001So we will call the meeting to order at Brad. >> She might call in later. >> Esposa >> here. >> Trader >> here. >> Landers >> here. >> Reynolds >> here. for the pledgece 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 for all. >> Okay, we are on to our discussion of the tennis courts. Yeah. So, um we uh we started this discussion I don't know a month or two ago and um Nick [clears throat] from the city came and said, "Hey, you know, we know that you guys aren't using these. Um maybe we would like to use them." Um and so then our board had a chance to talk about it and so um then we're
002like well let's get everybody in the same room right and so then um Annie I assume that's why you're here as well. >> I came to see you [laughter] >> so sweet >> and all the amazing people that [clears throat] >> and so Nick and Annie um are here as well to kind of continue the conversation. Um, so Nick, do you just kind of want to kind of start with kind of what your your thoughts are and and >> Yeah. Um, if if you don't know, I'm Nick Streum from City of No Street, Superintendent. Um, we did have a couple emails and that's what kind of sparked it for us. Um, wanting to know when that would be prepared out there. You know, the tennis courts run. Well, it's not ours. So, um, we did
003reach out to Brad and we talked about it and basically for if we were to obtain this property, we would, the mayor is totally backing this. He's kind of fired up about it, honestly. Um but if we could acquire from the creek to the south that property um and then we would go ahead um and basically fix it up and paint the fence, paint the courts, get everything up and then and then maintain the property is kind of what we're thinking. And uh yeah, we do have we do have the map >> county. Actually, Andy printed them off. So, >> just in case you're wondering about >> So, it' be if you're looking at it, it' be the bottom left corner. You can see where the creek cuts through there. And then you can see
004the tennis courts. I'm familiar. [laughter] >> So, some of the questions that we had last time and some of the people that had questions are not here, but if I remember correctly, some of the questions they had, one was concerns for the neighborhood area, like if that would draw a lot more traffic to that residential area by having >> I would be under my my understanding would be yes. I mean, people are going to use it. Um, it seems like the tennis courts that we do have already at Black Park. I mean, they're very respectful. We don't get a lot of complaints or anything about the tennis courts. Um, we would I know Dave was wanting pickle ball in there and and tennis both. Um, our pickle ball courts that we do have now out
005at the lake. The only thing we have is you get that constant, you know, if you ever played it, you hear that >> Yeah. >> deal. That's that might drive a few of the neighbors nuts. But, [laughter] >> um, other than that, I don't think it's going to be a rowdy party place. >> Okay. Um, and then some questions. Parking was one of the questions they had. So, they would just be utilizing street parking. Then, >> uh, we'd probably maybe put in a little gravel lot off that there's that entrance. Uh-huh. >> We'd probably just dress that up so they wouldn't have to park on the on the street. >> Oh, >> and there would still be um like we don't bring kids down there during the day as it stands now, but should there
006be a desire to like it would still be accessible the same way it is to the public? >> Yes. Yeah. It's going to be open >> open to the public. >> I'm worried about our shot put. That's where we do shot foot for track. Um would you be able to would we have to reserve it or >> Yes, that was that was brought up. Um everybody at the city that we've spoke with I mean it's we're going to be friendly. I mean definitely coexist with it. >> It would not be a problem. >> Um even you know when track means we know how everybody's parking. >> Yeah. >> That would be fine. We would have no problem with it and shop >> is not a problem. >> Okay. Is there feel like we would need
007to like in that agreement to make that a comfortable >> We should probably put a little note in there. >> Yeah. I mean, it it would I it's maybe maybe six times a year, you know, in the spring. Um but we really do need all of that land. Um but discus shot, long jump, we use every corner of that land. So, um I wouldn't want to have to be struggling thinking about that um on those nights, but obviously that's scheduled years in advance, so it's not like we wouldn't know. >> Yeah. No, I don't I don't see any problem with that. And I've been to many of those [laughter] >> chaos. >> Yes. Yeah. You can you can comment for sure. So, >> yeah. So, Is there um so a couple of things with respect
008to I know that just from a geography standpoint everything south of the crush makes sense. Does could it be smaller if we said hey we only want to be want it to be this much or can it be a more defined space? >> Yeah. Sorry, >> we're trying to get high in which is um and then I know another question was um would the city be interested in like having some sort of a like 25 year lease instead of just a straight transfer of property? So I >> have >> Yeah, I can bring that up and >> or we could even have a lease but recognizing could be um reviewed every, you know, 10 years or something like that. >> Yeah, I I think it would I think it would want to be a if
