've shown this where it's been all red usually there's a little bit of green on here this is the first time we're showing all red and it's just indicative of the situation that a lot of schools are facing right now uh after the inflationary pressures and looking at their budget plans this year and real izing that uh those increased costs are starting to really take a toll on U on the budgets so with that any questions Ron you said that uh you do not have the Cyber or the special ed right B mixed in your budget yet oh the yeah those they're are placeholders in for
055that so I've estimated uh next year's cber Charter we do we do expect expected to come down we are seeing some decrease in our cyber enrollment so 21 million for the state that's in there oh you're talking about the reimbursement from the state uh no I don't have that buried in there there's no way I don't think that's going to pass the actual flat tuition I don't think that's going to pass and there's no more line item for the Cyber Charter transition cost what should we try to push as board members with our Representatives should we like the Cyber and the special education is those two that we want to I would say both I mean both both need help the the Cyber Charter needs reformed there's no reason for that not to be a
056flat tuition I heard about it but I didn't know they didn't you don't think it's going to make it through right now uh there's there's a lot of pressure from lobbyists when it comes to the the Cyber Charter stuff uh but it's getting more traction now than it ever has and so if something's going to happen I think this is the best chance this year and next year for something to occur with that but I mean if you think about it our tuition rate is based on our expenditure profile which is different than warwicks or different than e towns it really makes no sense because the actual cost of services to the Cyber Charter School is the same regardless of whether that student comes from town or Central and so just just from a standpoint
057of logic it makes no sense the way that formula is calculated and I think that formula is hung around more more for when it was brick and mortar type Charter Schools I don't think it was really built for cyber Charters and it needs updated badly charge special do you know with the state anybody know that well that's the the same I mean now it's going to be what Parson involved in that or I don't know if he's going to be on the education committee or not but uh so it depends on who gets on that committee but at the legislative breakfast think these are some of the our key talking points talking about special ed we're talking about cyber we're talking about certification issues that's the part I'm going to be speaking about but superintendants
058are going to speak about those other topics uh I'll be sending all of you a link to an article that Brian shared with us that it's saying that the Cyber Charters over the past four years have increased their profit margin by 450 million um which is it's you know none of us are playing it's not an even playing field so we're going to be continuing to address all those things but again like Brian said for that to get over the finish line there's a lot of influences on the other side too yeah are there gonna be some senators and representatives there yeah I don't know I don't know that we got the list yet of who will be attending but there are supposed to be um different politicians there from our region at least any
059other question no I'm just I'm wondering if we could uh study what the bill is that's going to be that Cyber Charter you you say it's already been discussed but we should do some research I don't know would that we need to put we need to identify the local representation belief or support yeah we can we can look for that and uh send you the information that we have in the next update with that article thank you yeah I think that's wise okay thank you you thank you Mr howlet the only other thing I have is the first read distribution of policies so please take a look at those before next month and that concludes my for thank you so taking the feedback from the board last month we made some edits to the school
060calendar reflective of your requests uh you all have that in your folder and we project a version of it here as well um so one thing to note is for anyone who's going to be looking at the calendar once it's pass the format is completely different so if you're used to looking at the color some of the colors have changed the symbols have changed but we did did that in order to try to make clear some of these changes that we've never done before um so primarily there you can see the P pieces that we about the changes you requested are in the month of September on the 18th you'll see that diagonal slash where the color is in the top left that is indicating our new 2hour delay that we're going to try versus
061for example October eight we have the yellow diagonal colored box in the bottom corner representing our early distance for students so that's just some symbology for families to get used to in this new calendar format the main things here that as you mentioned um last month that were were added were those three uh late starts in September December and April the other changes we made was that we took April 3 and we turned that into a excuse me March 13th and turned that into a no school day um and then we left our makeup days as April 6th June 5th and June 8th which we would anticipate we would not need for students uh because of the change to the 990 hours but we would need for staff to make it to their 190 day
