001could everyone please take a seat we're about to reconvene for our public hearing um thank you very much good evening and welcome to the second of two public hearings for the 2023-2024 budget we are here tonight to review the proposed property tax rates and budget for the 2023-2024 school year we're here to hear comments from the public and approve the proposed millage rates and budget the order of business and actions taken tonight must follow specific directions set forth in the state statute and we ask for your cooperation as we go through this legally required format there will be two opportunities for you to speak this evening first you may comment on the proposed millage rates second you may comment on the proposed budget if you wish to speak you must register separately for each part
002of the hearing with our staff member at the entrance of the boardroom on behalf of the school board and superintendent I thank each of you for taking the time to be here tonight and to share your views with all of us at this time I would like to entertain a motion to adopt the agenda make the most the motion by Mrs long and a second by Mrs Peters Mr Hendrick and staff would you like to introduce the budget thank you madam chair and I welcome the public to our second and final of two public hearings on the 23 24 millage rates and District budget I want to thank the board members for their interest and work with staff over the course of the last several months in formulating this work for the 23-24 school year
003as you know this millage rate and the budget are directly tied to our district strategic plan and as we consider the millage tonight one of the things that's in our online version of the the millage rate and the plan is a historical perspective going back to 1970 on millage rates in Pinellas County and tonight's overall rate is the lowest of any of those years since 1970 including the lowest rate for the required local effort I want to thank our citizens who have supported our local referendum since 2005 which is part of this millage rate to support teacher salaries in Pinellas County Schools so with that I'll pass it to Mr Smith for the introduction of the budget the millage rate and his staff to present it to the public in our board thank you Mr
004Hendrick and you stole my factoid about the millage rate appreciate that tonight this is the second and final public hearing as mentioned on the district Milligan budget the format and Order of tonight's hearing presentations are prescribed by chapter 200 Florida Statutes and most follow a specific order the material available at the first public Hearing in August provided comparative information relative to the projected fiscal year closeout the 2324 fiscal year has been closed and the actual results are reflected in the second public hearing documents we're all experiencing the effects of inflation the district is also subject to those inflationary pressures we have experienced increases in energy and fuel costs increased materials and Supply costs as well as increases in maintenance and construction costs in addition we will incur increased costs for our employee health insurance as
005well as increase in the required contribution to the Florida retirement system of approximately 9 million dollars this coming year all of these factors and more present challenges when formulating this budget we will continue to examine our budget to maximize the effectiveness of the spending decisions we make as well as to continue to strive to maximize the increase in the salaries of our employees at this time Miss Samantha Chastain manager of budget ft launch reporting will first present the millages followed by Ms Lauren Jordan executive director of budget will present the budget thank you Mr Smith and good evening Mr Hendrick Madam chair board members and staff truth and millage also referred to as trim requires school districts to advertise their proposed budget and millage rates annually the district's 2023-24 millage is comprised of the general
006operating millage which includes the required local effort discretionary and local referendum the Florida Department of Education determines the maximum state required local effort millage rate that must be levied by the school board to generate its local share of funding for the district the local referendum of 0.5 mil was initially approved by the voters in 2005 and 6 and was approved for the fifth time in 2020-21 for a four-year period the proposed millage also includes the 1.5 Mills for Capital alley a mill refers to the rate of property tax commonly paid on the assessed value of homes and business properties a mill equates to one dollar of taxes for every one thousand dollars of taxable property value the rolled back rate is the millage rate that would generate the same amount of Revenue as last year
