001all right i'd like to call this meeting to order this is welcome everyone to the special meeting of the blue ridge unified school district governing board on tuesday june 29 2021 and we'll start off the meeting with the pledge cody 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 second item on the agenda number two is consent agenda uh number of housekeeping items do we have any items that the board wishes to pull for further discussion jennifer do you have any not at this time now okay all right hearing none then we would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented all right a second moved by diane seconded uh okay let's see
002all right um okay oh i forgot that okay all right um okay moving on to items oh yeah i guess that would help all right so um all those in favor say aye aye aye okay and jennifer okay that's unanimous among the four that are here uh i'd also mention that dave merrill was unable to be here tonight that's why i'm conducting the meeting tonight okay moving on to item number three business 3.1 recommendation to review and approve the proposed budget for the 1 22 school year and brenda do you want to give us an update absolutely okay i gave you copies of the budget there in front of you i'll be covering the summary of the proposed expenditure budget the first section is the average daily membership i have the 2020 adm which was
0031810. prior year for fy21 was 1 1656. what we did to build the 22 budget was we set it at 2039 and there's a couple reasons why we set it that high one was because we didn't know what was going to happen with transportation because the state legislature was still trying to answer some questions in regards to how they were going to fund transportation and we felt that it was necessary to set it high enough in order for us to try to try to bring enough budget capacity to address the transportation question and then the other thing too is to try to set the tax rates high enough in order for us to bring in enough cash capacity so that was those two reasons and then the other thing i wanted to mention also is
004these forms are actually still in draft form because the state still hasn't approved the budget yet um as you know the house and the senate still haven't approved haven't come to an agreement as to what the budget is going to be we hope that they'll come to an agreement either tomorrow or maybe thursday before they actually come to an agreement we hope to have the final budget forms before july 15th they assure us that once we have the final budget forms hopefully before the budget adoption we can move forward with the budget adoption they also tell us that we're going to have to probably do another budget revision before september 15th with the final budget forms so i just wanted to mention that before i move forward so section two are the tax rates these
005are the preliminary tax rates prior year for the primary rate was three dollars and 58 cents the secondary tax rate which includes the bond and the override was a dollar eighty two as you can see on the primary side was we're setting the tax rate the estimated tax rate anyway at 3.72 cents so an increase of approximately 18 cents and on the secondary side it's dropping to a dollar forty three and it's dropping for two reasons one is the fact that we're moving down to five percent for emino override we're now at about five hundred thousand dollars for emino override and because of the fact that we had the bond refinance and because of those two reasons the secondary rate is going down approximately 40 cents and then section 4 is the average teacher salary
006again these are just estimates the average teacher salary for fy 20 right now we're estimating to be about 50 000 the average teacher salary for fy 21 was about 52 dollars so basically we're saying that it's going to be about a decrease of about nineteen hundred dollars now mind you we have new teachers that are still coming in we don't know where they're going to be landing at so because of that reason it looks like it's going to be lower as far as average teacher salary but once we get done for the teachers that are coming in this may actually be a little bit higher than what it actually is the budgeted expenditures in section 3 maintenance and operation you'll see that we're setting our mmo limit at 14.9 million and this represents the increase
007of adm of over 400 students and classroom site fund is 1.6 million dollars the unrestricted capital i want to mention that we are now 100 restored remember a couple years ago we were only receiving about 64 last year we're receiving 84 percent and then this year we're actually going to be 100 restored so the budget limit for that is 949 000 and then this bottom section here is the breakdown for maintenance and operation expenditures you'll see down in the bottom right hand corner the prior year mmo is 12.7 million dollars the 14.9 million dollars for the m o budget for fy 2122 an increase of over 17 percent one of the highlights i want to mention is on it's a little bit over you'll see the special education subsection 13.4 percent increase and that's primarily
008because of the increases in the different services the biggest increase is in salaries and that's because of all the positions that we have to bring in before the special ed services the second page is a breakdown of all the different categories for the different funds we have you have maintenance and operation again the 12.7 million dollars from the prior year versus the the new year of 14.9 million dollars you have the instructional improvement fund 14 142 000 versus the 143 000 again this is just an estimate the english learn language learner we have not received our new allocation yet so that amount is still the same the classroom site fund last year we received a little over a million dollars this year we're going to receive about 1.6 million dollars now one of the changes