062contract other than that the calendar oh there's one other change the you'll see the July holiday was marked on the 4th of July which obviously is on the fourth of July but will be celebrated by us on the 7th of July as the 4th of July is a non-working day in the summer of we don't work on Fridays so employees will get that holiday on the Monday any questions on the calendar so you'll see that later in the general actual item this evening Switching gears the second item on my report is just to kind of give you the update when we are finally at our delivery point with the K to2 comprehensive School counseling plan and to give you a little bit of an introduction on this um our uh School counseling team has been
063working on this probably for the last 16 months um from starting their planning process to bringing it to a committee um the committee some of you were on this committee as you know uh it involved parents and teachers administrators government officials Schoolboard members uh members from the Collegiate level and also business members they got together to look at two primary things our Mental Health Data was the focus meeting number one and then the second uh piece was our College and Career pathway that that we looked at in meeting number two and I have um Dr M Dy here this evening um who is our lead counselor she's going to talk a little bit about the process uh that we went and what we are deliv hello thank you all um uh my name is m
064ddy i um just want to um share that this uh 339 um committee um planning year was excellent um we had really great feedback from parents community members Schoolboard members administrators we even had um a student um really share and it really helped our team um develop goals that we're really excited um to begin implementing um through this year um pte kind of changed some things and how 339 um was done for this planning year so uh typically it was mostly just concentrated on our career goals but we were able to incorporate some other aspects of our um our our role in our programming and I think it really helped um allow for um some pretty good conversations um in making those goals thank you thank you so what you'll see kind of in the
065result of that for those of you that are interested you can look through the 56 page plan in detail if you'd like a summary um the the big goals they have are in three areas the academic goal is really to look at our tier two level intervention for students to make sure they're successful their career goal is to make sure that students are not only um participating in our career um awareness activities but really the parent engagement was a huge focus of the work of the work for the next three years and the last cor category is personal and social and as you know we have a goal here that every student that goes through Manheim feels connected to the community um and so all of the the goals there are Center centered around 100%
066of our Learners feeling connected to that school community and known that they're cared about socially and emotionally here so really proud of this team for their work really proud of Christina for her leadership of this and really appreciative to those of you that served on that committee to allow this work to happen you'll see that this plan is up for approval which is a function of what needs to happen for to the state which is the next step is there a deadline to get it to the state you have some more time to yes um the deadline to get it to the state is March 23rd March 23rd would bring it to this meeting to be able to process things and everything go get mixed up it's also online for the public if anyone wants
067to know we try to be transparent about that so it's posted for those who would like to know more I started I'm about halfway through so I got to one standard so ask is like the National Organization for school counselors and what they would recommend for the ratio to be um one of the areas where we are high in our in our ratio for counselor to student is at the middle school where we have the same number of students as the high school but one through our counselor uh and that's something we are looking to address well mental health is also higher at the middle school naturally developmentally you can imagine that's the age a lot of kids are wrestling with a lot of different things so that's not a um a cut on our
068Middle School it's just a kind of a fact of the developmental stages that's where we see a lot of the need there so I know that our middle school counselors are spending a lot of time in the mental health with their students any other questions question about the comprehensive plan for counseling right that concludes my report thank you thank you Dr Katon yes so um tonight we get to approve four different topics topic a b c and d it's the financial statements budget transfers for January approval monthly invoices for January approval for high school renovations voices and approval of the athletic field change order did meet with Brian few times over the last uh four weeks and and these reports have been completed with the best practices of the of the school team so my
069recommendation is to approve these reports as is we wanted to open it up for any questions that did have would you like to make a motion on make a motion to I'll second second all right do we have any questions or concerns if not all in favor opposed very good one last thing would be so Brian you went through the initial report on the budget can you just review the timeline that we have for uh yeah we're we're still uh finalizing uh departmental budgets when we finalize that we'll be back again in at the March board meeting uh with another budget presentation a little bit more in depth and then uh there'll be a committee presentation in April and then in may we have our board budget Workshop so we'll have the extensive uh in
