001other meeting. good evening, the first public hearing of the broward school board of florida of millage is now called to order. Please be reminded of the exit doors that are clearly marked for emergency exiting. While in the board room refrain from blocking exit doors. Once the board room has reached its seating capacity the attendees will be directed to overflow area. Upon activation, please exit from the room in an ordinarily fashion and remain outside until the authority that has jurisdiction that's deemed the building safe to return. Thank you for your cooperation. All pleas rise for the "pledge of allegiance" to the flag uft united states of america. 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
002for all. Thank you as we begin our public hearing, we are reminded that our proficiently. Our a.-rated our vital task is to maintain this achievement. We will continue to inspire all students to achieve this potential. Official business of the district and any other items the board deems necessary. Today the board is considering following business, adopt resolution number 20 approving the millage rates and 2 adopt resolution number 26-1113 approving tentative budget for fiscal year 25-26. DR. Hepburn are there any changes to the agenda. there are no changes to the agenda. MAY I have a motion and a second to close the agenda. so moved. It's been moved by nz leonardi seconded business MS. Thompson all in favor say aye. aye. all opposed say no. The agenda is now closed. I will move item 1 and 2
003for discussion. The items will be separated before voting. The I'm not done. The budget director will read the resolution for item 1 for the record before we take the vote. The items must be approved separately and in order. MAY I have a motion and a second to move the items to the floor. so moved. it's been moved by MS. Thompson seconded by MS. Bulman, to move the items to the floor. Good evening, welcome to the first of our two public hearings to millage rates and budget. It's a tattoo -- statutory requirement that we provide this hearing. Tonight marks the process of the process. The tentative budget that we discuss and adopt tonight will be presented to the school board for final adoption on SEPTEMBER 9, 2025. The purpose of this hearing is to keep the
004public in the school board fully informed as to why the district is using sound policies that warrant public confidence in the district's operation. at this time, I now turn it over to the superintendent to provide a brief overview of the budget. thank you, MADAM Chair. I'm pleased to submit the 2025-26 tentative budget and adoption. The leadership teams remain committed world class. I have challenged my leadership team to take a deep dive and find opportunities to improve cost-efficient sees so we can focus on preparing our students to their highest potential. We're proud to be a a-rated district for a second year in a row. It's positive impacts on stud ept outcome. I commend our teachers and administrators and staff. Our students and family for their drive and determination to succeed and our school board for continued
005support and guidance. My objective are clear, 100 percent proficiency for all students and financial stability for all districts and ensuring equity exceptional education experiences. Tonight I'm asking the board to approve tentative millage rates and tentative budget. Now the chief financial officer, the staff will be able to answer any questions after the presentation. good evening, chair, board memebers and superintendent, my team the budget team will be do a brief presentation of our millage rates for tentative millage rates for 2025-26 fiscal year in a tentative budget. Remember this is tentative budget. So I'll turn it over to my team before jeff britney gives a brief presentation on the budget in the tentative budget. I'm jeff bridget the budget director and I have with me the assistant directors, kim. dia na mart ins. diana mart ins. If I
006can get the presentation. So I want to thank and thank the community for attending tonight. I'm going to guide you through this presentation quickly and they can we can address any questions that we v.It is a tentative budget that will come back for adoption in SEPTEMBER. Slide 2, please. I've got it. Look at that. Trim insures public transparency in setting property tax rates. The school districts must advertise required local effort and discretionary, flor nrort department of application, determines the effort rate and school board cannot adjust them. Tonight's 25-26 budget reflects doe's second calculation and the figures use from the third calculation which is aligned with our amended budget as doe has not released the third calculation yet. Our timeline shows the important steps there. This follows a strict budgetary deadlines and ensures before adoption. Tonight's
007hearing vital toward approval in SEPTEMBER. The next slide reviews, our historical millage rates and the blue sections in the left and on the right-hand you can see a comparison of the 25-rates from rates of last year. Includes the prior period adjustment that is set by the state. The next slide reviews the roll back rate. The roll back rate is calculation of the millage rate this year that would generate the same revenue as last year excluding things like construction. This increase reflects requirement and continued growth in the properties. Noting total from local property taxes is 12.116 billion from operations capital. This next slide reviews how the property tax right side computed for a home with a 100,000 assessed value and homestead exemption, going to be 75,000. Since it's 1 dollar per assessed value. You divide that
