001for our August 11th meeting. Laura, would you like to do >> Mrs. Burgerer here, Mr. Burns? >> Here, Mr. Hood, >> Mrs. Slate here, Mrs. Wood >> here. Okay. >> Any recognition of guests today? >> No. once the school year gets started. >> Okay. Um on to our discussion and action agenda. First item is the 2526 tax rate. >> Do you want me to read the rationale first or do you >> It's the same thing. >> Yes. >> Just one's in motion form and the other one's slow. >> For the uh school year 2526 property tax rate of 82.5 cents on the real property and 91.4 4 cents on the personal property. These rates include a 4% tax increase over the compensating tax rate and an additional adjustment for allowable exonerations as provided by KRS
002160.470 160.473 and 134.590 um in real and personal property tax revenue per KRS160476 2 million21,835 of this amount is restricted to the building fund. In addition, the board recommends a flat tax rate or flat tax on motor vehicles at 57.4. Make a motion. >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. >> Okay. Next, I'm going to turn it over to you. >> Yeah. Um, just to explain what was just said because it's the the writing which we're supposed to use with the KRS sightings and everything, but to put it in simple terms, um, we had a tax rate of 79.9 last year. Um, in order to generate 4% more funding from the state, we want to raise it from a 79.9 to an 82.5. That's a 2.6 six increase in rate to generate 4% more
003revenue for us. So I know it's frame is we're taking a 4% but we're actually just increasing the rate 2.6 to generate 4% more funding. Um the reason uh we want to take that 4% get that 4% more funding is because in the spring as we proposed the budget and we knew there were costs coming online that 4% would keep us healthy. So, what are those costs that that are are we're asking for now? Getting that 4% increase in revenue to be able to be stable. Um, the costs that are coming online are the the teacher raises that were approved in the spring. Um, we have an increase in utilities costs, the opening of this new building. Uh, we have an increase in consumables costs like cleaning products, paper products, all the things that our
004maintenance crew uses. And there's an increase in insurance cost. Insurance premiums went up from last year to this year. uh as well as food costs. So you combine all those things together, this 4% increase in revenue keeps us stable. Now we're not barely with our head above water, but we're al also not swimming in a big huge increase or or surplus. So it just keeps us in a really good spot uh an appropriate amount um that we're we're looking to increase in our in our funding. Now with that said, the amount of it's a 7.7. I'm speaking in general terms. 7.7 U million dollars in in funding from the state. Right off the bat, 2 million of that is cut by law restricted funds. So you take two million of that that goes directly to
005building goes to debt services. It goes to the paying back the project in which we we bonded. So that money gets pulled off to the side and leaves us with the rest to be able to use for operations cost, general fund, all those things that that we now need to use to spend to keep us operational. Anybody else have any questions? I know we just discussed at the tax meetings hearing. So, >> you ready? >> Okay. >> All right. Mrs. Burgerer, >> yes. >> Mr. Burns, >> yes. >> Mr. Hood, >> yes. >> Mrs. Slate, >> yes. >> Mrs. W. >> Yes. >> Okay. Motion carries. On to our next item of the consent agenda. We'll take a motion to approve the consent agenda as written. >> Motion approved. I'll second. >> You have anything
006to add on that on any of the items? >> Um, minutes fine. Monthly bills. Uh, the only thing of extreme significance was the money that we used to pay fee for the English language arts curriculum. >> I think I think that might have been was that the last payment? >> Yeah. >> Um, so significant fee there, but we're we've now paid for that ELA curriculum. Um, >> how long does that typically last for? Like how often do we update that? >> ELA, um, it we're on a three-year contract, so one more after this. And then, um, math was a sixyear. So, um, Ge, so I think high school has two left and elementary has three, I believe. Okay. >> The English language arts was HMH. I always mis mispronounce Hton. [Music] Uh so HMH and
007then the math is >> SAS. >> Okay. >> Um superintendent standards evaluation model. It's just a resolution from the state. Uh they went from seven standards to evaluate uh superintendent to five. So it's just saying that you guys approve that going from seven standards to five standards. They took two of those standards and embedded those into the five. That's just a resolution there. Um, the superintendent professional growth plan, I reviewed a little bit of that today with the staff on opening day, but the professional growth plan for me is something that you will then take with the evaluation in the spring in two primary areas. The first one being standard number one of the superintendent evaluation standards. Um, standard number one is strategic leadership. So, there's some goals within that that I've stated in my