070preparing for the proposed final budget approval at the next meeting that guess a week after the board budget Workshop so that's where we're at right now cranking through the numbers as we get them and and making labor adjustments one of the biggest things to kind of go in next will be based on our our labor plan and and how we uh uh approach the uh strategy of uh Staffing for next year I did want to point out on the uh High School construction invoices that the plumbing contract is now completed uh the uh and the HVAC and the electrical contract those are final applications there so um we're just about there just a few things left on the punch list for the for the GC and uh and we'll we'll wrap up that project thank
071you that's it excuse me board committee reports Mr lender uh nothing to report except our next uh scheduled meeting is April 14th at 4M thank you um academic committee this walker is not here today but anybody talk to not well I'll just share that our next meeting uh is gonna be taking place on May 5th now and that's before just so everyone knows board members that's the before the board workshop for budget so if you were interested in academic you come a little early the board workshop on budget is strictly budget so that's not going to be quite as long of a meeting as normal okay activities report s nick uh all I need to do is we need to follow up from last uh month's board meeting we need to approve the three clubs
072that I talked about the track and field winner track uh com club and just looking for a motion to approve those three do have one question on the CLE ball Club did we figure figure out about Transportation other than one person able to be transporting yeah we we spoke to them about like primary and secondary PL Transportation they would have that left out okay and she actually is holding off until next year you like on approval just because of the timing of getting it on set up so she'll have to let me get that situated okay thank question I have before we go uh are we all taking the high school common [Music] Club yeah looking for a motion to approve those three I'll make a motion second any question all in favor I and
073our our next meeting is April 14th at 5:00 p.m. 5 p.m. very good okay um General action items I would like to have a motion for a through V I'll make a motion have a second any questions ready all in favor thank you and I think we can take H row I'll second and just one comment I do appreciate that we're starting to look at doing rfps on more things it's uh hopefully with that mentality we'll save some additional dollars to the taxpayers so thank you bran and everybody that was a part of that we have any other questions or comments before we take the vote okay all in favor motion for H through o to uh board reports Mr Mrs Beach be 11 I we had our last meeting on the February 12th because
074of the weather they have a virtual meeting our next meeting will be March 12 I have [Music] nothing thank you TTC Mr Gart you I don't want you think I'm in a lame duck session here but I I have we have one school left to do that's will Street and we do have 16 students down there 16 that's a lot for down there and they're all four days uh I have a meeting set up on March 6 to go meet with them and interview down there uh we're coming we have a board meeting Thursday night and we're coming real close to getting the director getting there so I will keep you up updated and I'll have something for next meeting okay very good uh Mrs gri the psba legislative report psba is offering us an
075an opportunity to take some of the concerns that we've been talking about as far as budget um to our legislators and their staff so on May 13th there will be an advocacy day and that's a time when the school directors and superintendent and also business managers can can meet with the legislators and some of their staff and just have some of these dialogues about things that are challenging uh as far as dealing with our budgets and and making them work um if that's something that you're interested in you can register through my psba and then they'll actually uh schedule times for you to meet with the legislator so you can have that specific time slot to be able to talk with them so good opportunity is that May 13th it is May 13th yeah be
076a good thing to kind of get together on do you think yeah I think concentrated the better and even you know shout out to our team with the legislative breakfast uh they had to add seats because so many of us were interested in going so I think that speaks really powerfully about where our heads are at in man Central I think there's going to you know this I'm saying I think there's going to be a lot of changes coming and I think the more we can put in I was just thinking if we had some kind of letter that we just a you know just a regular boilerplate letter that we might need after your meeting you'll know a lot more I think that we could get out to like us and us to our
077friends and then I could take them to the 16 school districts when I go to CTC down there and get you know I know them so we can get them on board and we can get a lot of a lot of stuff out so the iu13 is doing a nice job with that too I'll meet with them later this week to prepare for the legislative breakfast and I know that Matt stem has plans to do like the letter email campaign as well so I'll have more information after this week and after legislative breakfast so seeing all the red scared me but I'd be interested in something if somebody's gone you know few of us get together or whatever they're probably gonna put I would imagine they'll probably already put talking points and stuff together they
078said that they will provide information for us because they call him a day on the hill so okay several Industries and different things do that so see so I'm in I'm in on that could do that okay other I'll go then to LX County Academy which is um we're actually almost busting at the seams with two buildings but uh that will be down the road um I will be going to one of the um schools this upcoming week with Dr ax um Amanda will be making a invitation to come here and and speak um and I she's a pretty Dynamic speaker uh for these kids and if You' make arrangements and you want to go see her in her and kids I you know I was there with the last executive director and the kids
079were heads down tapping their windows or their you know whatever and you in there now and it's an all together all together different I mean they're all working and uh so we're you our kids are doing real well we had graduation mid year and we don't know how many going to graduate at the end of the year but uh they're all working hard um and that's all I have any any questions for me for informational items they have the enrollment report the upcoming school board meeting say this rather quietly March 24th ready where where did the mon go we need a journ what that do the comment I had one comment oh yeah I had that last I'm sorry the meeting with you that place that a place I was really impressed with the the
080Learners of the month I always like that I like the kids but I mean I got my eye on Dean the little guy heard at the end he said he'd like to be like a vet so I'm going to put a hook in him for CTC down Road you might you might have a trouble with that because uh there a lot going on uh well there's a lot going on here at Manheim and he may he may get to deliver so yeah and the second one Bailey uh that was really impressive she's with the F yeah FFA right and I'd just like to recommend if we can know if it's possible to do it'd be kind of cool to make that one of the board or members to have a something that brings like we
081do at this GTC or any of the other ones I'd like to see that you something from them don't we do it once in a while but not we have an a committee yeah um Dr Whit so myself and Mr Claire are on it meets quarterly and since it's kind of part of our school it's a little different it's it's not necessarily an offshoot but we could you know feature some of the things that they're doing you know a little more try to promote it but yeah they're I think it's really good it's a big part Co I mean everybody you know when I go to the other school districts it's we're really good there are a lot of people crying out there [Music] when I'm just saying if that's a possibility for one something
082every month on that yeah I think our next meeting is Monday night right Dr whito this coming Monday is our next a meeting IEM it's in my calendar so maybe it's yeah students are awesome it's just I was gonna Echo what chip they just amazing like that I'm grateful to be part of and just you don't always know of them you don't meet them but hear in their what they stand up there even the athletes and all the students they be 12 that they're they're humble and kind and yeah that was really that was really nice what Dave did I I was I was very pleased with what Dave did brought he brought some athletes brought activities together even last two that spoke for the student council and what all they all they serve like
083all impressive that's awesome very so Dr ax is there a logical um event that we could invite all the students of the month that have been awarded and their parents to come to it's more like a social because it would be fun to sort of pull the threads a little bit more sort of make it a little bit couple years ago uh we dismissed them they they had cookies out here and but I understand what you're we have love to think about it I know a lot of them not the Learners of the month but a lot of the featured kids will be recognized at our WS night because they're in that same group uh and the end of the year is a little tricky to celebrate because we're celebrating a lot so I would
084have we'd have to think about how we would do that but it's it's a neat idea to honor all the kids that came through each year maybe beginning of the year or something yeah I we have to think about it that's a it's a great idea I'd have to think how it would look must take charge to put it together we put a board committee together second but I appre I do I I appreciate our kids and what I said you know the role modeling that they do you know these are our best and brightest and you know Kesha can speak to it because she's at the high school was at the high school Dr whito um but it starts at kindergarten and prek and works all the way up and it's something we're really
085proud of I have uh two last things one last thing would you like me to give you the score every why me everything I had one other thing but I can't remember what it was anybody have anything else I just texted uh coach Han to see what the score is so we can maybe get the girls score if the girls win they play at the Giant Center they like yeah oh yeah and when do we have for uh M yes me J We're W for a baseball score oh we're winning 1611 basketball yeah girls basketball's up 1611 thank you everybody