009if that's the route we went, it would want to be long enough that the city felt comfortable putting money into it. You know, it's not like it be a 2-year lease or something like that. Um but I didn't know how comfortable the board was with >> cuz it it will take quite a bit of money. But we we redid uh Blackstone Park ourselves and it was time consuming plus just the amount of money for materials. >> The >> and this would be twice as big as that one. >> The fence is almost in worse shape than the court honestly. >> Yes. >> I mean I was out there the other day and I walked the whole thing and the fence is >> Yeah. >> Not good. >> Does the school look other than the shop
010but do you have any concern that you >> No. Um, we teach tennis, but we do it in the gym. We don't We have time constraints. By the time kids got changed and got out there, there'd be no time for instructional time. It's not like when they have to run the mile, they're going out there. Um, they're coming back and there's no instruction. Um, this is there's just no time. Um, we teach it as part of net sports. Heather wrote a little thing. Um, we're actually getting some equipment, free tennis equipment from the USA. I'm guessing the United States Tennis Association. Um, sometimes the high school tennis coach comes over and teaches a few of the lessons. We try and work that in. So, it's not that we don't have tennis. We just do not
011have the our time constraints in a class period are too difficult to get over there and back and include instruction. >> But, no, that was my only concern was shot foot for track season that we would have access to it. >> So, I guess the question with that the area you use though, like even if Brad talked about kind of carving some of it out, would there be um an is the area that we would carve out like I'm trying to say like would that encompass the shot area or does that not matter? >> I don't think that I don't think that matters. I know there's a big there's kind of a big section of this. It's like a triangle almost back. So cute. >> Yeah, it's like a a perfect triangle that the kids
012see in. >> This wouldn't necessarily need to be a part of it because I assume they're going to put some sort of parking. >> Is that where you were thinking the parking was just >> Yeah. >> between the creek and the court? >> Yeah, pretty much. I mean, we keep it kind of right where those trees are. >> Yeah, there's already a little drive. >> There's already there. It's just >> Yeah. >> It's like our overflow where we park for >> Yeah. Yep. and and again to work together to make sure that like you weren't going to black top where our shop goes like that >> unless you're providing a whole bunch of money [laughter] [laughter] >> you stick to the budget presentation you'll realize >> I just got my >> we just spent a
013whole bunch of money at the city so we're not doing fancy stuff like flat topping or anything else >> I got you when we get our streets right now. [clears throat] >> Yeah. I think I think from a school perspective, um it really is really does boil down to proximity that we just can't get over there in fact during the school day to do anything. Um you know, I don't and I was monkeying with the phone. I don't know if you but you know, we already do some tennis. >> Um so >> it's part of their curricular plan um fifth through eth tennis. Um >> yeah. And so if if it were possible to utilize that, we would already be doing it. So just as like a show of interest, does anybody around the table
014here have like a thought more towards like pursuing a long-term lease, you know, like a dollar like we had talked about with the skate park situation or versus um which might bring some of those insurance or turning the whole property over versus like keeping that triangle where chapot was like what what are your thoughts? Where's everybody's mind? >> My thoughts just let him take the whole property. I mean I don't want to be diving up here and there's some unc [laughter] >> rid of the get rid of the whole liability aspect. >> Yes. I don't know. I mean, I feel like I would I can't think of all the questions right this instant, but I would have maybe a couple more questions about like the least because I liked that idea when it was brought
015up. And I wouldn't mind like seeing what it entailed before I ruled it out, if that makes sense. >> Because I don't know like I guess I don't know, write it. I have crystal ball, >> right? >> I would even suggest to go look at it at the lands because I even >> um I took the scoop scoot out there the other day and um kind of drove around it and then I got out and walked around it just to see what we were talking about. And um you know, I think that's important to kind of formulate your thinking, too. But I was all on board with Go ahead. >> It's all yours. >> Yeah. Sorry. When I was out there, what I what I saw there was a track meet going on and I
016saw that the buses were parking right there in that area, too. >> And so I was wondering how that is all going to interfere with the track and how that would be monitored. And obviously, if we just sold the whole thing, it wouldn't matter. But I still >> Yeah, I don't I don't think that's going to change. I think those buses are going to pack um park along Strobble no matter what because they they pull in to drop the kids off but they have to park on the street because of discus and shoput. There's no safe place for anybody to um park. We mark it very clearly and if you want to park in there, you're going to lose your windshield. Um, so buses are forced to park along Strobble on the street unless they
017choose to park a few blocks up or some even come here, park and wait it out. So >> I I did see that they would park right next to the the wood line there in the shade. >> Yeah. >> So that would obviously not not happen after >> it is a um Well, they could still I think still be able to park >> back there. Um you know I I you know that it is just an overall nightmare parking during track. >> Um we can't fix that. I don't think um unless we get some black top but [laughter] obviously not there. >> So I you know I just don't think that is none of this is going to change that. You know, >> there are in all reality, there are six or eight soccer games,