007if applied to the current tax roll after adjusting for new construction the 2023-24 proposed millage of 5.938 is higher than the rolled back rate by 10.87 percent Pinellas County's gross property tax value of approximately 140 billion dollars is an increase from last year's value by 15.2 billion dollars or 12.2 percent the proposed military for 2023-24 of 5.938 represents an overall decrease of 0.42 percent when compared to the 2022-23 total millage rate of 5.9 63 excuse me the required local effort millage has decreased by 0.78 percent the property tax revenue comparison reflects an increase in revenue of 83.7 million dollars over last year's for seats this is the result of an increase in our property tax value the required local effort proceeds are increasing by about 43.5 million dollars and the proposed discretionary millage will generate
008about 10.9 million dollars more the referendum will yield an additional 7.3 million dollars and the capital outlay millage will generate 21.9 million dollars more than last year under the proposed rate the owner of a two hundred thousand dollar home after the the deduction of twenty five thousand dollars homestead exemption will pay one thousand thirty nine dollars and fifteen cents in school taxes this averages out to 2.85 cents per day the taxable value of property in Pinellas County reflects an increase on on average of 12.2 percent this year for the year excuse me the Florida legislature has set a required local effort also referred to as rle to 3.19 which is a decrease from the prior Year's rle of 3.215 some homeowners may experience an increase in their school taxes as demonstrated here as a result
009of an increase in property value and not an increase to our levied millage rate please note that this example does not consider the benefit of our three percent saver homes cap the rle is an appropriated amount set by the fldoe the school board must Levy this amount in order to receive state funding it is used for the day-to-day operations such as school staff and utilities the discretionary millage is used for the general operations of the district and to meet additional cost due to inflation local referendum funds are used to recruit and retain quality teachers preserve reading art and music programs and provide up-to-date textbooks and Technology the capital outlay millage is the district's primary funding source for for maintenance Renovations new Construction and Equipment as advertised on July 30th at this time I will turn
010the meeting back to the board chair to allow for a public comment and for the Motions necessary to adopt the military thank you very much first we have a motion and a second to adopt the agenda all those in favor of adopting the agenda say aye any opposed seeing none now we will move forward with um maybe have a motion or do we need public speakers prior to the motion all right we are there any public speakers for agenda item number five uh yes Madam chair board members Mr Hendrick we have four speakers for item five the first two are Andrea Dort and Mark clutho good evening my name is Andrea Dort thank you madam chair and the school board superintendent Hendrick and staff the millage rate increase I just want to support the increase
011the millage rate increases based on the state allowable increases to support the pay for our labor unions increasing obviously I would encourage the increases so pcta could benefit an average pay increase of 7.3 percent which is the average increase of the cost of living locally so again I support the highest possible increase of the mileage rate because it is tied to our strategic plan and we need to support an increase in our teacher and support staff salary and benefit thank you Mark Luther Largo this is a doggone shame strategic a word never never should be used here Capital outlay 202 million dollars oh that's bad really bad yeah here we have a heat index over a hundred degrees the air conditioning just cranking away you're wearing coats now how ridiculous is that you know that
012means you buy more air conditioning you know there can't be rational thinking here you're not gonna you're not going to arrive at some kind of smart millage rate when you can't even get the uniform of the day right I mean that's pure absurdity just listen to it go you know what our house the thermostat is set at 79 degrees we're not wearing coats now I just heard you know you you the teachers want to get better pay well you need to you need to have some rational thinking but this increase in millage you know this is highway robbery and you're talking about 202 million dollars for Capital loudly for more stupid buildings so the end result is the U.S sets a record for billion dollar weather disasters and hurricane shatters weather rules that's the results
013the next two speakers are Bronson ojoff and Sarah peacock hi good evening I'm happy to be here with you tonight and I wanted to take another opportunity to talk to you about the um the tax millage rate I was here last month and I'll just really quickly uh sum up I talked about you know it's an 83 million dollar increase which is 11.7 percent and I also talked about the excuse me I talked about the cumulative effect whereas that was on top of a 72 million dollar increase last year and so um over the last two years we've increased the taxes by 156 million dollars and if you divided that evenly among all the residents of Pinellas County it'd be about 161 dollars per person so I wanted to um talk a little bit more
