001Thank you, Mrs. Sch. It is 6:06. I am calling to order the special board meeting of the preliminary budget. Mrs. Schul, may we get a roll call, please? Yes. Amy Levy here. Tom Henkins cannot be with us this evening. Brian Nichols >> here. >> Megan Miller, >> present. Joanne Rue >> here, >> Juan Romero >> here, >> and Tia Johnson >> here. >> All members are present except Tom Henkins. >> Thank you. May I get an approval of the agenda? >> So moved. >> Second. Motion by Brian Nichols, seconded by Amy Levy. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I >> I >> Motion carries unanimously. Please stand for the pledge of >> allegiance. [Applause] To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under
002God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Our first item tonight or only item tonight is the 2025 preliminary budget review and approval. Dr. Garrison and Mrs. Elwood. >> All right. Well, so thank you um Board President Johnson and members of the board. So, this is one of those things that we have to do every year um for more more of a procedural opportunity, but we have to have our preliminary budget that's been presented once before, actually two times now. um in the um in in regular settings as it pertains to our budget for the upcoming school year. One of the things that I want to say like I shared yesterday with the committee was there's a lot of work that as this there's been a lot of work that we've put into this overall
003conversation over the year. I'd like to thank the U business office for everything that's happened in that space. Miss Lwood, thank you for you know the assistance that you've provided the school district lawyer and myself and of course the team as well. Um naturally the cabinet has also played a heavy part in this conversation and when we're thinking about budgets there's a lot of different um opportunities that we have and everyone plays a heavy part of it and then of course to the board um naturally you have set out to you know have balanced budgets each year um since I've since I've arrived and here's another space in which we um have been been able to kind of cross the line and not necessarily cross the line because there's still some things we got to
004get you know taken care of in this space um but overall um I believe we've presented a very strong budget um that we believe we've um done a lot of work in to the school district overall naturally. Um there's also a lot of people that works not just in front of the scenes, also behind the scenes, but also in the classrooms and people all throughout the school district. And so again, I know this has been a, you know, a hard hard go at budgets and budget conversations here in the school district, but I want to make sure everyone knows that um it is our goal to get this right. And by getting it right, that means that we need everybody to be moving in the same direction and so and moving together. And so with
005that being stated, this preliminary budget is kind of what we have here. Um, uh, I will kick us off and just kind of go over some just generalities with the conversation. One being that there is a budget summary page that we've provided the full board um this information and the goal here is to look at the total revenues being 107 107 million and then your total expenses um equaling that out and that brings you to that balanced budget conversation. The two main funds that we use in this space is um our fund 10 and our special education fund fund 27. Those funds pretty much drive a lot of budgetary operations. And so that's why you see those two being represented here. The key budgetary factors that you've seen and this this has been an ongoing
006conversation. I think one of the things that we've done a real good job at is reminding the county of the board of our declining membership um over 3 years time frame. And every year this this conversation looks a little different from us. For us I will say you know after the third year you're one of those years drops off right. And so my hopes is that we have another strong year membership. When I say strong year, something that keeps us above that 5,000 number or right around that 5,000 number. That's been a number that I've been sharing, [Music] excuse me, that's been a number that I've been sharing um since my arrival that we kind of need to float around that number to keep everything kind of, you know, moving in the direction that I
007think we need to go based off of our budget. Um naturally, there's a general state general aid. Um currently currently reflects estimated aid amounts about $62 million. Naturally, other key budgetary factors in this conversation is that we are looking to have a salary increase of 1.5 pending negotiations with the BEA. Um that that is definitely underway still. Um and the employee monthly health insurance contribution which remains to be at 44%. That's another big place big um I'd say cost that we have in this budget as well. Um our hopes is also that we look at all of our budget and look at different ways in which we can not necessarily have to impact the classroom, right? And so when you look at the overall budget and you'll see a lot of different moving pieces, um