018six or six or eight track meets, three or four junior tackle football games, that's it. >> Mhm. >> And I'm sure that anou that we we would create, whether it would be um if they were to purchase or lease or whatever that looks like, any kind of agreement would have anytime that there's a school function, we would continue to have the access for or parking or whatever. >> I think the intention for the city too is just an opportunity of we're, you know, there's always a request for more tennis, more pickle ball, that kind of stuff. And it's hard. We get calls all the time because they all think we own that property. >> Um, so hopefully it would reduce your calls because then we always send them to the school. um but to say
019it [clears throat] would be a nice opportunity of you know it's going to take some work but it's sitting there and it's hard for people to see that and not see why is nothing being done to that. So I think the real intention is just a way to make that look nice and not you know not trying to hinder the the land around it by creating another space that is nice especially for um families and students on this side of town so they don't always have to go to the lake or cross over the vioaduct which is another issue. So to have something in this area that they could then feel like they could enjoy as well. So I mean I think that's really it's just trying to create a better option for both of
020ours so we're not being bombarded with calls of like why is that just sitting there? >> Yeah. I think we're both in the same >> spot as we're there for the public. So >> Right. >> I mean it's going to be public use. We're you know >> I don't disagree. It's a beautiful piece of land and it's got a tennis court with some trees growing through it, but um you know again it's >> we have a lot of things to maintain and so we have to prioritize. >> So would a good next step be for you to check into and be able to provide the board back the answer on what it looks like for advantage disadvantage from like a lease >> Yep. >> lease insurance liability like I don't think any of us have
021to take on any additional risk. But to Sarah's point, if it there is no additional risk and it's something that works for both without transferring away the property, then that might be more suitable. >> Yep. We'll love to >> So, as soon as we get those answers, um I mean, is the timing like I'm assuming with what time of year it is, it's like a spring project at this point, >> correct? >> Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. And then we'd have I mean we have to do our budget also for it. So >> sure. Okay. >> Why are you laughing? >> Our budget is like we've only had we're only in like three months and it's way up to [laughter] whatever. >> See you next year. just how [laughter] >> well we can have a discussion
022and then um bring more questions back and then either October or November. >> Yep. >> So before the end of the year if we'll be able to pursue but I don't think there's anybody disagreeing with working with the city for sure. We want to send that message. It's just >> whether it's, you know, the long-term lease versus the ownership transfer. >> And a very rusty fence. >> Thank you so much for coming. >> Thank you. >> Always good to see you. >> Thanks everyone. You >> too. one more time on this. >> We have a meeting to adjourn the committee as a whole. >> I move to the committee. >> Trader. >> Yes. >> Landers. >> Yes. >> Reynolds. >> Yes. >> Okay. Our next meeting will be our budget. We're going to knock out
023three meetings tonight. >> Three meetings. >> For sure. our budget hearing. So, we'll go ahead and call the order at 554 and do a roll call and see if we catch how I did. [laughter] >> Kumidas, >> yes. >> Reynolds, >> yes. >> Landers, >> yes. >> Pass. >> Trader, >> yes. >> Espinosa, >> yes. >> Rat, >> are you anywhere? >> I think so. Hopefully, we'll add Holly on at some point. >> We don't think we have any visitors or public comment, do we? [clears throat] >> We do not. >> Um, but I did want to introduce >> Jillian P. Jillian has been the most recent addition to our office. Um, she is um >> Hello. >> Sorry about that. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing. Um, [laughter]
024I just got to be honest. Um so, um Jillian is um a a Modi young lady um and raised out and she has been with us two months now, >> a little about a month and a half, >> about a month and a half. >> And she's been in just amazing. She's she's already a tremendous asset. We couldn't be um happier that she's the team. >> Well, welcome. Thank you. So, I'm gonna get Good noise. Good stuff. So, not only a budget presentation and it's very similar to um what we talked about last month in line with kind of our conversation about how you know our budgets um have been going over the last few years. But I did have a um a question about treasures report and so we're going to take just a
025minute and do have like a little work session on that um just so everybody can understand. Um but we're going to go ahead and start um with the slides to begin with. And so anytime that we're going to talk about what we're doing in the upcoming year, we always need to talk stop and do a quick refresher of what last year looked like. And so if we look at last [clears throat] year, so FY25 and again is just as a reminder we say FY25 that refers the fiscal year that ends in 25. Our fiscal year goes July 1st to June 30th. And so our fiscal so instead of saying so if you say the 2425 school year that's the same thing as saying FY25 because the fiscal year ends at June 30th of 25. Okay.