014about that because you know sometimes the argument is that we we need the we need the extra taxes to pay for uh teacher salaries now I support teacher salaries and I think we need to increase them but I don't think that the data lines up with um what our objective is we're trying to increase the taxes to pay for the teachers but I don't think it shows up and the Bible actually tells us that um you know we have to be faithful with the you know the one who is faithful with little can be entrusted to be faithful with much and I don't think so far that we've been faithful with the tax increases that we've asked for versus um you know what we've asked for previously versus what we're getting uh now so I
015wanted to go back about four years and in my review of that data I looked at um the taxes back then were about 586 million that's what we levied uh four years ago and um so you know we're looking at 212 more million to get to uh where we're at currently at 7.99 so but when you look at the teacher salaries if you were a veteran teacher back four years ago so you uh were in service for 10 years your your salary would have been about forty eight thousand dollars well so now if you fast forward to last year you have been a 13-year teacher and your salary would have only been 54 000 so that's only an increase of six thousand dollars over those four years that's only a 12.6 percent increase so the
016increases in the taxes aren't lining up with what we're saying that we need to increase the money for and the human I I don't think we really take into consideration the cumulative effect of these overall tax increases you know it's it's one amount one year and then you take that amount and the following amount so if you look at over those four years and you add those individual increases that's 425 more million 425 million more dollars now than you were getting four years ago and I don't think that we have um I don't think that we have a lot to to you know specifically to show for that that's a 36 percent increase your teachers are getting 12 so what you're pulling in you're only given about a third we've got to do a better
017job keep the taxes lower thank you hi my name is Sarah peacock um I'm also uh here to talk about millage and I think that it should be increased to the highest rate that you're able to raise it to at this moment um as you stated uh superintendent Hendricks uh the numbers you're considering are historically low and I'm encouraging you to approve the highest rates possible because we hear over and over again from our faculty and our staff and our parents and our community that the salaries aren't high enough and every time we have concerns about having more psychologists and social workers and support staff in schools we don't have the money for it and I've met with all the board members except for Stephanie Myers and everyone except for Stephanie Myers has said that
018you want to raise salaries as much as you can but you're limited your hands are tied because legislation only allows you to spend certain sums of money and in the materials you've shared it says that this money can go to support staff and to cover inflation so I'm not certain how I can imagine that there is any reason that you wouldn't increase this as much as possible if those are indeed the things you Endeavor to do um as to concerns about where the money is going I mean it's all out in the sunshine you can see where every dollar goes and I don't think anything is getting wasted uh if you needed ideas on how to spend extra money you might find there are 4 600 housing insecure students in this County there are almost
019400 unaccompanied minors on that list so you could perhaps consider housing them along with all the other teachers that are about to lose their homes um so I hope that you do what you all say you want to do thank you Madam chair there are no more speakers for item five I may have a motion to provide them 5.2 the approval of discretionary local effort millage motion I need a motion first are you moving forward okay I have a movement for approval by Miss Edmond do I have a second and a second by Mrs hymers Edmund will you please read 5.2 the approval of the discretionary local effort millage I move that the board approved the levying of the discretionary local effort millage of 0.748 Mills as part of the total millage to be certified
020to the property appraiser and Florida Department of Revenue is there any board discussion Mrs Meyer you madam chair I'd like to thank Mr Smith and team for your time and diligence in preparing this budget I also want to thank you for taking my calls and discussing the millage rate and budget in more detail with me um I think it's important to acknowledge that although the proposal calls for reduction in the millage rate by 0.42 percentage rate this proposal actually equates to an increase of 87 million dollars in local revenue for the district compared to last year which is just shy of an 11 increase in taxes collected from Property Owners due to the rising cost of insurance which we've heard many speakers talk about tonight electricity groceries gas many of the families here in Pinellas
