001[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] this regularly scheduled February well not regularly scheduled but the February board meeting to order at I've got 558 uh the first thing on the agenda is to approve the minutes from our regular meeting on January 7th and a special meeting we had on February the 5th if everybody's looked over those seen anything might need to be corrected or not if not I need a motion to accept both of those minutes motion second I have a motion and a second all those in favor say I I any opposed and then we're going to move on to financials Mr waymire okay board report you've got funds 1 through eight uh ended January of 25 with a little over 1.7 million legal fund taken out our federal and our
002activity in food service we finished at right under 1.4 which was about 18,000 up from December and comparing that from the fiscal year 24 we were up around 85,000 expense records any questions on checks you kind of see a big one which are the little bus got a deer coming home from desar so we did oh yeah did we get the deer we well I do believe Miss Lauren her husband go get the deer was taking possession but we had to pay what was our uh deduc on that was 10,000 any no everybody was fine everybody was fine the deer just didn't Fair very well the deer did not make it and then looking at Revenue comparison if you look uh Revenue this year was 472,000 and some compared to last year at 766 th000
003we're still up a little bit little close to 3,000 in revenue from last year expenditures for January we were 456,000 and $988 compared to $494,000 last year so put our total of expenditures just a little over 3 million and we were 3178 um Million last year in 24 any questions on our financials there's not any questions I need a motion to approve the financials motion second have a motion in a second all those in favor say I I any oppos OS motion carries let you keep on going yeah we'll go ahead and go to the superintendent's report first uh looking at our current enrollment right now we're sitting at 556 this was as the 20th of February that is down that is down nine kids from last year at this time so hopefully we'll pick
004those numbers up a little bit I don't know if we've picked up any kids since we've had her so so we are down right there uh legislative updates and this has kind of been updated since I last sent this out to you last week Governor did sign a couple of bills into law one was Senate Bill 59 which provides free breakfast to all students and then another big one would be Senate Bill 142 to create the bail to bail no sale act and to amend the requirements for public school discipline policy so asba will come out with some policy for uh school year 252 six and it'll it'll change the way we do things now is that it is okay uh some other things going on student handbooks principles again start forming committees and start
005working on handbooks again some of this new legislative bills that go into law will affect that uh Staffing uh start working with the principles for next year's master schedule we've got a list of employees that stated their desire to come back and we've had unfortunately some that's going to call it uh career in education so we'll start doing those things next year uh my principals actually emailed them a list of those they would like to recommend for a position uh with the district next year uh facility equipment updates past few weeks and this is prior to the ice storm that we got we had some heaters in both the Elementary and high school Ms it's going to cost a little over 2,000 to fix both uh probably will bring you a mower to the March
006board meeting our main mower went out we do have some quotes we're looking right now looks like the cheapest one we got is around $95 $9,800 but we'll need to replace those uh did have Jeremy Stone come in last week looked at our HVAC project and he was very optimistic on doing some of the things which the state estimates to be a 1.2 million project which they're going to fund 655,000 we'll have to come in with that remaining 555,000 so upcoming events going on I know that high school did the uh riding Atlas interims before break before we got out of here and they're taking place this week other things going on in in the high school I'm going to go ahead and do it since coach is not here but uh basketball season's over
007girls won a game in The District Tournament got beat by carile in second round Boys Lost first round so onward and upward to baseball and softball and they'll both open up next season uh next week looks like they start this week don't they don't they start this week next week is it next week next week it's the first game I said looks like third and fourth yep and hopefully this weather will stay like that but uh cheers kicking off we'll have cheer tryouts that's a big two weeks of any school so we've got those things going on matter of fact they're having the mandatory meeting right now there you go and then I'll turn it over to miss John with the elementary stuff 336 I think that was counting my new student his first day
008was last Tuesday day so he came was out for days stayed half a day yeah day we did have par teacher conferences and those were good we had our Valentine's parties and everything kids love that um Quiz Bow Miss took it was fourth fifth and sixth graders to the quizbowl tournament at the co-op they got second place the only game they lost was that last game so super proud of them they got a trophy put it in our case our trophy case and everything so really proud of how they did with that uh we were supposed to have class pictures last week but obviously we weren't in school so we're going to get those rescheduled we have an oral health guest speaker that Shonda set up coming in to talk to all the grades this
009on Thursday we have finished our outlas interim testing we just have some makeups to do with individual kids but um Lauren's working on getting that done and then we're going to start looking at those results um I'm still learning how to navigate the outlet system and so finding the exact course I want is a headache right now but me and LA are working on that too um and then kind of just looking at some curriculums for ELA in the lower grades um last year through sixth grade switch to um wonders and they really love it and so kind of looking at what we might can do for the lower grades um to just switch and hopefully get us a a cc to work a little bit better for our kids um with discipline L attention's