008PGP. It's attached. Um, and number two is a goal of communication and transparency that exists within a variety of standards, but I just pulled those out as specific. It's not standard based. It's more of a an actual more focused uh goal for for myself and and the district. So those two there um Sun Behavioral Healthouou uh this just allows us to uh gives us the opportunity to partner with Sun Behavioral which is over right over by Griffin Elite off by 75. Um it allows them to come on site in in the event that we would need them here to do an eval on site. Sometimes a kid might be going through some sort of crisis and need to get the son not have transportation there or the parents are. So this allows son to visit
009here and offer those services here and do a professional evaluation if signed off on by the parents if the parents allow it. So it requires parent approval, but it's a partnership with with Sun and every other district around here has that same NOU um schoolbased mental health grant. That's just a continuation. We'll continue to get that funding. Um, change orders. Uh, two of them were kind of, hey, we have this unused money. You get it back. It might have been like a $162 from one of them and a couple more dollars from another. But the rising sun developing uh the change order in regards to the fireproofing, um, that was a code issue. And so when the the inspector went down there and checked that area that we had to update to get to code.
010And so that is the change order for that cost. But other than that, that's that's the consent agenda. Details of significance. >> Anybody have any questions? [Music] >> Not at all. >> Nope. Right. Mrs. Burgerer? >> Yes. >> Mr. Burns? >> Yes. >> Mr. Hood? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Slate? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Wood? >> Yes. >> Okay. Motion carries. on to our next item which is the superintendent report. >> Kaiser. >> Yeah. >> Um I talked with Christie. Finance report. Um do you want to kind of briefly >> So I like this is the first month in the new fiscal year. We're not even on full payroll yet. So you have like a it's a lesser amount than you'll normally see going forward. Um it's still tenative budget. So it's not even the final
011working budget which will be approved in September as we get more of these numbers from the tax and the seek. So, I mean it's it's I mean like I said it's nothing unexpected. It's minimal because there's just not as much activity in the summer. So, >> with the preliminary numbers, are we like on target like from >> Well, I'm going to say, you know, we won't really see a whole a lot of the activity, but I'm going to say yes at this point. >> Well, with the numbers from the state, what you have seen so far? >> Yes. Yes. I think um yeah I feel well the the tax revenue came in almost exactly where we were expecting and the seek got a little tweak on it but nothing I'm expecting a little bit of
012an adjustment not much like just because >> uh just a little bit less because of >> the property values went up a little bit that's all but it's not nothing significant so we're really within >> um some other things of note um legislation was passed to require where uh students who want to receive over-the-c counter medication through the nurse's office. So, my son George wants to go take ibuprofen, uh he would need a parent consent and his doctor, his medical provider's consent in order to get that. That's just a burden to put on a lot of families to have to go to the doctor, get that form filled out. So we have uh Missy Pangala who is certified to be able to create a standing order to allow students if they turn in the parent
013part that she would act as the medical provider to allow students to get over the counter medication as long as they have parent approval. >> So just an update >> was that sent out to parents like ahead of time or how long >> when when they have to fill that form out every year. >> They just added a line of medical provider on it. So parents are familiar with filling out that form. They just didn't know. So in that spot where it says medical provider said this can be signed off on by our standing order. So >> still having to provide those medications and kept in the nurses station. >> Sometimes we offer those medications like ibuprofen on site and it'll be like call hey George wants to take some ibuprofen. Is that okay? >>
014They need that paperwork filled out. put other over thec counter medications that we don't provide. >> They would bring in >> they're going to be stored in Stacy's office. >> Um joint session joint session is coming up on I think Monday, August 25th. I think it's the 25th. Uh but we will get together with the board of education. Um each SBDM council will get together and we're going to do some learning around the three-year strategic plan. At that point, we hope the booklet will be complete. Um, regardless though, we're going to dive in and look at some learning opportunities to learn a little more versus just like sit and get it be a little bit more interactive, a little more station space based. So, it should be a a good night. Um, so that's on
