001Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> May I have a roll call, please? Lamar Broington >> here. >> Jaclyn Catalini >> here. >> Dave May >> here. >> David Murray >> here. >> Stephanie Smith >> here. >> Kevin Smith. >> Mr. Smith is running late. He'll be joining us later. >> Sarah Stern >> here. >> Diamond Getty >> here. >> And Damon Miller >> here. Introduction of others present. >> Dr. Andrew Der, superintendent of schools. >> Deos, business manager. David Trullov, Sister Hill Wall. >> Uh we did uh have not had we have not had an executive session uh either before. >> Oh,
002we do have one. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. >> Yeah. Mr. House advised me that at the conclusion of the last meeting, you had an executive session from 7:55 p.m. to 8:05 p.m. Uh in attendance were all four members of the board along with Mr. Hower. Two items will discussformational items and personnel and again that executive session concluded at 8:05 p.m. Now would note that Mr. Smith has just entered the room at 618. >> Uh why don't we move on to the uh facilities report? >> Sure. At this time there's nothing new occurring with uh facilities. We have I can give you an update that we have um obviously uh with our contracting for the mowing of our properties and the maintenance outside the building. We are looking at projects for the summer which would include
003bleacher repair down at the the football field. Um and as well as maintenance of some of the other areas down there uh just to upgrade some things to avoid any potential uh pitfalls or possible injuries over the summer and into next fall sports season. Um, we are also continuing to look at, I believe, the core states work for the coils that were fabricated for the two classrooms. I believe that work has been completed. I will double check. We have serviced the air conditioning. However, at this point, we have not turned it on yet. In terms of running it uh in the district and I let our uh Mr. Cohen know that once we had a stretch forecasted stretch of weather that would necessitate that that we would go ahead and and start that. So, uh,
004to this point though, the weather has been very agreeable as it's only in the 50s today, uh, for not running that to this point. So, um, we're continuing to work out some, uh, things with our shipping and receiving and supplies and materials that come in in terms of, uh, distribution into different buildings. And that's something I'm working out with them in terms of uh, job responsibilities and clarifying some concerns on that end. Um the only other thing that we are waiting on is still waiting on final word regarding uh the roof uh and the grant and when we can proceed uh in that direction as well. And that concludes facilities for this evening. Mr. May, do you have any questions or being the chair? Um you were talking about the lawn service for looking to
005contract differently or not not with a different contractor or but as far as their scope of work. >> No, not the scope of work. What we had last year was um the if I remember correctly going back to the uh turf tank conversation that it would uh free up considerable amounts of time for a lot of the uh lawn servicing to be done in house. Um due to some recent conversations over the last several weeks that has shifted uh and there's no longer uh I guess a desire for that work to be completed during the day as it is starting to interfere with uh other duties for um certain people in their positions. So we are back to contracting out for our our lawn service at this time. Any other questions regarding facilities? Okay. Uh
006at this time we are going to uh break for a or recess recess for uh an executive session. Um we will come back with the details upon our return. Um but we will be back as soon as we can. Thank you. We are uh back in session after our executive session. Mr. True Love, you have the details on that one. Uh yes, Mr. President. The executive session started at 6:21 included 651. All members who were present will press the executive session along with Dr. Doster, Mr. Powsky, and myself. Items related to personnel and collective bargaining were discussed at the executive session. Thank you. Um, okay. We're going to move on to our finance committee reports. Mrs. Betty, you're the chair. Well, I don't think it's on me. I think it's on Miss Powski to give
007us any updates. We'll be reviewing over our um actual budget for this year 425. Just a little bit of an overview. If you open the PowerPoint deck, we'll be able to see the total revenues received here to date. We have budgeted at 26,113. Just to note that it also includes the 26 million113 includes the cafeteria revenues in there. Um, and year to date received 22,437 571. So, we can see we're short roughly about 3.6 6 million or so in revenues. >> Can I can I answer a question in regard to that? That revenue is primarily from where? >> The the main revenue is from local, state, federal subsidies. This also includes the amount of sale that we received, >> right? But the deficit is that primarily from local is >> well we can see the
