001e e e okay brief I just want to thank all of the uh residents who took the time to either attend of the forums or attended iners meeting um we had several of them we went to every school for the PTO meetings every staff meeting at every school two Senior Communities an inperson form and a virtual form so I'd like to thank the people who took the time to attend those thank the people who took the time to send questions or visit the website watch the videos and learn more about what we were proposing in the referendum to make an informed vote um we had an outstanding uh Communications committee uh of people who really work diligently to communicate with uh residents factual information about what was in that referendum and answer questions that they
002had as well they were like stewards of this referendum and I appreciate that group and I also want to thank all the people that took time today to go to the polls and cast their vote um so that their voices were heard um I'll go into the boring investigation report since our last meeting we had eight reported cases of harassment intimidation and bullying out of eight six were founded and two were unfounded that is not typical that type of information is not one that we typically track all that we track is the root of the bullying whether it's race gender uh sexual orientation physical appearance that's what the system tracks not the means by which it's communicated I'll go I'll go into as much detail um you mean because of the report that we did
003last time but I'm saying I usually see there's something where it says violence versus nonviolence typically it's nonviolent so I honestly I don't enter into there so you're saying it's on the chart itself then yes they enter it yeah I saw it not this time yes then it's in there typically they're typically they're nonviolent so but yes that there's several tabs on which they enter information it tracks police notification ATT tracks all of those things and then the schools each school has a school safety team that has to meet twice a year and part of their meetings each time is to take the data from that system evaluate what it looks like in their school and work together to determine how they can remediate that particular school what they're seeing in that school and and
004the reason why I I ask um Neil is because and again I got this information kind of secondhand so hopefully we do find out more maybe you even know more about it already there may have been an incident either Thursday or Friday at Eisenhower as it pertains to the School Musical that absolutely there there was a phone in use if this I again I I I'm only hearing it yeah to not yeah talk about take that offline but we yeah we can talk we'll talk offline about it but that's definitely like I said if if the numbers are spiking with and if we have data on cell phones being in schools I'd say we could certainly discuss the governor's lead so just so you know because this has come up before first Todd asked one
005of our committee meetings for comparative data and I said it's apples to oranges because you could have a spike that might occur later in a few months and we could have had but because I couldn't get into my office I decided to log in and see what it looked like we're actually almost half at this point of where we were last year so last year this particular meeting it was uh March 12th we were at 45 confirmed incidents we're at 24 as of tonight so it's a significant Improvement but again I caution it with apples to oranges you don't know where that's going to happen um as far as our cell phone policy I know what the governor is promoting however our district is a a district that in elementary school your cell phone is
006off and in your backpack and in um Middle School it's off and in your locker and if we see it we uh we deal with it but um and have them put it away but that is our process so really what he's proposing is similar no not working I think it depends on who you I think that unstructured time looks different in the ele the Middle School correct right and we don't often times when there's 100 Kids on the track team or the drama team we're not policing what's in their pocket so I think extenda circumstances could be involved but again this is a convers we can have yeah you want maybe we'll spend a couple minutes afterwards I'll tell you kind of what I heard through the Great Vine you know we'll say if
007it you might even know about it already honestly it should start with the building principal I it should be the parents it should be whoever experienced it reporting it to the building principal it shouldn't come through here follow command correct yeah it has to start from the from the person that experienced it experienced it correct NE can I ask a quick sure so what do we do with a difficult person the one that's a repetitive maybe there's not that many with for bullying for bullying so we have to track that as well because there's a law that says after three confirmed incidents of the same child in the same year we have to develop an action plan we don't have any children that have reached three this year correct not in I did I knocked