009in this fund classroom site fund or prop 301 is it's going to be rolled up into only one fund instead of 011 012 and 013 it's only it's going to be rolled up into o10 so instead of a teacher receiving a contract that shows three different funding sources they're only going to see two two funding sources their primary funding source and o10 and the rest of it is going to be used for performance pay so the state is actually allocating some additional dollars next year for more money to be used for performance pay and we're estimating that to be around 8 500 for performance pay for for next year and then federal funds 5.3 million dollars versus the 8.9 million dollars the increase is primarily due to increases for sr2 and estro3 funds state projects
010those are our state projects in the form of like priority different grants like that and then unrestricted capital again we're being restored 100 percent and that increases due to that debt service 3.7 million dollars we're still in the process of calculating those out school plant funds i didn't make any increases in that because we don't anticipate receiving spending any monies in those auxiliary operations i'll be increasing those amounts as we move forward to budget adoption food service i didn't make any changes in that account and then other i didn't make any changes in those accounts i'll be making some changes as we move forward to adoption and then we have our special education program by type you have the different categories you have your special education categories you have your gifted categories your ell categories
011and then you have your vocational categories two million dollars from the prior year and you have your 2.2 million dollars this year in the different categories and those primary increases primarily have to do with benefits and then you have your proposed staffing summary in the different categories certified classified special ed and all the different categories that go under each section let me just cover one more page let me cover page seven of eight of the long pages seven of eight is your calculation for the general budget limit are the two limits that that set your maintenance and operation in your capital budget limit your revenue control limit on page long on on line one sets your mno budget limit which is driven by your adm or the number of students and your transportation route miles
01213.2 million dollars line 2a is your district additional assistance again that's restored at 100 percent eight hundred and nineteen thousand dollars and then line three a is where we calculate your maintenance and operation override limit five hundred and fifty one thousand dollars i wanted to show you that amount to see that we're now at five percent line five a and b is twelve thousand dollars and line five b is your transfer or your tuition level from other arizona districts for both emino and the capital side remember we collect revenue or tuition in from mcnary vernon and concho elementary school district and that's how much we anticipate to collect in the form of maintenance and operation and capital line 8c is what we estimate we're going to carry over from fy 2021 to fy 2122 of
013769 000 line 9 c is the transfer out for the energy and water savings lease payment 231 660 dollars we're going to transfer out from mno into the energy and water savings account and then line 10 is the amount we anticipate to receive for prop 123 of 135 000 and this column in line a is what our budget limit is for mno 14.9 million dollars and then on column b is what we calculate for the capital budget limit of 837 346 dollars and then if you go to line eight or not line eight page eight i'm sorry you take that eight hundred and thirty six thirty seven thousand three hundred and forty six dollars you add it to your anticipated carryover for capital from fy 2021 and you add it to your carryover of 111
014885 and you come up with your 949 three hundred and sixty seven dollars and that's what our anticipated budget limit is for capital for fy twenty one twenty two and that's how we come up with our budget limit for capital do you have any questions in regards to those any of that information [Applause] i don't jennifer do you have any questions no i don't thank you okay no i know no other questions i guess she did a good job [Music] all right yep all right uh so we need a motion to approve the um the proposed budget for 2122 school year do we have a motion okay a second okay diana moved and margaret seconded motion um all those in favor raise your hand okay that's unanimous okay moving on to item 3.3 oh i'm
015sorry 3.2 recommendation to review an approved continued line of credit brenda do you want to sure bring us up to date yes this is just a how annual housekeeping item this is our annual renewal with wells fargo just to renew our line of credit that we're going to be using through the county treasurer's office and they're actually reducing our line of credit from a million dollars to six hundred thousand dollars just because of the fact that we hardly used our line of credit last year which you know which is a good thing because we have the cash in the ca and the bank account but this is just in case we need it they're just setting it up for us okay any questions regarding that um jennifer do you have any questions regarding the line
016of credit thank you okay all right do we have a motion to approve the continued line of credit diana moved and margaret seconded and any other discussion hearing none all those in favor raise your hand okay that's unanimous among the four of us okay and then item 3.3 announcements dr wright yes the only announcement is that we have our upcoming board meeting will be tuesday july 13th at 5 p.m here in the board meeting the boardroom rather okay um all right that concludes announcements and next item is adjournment so i would declare these meeting adjourned motion yeah oh okay motion by jennifer and seconded by margaret to adjourn the meeting all those in favor raise your hand okay