008local we have a difference of roughly around 900k the state we have a difference uh we have not received the latest subsidies yet which would be receiving June 1st which would be May 30th to be exact we'll be receiving the final subsidies that will also hit our IU transportation into that subsidy so we in a reduced amount um so that would be reflected in their um federal as well. Not all type of funds have been received. Not entirely uh central to one has been received yet. So this will be coming in. So we can we can see that part is included in the other option. We can see that that's a little bit about that option. >> Okay. So on our our local revenue that was based off of >> uh local business sorry local
009real estate taxes delinquent taxes transfer transfer taxes as well. >> Okay. Are >> all taxes? >> Okay. So the 900 some thousand that we're behind. Do we know if that's >> I would have to provide you a breakdown. >> You don't know where that's coming. >> Yeah. It's between one of the lines, but mainly it's out of the real estate taxes. >> Okay. So, we're close in regards to our collection rate. >> Uh I believe it was a 93%. >> Say that again. >> It was at 93% collection rate versus 95% collection. We are budgeting. >> We budgeted 95. We're about 93. >> I believe it was about 93. >> Okay, that's right. Thank you. Um the next page we see a breakdown of the total expenses combined including um salary benefits, departmental accounts and
010um other accounts. U we can see that the other accounts which actually includes charters. We'll see that that um is almost close to reaching the full actuals versus budget and we still got another almost like month and a half left, right? Because this was the beginning of May. Um so the department counted we can see the increment of 1.3 that includes the bucks county bill so that has not been paid that will paid in the next fiscal year's revenue but back to this fiscal year so you can see that difference in there as well um and obviously we get six more weeks of pay to hit the salary benefit lines but what this is not accounting for is the lump sum that goes in in June for teachers um for anyone that it's taken 10
011months versus 12 months pay. This is not included for any extra curriculum activities um as well and also it's not included in our July and August which gets approved back to this fiscal year. So this number will change mainly sometime in August September you'll see a true full number of the salary benefits in here. So the next one is a breakdown of um the salaries and benefits by professional staff, support staff, administration, athletics and other and as you can see the other part which is the extra credit or any stipens that has not hit the end of June. You'll see that number be calculated once it goes through in June that's when the stipens goes out. Um then the next one will see departmental expenses account. Uh we have special education and as you can
012see special education is right now 2.7 million in order to take expenses with encumbrances of 1,183 again the majority of that is county IU bill but you can see that is pretty high or region if not exceeding we'll have um secondary that is pretty on point with give or take I'll have to look at their um incumbrances and see maybe those pe orders have been paid but not liquidated so there something to work on Um we can see that facilities is reaching their budget if not exceeding by end of June. Technology it's the big difference we've been talking about throughout the year. We budget for 126. We are so far in 291,000. This is the difference. Um the business office as well, but that could be also some contract. We do have rental contracts that
013were perhaps not budgeted correctly, but they actually are coming in higher. And as you can see for the districts, we are pretty on point if not under. >> Can I ask a very rudimentary question? >> Why is the secondary department budget so much more than elementary? >> Within the secondary budget, we also have athletics that are included in that as well as the supplies and materials for some of the things that occur in different sciences. And there's just a a greater need in terms of those materials at the secondary level. >> Secondary also includes 73. >> Yeah. >> Um we have other expense accounts where we considered technical school. Um we are we had one payments left which you'll see in your approval of bill payments next week. We have a G5 curriculum. You'll see
014that in the G5 we had money carried over from last year to this year, but we only budgeted for 150. So that has been all straightened out and aligned with with G5. We did the full withdrawal. So that's the reason why you see the the differences. We did revision their budget with G5 state. As you can see, PCC grant has not been fully received yet. Um that services has been paid. I made the final payment for this bill payments which you'll be approving next week. You can uh see chart the tuitions we budget for 1.3 million. You'll see the actual year to date is 1.8 million. So that's a huge difference. Title as you can see not fully received. The nutrition not fully received or paid yet. >> Under the charter tuitions do we know
015how many of them are cyber? I'll have to differentiate and do that analysis. >> And do we receive any type of money back? >> So the total we have received back if we go back in. So that is 59,000. It's under the additional revenue piece. So the other 59,000 is due to be received on June 14th. >> So out of 1 8 million, >> we're getting 59,000 >> so far. But another thing I have is a 118 we are receiving in total and again this is just to reiterate for the budget for 2526 I did add that into our revenue piece but again in the governor Shapiro's proposal that has been to be taken off so we left it on our budget so that could be a minus for us >> but it was well