008our goal is still to do as much as we can not to impact the classroom. And so we had to expense increase in utilities and transportation. And of course there's been reductions in our staffing and contracted services. The next slide, we've presented this slide to you all. This has been this is a slide that we shared back in June um June 30th. Yes, there's still moving pieces. Dr. Real, I'm sorry. Do you want questions now or at at the end? >> Um we can take questions as we go. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Thank you for asking the question. >> So, back to the key budgetary factors. >> Sure. >> Um the expenses for for charter school and local private vouchers estimated 236. Is that a is that a gross number or a net number after
009after re revenues to cover some of that? >> That that's the increase from last year to this year. >> Okay. >> An increase. Yes. Okay. >> Last year to this year. >> Okay. And feel free just uh let me know if you have any questions if that's okay. Um board president Johnson, we can just pause and answer questions. All right. Cool. Oh, I just wanted to clarify um just on the previous slide for key key budgetary factors um the salary increase of 1.5 pending negotiations with BA that's that's the placeholder amount right now. >> Correct. That's the amount that the board has discussed in public and approved. Yes, >> I just wanted to clarify that in case anybody was confused. So, thank you. >> All right. And so as we continue with the conversation, the
010the budget reductions, this slide is again a repeated slide that we've shown as it pertains to just some of the things that we've had to do to get to this space here in the budget. Um naturally, you see that $3.3 million number at the bottom. I'm not going to go through each of those um positions, and we know that when you see those positions leave this district, for whatever reasons, naturally, that's a person or a position that we've had to reduce. and the work that all of these positions come with, of course, is shifted throughout our district. And so, again, um it's definitely a heavy load that we have to lift here in the school district. The next slide, we have the other budget adjustments that we've had to make. Um naturally, we've had the
011conversation and still working through the conversation as it pertains to assistant principles to deans. Um, of course, we also had to do some reclassification of our director of facilities position. Um projected increase of about $79,000 there. um budget reductions. One of the the key places here is that, you know, when you're looking at budget, you know, savings across the school district, you're looking at a lot of different areas. And one of the spaces have been in our cleaning services, our technology services, and of course, we've also had to use some of the OPED fund. Now, I want to just make this note now, and Mrs. um um Mrs. Elwood will bring this up as well. In our previous budget, we had you earmarked about $2 million in our OPED funds. Um, and um, I'm proud
012to say that we didn't have to use those $2 million in this in this conversation. And so, um, again, Mrs. Lwood is going to touch on a little bit of that in this conversation. And so, I'd like to thank the board for allowing us to look at that and use that conversation to get to where we needed to get to last year. But as I really and I hate to say promised, but one of the things I really wanted to do is not have to use those funds if we didn't have to. And that's kind of where we are right now. Later in the presentation, um just to let you all know, we are um fairing on the positive side. You can go to the next slide. Thank you. We are fairing on the positive
013side for this school year coming in at a little over $500,000. But again, Mrs. Lwood to share some of that information with you all as well. So, the board has some extra little money um to to move and to decide how we want to use those funds um in the upcoming budget conversation. Additional budget um adjustments that we've had to make. And again, I'm not going to go through all of those spaces, but of course, there's open enrollment out, there's open enrollment in, and then there's special education reimbursement. Yesterday, one of the key points that I made in the special education reimbursement space is that um 33 to 39% is the additional revenue that we will receive for this year. Um that is a total of $836,000 um and $836,000 $224 total. Um, and that
014number could change after, you know, the next year, but right now we can count on $836,000. Um, I'm going to turn it over to Mrs. Lwood now and she's going to take us through the rest of the presentation and I'll jump in as needed. But, uh, Mrs. Elwood, thank you so much. >> Yep. Thank you, Dr. Garrison. So, this slide is, um, the history of our revenue, um, limit membership. So, this is year-over-year. So for our membership number that we use for the revenue limit, it's the last three years that we use for that number. It's an average. Um we are ex um estimating that number to be low just to be conservative in our um budgeting for the start of the year. Um we will have definitive numbers after our third Friday count in
015September, but we don't have those yet. Um so this next slide is how that revenue limit is calculated. taking that 3-year average resident membership times the per pupil amount of that 11,65527 per pupil. And then um the one-time non-reoccurring exemptions are figured in there giving our revenue limit authority of about um 74,990 or 988786. And that revenue limit authority is like I said because it will change in October depending on what our enrollment um ends up being. Um this next slide is how that revenue limit comes into a play with the um uh the tax levy and the um state equalization aid. So the revenue limit is made up of those two pieces and that's how we come up with our um tax levy for the year. And again, these numbers are not um definitive.