008by thousand and multiply that by 75 to see that 100,000 house would be taxed at 486 for a year. We extrapolate that to the afternoon single-family home and afternoon condominium, you can see what the total taxes would be for the year or increase of about 175 million for a single-family home. Moving through some of our general fund assumptions, it's important to see from the fbap student allocation increased business to 5372.60 per students. This also include the formal categorical funds that have been folded into the bss, this includes teacher allocation and reading allocation and instructional materials. Three generation right side state like the local property tax funding and federal ri includes things like medicaid funds. Is want to note that most funds are in the special not in the general fund. This is a comparison of
00924-25 to 25-26, you get to see that state sources are down more than 60 million while local property tax right side up more than 80 million. We also have ain crease in the other sources which is our capital transform this is for programs performed in the operating budget. You can also see on here, big increase in the scholarships that come out of this and past through for funding charter for schools, in 488 million which is comparable to what it was previous year, charter growth has not been growing like it was in the past. The table to bottom shows the FTEs, what is important is the state has got us projected to 260 down it's really closer to 8800 because there is an additional adjustment that they have not hit us with that they expect for
010esol, you can see the family empowerment scholarships are up. We look at estimated cost increases what is important to note, the two big one is textbook adoption. That's an increase to our cause versus last year and our healthcare increase at 49 million recognizing that this is against the adopted budget from next year not necessarily what we spend. so our spend year to year is not up that much. This next page is a summary of all funds, what is important is highlighted in the blue boxes so this include 325 million for the family emwerment schoholahihiatatdoe e ll remove fromomththe buetet, it includes 488 million dollars in charter school funding and also includes our 233 million dollars from referendum. Total revenue from all fund resource south side nearly 3.5 billion. I want to point out that the
011federal freeze was lifted last friday but we need to confirm the restoration matched the totals and monitor new spending guidance to make sure that it does not affect any of the allowable uses or compliance. Our budget summary the next page is just a review that just focuses on the general fund. This highlights the major revenue and expense categories for the general fund. Slide 14 is our, review of the fund balance. This table outlines the funding amount use today calculate at this time for the tentative budget, and emphasize this is for the tentative budget fund balance is estimated at about 4.1 percent. And finally slide 15 just shows where we are in the budget timeline recognizing that we still have an adoption meeting for the district education facilities plan 5 P.M. On SEPTEMBER third and adoption
012of the budget at 5 P.M. On SEPTEMBER 9th. Both meetings provide opportunities into the budgeting process. With that, we're able to assist with the board's discussion. thank you, thank you. Are there any public speakers at this time? no ma'am. okay. Okay. So board discussion? alan zeman has a question to ask. go ahead. thanks so much, I hope I couldn't cut in front of mine. But 4.1 is a big number that's something that has been tracked. I do not want to MISS The opportunity to really really heed praise on DR. Hepburn, road johnson, her staff, the kinds of things that they did to present option to see get us to 4.1 is truly remarkable. I've never seen budget work that good and I've done budget work for decades. This is a good number and in order
013for us to avoid the 3.0 which looks like we were crashing forward, so MS. Johnson, DR. Hepburn and staff, thank you on behalf of broward county for finding efficiencies, reducing overhead, collapsing things that we just don't need to do. Not filling vacant positions all the things that had you made the hard decisions on, really got us on that 4.1. I want to thank you because that's our biggest number in the budget. Thanks. thank you. go ahead, DR. I want to echo DR. Zeman and MS. Johnson, phenomenal job. I know the challenges you've had to get us that 4.1, you met with all of us multiple times and I see, I know it was very stressful and you and your team worked through it, thank you we're happy to have you here. Thank you DR. Hepburn
014as well. okay, MS. Thompson. I echo all that. Thank you so much. I just wanted clarification on page 9 when you say that the general assumptions with the base student allocation that the former categorical were collapsed does that mean we lost money there? no there were separate but two years ago, the state made a recommendation that the flexibility in the finding source. So they allow you, they still stay in place, they stay in place at the rate we had two years ago. But any flexibility will roll into the fund balance. So it will allow you flexibility in the expenditures. all right. And then a process question. Because we've been talking all day about making sure we're spending money that matches our values and spending money appropriately. When we start having those conversations about paying staff