021are already struggling to make ends meet and are having their and having to make difficult choices and cuts in their own personal budgets according to the Bureau of Statistics and the Consumer Price Index our County's inflationary rate is somewhere between five to seven point five percent on average our families residents teachers and staff are contending with unprecedented price increases across the board everyone is being forced to make to do more with less and to make difficult choices and in the best interest of our taxpayers I believe so should our local governments now is not the time to add yet another double-digit increase to the financial burdens already placed on our citizens while I agree that a revenue revenue neutral or a full rollback scenario is not possible at this time due to our own Rising
022costs in the district I do think that we can and we should do better than a 10.87 percent increase in property taxes imposed on our citizens my preference would be to find some additional budgetary restrict reductions absent of that I am unable to support the current spending budget proposal however I am willing to work with staff to identify and my colleagues to identify further areas where we can make reasonable revisions all why all while continuing to support our teachers our staff and our students Madam chair thank you so any further discussion with board members seeing that I have a motion and a second for item 5.2 to approve the loving of the discretionary local effort millage of 0.748 mils as part of the total millage to be certified to the property appraiser and Florida Department
023of Revenue all is in favor say aye and I'll opposed no there's one two opposition so the emotion passes um five to two next um Mrs Hein could you please um speak on 5.3 the adoption of the total military I move that the board adopt the millage rate of 5.9380 Mills to be set and certified to the property appraiser and to the Florida Department of Revenue the millage rates are as follows for required local effort 3.190 Mills for discretionary local effort 0.748 Mills for local referendum zero five zero point five zero zero Mills for Capital outlay 1.500 Mills total millage 5.938 mils this rate is 10.87 percent higher than the rollback rate thank you very much and it we have a second by Mrs cook on moving this agenda item forward is there any board
024discussion on 5.3 seeing that I have a motion and a second to adopt a millage rate of 5.9380 mils to be set and certified to the property appraiser and to the Florida Department of Revenue the millage rates are as follows for local for required local effort 3.190 Mills for discretionary local effort 0.748 mils for local referendum 0.500 Mills for Capital outlay 1.500 mils for a total millage of 5.938 mils this rate is 10.87 percent higher than the rollback rate all in favor say aye aye and a post no and two no the motion to approve item 5.3 adopting the millage rate of 5.930 Mills to be set and certified to the property appraiser into the Florida Department of Revenue passes with a vote of five to two and at this time we're going to have
025Miss Jordan please proceed with the budget presentation thank you Mr skein this portion of the presentation covers the district's proposed budget for 2023-24. the budget calendar is ongoing throughout the year during the course of the Year budget updates are provided at board workshops and monitoring is performed through budget analyzes and forecasts in the spring we typically have a better idea of what the legislative budget is providing for us whether we can expect an increase or decrease of State funds budget steering committee meetings are held during this time frame primarily for Capital outlay requests in July and September we hold two public hearings regarding the budget and millage tonight is the second of those hearings the first hearing was held on August 1st certain parameters guide the building of the budget we strive to and have
026been able to maintain a 63-37 ratio this means at least 63 percent of all expenses are for direct instruction or in the classroom and 37 percent are related to other areas such as instructional support plan operations and administration ensured at least two-thirds of our all funding goes toward expenditures in the classroom we're required by Statute to maintain a minimum three percent contingency while District policy states were to maintain a minimum five percent contingency this budget maintains our compliance with District policy we also budget so as to support our Core Curriculum and strategic directions the majority of our budget is in our general fund this year it is proposed to be nearly 1.1 billion dollars the second largest funding source is capital outlay at 343 million dollars the district's self-insured health fund is anticipated to be
027approximately 175 million dollars and represents the district's third largest fund the total proposed budget for All funds this year is approximately 1.8 billion dollars the budget summary for all revenue sources you see that about 60 percent of the total budget comes from the general fund capital outlay accounts for approximately 19 the combined total of these two funds comprises nearly 79 percent of our entire budget the new year brings several legislative changes the base base student allocation or BSA increased to 5139.73 this is an increase of 552.33 or 12 over last year's BSA absent the collapse of certain categoricals the comparable year-over-year increase to the BSA would be equivalent to 112.62 cents Statewide funding increased by 2.3 billion dollars 75 million dollars to Pinellas which includes funding related to family empowerment scholarships changes in the Florida