016>> is it possible that it's being taken off because of possibility of the flat tuition? That's what they're that's what they're going back and forth on. It's such a label, so we won't know for sure. >> Okay. >> I'd just like to make a comment for the public if anybody watches this. That is $1.8 million our district has to spend on students that don't even go to our physical schools. So, please contact your state representatives and ask for charter charter school reform. Thank you. Well, I would also include that the tuition that we're paying is different from our neighbors, >> right? Higher >> because it and it's higher. >> If you're if you're really interested, look up the uh calculations on on the formula they use to determine how each district pays the tuition for
017charter schools. That will really blow your minds. >> Sure. Thank you. So this is just an overview of where we stand as of May 9th, 2025 when this actual will be announced. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Does that conclude the committee? >> That would conclude our committee. >> Trying to defer Okay. Um I assume no other questions regarding any of the slides. All right. Uh moving to public comment on agenda items only for this evening. We have one we do have one action item but we have no public. So, uh, action item 4.1, a motion is in order to approve and adopt a resolution approving the 2025 through 26 proposed final budget and authorizing public inspection and advertisement for the final budget notice as presented. So, move on 4.1. Do I have a second?
018>> Second by Mrs. Getty. Any discussion? I'll just state for the uh record that this doesn't include a 4.8% tax increase. >> I'd also like to leave another note for the public that if you are unhappy with the taxes that you pay to support the school here within your community, you should take it up with your state representatives. do a little research into how the funding is decided. Um, compare our district to the bureau, which is roughly the same size. Look at how much more money they get than we do. Um, and uh, and again, take it up with your state representatives because they are the only ones that have the power to change it. Thank you. >> So, um, I did a little digging. Our funding formula is based off of census data. Census
019data that is not controlled by any particular government entity uh other than those who respond to the surveys on a annual basis uh provided by the US Census Bureau. >> And I'm sorry, how are how is the census data collected? by a survey. >> But is it how how do they determine >> I guess they just send it to targeted households within our population? >> I'm saying when when PTE uses that data are h where are they how are they determining which of those surveys belong to which school district? >> I'm about to >> Excellent. So, uh, our current year, uh, budget is based off of the years 2021, 22, and 23. Uh, to the best of my knowledge, it is based off of, uh, those who live within the actual burrow of Morrisville. to
020the best of my knowledge. Um, one of the items that is taken into consideration for the funding formula for the state uh is uh the number of households. In 2021, the number of households that were reported in the bureau was 4,13. In 2023, it went down to 3,940, which uh is a drop of 73 households altogether. Now, to the best of my knowledge, I don't think Mrs. Olirri has kicked over any lanterns to create a major fire here in Morrisville, nor have we had a devastating earthquake. We've had minor ones, but we never had a major one. So, uh, to to see a drop of 73 households, uh, in our small burrow, um, seems odd. When you, another item that is factored into the, um, budget, uh, excuse me, for the basic education funding formula
021is the median household. The median household in 2021 was 81,028. The median household for 2023 is $94,126, which is an increase of $13,98. So again, that's the median. That's the middle. 50% are below, 50% are high. Same thing with the number or the number of households I don't believe is so now I don't want to partic particularly sound like I'm picking on a particular demographic but there is a demographic in listed in Morrisville that had the number of households within the 20s. Then in 2023 it went up by over 100 or close to 100. >> 120. So it went up by 100ish. Their household again the median household listed the first two years was not reported because to the best of my knowledge it was too minimal. But in the third year it was listed
022and again this is the median the middle the median was $23,049. Now to make this even worse there is a margin of error. The margin of error is 90% of the median. Is that correct, Mr. Getty? >> It's based on the standard error. So 90% confidence. >> Okay. 90% confidence, which the margin of error is $174,870, which means that the actual income could be as low as 28,000. or as high as $377,000. >> That's for 142, >> right? >> In our district. So much like our test scores, when you have a class of say 70 kids and 14 of them do poorly on a test, you're now at 20% below proficient. 14 kids in a larger district hardly moves the needle. When you have households dropping by 73 and income going up as high as