015more and putting more investment in software? When does that conversation start happening? DR. Hepburn? go ahead. well they start right now. So this is a tentative budget so it's not final, you know the state was kind of slow with releasing our final documentation that we need to move forward to build adaptive budget, but we're working on expenditure. We didn't have a clear idea what our revenue source was going to be. So now we can have the conversation about what is embedded in the budget. I know you get this budget in the hard level. And what we focus on. so are those going to happen on one on one. it's going to be a one or one, but then we're going to have a public meeting where they can ask questions. I had another question and
016I forgot. It's okay. MR. Cervera. thank you, MADAM Chair. In preparation for the meeting, I went back and pulled some of my notes from the JULY 22 school board meeting that we had. And I believe it was item f-2 so correct me if I'm wrong, it was the advertising proposed millage levees that was presented to the board at that meeting. My notes indicate that there was a approximately 10.9 percent increase in operating expenses compared to next year, compared to what was presenting. And now what we're hearing now. If so I'm interested to hear why a 10 percent increase in expenses are being proposed in, in a district that set to lose 8,000 students this year. If so, I would like a little bit of explanation as to why we're seeing this increase when we're set
017to lose about 8,000 students. MR. Hepburn. go ahead. those are tied to benefits of our employees. As you see we're having a reduction from the state because of the loss of enrollment. But on page 11 if you can look and follow through, there are increase that we cannot avoid. Charter school portion, even though they didn't increase enrollment their proportion went up. We have utility calls and debt service for 3.2 million. Our referendum charter school settlement, our interest is 4.6 that's what was negotiated and those are going to increase again next year. I had to include it in it fiscal year. And then our french calls compared to what was budget went up by 49 million. So it was not budget correctly, so we're correcting that. So the calls has in deed increased by 49 million
018for this fiscal year. I'm sorry, the last part, I know it's late. based on your budget from last yae, what was built in our budget was less. It was less than what we built in our budget. how much were we off by? by 25 million. so is this proposed budget we're obviously trying to rexaoup what we experienced last year, for not including what should have been there? correct. thank you for the clarification. thank you. MS. Leonardi. to continue on that point, I suppose it's not the topic of this budget hearing but it presents some concerns. Given that there was a misunderstanding, I'm wondering what process has been put in place to make sure that does not happen again and also, any accountability measures? yes, we did a de tailing. I'm sorry. DR. Hepburn. go ahead.
019I put in controls, and looking at our accounts and expenditure and my team is going to project revenue and any amendments would come here first before the fund balance is appropriated. So those things that we have done in our office to make sure that we're being transparent and accountable to the board and also to the public. okay, I feel that I'm a little bit more alarmed, I think 25 million error is you know, it's hard for anyone in the public to stomach including myself. And I know that you were not C.F.O. Then, I just, I think a conversation we have a lot in this district is, there are errors that have made in the past. It does not feel like people are held accountable so I'll just, I hope that we take that very seriously
020and we look into that. we are. MS. Bulman. I agree with MS. Leonardi about that, I don't expect that is going to be happening again, because I know she was not happy about it. So thank you for that, that makes me feel better than I did a week ago. I have one question and I'm not sure if I carried this, but the textbook adoption, this is what, where does that come from? the history on that. Two years ago. Because we didn't adopt it last year, that would be two years ago. gap year. so it was a decision made to do a gap year and delay adoption which was not in the violation of anything to provide additional compensation. This is negotiations around raises and things like that. so we didn't adopt the textbook so we
021had the money to do it. correct. so now we're catching up? okay. thank you. okay, thank you so much. I have just a couple of questions and then statement I guess. So on the fringe costs, it says, health insurance retirement et cetera, can you break that down a little bit more us. Is it possible to, did something happen in the health insurance claims were usually high this year. I know they were high during covid because it was covid, did it ever balance back out? I would guess based on this that the health experience is the driving factor. 27 million a year, so that is extremely high. if I look at historically, they went from 250 to now they're 325 million so our claims are getting higher and it's costing the district. The claim rate we