008on so we do have to track that and there's a law that says once they reach three we have to develop an action Comm do you want to do the board administrator certification I Robert D the school business administrator boo secretary certifies that as of February 28th 2025 no line item has been overexpanded in violation of njac 6A 23-16 do10 C3 that sufficient funds are available to meet the district's Financial Obligations for the remainder of the year thank you we move to our now we go to the budget presentation can you just your [Music] to me look get down where you st all right good evening everyone um the only thing that's different from this presentation that will be made two weeks ago is that we have got additional stating you those few things that
009were unknown we now know um we go we before our budget process starts in October all the budget manager starts to develop their budget um we work collabor collaborativ we review them in January um we make decisions to group and then we come at for the presentation in February and then again in launch there we go all right so we'll start off here with with Staffing um when we spoke last time the only positions that we had on here were um the one special education teacher for to expand the eii program as we discussed last time um because of the ages of the students it requires a second classroom over attina and we had one additional teacher assistant um with additional state aid we're look to add to teachers um as we discussed those positions
010are to be determined if Mr Dix if he wants to where he went if you wants to speak about it at all um we've added three more full-time teachers assistants when we used to build budgets a couple years ago we typically would walk in um with an additional two or three um headamp positions for teachers assistance because as we've discussed before people come to fre T up for the special education program so it was always better to budget for two or three additional ones as a cushion much like we do for out of District tuition placements we always budget two or three additional ones um so we felt with the additional State a was just going back to our best practice similarly it's this so the two teachers it's the same thing with Elementary we
011used to budget to anticipating uh increased in in enrollment in a specific school and a specific grade so one is an elementary position to be determined going into this school year we uh cut three related arts positions in the Middle School um that is a struggle with class size and offerings so one position the other Position will be Middle School related arts and the last position would be an an additional facilities position it would probably end up being a custodial supervisor um Nick and Steve our two managers are in around five 530 every day sometimes they're in earlier um by the time they get to 3 4 o'clock every day it's full day um they're running to building emergencies all the time they're working with the guys if they can't figure out a problem so
012what happens is we don't have a lot of time for anyone really monitoring what happens to most far custodians which is in the evening right so this would be we can discuss more about to go forward um but this is what we um we would like to do with that other additional uh FTE curriculum revisions I'll let M mon speak again if she wants yeah nothing has changed in budget is staying the same we talk go through budget Basics again um again Revenue plus fund balances equals our Appropriations uh when we talk about the 2425 budget it is as of February 1st 25 um the three funds and now that you see on the agenda the tenative budget motion you have fund 10 which is our general fund which is our operating budget this is
01395 96% of the total that we spend fund 20 which is our special Revenue fund these are our federal grants Ida and the title one two three and four grants um most of this money because there were some questions I believe that people told me about online um regarding the referendum about the title grants um we get we're budgeted $933,000 this year if we get our full allotment from the current year will'll be around 1.1 it's not a lot most of that money comes from the Ida Grant which is for students with disabilities um in the past years the state as we discussed last time had told us budget 85% of the current value um because of some budget cuts coming out of uh the federal government we BR to hold 75% and again this
014was prior to the November election and that's because some of our C some of our other districts in the state don't spend all their title money and they send it back at the end of the year and so the feds are already told the state of New Jersey if you're going to send the back the money back obviously you don't need it so we're we going to suffer penalties of yeah what Diane how do you always say this with PBS you're punishing the whole class class the actions of a few and we spend our title money yeah yeah we spent title money and so fund 40 is our debt service and this represents the debt and taxes that were approved by voters for past referendums the budget spes continued as we discuss Revenue drives our
015budget the state says you whatever money that you can bring into your budget from a revenue side you could spend it we only ask that you don't increase your tax heavy by more than 2% and again there are some adjustments or exceptions to that um to raise it more than 2% one is for increased enrollment and the second is for increase in health care expenditures as we discussed um we are looking at a plus 10% for healthcare which is not great but is much better than other districts that are in the state plan which are probably closer to 20% um so we qualify for a 1.5 almost $1.6 million adjustment as we discussed last time using all that adjustment uh Keeps Us in Balance I do want to remind the board last year we did
016take um the entire healthc care waiver but we had some Bank cap that we let lapse um so we have in the past when we didn't require it we have let some of this additional funding fall off the table um and then support as we discussed when we talk about support staff it's our attendants our health services guidance child study team extraordinary Services which is typically 1:1 2:1 3 to1 Tas curriculum staff development otpt speech and our media center items of note state aid um again we are getting a little bit more money every year we our fund 10 State a was increased by $351,000 um what was interesting to note there used to be something called Equalization Aid and then we would get some money in transportation special ed and security this year they
017removed all Equalization Aid and everything is going through the funding formula so our transportation and our special ed and our security numbers are up slightly we're still not fully funded so if you looked at the state a sheets that came out two weeks ago um we still have a few hundred, to go but again we were winners this year we got the maximum 6% increase that um there was a few other districts in the state got a little bit more but typically it was a 6% up or 3% down for districts um so we a good shape for Debt Service and fund 40 um we received an additional $431 not a lot but we'll take it um and as we discussed last time Freehold Township received something called the business personal property tax or we
018call it the Verizon tax um it was slightly reduced this year by $166,000 almost 17 this what happens the municipal collects this and they use these dollars as state a that they received on our behalf to reduce the tax L that's actually collected from the township residents so it went down slightly Healthcare as we've discussed before it's plus 10% for medical and RX 0% for dental um we have the official Charter School cost at the last meeting we I estimated $50,000 for the two students that are Charter Schools the actual number will be 4,758 um again energy costs are going up for various reasons um you we've consulted with at least my Association did with some of the esos that are out there and we're being told budget 25% for electric and 9 to 10%
019for natural gas um so we are budgeting of that um again I think JCP has a 20% increase coming to everyone's home come June 1st um when we look at the Appropriations and the revenue for 2425 because of the mold remediation over at Laura Donovan school and because we didn't receive our uh insurance check until this month um and again as our budget is reflected for the current year February 1 some of those numbers are in um you'll see when we look at uh maintenance Reserve we took out $700,000 for 2425 we had originally budgeted $300,000 um it's inflated because we needed money to pay the bills to get the the building remediated same thing over with the maintenance lines we dumped a lot of extra money into the maintenance lines in order to take
020care of that issue and again prior your incumbrances for 2425 is $2.6 million and it will inflate the 2425 data when we show revenue and Appropriations I will show you with the number and without it and again other than a few other highlights we'll discuss in a minute um we're basically the budget managers are repurposing their budget dollars each year so I gave the example last time and I give it again for transportation the year that we spent money on upgrading our software for routing we also spent money to versus having paper um for our pre and post trips that have to be done twice a day for our buses and we got a giant uh trailer full of paper we went Electronics this year we are going to take those funds and we're investigating
021a system where all students will have a card which will'll come onto the bus and swipe in this way you know if especially happens in the beginning of the year or sometimes with you know K gets on the wrong bus we could identify who's on the bus immediately we won't have to make try to make a phone call down the transportation and sometimes the phone's ringing ringing ringing there's only three people down there they can't pick up the officers will be able to go online look oh Johnny's on bus 13 he is on the or oh I see he swiped on to bus 14 that's not his bus someone Transportation make sure that kid get red back to school or dropped off the right place so again we have some new things but it's typically
022repurposing the dollars we already have all the new money is going for the additional headcount that we just discussed yes sir one qu one question I thought of about the uh the bus card thing two things I remember you had mentioned there these calls have a multi-purpose to them correct like about for access to certain areas of the school buildings or something I remember it could be expanded into very high level not but here's the question I have we're going to give at some point we're going to give a Kindergarten kid one of these cards first grade second grade whatever not what happens if they lose the card and who like how does that work now are we going to the parents and saying you have to purchase a new card or I want get
023into thing where where we're now giving out an endless supply cards tell you in my district for my kids they all had they all had a card since they were they us Rec I think it's elementary school they got it and yeah I think if and when we implement it procedures for that but we haven't done similar to the referendum I implement it yet when we go to implement it we take those procedures out yeah yeah and what what usually see is I know with my kids they put the card in the back of their phone case if it's clear this way that's what they use for they swipe on that so we'll figure that but for it's good point but it's yeah we'll have to work through that so some new or continued initiatives
024for the 25 26 year security um Dr bre hour's team is looking at some additional security cameras especially at the elementary school transportation we need three new buses which will be at least purchased we just discussed a new software for intend on buses on facilities this will be our third year of renewing our vehicles that were you know they're 10 11 years old they take a beating because of the salting and plowing so two new vehicles a commercial lawn mower two new commercial for scrubbers as I described last time these are the ones you ride on like 122 or $133,000 that'll be at least purchased um we will continue to replace old carpet and VCT in the classrooms and offices and we are going to start a cycle of cleaning our UVS building by building
025so the ones over U eisenh how will be done this year um it'll help maintain them hopefully we'll pass a referendum tonight and we'll have new UVS sometimes in the next 3 years but even when if we get all the equipment replace part of our annual upkeep will be rotating building by building have a company come and help us clean out those units so they operate more efficiently for a longer period of time te- Tas we described um we're going to start to begin a cycle of replacement for that um technology we will continue our Chromebook purchases for the fifth graders um we will continue our teacher workstation Replacements and we will migrate from Individual printers and classrooms to paper cut in which they will have a centralized copier which they'll print out to and
026their jobs will wait till they show up and they type in their code or swipe their badge and then their prject will come out um as I discussed last time at worst case scenar this will be budget neutral um we have to work through all the particulars here but we know that that'll be the worst case we should save some money um the old desktop printers are old they're out of date they're difficult to maintain and by removing all those uh individual devices it frees up our technology team to work on other things special services we discuss the additional Staffing um we are budgeting for three additional um out of District tuition contingencies and this year in the support line the nursing line is up significantly because we have to provide nursing services to a
027few students during Transportation uh to and from school and then all the other staff as we discussed before and while this isn't in the budget right now we do have some capital projects ongoing um I Hower will have its electrical system upgraded this year and the rooftop units over at Ericson and Applegate um will hopefully be installed this summer they should be we're on schedule uh from the manufacturer and just to remind everyone uh part of the money is coming from the state from a rod Grant it's a a 6040 split we're paying 60% out of our capital reserve dollars and the state's paying us around 40% of the remaining of the project revenues um tax discussed last time it's Up 4 1% it's our 2% plus that 1.5 was $1.6 Million for the healthcare
028waiver fund balance we're holding flat for the year at 1.9 million state aid as I said before we're up $351,000 or 6% extraordinary Aid um we last looked at this I had said to the board I was uncomfortable going to 1.1 million because the state has not fully funded us and the percentage of funding is gone down every year um so we took $50,000 in additional state aid and we reduce this number um if we started at the funding that we are entitled to we can look in future budgets to continue to increase that number I think last year when we submitted the application was closer to 1.9 million that we were entitled to and they only funded about 1.2 tuition fees are down 20% that is because we are budgeting 10 fewer uh preschool
029students um for a tuition basis and the formula for the adder District uh students for special ed is down slightly so that's why there's a decrease in that transportation fees is flat at $25,000 semi we discussed last time but for the people who were new in the audience this number comes from the state and when everyone saw their semi figures about three or four weeks ago we all called one up one another up and said hey is yours as low as mine and the explanation is that they've changed the formula for how services are funded so we may get more money um I just hope we're not in a situation where um our team of people that's been hours working on this bureaucracy uh that you know it's not really getting 17781 we've been accustom
030to doing all this work and getting closer to 130 140 the last couple of years but this is a state driven number and it's something that we just have to do misscellaneous Revenue the ma again the majority of why is increase is because we're earning a lot more interest on our bank accounts and that accounts for the the entire increase at $175,000 or 62% maintenance Reserve $100,000 we won a budget for 2526 it was supposed to be 24 uh 300,000 for 2425 but again because of the mold over at Donovan um we increase that number by $400,000 through board resolutions um so while it looks that it's down it would actually be up $100,000 we have that situation at Donovan capital reserve right now we don't have any plans um to pull any additional Reserve
031out for projects um in the 24 25 year the board did appropriate $1.6 million to uh come out from capital reserve to fund the two projects we discussed before and again as I said because of the priority your POS if you pulled out that $2.6 million of carryover Po that came over our budget would be up 1.7 million or 1.9% when you factor those purchase orders back in it looks like we're down $960,000 or 1.1 million so again the budget is going up it's going up roughly 2% but when if you were look at the advertisement that'll be in the paper I think it's April the Friday before that last April meeting whatever the date is um you would see you know you would see that bottom number so just so no one's confused Appropriations
032the only thing that we changed from the last go rounds we tweaked the additional Staffing in the lines and U I actually put the the proper Charter School number in here so regular instruction is up about a half% $102,000 um special ed is up $444,000 again we have the ER teacher and we have a number of Tas increase there or 3 point the 3.9% increase the ass basic skills is roughly flat down $88,000 or 0.5 C- activities is up $10,000 or 2.3% um as we discussed last time we have not increase the dollar amount we've given for um co-curricular athletic supplies a number of years so that's where that $10,000 is coming from add a district tuition is up 3.6% um It's relatively close to what it is this year and again we budget three
033contingencies um so you know we don't have a lot of kids that are out of District like other uh districts do we do a great job of keeping our kids in the least restrictive environment um but so there's a SL increase because of those contingencies support staff is up 4.9% um this has to do with the nursing for the students on the bus it has to do with the one to one AIDs that we budgeted Administration is down about five as we discussed last time it's because of how we set up 2425 to manage the administrative cap sales Grant security is down 8% uh $64,000 again this has a lot to do with all the additional work that we had to do over at Donovan and because we didn't receive the insurance check until March
034to refund the expense line it appears that uh 25 26 we're spending less than we are in the the current year transportation is down 1. 8% about $81,000 we have a lease purchase payment that's falling off um that was for the for a few years ago we bought six or seven buses which was a high number for us and benefits it shows 5.5 um again Health are going up 10% pensions in here f is in here um tuition reimbursement for staff uh workers compensation the reason it's not up higher is because us being self-insured we won't get our final payments for the month of June until the middle of July we won't get administrative costs for being self-insured until the end of July so we typically carry over on the purchase orders about $1 million
035for health benefit so that's why it doesn't look like it's up hey Bob you said it was up 10% there's a carry over po buried in the 2425 Year from the prior year Capital outlay it's down significantly 2.8% uh 2.8 million and that's in because we do not have any um construction budgeted right now in the general fund um that $196,000 represents some equipment that we're spending and the state has we've had this number since 2010 they are assessing us $111,000 each year for the bonds they did uh they put out in early 2000s to pay for R their Construction in the state um so that's what that's all for Char school this is the actual number we're up slightly at $2,200 or 5.1% and again I've give you the total here um with and
036without the prior Inc conferences so um that's for right if take out those prior year poos we're up 1.9% and about $1.7 million fund 20 um you'll see on the motion tonight we're projecting at the 75% rate for all of our grants as we've been instructed $933,000 versus the 1.2 hopefully especially with Iva we are going to get much closer to what our current allocation is um and that number the actual number should be higher but it's down 25% as we've been instructed to budget by the state fund 40 is up 6.8% and again this is because this is what our current debt service schedule is for um the prior to referendums that occurred in 99 and 2001 and so your total budget you'll be voting on tonight for funds 1020 and 40 is $94
037million which again because of the uh prior year incumbrances because of the capital reserve dollars that came out this year and the additional maintenance Reserve dollars it looks like it's down 1.1% um but that is what we're looking at in terms of the total package the estimated tax impact um the only thing nothing really changed here other than the Verizon tax went down slightly from the last time so overall you take your general fund tax levy plus your debt service tax levy subtract that by Verizon tax and it gives you the figures down below so we're up about 3.3 uh million do or 4.3 again the majority of that's coming from the general fund because the budget currently has the 2% plus the additional 2.1% for the healthcare waiver and right now based upon the
038estimated uh assess value for the township our portion of the real Township tax rate we decreased 5.8% um and the tax rate would be 8803 um the average household of $677,000 for our Porche on the day end would see a $210 decrease um the assess value is up a tremendous amount once again 10.7% I saw a stat divida over the last five years the assess value in F tach was gone up over % so that's and again this is only for our portion of the tax bill for the township resents you've got the regional you've got the township the county the fire districts and I think the library tax is on there as well so next steps um we hopefully approve our budg Ted budget tonight it'll be sent over to the county office for
039approval um once the budget's approve I we will'll send an advertisement over to Asbury Park Press that'll appear on April 25th and then we'll have our final budget hearing on April 29th at 7 p.m. so at this point in time I'll take any questions that the board has well the depths Deb service that'll overlap the old and the new right foresee any problems covering both no because again the between the state aid and the tax ofy that if it's voted in tonight it's automatic it's so there is no issue covering both because all the all the revenue will be there right does that make sense any other questions if not thank you everyone um and so unless something changes between now and April and we pass this Bud tonight you know it'll be a quick
040presentation in April unless the board decides they want to do something different at that point in time so but thank you for your time thank you okay so this is going to be too close to call I'm going have to call them find out 9779 thank you Bob this is going to be the uh first um public participation if anyone wishes to address the board please write your name and address on the signin sheet and state your name for the record statements are limited to 3 minutes and should not be abusive obscene or defamatory in nature we have any public [Music] participants okay seeing none we're going to go into Personnel policy and Communications Mr spieler hi um we did not meet our committee um Mr Williams Dr Casey and Dr bre hour myself we
041did not meet um which will be meeting next week uh next meeting and um so I'd like to move the following items number two resignation as listed number three new employment as listed number four res walk of employment as listed number five long-term substitute as listed number six salary adjustment as listed number seven leave of absence of listed number eight temporary change of assignment salary adjustment as listed number nine F honoraria number 10 second reading of the policy number 11 policy 5112 the number 11 unpaid we uh unpaid days as listed number 12 firm uh Bine investigation findings as listed number 13 student teacher practicum observation observation placement at number 14 uh affiliation agreement University as listed number 15 curriculum committee committee as listed number 16 certified substitutes as listed number 17 District Mentor number
04218 number 17 as listed and number 18 non-certified substitutes as listed thank you do I have a second thank do we have any questions see none can I get a roll call Mrs BR yes Dr Casey yes M Crosby M ruro yes Mrs Lambert yes Mrs spieler here Mr yes Mr Williams yes mrin yes Mr Ros yes motion carries thank you curriculum committee Mrs Brown yes thank you so we did meet as a committee this evening and the members present were Miss uh mgy Mr San Miss Casey and myself we discuss items no I said I mean Dr Casey Dr Miss Cosby never mention Cosby 800 okay we review all the items on the agenda we also discuss a field trip proposal for the AL Community Farm we discussed this adding this location to the
043district pre field trip to expand learning opportunities outside the school a trip to this location aligns with the upcoming third marking period science unit for first grade students winter I diagnostic data was also reviewed Miss montgom reviewed districtwide student progress from fall to winter we are noticing significant student growth and Improvement across both math and reading we're hoping to see this I ready growth transfer to the njsla performance the fold if uh if anybody wants I can review some of the change some of the improvements the full Diagnostics were 19% of students in Reading two or three years below grade level and 33% of students reading early at or above grade level the winter Diagnostics dropped down to 12% of students reading two or three or more years below grade level level and 62% of
044students reading early or at above grade level so that was a very nice Improvement and the math had similar scores the end of the year and then waiting for the end of the the end of the year results uh math 14% of students uh at the the early in the full diagnostics for math 14% of students were reading two or three or more years below grade level and 37% of students were reading early at or above grade level where and now with the winter Diagnostics that uh the the 9% of students are dropped down to the 14% dropped down to 9% of two or three years below grade level and 58% of students are reading early at or above grade level is that reading or I'm sorry okay okay I'm sorry it's okay um and
045and just to add Miss friend I will be doing a full presentation at the end of the year for the board about our I ready growth across the entirety of the year I've just been updating my committee periodically but it's looking good it's looking very good Mr that's nice to hear we like a little update and then we also discussed uh with Miss Montgomery the cursive and handwriting resources provided to the elementary schools uh it's being implemented at the third grade class rooms based on school specific schedules all schools were given the cursive resources and but since Cur is not a New Jersey standard we have no testing given to measure the proficiency but the administrators arew and they're being handed out to each third gr class uh then I'd like to move uh three
046course reimbursements as listed that's it excellent do we have a second second any questions for our curriculum team a nice first to the improvement over year in terms of our uh growth in reading and math yes um our growth from the fall to the winter diagnostic was um as Sprint said really impressive um I am hopeful that that will continue so our goal is that um the diagnostic is the IRA diagnostic is a benchmark it um gives us the opportunity to measure student growth throughout the year so that we can anticipate what that what um student performance will look like on njsla because that's only given once a year and then in between Diagnostics students are working on their already individualized Pathways um so they're making individual growth based on their diagnos to need in
047between diagnostic tests for the reading if I could add went from 43% to 62% of improve uh covering either a early at or above grade level so that Wonder there was an expect we've already exceeded it for this year and I believe I believe Mrs Montgomery wanted to go further hopefully one day if our IR data is high enough we won't have to do njsla if we could get that done but I'm we're working on that yes that I I ideally um and we had a conversation last year um our district and and some um other districts in mouth County um proposing to Senator gopal that districts that do internal diagnostic benchmarks and can show measured growth um shouldn't have to also give kids a state standardized test because we've already proven that kids are
048mastering standards so don't hold your breath on that one working on it though working on it thank you do we have any other questions for curriculum okay um all those did we have a second we yep okay all those in favor say I I any opposed okay thank you finance facilities and transportation Mrs Lambert um the finance facilities and transportation committee did not meet this evening so I'd like to move the following items recommended by the superintend attended item number two acceptance of the board secretary's report for the month of February 2025 and the treasurers report certifying our financial sufficiency item number three bills and claims as listed in the amount of 3,661 $100 15 um reviewed by m Crosby Miss Crosby item number four the travel and related expenses as listed and item number
049five the updated travel and related expenses as listed item number six transfers as listed item number seven PTO honoraria for DW uh Dwight D Eisenhower Middle School as listed item number eight stale checks as listed item number nine the 2526 tentative uh budget res resolution do we have to separately vote on that no no um for a total expenditure of 94 million 44,6 54 less anticipated revenues 11 m795 482 with a total tax levy of 82,6 5972 that's all I have wonderful do we have a second check it thank thank you do we have any questions for finance facilities or Transportation no sir okay seeing none all those in favor say I I I any oppos no extensions excellent old business so first and foremost uh we um Eisenhower did a phenomenal phenomenal job for
050Little Mermaid um if you want myself and Dr Casey haven't seen it combined six times can act it out if You' like we have it memorized no thank you but uh they did a phenomenal job I could sit here I'm sure Dr Casey could sit here all night and talk about it uh the wonderful job that they did but I think I think a parent summed it up best and I I know we all got the email but I think it's worth reading I actually reached out to the parent I did get her permission to read the email uh in public forum um because it it it speaks to just it speaks to more than just the than just the musical I think it speaks to our the the um community at Eisenhower on a