015the 25th of August. Um, construction update. Talked about the change orders a little earlier. Um, the steps are complete. They have some railing work to do on them, but the concrete work is complete. They have to do some fill on the brick with the sand in between the brick. But we meet tomorrow morning at 9:00 am to kind of give them a checklist on finishing up that work. They're now they're now to code. >> Oh, they are. >> They are to code. >> So, we'll do we'll do a group inspection tomorrow. >> And it's not crumbling. >> Not as of now. >> Bottom. >> Fingers crossed. >> It's an eress only, which is nice. So, it's not used uh it's used for for evacuate and it's used for pictures of seniors. >> So, we get
016through those two times or three times we'd use it per year, we should be pretty good. >> Yeah. >> Uh just other things for construction. We're really looking to hit these doors and making sure all the doors are functional with this fob system. um HVAC and electric just getting our people trained on making sure we control all aspects of the HVAC and we are able to get on to all the breakers and understand which breakers work for which lights in the building. So some training there and then um uh next steps uh Mr. Hayes Joe Hayes is going to have something to bring to the table for the September board meeting on the next phase. >> Okay. >> So we get the ball rolling quickly up to date drawing. Mhm. Um, other than that, the
017final thing is I know we discussed at the working meeting last time about the trees uh in the front lawn and I was tasked with finding three different opinions from professionals. So, we had three different professionals come in and do an assessment on the health of the trees and more general than not or more kind of they all kind of corroborated on the two. So, if you're standing on Beachwood Road looking at the school, the two on the left um are dying or or dead. Uh they got to go. Um they're not in good shape. They're going to continue to break. Um, the reason this sparked our conversation was that image of that limb that would have killed someone. Um, that was not a storm. Um, it was just a fall in the middle of
018the day. That falls at 3:00 p.m. or 8 a.m. >> That's that's we're we're in a bad situation. So, there's the aspect of the looking at it from the street and driving by and seeing the traditional of what you view of Beachwood versus driving by and seeing a disaster. Uh, I'd rather do something to solve that uh disaster uh kind of liability versus just driving by and seeing something that looks different than what I've seen in the past. So, um, uh, convincing someone like my grandma of that >> or my mom or me as a kid like seeing that it it is that that's going to be a mind shift, but it pales in comparison to what could happen if one of those limbs falls. The other two by looking at the from Beachwood Road
019to the building, the other two are uh kind of like TBA. It's they look okay, but with that compaction from the construction and all the work that was done, they say that it could be a year, could be two years. We could save them. We not might not be able to. It was not definitive. >> So the two on the left, I think across the board was agreed. Something's got to happen with these. We got to do something. >> That's three different professionals. >> Three different professionals come in with very similar assessments. Uh so if you remove the two and have two on the right and nothing on the left that's going to look asymmetrical and odd. Uh so this is like open discussion of solutions to this issue. What do you guys think? >>
020Have they proposed anything like timelines or >> uh rough timeline of so of what would be the question. Yeah. Like when they can >> So if we were to if we were to say go down this path of Okay, if we remove two of them, keeping the other two would look silly. >> You want to just remove the two and keep the other? I don't know. >> Yeah. Why can't it just be two? At least the two could be symmetrical. >> Agreed. So if you're going to make the change, make the change. >> Yeah. Well, I think to propose to get cost for >> I hate to say take down the tree, but >> I can Well, if we're going to remove one, >> but safeties, >> we've got to remove the other for safety.
021>> If we're going to remove those two for safety, >> are we going to remove the other two? If we do, and decide if we're going to remove all of them, >> we're start fresh and new. We're going to plant new. >> I can get cost on removal of the trees. I get cost on planting of new trees. do do some studies on a couple different options of what they would say they could plant, >> what would be viable, what would be uh >> quick growth, >> what would be um aesthetically like all those aspects and maybe two or three different options on what they would recommend to plant, >> what that timeline would be from removal to planting to all right, now we're we're good to go and they've taken root. Get all that.