026So if we look at last year um we on the revenue side we were budgeted uh 19.8 million our actual was 21.0 um which means that um we under budgeted by about 1.2 2 million. Very similarly on the expenditure side, we budgeted about 18.8 million. Our actual was about 19.9. Um that difference is about 1.1 million. So if you look at the at the revenue side, we ended up bonding for more than what was in the original budget. That was the reason there. And if you look at the expenditure side, um we had more project costs. Um you know, those pro each of our projects has been have been done over the summer. And so you never know exactly how much of, you know, when we say, "Oh, we're going to spend $1.5 million on
027the HBAC," we don't know whether 1 million of that is going to be because it happens over the summer. We don't know how much is going to land each fiscal year. Um so, but when you look at um the deficit or the surplus from that year, um we were pretty much spot on. We were budgeted to put just under a million dollars in the bank and in actuality we put over just over a million dollars in the bank if you look at the structural budget. And so when I'm when I say structural budget, I I always want to make sure that we're keeping tabs on as we're as we have borrowing and as we're spending on projects. Um, I always want to make sure that that that we have an understanding of if you peel
028all of that away what the budget looks like, right? So, I'm just kind of referring that to that as a structural budget. Um, so last year we put a million dollars in the bank and if you look at the unique revenues and projects and the way all that impacted the budget, um, that was about two and a quart million. So last year the structural deficit was about a million dollars. And so that's kind of in line with where we're tracking with where we're heading in our grand scheme of revenue and expenditures. If you look at how this affects our the Menota 289 index, it's kind of the number that I've been using to refer to just how much cash do we have in the bank. Right? Right? At the end of the day, we can
029move monies around, but we need to make sure that we are in a very good financial position. So, how much money do we have in the bank, right? And so, um, if we track that, um, through time, as of the end of this last fiscal year, just a couple months ago, at the end of June in 25, we had $9 million in the bank. And so, there are some ups and downs through here, but if you look at this, this is incredibly stable. If you look at what we've done and we've done we've done $11 million worth of projects in the last three years and in doing all of that >> all all on wall for sure. Um so if you look at so if you look at that um let's see um June 30th
03021 um right so that's the next day I walked in the door so that's that's so we eight and a half million in the bank and four years later and 11 10 and a half we're still pay for all of it but more than $10 million of projects later we're still right there right and so but we've talked about that we've planned about it we we've worked through it this is the way it's all supposed to work, right? So, let's talk about that Menota 289 index for [clears throat] just a minute and it comes off the treasures report. Um, we had we had sent Jillian had sent out a separate email um that and this is the the document that we're all looking at right here. And so, and then I got a response back
031of what am I even looking at here? Right? I'm like, it's a super valid question, right? Because a lot of this is why why would you know? It's super confusing. There's a lot there. So this the treasury report when you look at it across the across the columns the column headings it's broken out into our funds. It's fund accounting. Okay. So it goes from the education fund which is fund 10. Fund 20 is operation maintenance. You kind of work your way to the right. There are two numbers that you can look at every month when you get a treasures report and go that's how much money we have. Okay. In the bottom right hand corner, there should be two different numbers that are highlighted. The top one is if you look at the header, it's
032our checking account, right? At the end of the month, this is how much money that we had in the checking account. Then the next big section is investments. How much money do we have invested earning a better interest rate? And so then you look down, okay, that's how much we have invested. So every treasures report, if you just look at those two numbers, that'll tell you, hey, that's exactly how much money we have in the bank. How are we doing? Are we going to be able to pay our bills? What's what do things look like? Okay, so that's where that 289 index comes from, those two numbers. So we always want to do it at the same spot in time, like we just did end of the year and what that looked like. Okay, so
033let's go off of this. This is end of August. So let's see what that looks like, right? So we can work our way up August 31st 25. If you add those two numbers together, you get just over $12 million. Okay? Well, if you go back exactly 12 months, 11.1. If you go back another 12 months, 14.1, 11.2, 11.5. And so if you remember from the other slide that 21 number was almost exact same as the 25 number. So you can that's you can check see how that tracks over time and all of that tracks the way it's supposed to. So you always get the treasures report in your packet. You always prove it but it's it's one of the most super complicated documents you could ever look at. This allows you to go oh okay
034that number and that number that's how much money we have. >> Make sense? Why is the money market account? We used to use that instead of the checking account. >> Yes. >> We don't anymore. >> We try to have as much money invested >> through what we use liquid asset or PMA >> DFM. We're letters there. Um and so so um so every so every month internally um we have a conversation. Okay, this is what our bills are going to be. Um you know, how much money can we keep invested at a higher rate? Um, you know, and that was one thing that that that we started. Um, when I got here, we we did have money either in a money market or interest I guess money market is an interest better interestbearing checking account.