028retirement system contribution rate are projected to increase District expenditures by about nine million dollars the teacher salary increase allocation increased 253 million dollars or 33.8 million dollars to Pinellas a 40 million dollar Statewide increase has been appropriated for safe schools the increase to panels is 432 thousand dollars state-funded discretionary supplement of 436 million dollars has been obligated to mitigate the impact of family empowerment scholarship on districts funding this is a non-recurring funding source the total operating fund resources are anticipated to be nearly 1.1 billion dollars of that about 634 million dollars comes from local sources which includes the half Mill referendum 290 million dollars comes from State sources the Florida education Finance program or fefp is the general fund's primary funding source the fefp funding formula uses a combination of state and local resources to
029fund education looking at the operating Revenue budget graphically you'll note that local local sources represent about 60 percent of the total operating budget and state sources account for approximately 27 percent the remaining 13 comes from transfers and fund balance the operating budget is used to fund the day-to-day operating expenditures of the district it pays for salaries and benefits supplies and materials textbooks student transportation utilities maintenance and repairs viewing the distribution of our operating budget by object there is little change from previous years about 58 percent of our budget is spent on salaries and 22 percent on benefits in total eighty percent of our operating budget goes towards Staffing Capital outlay funds include revenue from both state and local sources this fund reflects the revenue and expenditures for construction and renovation at school buildings and grounds
030the majority of these funds are generated by the local Capital Improvement millage which is set by law and Limited at 1.5 Mills These funds may not be used for operating purposes rather they may only be used for Capital outlay purposes as advertised Pico funds are not expected this year for traditional district schools additional funds have been provided through certificate of participation or cops bonds the lease purchase financing of Capital Improvements through the issuance of cops bonds is a technique frequently utilized by Florida school districts to finance school facilities our proposed capital outlay budget is approximately 343 million dollars this budget reflects 217 million dollars in new revenue and 308 million dollars in proposed Appropriations the revenue budget is comprised of two major categories of federal funds contracted programs and food service the total contracted programs
031budget is approximately 95 million dollars this budget starts the year off low and builds as the year goes on as we don't recognize the revenue until it is available included in this category are the coronavirus Corona Aid relief and Economic Security Act the elementary and secondary school emergency relief Act and the American Rescue plan grants these grants are also referred to as cares Esser and arp it's important to note these grants are limited non-recurring Revenue sources food service is a self-sustaining fund as it receives no financial support from the operating fund Federal reimbursements and local collections are the primary revenue sources the proposed food service budget is approximately 73 million dollars The Debt Service fund is used to account for the payment of General long-term debt principal and interest this 8.5 million dollar budget represents
032the debt service for cops bonds issued by the district in 2017 and 2021. the proposed self-insurance workers compensation and liability budget of 5.5 million dollars accounts for the premium revenue and expenditures associated with the district's self-insured workers compensation and liability insurance programs the self-insured health fund accounts for the district's premium revenue and claim expenditures with a budget of approximately 175 million dollars the proposed budget and all supporting documents are on file in the office of budget and resource allocation this information can also be found online at this point I'll turn the meeting back to the board chair to allow for public comment and the Motions necessary to adopt the proposed budget thank you are there any for agenda items yes Madam chair for item six we have um five speakers the first two are Mark
033clutho and Dylan dames Mark Luther Largo Capital outlay 343 million that it doesn't say anything like that here and you noticed it in some obscure publication probably uh less than one tenth of one percent of the population here would ever have noticed that this hearing is happening today I don't think that's very wise but School Board 3 million 258 thousand dollars obscene and School administration 64 million 645 000. oh boy facilities acquisition and construction 200 million and I hear the teachers crying give us the money we need more money well you know I've said this many meetings before Winston Churchill September 12 1960 we shape our buildings thereafter they shape us well see you're taking all this money you're budgeting all this money and you're making these stupid dumb buildings that are belching carbon and