022have to pay, most of it is on the district to pay on behalf of our employees. Our retirement rate is going to cost the district more money. So those are the things that we're not getting funded for from the state. So the increase that you're predicting for next year, do you believe that will cover. I know that is easy enough but the health insurance is something we cannot grow, control. Our revenue is 26 million, examine mid-year increase the transfer to cover costs. If we didn't do that, we would be only six million over than last year. So there is things that we did this year that is significant driving us, I'm not trying to rob capital either, there has got to be a balance. There are some things that we have to do at that
023make sure that this budget is in line. So I'm going to ask for time to fix these things. The point is to have a balance in capital as well as support the general fund as well. Because we have the expenditure that's are capitol. thank you, and we say a lot that our budget reflects what our values are. So if anyone would look we spend a lot large portion of our money in instruction and paying our employees. But as we know, we are our state is 50th in funding for teachers and just employees, I think in general. Educational employees in the country. We're number 50. I think it's important and you will not be surprised because I say this, I hope it's no less than four percent increase. It doesn't state that in here. I know
024we've had this discussion. So I just want to continue to say that and I know that we've had a really good discussion about ways that we can save money and transportation and different things of that nature. But haven't been discussed in public and I just I guess I would like to ask the superintendent what we're doing to be able to, to reduce those costs and to know, moving forward, what will our what we feel is very top-heavy administration even though we hear often that we have to one of the lowest, it still is the higher end of what our budget is. So what are we going to be doing before and I'll say for an for example was instead of providing, buses everywhere, maybe partnering with the county to be able to provide our students
025bus passes where they still ride a bus but it would not be a broward county school bus. So what kind of other things are we going to be doing so that, so that we spend our money but we spend in areas that reflect that we as a board value. absolutely, we started that journey and own that journey all yaefrment you spoke about transportation, MS. Paul and her team are reviewing, it's cross revision al collaboration with the strategy and innovation team as we, as we retool or revise our magnets that's where transportation issue. Because we don't have clear feeder patterns within region so we're cleaning thaup and save some costs for some of the district wide magnets that we can avoid. We create transportation bubble zone. If you within that bubble, you get strans ported outside.
026And also reviewing all of our contracts that we don't need so we're constantly reviewing that. And also getting a handle on our overtime, we spend an enormous amount on, on overtime so we viewing our processes is improving that and getting rid of some systems that and improving those systems to put something in place so we can hold people accountable and review for certain things. There is, also reducing our travel budget for conversations. So some employee is going to be mad, we use the data and you don't need it. We have other mechanism that you can communicate. So there is a myriad of things that we're looking at this year and working with our principals so we have a hard stop for implementation especially during budget season. And also the biggie, you heard this before in
027the spring our staff and allocation need an overhaul, we're going to be working on that just to make sure that they're comparable to the needs of number of students and not just a formula. So there is a lot of things that we're looking at including not, not talked about before, as I'm talking more things popping up in my head because I don't have a list in front of me. Also attrition, we're not going to be hiring one for one like we've done in the past. Like I said, we lose about 3000 employees a year people who willingly leave our system via resignation, we're not talking about termination and not replacing all those, only focus on 40 percent hiring for attrition rate which is going to be based on school base positions for the most part
028or position that's we feel is critical for a huge impact. There is a measure add of -- myriad of things that will equate to cost savings for the district. okay, thank you. I appreciate that answer and I just, I don't know how every one else feels but you know, our one statutory responsibility is this budget and I don't feel like I own this budget. I feel like the staff did a lot of this. And it's hard to put the pieces in the right place and to MS. Bulman's point. Even just the software to be able to look at, like we see the budget and pieces as we approve things, but even this document, I don't know if there is a ways to make it a little more succinct so that when we look at it,
029it's easy toto digest because this is a loloto digest especiallylyif yoyore not a nunuerers rsrs,, eyeyalkind of go gegeerer but I don't always feel like I have a solid handle on what we're spending our money on, because we have a little list there but it's not enough detail for me to say, yes, we're spending on this and that, so I don't know if there is a way to do that. That would make it feel like we have more ownership of what it is we're doing. Because I know we pass it and we give you information but it does not feel like we help to build the budget. It's like the budget was dropped off for us and then we can pick and I like, this and that but we didn't build this together and, for