016They will adjust in October depending on what the enrollment ends up being. Um this next slide here is a new slide that we added in. It's just a kind of a comparison of a few different districts across the state and um a visualization of that revenue limit and how that got set back in 93 and how some school districts favored very well and some school districts are you know pretty close to each other but some um are definitely much higher than um this next slide is the budget by um source code for revenues Um, as Dr. Garrison was saying before, the total between general fund and special education fund for a total of 107,415,33. And to note on here that the majority of our revenues for the districts are coming from state sources at um
017almost 78%. >> Mrs. Lwood, do you mind going back to that slide real quick? the revenue source. Um we we typically don't attach touch touch the tax levy space. Do you mind touching on what that what that means in this slide for us please? >> Yep. So maybe I should go back one more here. Um or a couple here the tax levy space. So the tax levy gets set in October but there are other factors that go into setting the tax levy. So the amount of the tax levy on this slide, the 11,426,227 for general fund is a pretty good estimate, but at this point in time it is just an estimate. Um the other two pieces of the tax levy are the debt levy. The debt levy is a definitive number because we know
018what our debt our debt payments are at the 963,629 and the community service fund tax levy. We have it set at 350 um currently because that is what we um had planned on doing for 2425 and for 2526. I think that that's a good estimate for the tax levy for um community service at this point. Um this slide is the um general fund revenues by source. um showing again the largest portion of our revenue is coming from the state and for special education the largest portion of the revenue is coming from that transfer from 10 to 27 and then um state sources and federal sources um expenditures by object code. So object codes are the um different pieces that we're spending money on whether it's salaries and benefits which of course make up the majority
019of our budget at just over um 58%. Um the next largest section there is purchase services which makes up all of our um transportation, utilities, um contracted services, um those types of things. And again showing that this is a balanced budget with a total of 107,415,33. Um this next slide is just another visualization of the budget by function. functions are departments such as instruction or um insuranceances. Um on this slide maybe to note um a large portion of our um budget is instruction with um the next section coming in as facilities, transportation and business services which also includes all the utilities in that section and bus transportation. Um, and this slide shows a large portion of instruction. This next slide is um a vis visualization of the FTEES of full-time staff in the district. Um,
020pulling out the that administrators number. Somebody asked me at the last meeting how many principles and um school administrators were in this and where they showed up on here. So they where it says 17 administrators under administration, 16 of those are school building staff. So out of the 27, 16 of the administrators are school building administrators and the largest portion of our FTE obviously is teachers and paras. This next slide is the unassigned fund balance analysis. Um, as Dr. Garrison was saying earlier, um, we have presented, um, June numbers at our last committee meeting. Um, the numbers are not, um, audited yet, but we are coming out of surplus of about $500,000. Um, I did not put that on the slide because we didn't have those numbers before we created this slide tonight. Um, so
021when we move to doing final numbers, they will be on the next slide. Um this slide is all the other funds. So general fund fund 10 and special education fund 27 make up the majority of our funds. However, we do have all these other funds, special projects, debt service, capital projects, um food services, the OPED trust, um which note on here that there, um they're um the beginning balance is the same as it would have been um last fiscal year because we did not use any of those funds for 2425. and uh the community service fund. The um revenues here are the 350,000 for the tax levy and $500 is um a little bit of um interest and maybe some other fees. Um the expenses we are asking for an increase slightly in the community
022service fund and I do have a couple of slides showing um that request. Um this slide is an overview of what community services is for. Community service fund can be used for things outside of the tax levy and outside of the school district normal activities for things that the communities would be involved with such as p pool use and uses of the gyms and rentals of some of the facilities. Um so this slide here um lists the things that we are currently using fund 80 for. Um the even start program I think this is the third year for the even start program. Um the school resource officers this would be year number two for that. And um police security at um boy memorial events. Um this would be year number two. Also um some of