034burning money they couldn't possibly Go to paying teacher salaries now over 20 years I've been saying this high performance passive solar buildings and not one teacher has ever said put us in the students in these healthy money safe money saving buildings providing for the future that you continue to ignore this budget in the word is malfeasance ignoring science of course you don't know [Music] what can we expect Dylan James good afternoon School Board my name is Dylan Dames I'm with faith in Florida we represent impacted people unhoused and housed I work around housing and criminal justice this is my first time coming to one of these I'm excited to see all of the work we do forward I just want to stand here in solidarity with teachers unionized and ununion eyes that are struggling I
035have a friend Ben Joseph he has just left his job in public education he was not nearly making enough money for the kind of harassment that he faced as a trans man from students I'm sorry it's my bad for the kind of harassment he was facing from students as well as pressure from parents escalated by some of the same book Banning that we were talking about earlier ran I'd pick him up and he'd have a bunch of things fall out of his bag he's taking work home all the time he's buying his own organizers carrying his own supplies into classrooms so that he can make do with the little that he has and ultimately I believe that Iran would have stayed even even facing the pressure of not earning enough money I think he would
036have stayed if it weren't such a tough environment I think our teachers are facing a lot of social pressure but then to also not make a livable wage is it pretty it multiplies that a lot so I'm hearing solidarity with all the teachers and just want to let you know this is not the loss you'll be saying of me I'm very honored to be in the space and thank you for what you're doing and I just urge you to keep teacher salaries a priority and all your budget proceedings going forward thank you the next Tuesday Bronson odshoff and Lynn Blankenbaker hello again um so I just wanted to take another um a chance to talk a little bit about the budget aspect of the 1.7 plus billion dollar budget and in the meeting last month
037we did uh I think it was mentioned that uh that that is that is it's a large sum right it's a it's a large budget and the idea was is to kind of go back and maybe look at the budget and make some recommendations on uh where we could reduce spending so unfortunately I don't have a lot of suggestions and one of the reasons because what's really hard the way that the budget is structured it's really hard because it's structured into different categories and you'd have to randomly uh you know cut a percentage out of this category or percentage out of that category and I don't think that that's a very uh you know I don't think it's a very effective way to just blanket cut across things you really need to look in depth
038at programs and make sure that you know the the programs that we're spending money on or what we want to there's there's uh two ways that you can kind of go uh shopping if you want to use a grocery store metaphor you can go through and get all the stuff that you want and pile it all into cart and if you're the government then you can just take that price tag and you can put it on to the taxpayers um shoulder for them to carry but a lot of families have to kind of do it the opposite way you don't get to get everything in your cart that you want you have a limit on what you can spend and so you have to put some to side some good things because you really want
039to focus on the great things and I think that's really kind of what we need our Focus to be now I don't have any solutions but I don't like to come and look at a problem without maybe offering some ideas so I wanted to maybe make three suggestions on where we could focus I think the first thing that we need to do is ask more questions we need to know no what is the lowest amount of attacks that we could charge like what's the lowest amount that we could get a buy and still um still match funds right we look at 401K you match what your employer can give you what could we match from the state what's that lowest amount and then maybe what what can we look at to uh stay under that
040spending amount I think a finance Advisory Board would be a great um idea for for the school board to get the con to get the ideas from other citizens who are actually um you know can and have good ideas and solutions you know three minutes just doesn't really give you a lot to talk about and you don't really have the resources to dive in to really come up with uh um ideas and then take a look at that strategic plan we adopted a strategic plan today it'd be it'd be great to see what all those objectives cost and then see if you really want to spend that money for that objective thank you foreign my name is Lindsey Blankenbaker I'm the executive director of pcta and pespa to start I'd like to state that my