035Um, but we we when we started playing that game of every month, how much money can we solidly invest? Um, then I mean the amount of interest that I can go back and the number to it, but I bet in the four years we've been doing it, we probably gained an additional quarter of a million dollars by being vigilant on where that money is every month. >> So, my pleasure. >> Yeah. And for those of you who don't know, my original degrees are in chemistry and business management. And so, I'm I'm like a numbers nerd at heart. And so, we can talk about this stuff all day, right? >> Maybe we should someday, >> right? Let's go. Um I I've taught for the uh for the univers >> um for the University of St. Francis.
036Um I've taught uh master's level finance um for um incoming principles several times. Um the last one of the times I did it I was in Erie and drove down and taught a cohort at Elp High School. But so yeah, so I so I love numbers. I know we don't we don't spend a ton of time on it because it can be super confusing and so I try to boil it down into things that that make sense. Um but there's there's always a lot to it. >> You could probably pull out more and more things too like this. >> Oh, for sure. Oh, for sure. >> You know what I would love to see, Brad? if you could take some of the key points that you share to make sure we're sharing those with our
037staff and our community. Like some of the things that you talked about, we've done $10 million of investing in projects and yet we're not far off where we started as far as like fiduciary responsibility go. That be something we could add into the >> We looking something to do a little uh in that news article. >> Yeah, Northbrook's supposed to be sending me um uh new pictures, but If we want to just put pin points, I can write something up and we can get that submittedly. >> Awesome. >> So, we don't celebrate that enough that for many years there wasn't an investment and we have asked for a little bit more each year, right, with the levy and people to see where that's going and it's being invested right back in. >> Yep. >> In
038our people and in our buildings. >> Yeah. Yeah. For sure. I think you're good about putting together like these points for us and like our updates and like she said that's good sharing material. >> We will we will do a better job of that. I've got I know somebody who's going to do a great job with that. Um so now so now let's look at at FY26. Okay. So we know that um last year FY25 we put money in the bank. That means that this is going to be a down year in our cycle. We know that. Um, so last year our actual was 21 million. We're only budgeting 17 million revenues this year. We're not budgeting a lot of federal money that we're still hoping to get. We budgeted really conservatively when it comes
039to our federal money. And we also budgeted very conservatively when with respect to the um what is it 1.1 million we still have in solar grants that we have not received right and so so I'm definitely going to you know hang my hat on that being very conservative revenue. So that $4 million decrease is a combination of we're not selling bonds and we did get some of our solar last year. Um on the expenditure side, our last year's actual was 19.99 million. Our budget this year is 19.09. Again, that's a million dollar decrease. And again, that's just how uh our projects how that how those project costs are hitting and which we're paying out of which fiscal year. We've ended up paying more out of the last fiscal year than we will this upcoming fiscal
040year. So if you look at what that [clears throat] annual deficit surplus cycle looks like in 23 we put 1.7 million in the bank. In 24 we drew out 2.9 million. Last year in 25 we put 1.1 million in the bank. This year we're going to draw out 1.9 million. It's part of that cycle. If you look at how that impacts our bottom line, that Menota index, right, um you can see how we go up a year, down a year, up a year, down a year. And so at the end of this year, we're still going to have 7.1 million in the bank. An interesting kind of side conversation, but one that as we get continue to move through the through time, hope through time, will become a stronger and stronger conversation is health insurance
041costs. And so just in the last four years, if our health insurance pool would have kept to the just the industry standard 8% increase. Okay, that number instead of 7.1 would be 8.0. Okay, so that's just an example of how what a huge impact that makes on our bottom line. And so it hasn't there. That's one of the things that we're going to continue to pay more and more attention to. Um, but there are definitely things that impact our bottom line that we need to be very cognitive of and make make sure that we're making good decisions on. Um, another one we're going to talk a little bit later in the in the board meeting about enrollment, right? And has our enrollment continues to shrink over time, how does that impact staffing, right? Because if