010been assigned 45 times ISS 44 and OSS 36 and my main things are disrespect Defiance and inappropriate language does the state publish a list yes yes yeah it tells like is it approved for like there's several different sections and so some of them are partially approved they're only approved for like that that's the highlighted ones are everything the highlighted is the Motions the highlighted ones are what we have to um you want to touch on our walkth through a little bit just for a minute that that we actually did the walk through yeah we can and I guess we did do it I was thinking that you were talking about lunch detention that made me we got to experience Elementary lunch and it was actually good it was very good um things look like they're
011they're going going as as they're supposed to you um I don't you want to just take a a short break yeah we can unless you want to go ahead and act while we're waiting on beers Le we can we can act on that Cadence Insurance go ahead and get it's the first one uh and it just be the recommendation uh to approve the renewal of the Educator's legal liability proposal for insurance as presented it's the same price as it was last year which is $10,774 okay anybody have any questions about that if not we need a motion to accept the recommendation from Mr waym to approve the renewal of the Educator's legal liability proposal for the insurance is presented for the 25 26 school year at a cost of $1,797 second I have a motion
012and a second all those in favor I any opposed motion carries then we can I can read out and see where he's at we're going to take a small break at this time we're going to take a small break as we're waiting on um somebody to get here and um I guess the time will be 6:09 Chris if you want to hold us up [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] a [Music] now okay now we're back and it's 6:14 I'm just going to turn this over to Mr way Meer and let him I've got I got uh Mr Michael dobs here with First Security beerley I've got two action items the first one is to adopt the resolution with the attached proposed budget this is the the second one on your deal
013you should have a motion uh proposed budget of expenditures with the tax levy for the fiscal year beginning July 1st 2026 including June 30th 2027 any questions over that and that's the budget of expenditures yes do we need to like explain what that is probably and this is something that we do every year it don't I'll kind of let Michael go into the details of this if you don't care so yeah uh it is something you can come up here and have a seat if you want oh now we're talking you can sit you can have a seat at the table now we're in trouble all right um so yes this is something you guys do every year um you're required by law every school district is to publish a a proposed budget of expenditures
014every year and a tax rate that goes with it so in almost every year um the tax rate's exactly the same as it was the year before there's no change but you're still required to put that in the paper it's still required to be on the ballot once a year um the difference this year is we are asking for a millage change uh and a bond issue that goes along with that um so let me grab a copy here I see you have it on the screen as well um so the the first section is kind of a a budget it um there's nine items there the first uh six are really in no way dependent on the bond issue that's just kind of your your standard uh expenditure categories we've got every year uh
015the seventh item non-bonded debt could be affected by an election issue in this case it's not we're not doing anything you guys don't have any non-bonded debt that we're aware of so that's a zero bonded debt payment that does change that's the proposed uh bond issue payment uh total payment what you have now plus the new one and then building fund expense that 5, 820,000 that's what we're expecting to get out of the bond issue uh and then below that there's kind of a whole paragraph that explains um the millage request and this is really kind of a mirror of the language that's going to be on the ballot itself in May um so it goes through we're asking for a total millage rate of 40 Mills uh that includes the 25 M Mills that
016everybody has to have 10.7 debt Mills that you've already got and 4.3 new Debt Service Mills what does memo mean uh maintenance and operation yes that's a good question um I can't that one now maintenance and operation very good um on the kind of the second page of that it says that there's going to be a 5,980 th000 bond issue which will mature over a period of 30 Years it'll be issued for the purpose of constructing uh a new entryway renovating HVAC at the elementary school and then constructing refurbishing Remodeling and equipping other school facilities so kind of the difference between the 5,980 that's listed right there and the 5,820 that was listed on the the other page is the allowance that we have for fees uh for the bond issue um so you guys
017don't pay anything out of pocket you know directly for this it all comes out of the proceeds the majority of that that is um essentially uh what we call Underwriters discount um so whoever wants to buy this bond issue and then turn around and sell to investors they have to have a a spread so we leave about 2% of the total size for them as their fee uh and then after that there's legal fees our fees and those kind of things that come out of that as well so um that spread is why there's a little bit of difference in those two numbers but um the bottom line you know kind of sums it up there the total proposed School tax levy of 40.0 Mills represents a 4.3 Mill M increase over the current tax
018rate uh and again that will be mirrored on the uh ballot uh in May um so the resolution that's part of that just kind of calls for the election the budget is the um the other document that gets submitted to the county to kind of uh get the election process started any questions on that document I don't any so we have to take action on both of these I understand does it matter which one we do first does Mr Janet you still looking you're good anybody have a preferences one we do first I'm sorry I've got the budget you've got the budget one okay so I need a motion to adopt the resolution as presented with the attached proposed budget of expenditures with tax levy for physical year beginning July 1 26 and to include
019and to to and including June 30th 2027 is printed motion second I have a motion and a second all those in favor say I uh any opposed all right the next is I need a motion to approve the application for a permit to issue bonds for $5.98 million in construction to State Department of Education and to employ First Security Beardsley as Fiscal Agent as presented motion second I have a motion and a second all those in favor say I I any oppos motion carries do we have any other business before the board I don't then we will adjourn by unanimous consent at 6: