001start this governing board meeting for public hearing regarding revisions for the current budget we'll turn the time over to you as Doug Meyer all right good evening Governor board members governing board president it's nice to see here in this weather it's crazy out there so we're gonna um go over the hearing for uh the revised budget which is a requirement through Arizona Department of Education um and they're going to pull my PowerPoint up I think here it comes okay oh there's the agenda there we go all right so if you go to oh I can do it uh so just this is just a slide talking about the requirements um for the revision of the budget so um we have to do it no later than December 15th um they uh it's revised to our
002latest student count which we'll go over and as you know our budgets based on current year funding so when we do our budget in June we have to just we have to pick a number for what we think our enrollment's going to be and then what happens in December is the state says here's what your actual enrollment is and then you have to change your budget to match that number so um when we adopted the budget we predicted that our enrollment would be 17.75 and we always have a point because we are on the FTE um full-time equivalency and kindergarten was only half we have high schoolers that are 0.75 that's why those decimals are in there we don't have half kids or anything uh but when we when our numbers came in our revised
003budget was um 1665 so we're about a hundred students down Dr Wright had mentioned that to you all that that might be a possibility with some of the changes that we made this year so that actually did happen we're down a little bit in our um Group B count that's our special needs count and our gifted count we're down slightly that's a correlation to actually being down in our enrollment as well so we had an increase of 960 um in our budget with um with the new legislation that happened last summer with the with the legislature and then we had a revised uh carry forward of 824 000 that is a result of moving mno expenses to sr2 so I just want to talk about that a little bit so we did move some we
004did move those expenses to sr2 so that we would have carryover so that would we would have some money in our m o moving forward but we do have small class sizes and we knew that going into our budget so we do have a deficit we will take care of that deficit with our sr3 Monies um for our unrestricted Capital um that's based on prior year um student count so that's based on our prior year student account so that number is solid when we do our budget because we know what our prior year is but we did have a little bit of carry forward in our unrestricted Capital with 164 thousand dollars one other account I want to bring to your attention is our classroom site fund that's where our student our students sorry our
005teachers prop one two three money or their bonuses come out of um we did have a slight carryover of ninety two thousand dollars in that account that was just um we had less expenses than we thought part of that account pays for their um prop and is part of base salary so estimating it is a little bit loose because we have to figure in their salary in in that that's about 1.5 million dollars a year so that's not a huge amount of carry forward for that account all right are there any questions those are the major changes to the budget I might just review a couple of key things that the review and if I could outline a few of these when we discontinued the buses to White River we anticipated a drop in students
006anywhere between 50 and 125. we didn't experience that right away I think parents were dropping kids off the first part of the semester as the time wore on we saw more and more students drop and so in aggregate in total just raw numbers on students were down about 118 on an average daily membership where we count kindergarteners as 0.5 we're down 101 on that a vast majority of those are White River students not all of them but a majority are and so I think it didn't hit right away but it started to impact us the last couple of months more we also have a group of students numbering 20 or 30 that go back and forth when it gets cold they leave when it warms up they come back and so that's that's part of
007been part of the dynamic for last year eight years we've been here so this uh we began the year with sr3 with about 2.5 million dollars and Our intention was to use that for learning lost makeup we did that by keeping class sizes artificially slow meaning or lower meaning we knew we couldn't sustain it but we agreed we need to try to keep these class sizes small we didn't anticipate some of the cohorts being so small we're down 34 in kindergarten I didn't anticipate that I guess we'd be closer to you know 105 110 students we're 90 students we're down in a couple of grade levels a little lower and then we're up in a couple to offset it we're lower at the junior high and I think a lot of that uh loss on
008the White River Side I think we're down 34 at the elementary on the White River Side maybe as many as 40 and we're down about 35 or 40. fewer White River kids between 7th and eighth grade and you can feel that in our population of 268 normally we're closer to 325 330. High School has minimal impact on those and I think because they're kids that can drive and go with other kids so that that explains the I think the loss The Lion's Share of that budget reduction smaller class sizes and fewer students and thank you Kimberly did a great job are there any questions yeah no appreciate that so um I don't think we have to have a motion close