030me it's frustrating because, that is my one statutory that I'm responsible for. So, nothing against, I'm not saying it because I don't think you all did anything it's just the system is set up that way and I don't know how we can do a better job of making it feel like a it's a partnership as oppose today staff handed us something and we just get to pick at the things that we're questioning as opposed to. That's my comment. can I add on. yeah, one second after MS. Bulman. do you want to go first? so I, to the chair's point. First of all I think the point that the chair made about reflecting our values is very important. And my understanding and i could be wrong is the budget department is creating the budget with the
031decisions that are being made by staff about how we're spending money and what is getting approved. DR. Hepburn. somewhat about things that staff has approved based on strategic plans such as a strategic plan you have science of reading. So a lost supplemental shall are a academic, supports science of reading, when we did the workshop with the students for vr ai, we heard from the board then, this is the direction we want to go. So you'll have staff start during revich to see what resource right side there to help us get to that. But a lot of the things are guide especially for academic when it comes to software or, resources or tools or professional development that we're purchasing. and also the workshop. correct. sure so that kind of sets the tone as well for the
032year of how many people we have employed. So the I think we always have to go back to the kids, our students and what is impacting our students. Is appreciate that we MAY have too many school at a school but I want to make sure that our value is at the school first and for most, we have to make sure that we're actually focusing on the kids. I think if we're building around that and what our plan is, then we'll do well for our school district. so I just think that's what we need to focus. What is our value what is our goal mere? And then build it from there. always talks about students first. actually, I got that from her, MS. Johnson. she does -- when it comes to other things. so as long
033as we're all us, the rest of us are doing our job it will be reflective of the budget. DR. Zeman. thanks so much, chair. I want to add on the superintendent's comments while a lot of those things save tens of thousands and maybe even hundreds of thousands maybe in the low millions when we don't feel like jobs that have worthy of tried it. He did not mention two things and I appreciate that he didn't. But you know, repurposing and closing schools, both land that used to be schools and land that we don't need anymore for future schools are always to raise tens of millions of dollars. So the scope of what we do and repurposing is just significantly higher than all the little costs ut cutting and dpisht sees that we have, maybe inbalance when
034you put all the things together that the superintendent is working on. But, we are in the position where we literally have 40 more schools than we need it. I xwet frustrated when people talk about generating money for educational races and money for programs that would intentionally draw people in critical stages back to schools but when it comes time to deal with the big things, the repurposing, the closings and the like, we have not found the courage to do that yet. I'm confident that we will. We have a different board and relationship but I look forward to that so much. Second thing, are we in a school board meeting right now, chair? we are in a public hearing. right. But in a public hearing, we can make motion to see give the superintendent direction, I think
035is that correct? yes. so I would would be very excited and I would like you to consider this to direct the superintendent to find 60 million dollars in this year's budget out of the generating fund to set aside a compensation fund for our educators that is equal to four percent. This is one of our statutory responsibility, one of them says we have to pass the budget. We don't do it in a very active way, we do it in a passive way, we observe the budget and nidle around the entitleseding but other districts don't do that. Other districts run a very deliberate ra tiff execution process so that they know where every dollar is being spent. That process is the one that I prefer. I have tried to do that before, but other districts do it
036and they fulfill their budget requirement. I would be happy to second a motion to directed the superintendent not talking about it, but direct the superintendent to create a 4 percent compensation fund for our employees. so, based on thao, let me ask MS. Johnson a question. In the budget that is before us, there a compensation decisions for our employers baked on this budget? this is a tentative budget we're still in the process of building the budget and I would say, even if we bring proposals, the board makes the final decisions on what cuts or anybody we do, we're realignment of the budget. So those decisions come at the board level, we can make suggestions but there has got to be some reduction to see get closest adding 60 million when we've taken a significant cut from