023the proposed uses though I'm going to turn that over to Dr. Garrison if he's going to go through some of the community use. >> Sure. Um if you could do me a real quick favor and just jump right back two slides one more time um to the other funds slide. Just to touch base on that real quick. Um one of the things that we want the public to to know and of course the board to know as well is that you know national we talk about fund 10 and 27 a lot but these other funds if you ever get a chance to come to the business operation and finance committee meeting you'll hear a lot about these other funds. I just want to put it out there. And I know we're not necessarily going to
024de delve deep into each of those funds, but we do a lot of that conversation in our monthly um monthly financials conversation. And so um these other funds are funds that we have to, you know, of course explore and look at and naturally um possibly seek ways to, you know, not necessarily save money, but work to see ways and how we can do things differently as the funds um are available to us, whether it be debt services and um fund 38 and 39. And I know when people see that you see dev services 38 and 39. So Mrs. Elwood, can you give us a real brief snapshot around the difference between fund 38 and fund 39? >> Yep. Fund 38 and 39 is our referendum debt and non-referendum debt. So non-referendum debt is um debt
025that was taken out that the um the public didn't vote on and the referendum debt was um debt that the public voted on. So, one of those um debt issuances was for um building of um this building and I think that then there was um some environmental type um projects that were done and those um we are getting rebates from the federal government on. Um so the interest on those loans is um is basically um forgiven. um we get a tax rebate on those. But like Dr. Garrison said, we do do presentations on debt and have some more in-depth um presentations that we have done in the past and we can do another one again. >> Um one of the things that um board chair Henkins asked us to do when he took over was
026to have that debt services conversation. And Mr. Nicholas, if you can remember back in I want to say in Juneish maybe we did that conversation um where we looked at all of our debt and had a deeper conversation around what that actually looks like. >> Um fund 50 is a food services fund. Um do you mind just giving the public just a real quick quick snapshot of what that what that looks like from a food services perspective, please? >> Yep. So, our food services department is are serving children um breakfast and lunch, but then we also do summer food service and um I believe um evening snacks. So, at some of the schools um it is a large program. Um we have a lot of um activity going on with that. All of our children
027in the city of Bo or I'm sorry the school district of Boeit are served co meals at no cost to them. So, every child is able to eat. I know at the bottom down there some people see that cooperative program fund 99 and then you see zero and zero. Um can you please provide us with just a snapshot what that means please? >> Yep. The comm or cooperative program fund 99 is used to account for our cooperative program for our hockey programs. Um previous year we had um girls and boys hockey running through there. Um this next year it will only be boys hockey but that's a cooperative program through with other school districts in the area. So we have um um players from different school districts all participate together with one team. >> And
028so now we can jump back over to that community service proposal space. >> Oh, sure. Go ahead. >> No, no, you're fine. Hi, thank you so much. No, this is awesome. I just wanted to tack on a couple things just to clarify for the the benefit of everybody's understanding. So please, if I'm wrong on this, let me know. So with fund 50, I know that um in past years like that's caused some confusion for people. So those are federal dollars that are use it or lose it. Is that right? Still >> that's correct. So when I talk about the foods for this program and every child eating at no charge, >> it still costs money to support that that cost. So the federal government, it highly aids us to um provide those meals to the
029children. Yeah, >> I appreciate that. And is it is it still true cuz I know this is um like during co this was a thing and and I think it's still the same but like over the summer like when we do the summer meals program like even if students aren't enrolled in the school district of if they live within the boundaries of the school district of boy they're still eligible. >> I don't believe that they ask the children when they show up at say the library site or one of the other sites to get to get a meal. They don't ask them for ID or anything. They just serving the kids that show up. I and I just wanted to like point that out too because I think that's probably underutilized by our community and
030it's just a good thing to know that that's a resource that we can provide back to. Thank you so much. >> You're welcome. [Music] >> And correct me if I'm wrong. That's funded through the US Department of Agriculture. Correct. >> Yes, that's correct. It's part it's mostly funded by the federal government through the USDA and then the rest of it a small portion of it comes through the state. Okay, thank you. >> And so now that we come right back to this slide again, the community services proposal and and one of the things that as we've already talked about was the even star school resource officer and police security present at BMHS, but there's been some other things that been under under our development um over this past year was just the community use of
031our pool at BMHS. I believe when the pool was built um of course years ago, one of the big things was that we wanted this to be feel like a community pool and um for whatever reason that wasn't in play and then and now this year we really want to make that happen and so um that's something that we're going to be moving forward with. Um community use of our weight room, that's the way it was pitched as I understand it. So listening to the community, we want to get that back um as well. The community use of our fields and school gyms. Let me just say this. Our our facilities are used a lot by our community for various different for various different opportunities that supports our community's health. And so, um, shameless plug,
032community health fair is this this Saturday. Please feel free to come. Um, but we do use our school facilities for a lot of different reasons. And we definitely want to make sure that, um, this is something that we can continue. Um, community programs such as our summer engagement activities. When I brought this to the conversation um two year two and a half years ago, uh one of the things is I really wanted our community just to see us, see the schools, be a part of what we're doing. And so I did ask all of our schools to have three summer engagement opportunities, summer engagement activities. And when I first took this on um 3 years ago, two and a half years ago, I didn't really roll that into the community service fund. I just wanted
033to just to see how it would take off. Um it it has taken off for what for what it's worth. Our schools are definitely open throughout the summer and our opportunities with the summer engagement activities are it's almost like an annual thing now. And so I'm real proud to say that those summer engagement activities over the past 3 years have one could argue has given us over um 30 a year. And so that's over 90 different opportunities with the community that we've had to connect not just during the school year, but during a real critical time during the summer time where families just can come see the schools and be be a part of what we're doing. And so that summer engagement activity is something I think is very important for the community to note.
034Some of the additional actions that will happen here over the course of October. Please note that this budget just is a budget that we have to approve to say let's keep going. Right? Um if there was a better way for me to explain it, I would say it differently. And so one of the things that I share with other um administrators is that this budget is to give us the permission to keep going. And so um we have to of course finalize revenues and expenses. Of course, we've talked about our membership, uh, possible staffing changes, final grant awards, additional additional state awards not yet to be determined. We want to refine our personnel costs, update our staffing and staffing changes, review and address um, vacant positions, which is on an ongoing conversation for us. And
035yes, we do have vacancies right now. I want to make sure that's definitely noted. Some of the positions we know we will fill and some of the positions we are, you know, it's going to be a hard to fill space. Uh, one of the things that we've been, and I just want to be honest with you, one of the things that we've been kind of working real hard to figure out with the new legislation is our DLI program. And ever since the state changed, um, I want to go on record in saying this too cuz I never necessarily did. Um, ever since the state changed some of their requirements in this space, um, that has hurt the school district of recruiting, um, people to help us in this space. Um, for various reasons, the state
036makes decisions and DPI makes decisions and we have to of course abide by them. Um, but that change definitely impacted some of the DLI space here in our school district. And unfortunately that means that since we we rely heavily on our DI programming um and for various different opportunities, if we don't have the teachers to do that, we have to then think we have to remove them back into our regular ed classrooms and provide different services for them um from a ELLL space. Um I believe our DLI program is a great program for the school district of Deote. It's been a mainstay for many years. Um but with these changes, there will be additional conversations that as a board and of course as a community that we will have to tackle um with the um
037reductions in this space, not because we don't want it, but but because of the state requirements um that we now have to follow. And so the timeline is here for you to kind of just kind of proves and look at. Um again, most of this information the board definitely knows. I've you know been very you know diligent in making sure that people know the process in this space. Um of course we're here right now in August September 2nd new information has to be produced. September 3rd of course third Friday count not September 3rd in September there's a third Friday count. My apologies there. September 17th of course our annual annual budget hearing. That's when we just have a hearing with the public for >> correct. We present this information again. So the information will be
038published in the newspaper on September 2nd for the hearing on September 17th. There is no vote on September 17th. The vote is tonight. >> That's correct. >> October 1st is the Department of Revenue um certifies equalization property values. October 15th, of course, as you can see here, lays out some more opportunities for us. Later in October, there's some more opportunities for us. late October there's some more opportunities for us. So October is a very busy month for the school district of boy and school districts across the state of Wisconsin because how we lay out this timeline. Um and then naturally if there's not any other spaces with the timeline our final slot is um do you have any questions? >> Any questions or comments from the board members? Go ahead, Mr. Romero. >> So, this
039this is just a preliminary, right? Where are we going to revisit this? When when was it again? I'm sorry, I missed that part. >> Yep. So, the purple highlighted items are the budget or are the board meeting meetings. So the the late October board meeting is when we finalize the budget and set the tax levy. >> Okay. Um so for the the fund are we are we utilizing that correctly in terms of the SRO's with the MSO that they currently have. I mean just from my understanding of that I mean fund is supposed to be for the community community things that the community uses. Or for example, >> um if the SRO's are going to the football games for security, I guess those that would be covered, but >> the >> anything that originates in
040the on on the campuses and all that during the school hours, that's not necessarily something the community has access to. So would it be >> So if I could just step in um if you don't mind. So SRO's are not used for security. That is part of our contract. They are a liaison between the police department and the schools and they are also utilized by the community. They are not solely just in the schools. They are wherever they are needed and because of that um caveat we can put them in fund 80 as a community service and they are available to students after hours as well. They can do that um liaison part with students if they if the students need them. Any other questions, Mrs. Levy? Thank you. Um, so just broadly, first of
041all, thank you to Dr. Garrison and the team for putting all this together. Um, the walkthrough of the slides is really helpful. I particularly appreciate the timeline so we can know what to expect and and kind of govern our calendars accordingly. Um, should we also expect to hear more specific areas where additional reductions can be made? Um, hopefully with the least impact on classrooms and I know that's challenging, but um my expectation is that we will continue to see those. Is that accurate? >> So, naturally, as we start working through the budget and getting more information, we'll start looking at what our deficit will look like um in the next budget, right? And so when we start getting those numbers, then that's another set of conversations that will be um produced um that we'll have
042to kind of start looking at. I can share this with you, Mr. Levy. Um one of the things that we know is that when there's and not having a referendum in place, there's year-over-year cost that and I sound like a broken record here, but there's year-over-year cost that we have to that we have to pay for. And so we will have another lay layer of conversations uh minus a referendum um here in our school district. And so yes, you will see more conversations coming. Um but as our budget is produced and we get more information around what our debt will look like, we'll be a we'll be able to um you know tackle some of those conversations in in the future. And then just to add on to that, my hope is that we will
043see that early and regularly so that as the board we can give guidance to our like priorities like what to protect, what we're comfortable moving forward with so we don't have any surprises in late October. This is what I would hope to avoid. So thank you so much for that. >> Any other questions? Mrs. Miss Miller, >> thank you so much. Um yeah, just a couple um quick clarifications. Um I think it's Mr. Romero just brought up something that I know a lot of community members have been concerned about and I think there is and understandably so like a lot of confusion about fund 80 because you know if you read the stuff on the DPI page like that doesn't necessarily cover right all of the nuances of of how it actually plays out right.