023third almost 14 thou or excuse me a little over 13,000 and you have these wacky that's putting it politely margin of errors with household incomes that are and and listen I'm not knocking anybody. If you make that amount of money congratulations more power to you. But it's those numbers are affecting our budgets, our funding, which affects our budgets. And while there was all of this talk about a new funding formula and being unconstitutional, basically all that they did was take the same data, move it around a little bit because they're still using the same skewed numbers. We're fighting an uphill battle. And >> I'm tired of it. So basically the state is pulling information from this federal database assuming that that database is accurate, pulling it into their funding formula and then determining how much
024funding each district receives. And if in our investigation of this just our burrow, the question is how many other districts are also way off in the funding that should be received and how accurate is this funding formula? Is it truly representative of the demographics of each of the school districts in the state? It really brings into question the validity of the funding. And I don't know how else to put it. And like Mr. Miller said, we're fighting an uphill battle because as long as we're pulling the data from that database that is so skewed, nothing's going to change. And if this data is skewed, there's other data in regards to poverty, things of that nature that show, for example, Bristol Burrow, not picking on them. They get $4 million more in state funding than we
025do. More power to them, but they're showing higher poverty levels. As far as we're showing higher poverty levels, but they're receiving more funding because based up off of whatever numbers are being reported in our reports. So, I don't like raising taxes. I pay them. We all pay them. We're not, you know, some people think, oh, you know, do you do you live in Morrisville? It's, yeah, you do. We do. You have to to be on this board. And this is it's it's it's almost honestly I wish I didn't go down this route. I would have been happier not knowing And the only way that we can make this up is by raising taxes. And it seems like to the fullest extent every year start other procedures by law we're required to have a you know
026balanced budget. We we you know we don't want the thought of Dr. Doster going to jail. So we have to balance the budget. We have legitimately >> so you knowification actually I >> we have to be you know so yes we have to none of us likes raising taxes none of us likes paying the raised taxes but we have to balance a budget and until somebody hears us in Harrisburg and actually does something to correct it on a permanent basis is instead of year to year, this is going to be the same story every May and every June. So, like Mr. Stern was saying, if this is an issue, contact your state representatives. They are the only ones who can fix this. And trust me, we are reaching out. We are talking to them. It
027takes more than just us. Any other discussion regarding 4.1? >> All right. Hearing none, I believe we should probably have a roll call vote on this. >> Correct. >> Brown. >> I >> Jacqueline Cadilli. Yes. >> Dave May. >> No. >> David Murray. >> Yes. >> Stephanie Smith. >> No. >> Kevin Smith. >> No. >> Sarah Stern. >> Yes. >> Donna Getty. >> Yes. >> Damon Miller. >> Yes. Motion carries. 72. Right. Moving on to our agenda for next week. Once it opens up, I'll be uh outside of our uh usual uh reports uh from our committees and liaison. Uh we look like we have a student spotlight uh for Eagle Scout within our community. Um and then uh we have our reports from our administration as well, enrollment figures and so forth. Action items
0288.1 will be which will be a consent motion for 8.2 and 8.3. 8.2 2. A motion is in order to approve the minutes from the April 16th, 2025 work session meeting. 8.3 A motion is in order to approve the minutes from the April 23rd, 2025 business meeting. Any discussion regarding either one of those items? Are we okay with keeping them as a consent motion? >> Yes. >> Okay. Uh moving on on to action items under education uh 10.2. The motion is in order to approve the SAS is it SABS uh my view literacy curriculum and professional development in the amount of $111,843 for 3 years as presented and that is grant funded. and 10.3 a motion is in order to approve the 2025 2026 Head Start memorandum of understanding as presented. Any uh discussion questions
029regarding either 10.2 or 10.3 is is 10.2 the the is that the total cost over the three years or is that >> that's the total >> total cost. Okay. >> And just to state that was already in the incumbances in the actual versus budget. Okay. >> And that's under >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> I'd just like to add if when we have stuff under education, if we could review it first in the committee. I don't think the committee looked at these first. I read over all of them. They they seem fine, but I think that's helpful. >> This was actually approved a year ago. The timeline was established last spring for when this material these materials will be ordered. So these were >> this was Yeah. >> Yes. Any other discussion under education? None.