037the state and losing over 69,000 revenue from the loss of students , that's on top of 75 million and then you want to faound an additional 60 million. That's going to be a far stretch. Just to be honest. that did not really answer any questions. Is there money baked into our budget for increases for employees? no, not at this time. okay, so I can compromise with you, DR. Zeman, I would like to make a motion to direct the superintendent and the budget staff to bring back to us a that includes a four percent increase for our employees. staff. second. it's been a long day. what's a 4 percent for all staff? 16? So it's the same thing. well the other one said to put aside. What I'm asking you is for you to bring back
038in the next budget where that would, if that what that would look like, where would you have to take money from? I said it all day long, it's an infinite amount of money. Is there software money that could be less, is there departments that was a little inflated. I don't want to put something in front of you say we have to do it, but in the next budget that come back to us, my motion is to have the information in the next budget that comes back to us for a vote. yeah, so, there are good things there is things and products but definitely people, a majority is actually spent on people. but we just spent 3 million dollars on software. Although, fwrait for middle schoolers, so that's the paint, just in general we're traoug to
039say is that again we're discussing them we know that as a board we would like our employees no less than 4 percent. It's not even half of increase. And I this from day one, we lald the budget, I guess that's what I was trying to taiz earlier, if you went around and purt what said. So that's where our budget should start from and then it should say to departments waoerz what you can have to but it seems like we do a similar budget and pull off when there are things we instead of here's the things that they know and the board wants to do and they want to give employeeses you decide today say no and we said for. But the answer is no there is no raises, we've all been clear that we don't
040want to go forward and not be able to give our employees, it's not personal I'm just saying in yen, it's very important and said it to every ceo why we know we want to give raises, that's thed most costly thing that we do. And we spend a lot of money on software that could or could not be repetitive. Those are the things that you know, it's a five billion dollars budget, 60 million could probably come out of places. Niz way. I talked too long. well we wholeheartedly agree with you. It's our priorities to find to mack sure our employees are compensated, it's one of our goals is to find money. I'll take a look and bring something back. And weibel wered for the discussion. It's going to be tough. but we're still in the motion
041so we have not voted yet to know that everybody wants to do that but MS. Thompson on the motion. even though this will be very very unpopular, I think we need to take time and look at our budget before saying a specific amount of raise, I think all of us do want somebody but I am extremely anything a better understanding of where we're going to recoup the losses, we're coming into this budget with a deficit. I do remember we made a motion and maybe maybe westbound can that there is a certain amount set aside for regular reasons. 7 million. thank you. But to say a specific amount without undering everything. I also, while I understand we spend a lot of software, it's also part of the educational programs that we're offering. So to demonize, any
042section is doing any the same thing what we're explaining ability is that and so while I'm in favor, obviously of we have to take a really realistic look and not be and just be really concrete about what we can do, and also there would be and maybe that's an opportunity to also feed it morsel reese. Maybe it's redbting our department staff so that more people are in schools. I think there is a lot of creative things that we can do and I have a lot of and everybody else. I'm super happy to be here right now. But to say a specific amount, I don't think that's a good idea. And again, I know it's not popular but I'm extremely uncomfortable with that. so anyone else on the motion? Just on the motion? DR. Holness. thank
043you for that motion. I guess, with bringing back a specific amount, I, I think it will challenge the superintendent to and his staff to come back with a plan and of course this is not final, right. So this is just for him to bring back what 4 percent would look like. What the four percent would look like to see if it's doable and what the affect would be on programs that would offer and anything else that would be cut. I think it's a good place to start. It's not a finale, it presents a challenge for the superintendent to come back with something and we can discuss more robust discussion and what we can do going forward. MS. Bulman. I agree with DR. Holness. I agree with the value of having raises as a center to
044to our budget because of the fact that we haven't been able to give raise sxz we need to bring people up to live in broward county. But MS. Johnson is not bringing money out of the sky so I think that does put some pressure and really looking at the making decisions where we're financial healthy in the district. And this is probably not popular but we need to make cuts and be responsible. We're responsible for making sure that we continue on and properly educating and everybody is getting what they need. So cuts are probably inevitable in different places and with the public and with each other about what that looks like it will be a good starting point for uh conversation. I don't think we can avoid it anymore and the sooner we get talking about