042you have >> [clears throat] >> If you have 1,50 kids, your staffing level is not the same as if you have 900 kids. And what does that look like? So, we have to be and we'll talk about that more later on. So, then um if you look at that structural budget and what that looks like, some of those things, how we just impacted that. This year, we're looking at having a total deficit of 1.9. about 600,000 of that is is unique revenues and projects which puts our structural deficit about 1.3 1.4 million. Okay. Again, a little bit more than last year. Um but definitely something that um the way our revenue cycle goes, having one year up, one year down, still something that very much fits in with where we're headed and what we're trying
043to get done. Yeah, if you have any, just email it to me. Um, I really, you know, I I really like the fact that we were kind of have this u kind of treasures report and that was sparked by one of one of your questions. So, that's great if you have questions because if one person has a question, usually the majority do as well. So, don't hesitate to say, "Hey, what about this? Thank you. >> Yeah, my pleasure. Thank you all. >> We have a motion to adjourn our budget hearing at 612, please. I move to our budget 612. Second, >> Espinosa, >> yes. >> Trader, >> yes. >> Rap, >> yes. >> Landers, >> yes. >> Renault, >> yes. >> Third meeting. And if it's all right with you, we'll have Jillian head on
044and start her evening. >> Yeah, of course. It's great to meet >> you. Not a problem. Have a great evening. >> You too. >> Thank you. >> All right. Could we have a motion to call our meeting to order at 613, please? >> Yes. >> Reynolds, >> yes. >> Landers, >> yes. >> Trader, >> yes. Esposa, >> yes. >> Rat, >> yes. You have a motion to approve the regular meeting agenda. >> Yes. >> Rap. >> Yes. >> Trader. >> Yes. >> Espinosa. >> Yes. >> Reynolds. >> Yes. >> Landers. >> Yes. >> No public comment. Again. Can we have a motion to approve consent agenda, please? I move to approve the consent agenda including 5.1 disposition of minutes for July 2025. Payment of bills, 5.3 district treasures report, 5.4 inerson activity fund report, cafeteria
045report, and 5.5 personnel report. >> Second roll. >> Trader. Yes. Landers, >> yes. >> Espinosa, >> yes. >> Reynolds, >> yes. >> Ram, >> yes. >> Do we have any requests? >> Oh my goodness. This month we have requests for purchase orders. AP scholar, >> right? >> Middle school graduates. >> Um, and principal teacher contracts. So, >> Nothing super exciting for sure. And now to your reports. >> Yeah, just a couple of um just a couple quick aides. Um Principal Daily had alluded to um our track and um we it's been it's already been whatever six years or so since we had the track resurfaced. That does not that does not last for very long. you're probably going to have $10,000 worth of repairs. Um sometime between track season actually have we actually have a
046couple of chunks that have come up already that are the asphalt's missing. So we have to get those taken care of and we're probably a year or two away from total recealing of that and that's 75. track is always a very expensive endeavor, but um it's also the the thing that you've got dozens and dozens of kids who participate. So um it's always the highest volume participation. So we love >> you don't have to cut anybody. >> It's open to everybody. It's open to everybody and everybody has a chance to, you know, even if you finish, you know, sixth in the mile. You finish sixth in the mile, you're still scoring points for your team. There's it's there's a ton of reasons why it's my favorite. Yeah, for sure. So, now that know that that's
047coming. Um, >> would that be a spring thing then? >> That would So, we'll get we'll get the we'll get it repaired sometime between now and and then my guess would be Doesn't weather matter with that one? >> Yeah, we won't be able to do it over the winter. Um but we'll probably get it done before it gets cold. Um but then the the bigger ticket of resurfacing it. Uh that's something that at the earliest one or two after that. I'll try to push that as far as I can because it is such and then excuse me. And then another um piece of information, a while ago, I don't know exactly how many months, um Tyler Pierce was here and one of the um requests or comments was um it would be great if on
048our school website, you could just click in and look at all our curriculum pieces. Um you know, K3, this is what we use for math. You know, K4, this is what we use for science, that kind of thing. So um if you log into our website for our parent all that's been updated so and so um we will share that out as well. >> Um the only committee meeting we had was the one we just had a little while ago for tasks. So we will move on to item 7.1 which is approval of the for your 26 budget. We have a motion, please make a motion to approve it. >> Approve the speed and a second. >> I'll second. >> Yes. >> Reynolds. >> Yes. >> Trader. >> Yes. Esposa. >> Yes. Sanders. >> Yes.