044So, I'm just wondering, I don't want to put you on the spot right now, but since he asked the question, maybe the next time, maybe for the 17th, um, and I'm a little fuzzy because I haven't like looked at the contract lately. I want to say in addition to what you described, there may have, and again, I could be remembering this wrong. I think they may have like utilized that also as an opportunity to um, get like training for the entire department. I think that was beneficial because of like the training that they go through to like work with students. And there was and maybe I'm using teacher talk. My understanding of it was that it was sort of like almost like a trauma-informed type thing. I don't know what the correct terminology is. I
045just think it might be helpful to build community understanding just to kind of take a look and and just maybe it would be good to delineate like here like our examples of like how this is a community thing, how it like fits under fund 80 because I think it's part of our job as a board too to like make those connections for the community and it would just be nice if everybody could feel good and and find some like mutual understanding around that topic so it doesn't continue to be kind of contentious. So those are just a couple of thoughts I had and you know there might not be those things that were in the contract. I I don't I could totally be like remembering this wrong but I I do remember there was a
046robust discussion way back um I don't remember what year that was like a while ago before this last like the last renewal before the previous like the one that we just did where they talked a lot about like these trainings. So I that might have been something that >> No, you're not incorrect. There is there is a training um um discussion of training and how that happens with the SRO because there is a specialized training that happens. Yes. >> Yeah. And I I just remember like cuz I talked to Chief Sales like over the years before he you know obviously left but um you know I think he had previously expressed like some gratitude to the district because I think that because of that partnership I think may have opened up some opportunities for the
047entire police department. But it would just be great to get some details on that if if we're able to, but like no pressure if that's like digging back too far. So, I just wanted to kind of bring that up because I think that, you know, Mr. Romero brings up an important point because people just don't necessarily see that perspective that you shared that we're able to use. Um, couple other things I just wanted to bring up too. I was curious, um, with fund 80, and I know this is not something that we're going to be like working on this fiscal year, but I know that one popular use of fund 80 has to do with child care. And I know that Drew Pennington has done a phenomenal job like working toward that. And it's it's
048slow work and, you know, it's it's a lot of challenges that exist in child care. You know, it's a childare desert, you know, most through most of the state. So, um I just wanted to like kind of flag that as like just for my colleagues on the board, it's a good opportunity to bring up that there's perhaps future additional uh methods of partnership like with the city. Um and then a question that I had is um kind of dovtailing off of that would transportation like if there were future collaboration opportunities between the school district and the city um to sort of like supplement or expand or reconceptualize transportation. Is there any possibility? And we don't need to answer this for today like so for a future presentation or or maybe just to have out there
049like um for any kind of fund 80 support for such a partnership and like again this is just like notes for later when it becomes relevant. I just I know transportation becomes a huge expense and it's just been difficult over the years to try to like mitigate that because of course we you know we need to get get our kids safely to and from school. So those are just kind of like my initial thoughts and questions like kind of like more for later. So, thanks for listening. >> Any other board member questions? A question I have then with the since we're using fund 80 for the SRO's and I don't know what the staffing of the police department is at this moment but is it possible to expand the SRO program if we're using fund
05080? >> I think that's a discussion that we have to have if we need the an expansion. when we were looking at the contract earlier and I believe that there's currently three >> three correct >> that they're providing and I think that that would be a further discussion with cabinet. Now quick question on board President Johnson naturally three right now I think it's about 250 thou 250,000 or so >> for the three and you know let's just use that number as a as a space another three will cost of us about well the community and the levy space about another $500,000 and so um if that's something that hasn't been asked hasn't been asked of me and so if we were to explore that naturally I'll have the course go and have additional conversations with
051the chief and kind of go from there. >> If there aren't any more questions or any further discussions, I would entertain a motion. The recommended action is move approval of the 2025 2026 preliminary budget as presented. >> Salute. >> Second. Motion by Brian Nichols, seconded by Megan Miller. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor? >> I. >> Any oppose? >> Nay. >> Motion carries 5 to one. I will entertain a motion for adjournment. >> So move. Second >> motion by Amy Levy, seconded by Brian Nicholls. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Thank you. We The motion carries unanimously. We are adjourned at 6:47. Have a good night. Thank you doc. Thank you Dr. Garrison and >> Mrs. Elwood. Thank you.