045it the better and the sooner, we start educating the public and bringing them into the conversation, I think the better it will be for us to move forward. Thank you. MS. Leonardi? I definitely support the motion for a variety of reasons and I appreciate the 4 percent number named specifically because as chair hixon referenced, you know inflation increased a lot during covid. Our employees did not receive raises, that SEPTEMBER up with inflation during that time. Even just in the last year according to the consumer price index, the cost of living, increased for the try county area was 3.1 percent. So just even to keep up with the cost of living our employees would need a 3 percent raise this year, that's not accounting for the loss they experienced during covid. And I support the motion
046as well, because during our time on the board, chair hixon has said and I said and many other board members have said, over the years, we want to move forward with the budget by putting employees salaries first. So building a budget and so I think this motion realing' puts every one's feet to the fire to make that priority. I think that if there is not explicit direction in a motion that is made, will continue the same path. Thank you. DR. Lozano did you want to say something? yes as a chief negotiator, I'm going to ask that we bring this back to close door session to we can schedule and have conversation as a board we can bring it, you know in AUGUST but, I don't know want to publicly negotiating here on the dais. that's
047not what the dais is trying to do and MS. Rupert, as we said if we don't give a directive, it will come back and then halfway through the year, what I don't want to happen is to say to schools or departments, well, now we're scrambling to find this pot of money for whatever it might be, I mean I just put that money out there because we don't want it any less than that, if possible but if we wait until to do that, the next budget that comes to us, will not have it baked in somewhere. And then, all of a sudden, there is going to be cuts, the budget should look the way it's suppose to look before we get there. And that's really why I made the motion that I made. So MS. Rupert?
048thank you, chair. I actually suppppt MS. Hixon's momoti so I'i'll beupupport thk you so chch thank you. Alththosinin favor ofof the motion say aye. aye. any opposed say no. Motion carries, so superintendent, you know and C.F.O., you know what it should look like coming whack. -- back. yes, we love challenges. I know you do. And the idea is to bring it back absolutely maybe in closed door have the actual discussions but the point being, we have to start somewhere and if we keep push iting down the line, it's going to always look the same. So, okay. Anybody else? DR. Zeman? Just to make sure. MAY I have a motion to separate item 11 and 2 so we can vote on them separately. It's been moved by MS. Leonardi seconded by MS. Bulman now the budget
049director will read the resolution for item one into the record. good evening, jeff budget directer. The school board of broward florida resolution number 26-112. Resolution bit school board of school board adopting millage rates where as the school board did pursuant to chapter 200 and 100111 approved the millage rates for the fiscal year JULY 1, 2025, to JUNE 30, 2026 and where as the public hearing at the public hearing and in full compliance with chapter 200. The school board adopted the tentative millage rate for the fiscal year, 2025-26 in the amounts of required millage, 3.0720 raising 1 billion, 23 million, 86 2000. Basic decision kressing airy, 249,253. Capital improvement. 1.5499 million 910,000 279 dollars. Voted referendum, one mill, 333 million, 273,573. voted debt, 06.25, generating 18 million, 494 for millage raising 2 billion, 161 million, 135,000.
050Exceeds the roll back rate by 35.94 percent. Now therefore be resolved that the school board adopt each tentative millage rate by separate vote prior to adopting the tentative budget giving this 29th day, 2025. thank you. All those in favor of item 11, let it be known by saying aye. aye. any opposed say no. Motion carries. Let's see. Second can I have a motion and a second for item number 2? so moved. moved by MS. Leonardi seconded by MR. Holness, please read the resolution for item 2 into the record. resolution number 26-113, resolution by the school board of bro adopting the tentative budget for fiscal year 2025 to 2026. Where as the school board did pursuant to chapter 200 and 10011, improved millage rates and tentative budget for the fiscal year, JULY 1, 2025 to JUNE
05130, 2026. Budget year. Where as at the public hearing and in full compliance with chapter 200, the school board of florida adopted the millage rate in the amount of 4,882,262, 264 for fiscal year 25-26 now therefore be resolved that the attached budget of the broward school board including the millage rates setforth there in, is here adopt as a tentative budget for the categories indicated by fiscal year JULY 1, 2025 to JUNE 30, 2026 given this day. thank you, all those in favor of item 2 let it be known by saying aye. aye. those opposed say no o. The scheduled school board business has been completed. Seeing no further action is needed. This meeting is adjourned.