049There will be lots of signing to do. So, don't go >> don't go far [laughter] in relation to the the budget. >> And Holly, you'll have to come um come stop it. >> I'll be I'll be back by 7 o' >> seven. >> We won't be here at seven. You can come tomorrow. [laughter] >> Yeah. Come on. >> Okay. Um the board conference, do we have discussion topics related to that? >> Yes. Um so a couple different things. I'd sent out um a tenative um itinerary. Um and I I did get a response from Holly that she's good with dinner either night. So one thing is just kind of um affirming when dinner is, whether it's Friday or Saturday night. >> Which one was it? year in the one that you sent us. >> We
050in the one that I sent out was Friday night and that's what that's been our typical. That's not the way it was last year. I think last year was the only year we've had it on Saturday night and I just like having it Friday night because you don't have to fight to break traffic. >> You said you needed to to have Thursday night. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. >> Remember what you do? >> My same thing. Oh, [laughter] yes. >> Um, so Holly, is there um is there a time if we have it at 6:30, does that give you enough time to get there? Would you rather have it later? >> Yeah, I'll be I'll I'm going to I'm going to try to take the train on Friday. I'm taking the day off. >>
051There you go. >> And House of Blues. >> No. So, House of Blues is only Friday. >> Oh, the House of Blues. >> And so, this and so this will allow us to do House of Blues for a little bit and then the is right by there. And then this will then allow for the >> calling. >> Then how the moon will start at either 5 or 6? I think it's 6 on Saturday and we'll do the same thing. We'll have I'll pick a spot before. That way we do have one unique spot before the parade traffic and then um half moon will start at 6 and I'll make a reservation for you all at 8 or 8:30, whatever you want. this morning at the little Babar Repo. I think that worked out really well.
052>> Yeah, it was really nice. >> Cool. >> Who's joining us from Patite? >> Uh so, um Blackstone principal Stacy Kelly is going to be there like last year. Principal Daily from North is going to be there. Um and Tyler Pierce there. No, it's going to be really good. I think it's going to be really good. And then the only other thing that we had was um delegate >> which I believe is Amanda had said the last thing that she would do it. >> Okay. >> And they said we don't need our alternate ahead of time. So if there's some reason she can't do it, we can just resign in the moment for the alternate doesn't require registration. They said you got perfect district wellness. So, um, we've, you know, we've surveyed the staff, um,
053first to get ideas on what would be a good next step on the wellness plan. Um, the, um, got a lot of good ideas back then, sent out a survey with those specific ideas, had people rank their interest of what what it was. Um, and the one that came back top the list was some sort of reduced price on gym membership. Um, Blue Cross Blue Shield. Um we already have um you can get a deal at Fitness. I think it's $28 for an individual. And so I thought what we would do is [clears throat] have some sort of a put some sort of $10 off or we would pay half or something like that and try to gauge what that interest would be so we know what that total cost would be. Um even even
054if we were to have even If we were to say just kind of you know round numbers if we were to go halves if we had 60 people sign up which would be less than 10 and so I think it's a I think it's an opportunity to make some positive impact on staff health >> as part of the question finding out if you have an existing [clears throat] membership because what I don't want to happen is like only the people that already did it just take advantage of the discount and the whole point of it was like what can we do to try to drive that number down for the insurance >> so I love the idea it's going to have an impact just want to make sure because you said like you said if
055we only get 25 or 30 people that already have the membership that it's not do anything for us not that it's not a great benefit and I'm not opposed to it at all I just want to make sure that we're trying to do things to that insurance number >> and and I and I've really said that um We're just going to add one thing at a time. But another thing, but another item that is relatively low cost uh that people found an interest in would be to have like campuswide monthly challenges, >> you know, like one month is, you know, drinking water, you know, consistently, the next month is weight loss or the next month is what steps through that. You run some of those. >> Yep. And so, um, you know, to be able