022>> Okay. by the next meeting or two meetings from that by September. Yeah, >> absolutely. >> That'd be good because we would probably want to plant this fall, >> right? Correct. >> Absolutely. So, I mean, if if it's cool if a good timeline, perfect world, you get them. We talk about at the September board meeting with the three options. >> We say we're going to take them out. >> We approve that September. Then you got fall break coming up, >> right? You got >> you got fall break and that could be removal time, >> right? >> The planting might be a little easier than the removal, but to have fall break a full week to not have many people on campus and get those out of here with the equipment that would be needed, not
023heading school, that would be ideal. Um, and then you have the rest of October and November to plan. >> So, is there a sprinkler system out there? >> There isn't right now. There used to be, but all the damage. So, we were going to do that, but then that limb felt so we had on the sprinkler system. >> So, we wouldn't do anything with sprinkler until this was all complete. >> We don't want the lawn to go back to what it used to be. >> Correct. And >> too much. >> Yeah. I think this this summer and it's in good shape right now. I think Jay in the meantime waters it. >> Okay. >> Because we don't we don't have the sprinkler system. >> I was wondering. I don't remember seeing it come on. Okay.
024So that >> do they have plans to put that back? >> I mean that was in the quote. >> We already have we already have no they that was not part of the quote that was not part of the project. We have quotes separate to to implement or put in >> struggling knowing this safety issue. >> Okay. >> So the plan will be to get some quotes >> and time. If it's in danger, why do we have to talk about it? >> Dude, I mean, we can I can get the ball rolling as quickly as possible. >> I mean, I'm sitting there going, we got two trees that are going to die out. >> Still have to get votes on it on it. >> Yeah, we still fall break. >> If it's a safety concern
025right now, which it is, I think we could do something. We could probably do something temporarily to make sure kids aren't playing on the front line. We can do some education to the kids. Stay on the front lawn. We can do some signage or something. Um, just temporarily >> and then get that ball rolling as quickly as possible. Um, but I can get I can get some quotes within the next week. >> What about the TPN tomorrow night? That's what [Music] >> I'd hate to hear about us in there talking about this if some kid gets hurt out there. >> Well, >> when they came out, did they trim it all back? Like they live anything. >> So, anything of danger um when they removed that big limb, they went up in that tree >>
026and they did >> chop off anything they thought was of immediate danger. So I do think we're not in a extreme safety but because it was so recent. >> It was 3 weeks ago. So I think we're in decent shape because they removed all the dangerous stuff. >> Okay. >> But over time >> it's going to rot and die. So I think 6 months from now I'd say probably no teping tonight. But since it was so recent they went through both of those trees that were in rough shape. >> I think we're probably okay to to teepee and do all that. But in regards to a long-term solution, I think for planting purposes to get that done in this fall would be ideal. >> Okay. >> All right. Do you have anything else? >> Uh,
027no. >> No. Real quick, um, just in regards to communication, transparency, I talked with the the staff today. We, uh, we all do. Uh I send the board a weekly email update kind of what happened in the past week and what's happening next week. It's not actually it's just an update of what's going on in the building. So that goes out to the board each week. I send a weekly email out to staff uh elementary all the way through high school. Kind of give the same idea of what's events are happening. What are some highlights from the last week? What's some things that are coming up this week? Um there will be a um monthly newsletter uh August 1st one was sent out. There'll be one coming out in September. So every month you'll get
028a district newsletter and that goes out to the whole entire community. Um and then just an update. The next superintendent advisory meeting will be at 6 p.m. and here on October 28th. So, in regards to making sure people are well informed or at least have avenues to be informed, there's multiple touch points whether it be weekly, monthly, or through in-person advisory. >> So, there's the superintendent report. >> Okay. Next item is to make a motion to go into close session for KS 61.8. Take a motion. Oh, second.