030Moving on to uh human resources. There's nothing there. Business operations. We'll have our investment and treasurers report as well as the payment of bills which will be listed um which is standard for uh this uh for each month. 12.7 A motion is in order to approve the legal services consultation agreement with Sweet Stevens Cats and Williams for the 202526 school year in the amount of $11,025 as presented 12.8. A motion is in order to approve the Bucks Mount, excuse me, Bucksmont Academy placement agreement for the 2526 school year as presented. 12.9. A motion is in order to approve the Bucks County Intermediate Unit number 22, 202526 special education services agreement as presented. 12.10 Motion is in order to approve the 2526 service agreement with Lakeside Youth Services as presented. 12.11 motion is in order to
031approve the 2526 client agreement with Delta TR as presented which is uh provides our power professional services 12.12 a motion is in order to approve the 2526 service agreement with criticare as presented for substitute nurse services 12.13 a motion is in order to approve the 2526 service order in agreement with pimp people LLC as presented. 12.14 A motion is in order to approve the settlement agreement with student XL. 12.15 A motion is in order to approve the master services agreement uh for student XM as presented. Any questions or discussion regarding any of those items under business operations? Um, I just had a question under on 1214. There's no amount listed in that document that we're >> looking at. We're looking at >> we'll get the amounts. >> Thank you. Yeah. >> Any other questions, discussion
032regarding any of the items under business? >> 12.10 the lakeside youth services. Do we have a number of slots? Similarly, I wasn't sure how much that actually cost us the cost is >> or how many slots if I understood it correctly. how many slots we have and then after that be it comes pretty >> supposed to be for one day counselor should be roughly around 97,000 >> I can get you another slides >> right because this one isn't this one's not for the counselor right is this one for their placement at the different schools they Maybe I didn't understand. >> I'll give you number. >> Okay. Maybe I don't understand. >> But from my understanding, it should be at 97,000 for one day council and it should be covered by PCC. >> I don't see
033the price in there at all. >> Just like before, you know, we sign it. What exactly was how much is it? Any other discussion regarding any of the items under business or finance? >> Are the settlements new or these like continuing students or business own? >> These are these are settlements that we've been aware of for the last several months. This is just the finalization of them. >> Okay. Anything else? Going once, going twice. Are you still Is everybody good? >> Yep. >> Everybody's good. Okay. Want to I want to make sure everybody has their opportunity. Uh all right. Then moving under policy. Uh two action items. Um 13.2. A motion is in order to approve the second read of the policies listed below. Uh 13.3 talks about approving administrative regulations, but I don't believe
034uh we have any uh if they are, they'll be added um under either there or new business wherever they have to be added. Um any questions regarding policies? I'll be working with Miss Waters tomorrow to end the first read for the policies. So that'll be uh 15.1 that we see under new business. We just did not have the time to get it before the meeting hearing. No questions regarding policies or under new business. So uh public comment for non-aggenda items. We have again no public here and we have nothing under announcements. So I guess we have Does anybody have any other announcements that they want to add before we adjourn? All right. Motion to adjurnn. So move. Do I have a second? >> Second by Miss Schmidt. All in favor? >> I oppose. Abstain. Motion
035carries. 90. Thank you everyone. Good night.