041forthcoming comments are all made out of respect I want to praise the thoughtfulness and the diligence with which this budget is developed or has been developed it's complex a budget any com any budget is but certainly a budget this large is complex to predict to Monitor and towards the end to reconcile I respect the work of of our leadership and our staff in the finance department contract negotiations are also complex and I encourage you even though I I have heard or certainly get the sense that you've been told that you should not you should you should be watching our bargaining sessions watch the live streams look at those discussions they themselves are complex um and in both in both processes care is Paramount conservation is part of that certainly we acknowledge it School Board policy
042as the finance staff discussed is to maintain a general fund Reserve or contingency of five percent that is nearly two times the state requirement again that's not required by law that is the school board policy and it's understandable but to that end the district has allocated or budgeted 10 percent to the general fund Reserve over the last several years and respectfully policy is only as good as it is practical it's only as good as it is responsive to the realities that we all live and work with now that reality has our Educators our teachers and our support staff coping with over seven percent inflation rate locally specific to Pinellas that is higher than almost anywhere else in the state or even in the country and it's compounding over 10 percent inflation in our area last
043year that has led to a rise in homelessness or housing instability food instability and that's dry giving Educators out of our community and out of our schools but their reality is has to be your reality their shortage has to be your shortage it's your contingency this is the contingency that we've been planning for you and your priorities and your choices must change this if we are to keep our schools great are Pinellas County Schools budget should reflect a move away from holding too tightly or hoarding funds and towards valuing and keeping our Educators again respectfully today we should free the reserve think creatively versus conservatively about our budgeting policies and practices our Capital borrowing and transfers versus and and direct those funds towards keeping our edge of Educators in our schools our budget should not
044be a piggy bank but it should be an exercise in your prioritize priorities please prioritize your people thank you the next speaker is Sarah peacock hi it's me again I'm not done yet um I'm glad that the people that I disagree with about the budget are here I think it's important to have this discussion and I'm glad that you're showing up even if I don't agree with you but I do disagree with you especially in your characterization of the budget not you personally but it's what I hear a lot when I hear about government budgets um the government's not like your family and it's not like your business uh as a society we have needs we need an educated electorate it is this board's job to figure out how much money you need to achieve
045that and then it's our job as a group as a community as a society to raise that amount of money education is the Bedrock of our democracy and we don't have a teacher shortage we have a salary and wage shortage teachers and support staff deserve to live comfortably and have access to robust medical insurance and our teachers should not have to buy their own materials our Administration should not have to beg for support staff it's your job to provide those things so it's not a matter of going to a grocery store and picking out all the things we like it's a matter of we need those things we're already not getting them so it is your job to raise that money and give it to the people who need it to have the Next Generation
046be able to function in this Society because they are currently handicapped thank you Madam chair there are no more speakers thank you very much I may have a motion for item 6.2 the approval of the final budget for 2023-2024 yes I move that the board approved the final 23-24 budget as presented is there any board discussion on 6.2 seeing none I have a motion if I Mrs long in a second by Miss Edmond to adopt the 2023-2024 budget as presented all in favor say aye aye and opposed one opposition so the motion to approve item 6.2 approval of the final budget for 2023-2024 passes six to one thank you and may I have a motion for item 6.3 adoption of the resolution determining revenues and millages levied Madam chair I moved the board adopt the
047required resolution as presented without formal reading but Mrs Peters do you have a second second by Mrs cook is there any discussion on item 6.3 now I have a motion in a second to adopt item 6.3 the adoption of resolution determining revenues and millages levied all in favor say aye aye any opposed OneNote the motion to approve 6.3 adoption of resolution determining revenues in millages levied passes six to one thank you very much there being no additional business regarding the 2023 2024 millages and budget I adjourn this meeting of the public hearing on the budget