051whole so so basically I just want to get started here it says uh we wanted to reach out to let you know how Blown Away we were from the Middle School what I'm not cool enough to talk like that but a production of The Little Mermaid absolutely fantastic all around so professionally done everyone we brought to see to everyone we brought to see the show said the same exact thing we were all in awe there was such a talent shining through on stage and off stage what you have all created here is nothing short of amazing as you know I won't say the child's name I'll just say our son transferred to DDE as an eighth grader and didn't know what to expect or how he could fit in not knowing anyone he found a
052home with with you all he found belonging and acceptance he felt so incredibly safe at dbe he took a leap of faith and tried out for this musical which was a really big deal for him in years past putting himself out there in this type of vulnerable way would have been a nons Slaughter to see him come alive on stage as flum one of the eel and for those who don't know The Little Mermaid uh owning the part getting out of his comfort zone and having pure eely fun was tremendous to witness as parents we were shocked pun intended most notably the closing show speeches had us all in tears what you have created here goes far beyond the razzled Dazzle of what we is seen on stage you have fostered a loving caring safe
053environment for these children children who have a passion for the Arts they belong somewhere and for some kids it may be the only place they belong it goes far beyond the music notes ation the script and the dance routines you have no idea what this experience has done for our child's self-esteem peer relationships and a sense of belonging and purpose recently and I'll just say he got accepted to both the fpac MVP and drama programs at Howell High School and has decided to go with MVP which really fits him well but I have no doubt now that the seed has been planted he may be interested in trying out for future musicals at the high school level he has a frame of reference now and understands the community and family that comes along with putting
054together such a large scale production we are so excited for the future and we thank you so much for what you all have done not only for our family but C's families in the school thank you thank you thank you Bravo kudos to all respectfully Nicole and dash depra so I think that was absolutely wor reading out loud um again can't say enough about uh what what we saw um last week and amount of work I mean two nights of the week um my daughter gets on the bus at4 to 7 in the morning and I was picking her up at school at 8:00 that is a long day even for an adult so I uh I I appla everyone over there at Eisenhower for this and I'm looking forward to to Baro I believe
055it's this week Baro is Shrek I'm looking forward to stuck to seeing Shrek and then also read across America was just another great week for everyone who participated in that I knocked out three schools on Friday uh I Applegate Ericson and Cino I had an interesting uh mind reading read a third grade A CER and uh it was I had a dog in the in in the book talking about my wife's she loves Shel be and dog Samson died and she still feels bad so I says when we're done traveling I'm going to buy our shelter and I think I'm going to call it either Hercules because of Samson or Hannibal one of a sudden a girl in the third grade in the Pro first row said yeah he was the cagini in general who
056attacked roome I was stunned and the other classroom very bright Montgomery's curriculum clear because all I could think was Silence of the lane in history and that's my B with you know and I studied Hannibal and I loved Hannibal and when she said that I right on this is old business new business Gone Wild great but you know what we love good news I read at Ericson it was wonderful I read Mrs tweet's class and all the kids were so well behaved and I enjoyed it immensely I always love reading to the kids um do we have any uh new business to discuss wait for the mail none okay then second president's remarks I'll be brief um we have some preliminary election results the yeses are ahead by about 94 94 one District go okay
057so uh it's better to be up than not to be up correct um however there's still a lot of outstanding votes probably too close to call correct well there's mailin and mail yeah there was 35 85 and mailin so I have to call them and find out how many they've actually processed tonight if they now you only need to win by one vote so you know if it kind of turns this way it's a squeak you can lose by one vote you can lose by one we don't talk about that they've got six days to make sure that the uh the bouts are that come in are L postmarked and they're properly done so this could be a March 18th correct could be a March 18th verdict so we'll keep us hanging by a thread
058this will be the second time for public participation uh if anyone wishes to address the board please write your name and address on the signning sheet and state your name for the record statements are limited to 3 minutes and should not be abusive obsene or defamatory in nature do we have any takers for public participation seeing none can I get a motion for adjournment can I get a second all those in favor say I I any oppose thanks folks we're at 28 yep I'm going to give him a call