056to, you know, have some fairly inexpensive, you know, prizes and put your name on a hat and all that kind of stuff. I think I've got a couple people facilitate that. So thinking about >> I sent that out [clears throat] um and kind of kind of what we were anticipating. Um when you look at where we sit this year, um if you look at K8, not including preschool, if you look at K8 this year, um we're sitting at 938. We have our largest class on campus is 8th grade. So once they move on, clearly our drop a little bit, but then once we do, we should we should be pretty level, you know, um you know, looking at some of the trends, looking at some of you know what D can get over high birth
057rates and things like that you know from what the south county has. Um so we should settle over time into the 910 920 some of that for the foreseeable future. Um and really if you look at the last time we were over a thousand was 2019 and we're looking at still being 910, 918, 922, whatever the number is. Um, in for the next few years, then that means over a decade, we would have lost only 10% of the kids. And that's that's pretty amazing for rural, you know, >> state. Yeah. >> Yeah. um you know there are not uncommon for rural district students 20% of that are rural right now. So um but again that enrollment piece does drive staffing and it it becomes really difficult to manage and plan for you know ups and
058downs and ups and downs you know but if we're going to settle into this this path where we're looking at, you know, every grade level have, you know, 90 or 100 kids in it instead of like right now we have 138th graders. So that's that's that's a that's a huge difference between the 98 kindergarteners that we have. And so if we if we uh you know can settle >> natural attrition, you're thinking though. >> Yeah. And so so really so the conversation is every time somebody retires, >> we need to replace them. >> Right. Right. and and having like the real hard actual honest conversation of do we need to replace them? You know, if you know whatever it is, you know, if we have if we have five teachers on the third grade team,
059do we need is is forced or ad that >> I just made all that up. We're not specific. >> And following the bubble like we've done that before somebody up or down agree to follow that bubble. >> Yep. And so, and that all ties in with our finances, right? And so, it's all about um how can we not only best but best support our kids um but how can we do that and with an eye towards being cost effective as well. Those that's that's all that's the eternal balance, right? And so, >> throw in the potential of bringing back some of our outpos to balance because some of those operational costs are fixed. >> Correct. number of kids goes down the same length of the state. >> Yeah. Right. >> Yeah. Yeah. And >> can
060we save some? >> Yeah. So the so the conversation there is about um being able to better structure and support and maintain our life skills and and crosscat specialed programs. And if the more efficiently those programs run, then we're able to bring some of our kids back on campus into those programs that are now functioning better and able to support kids maybe with a little bit higher needs than we've been able to do in the past. And so instead of having 20 kids off site last year, which cost us anywhere $1.2 million in tuition, now maybe we've only got 15. And the building is a quarter less, you know, and so >> they spend less time on the bus, then it's better. >> Oh, for sure. In their own town. Yeah, >> it's huge. >>
061Yeah, >> we haven't had space, so maybe we >> Yeah, it's it's been a combination of of space and programming. >> And so we we've got we have a lot of really talented people in those programs working really hard. And I think that um because of the growing we went through with not having a special ed director last year and now having one on board who was able to be with us for several years and really get an understanding of what what was going well and what needed improvement were better able to support those staff members and they were able to have better outcomes for kids and so couldn't couldn't be more excited about especially programs now um with care for it support and with where we're able to head because like I said we
062we have a boatload of really talented dedicated people those kids plan for at some point having her come in and do >> is my office her and I were talking about that like three hours ago [laughter] >> I think that'd be amazing because that was an area of concern for us for a while. >> For sure. So, >> for sure. And so, um, so typically she would come in, um, like over the winter, watch her for one month, Dustin K maintenance, um, another month. And so, we we'll kind of get through the first round of um, having all of the schools come and present, and then we'll have Kat Dustin come, and then we'll start our building tour. >> Okay. Perfect. >> Yeah, she's certainly certainly on the roster. All right. Any motion to please
0636:30? >> I move to ajourn meeting. We >> have a second. >> Seconds. All in favor? >> Any opposed? All right. Thank you. State travel tunneling.