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Budget Hearing and Special Board Meeting

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Source
YouTube / Creighton School District
Date
2022-07-02
Location
Maricopa County, AZ
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,118 words · about 7 min
Collected
2026-06-05

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001okay um we're going to go ahead and get started with the budget hearing [Music] i just want to note that on the phone we have miss mccaleb okay and then we can go ahead and get started mr man thank you madam president madam president members of the board this evening we have our adoption of the proposed budget for fiscal year 2023 much like last year this is kind of an unusual adoption because the budget itself that we'll be adopting tonight was developed using draft forms because the legislature had not completed their budget process mr man they're having a hard time hearing you can they hear me better now yes close um so the budget was developed using draft forms um and when we did that one of the things we tried to do was make

002some assumptions about actions the legislature might take to make certain that our proposed budget was in alignment with capturing the most budget capacity that we could based on what the state would provide us we have since received the actual forms and we've plugged our numbers into them and had we used those forms there would be some minor adjustments but we are we we have captured the appropriate amount here so with that i'm going to turn it over to our director of finance miss dumoulin to walk you through the key components of the fiscal year 2023 proposed budget for adoption good morning madam president members of the board dr lewis and our exec team we did make some assumptions and those are on the first slide there this year we assumed stable enrollment so numbers are

003higher than what we actually expect but as mr man just mentioned we want to capture as much budget capacity as possible in this draft form mno is projected higher than normal and what we expected that's due to a couple different factors one being our use of federal funds to pay for some of the expenses that normally would be coming out of mno the other really big factor is vacancy savings so i think it was last meeting dr lewis or maybe it was uh i think as dr lewis mentioned we have about 70 openings um still at the end of last year if you take a 50 000 average for salary benefits and insurance for a position that's like 3.5 million dollars right there so you can see how dramatically staff shortages affect budget and carry

004forward we do have two months left in the encumbrance period to pay for invoices that were procured and services done in the old fiscal year so that carry forward amount will be adjusted in the budget 75 based on accurate numbers after we complete the annual financial report on the next slide you'll see the actual budget outlined for you you can see our budget limits an average teacher salary is on that and it represents a three percent raise that was approved in the meet and confer process and those are pretty pretty consistent with last year i do believe we've played around with the new forms and it already looks like it's about a quarter of a million dollar decrease once we get all this information in the new forms just right off the top so just

005uh a little fyi there so basically in summary this budget reflects almost a 3.6 million dollar increase now as i said that's going to be offset by any adm loss beyond what we've projected in the budget and then any of the reconciliation process that will come out on the budge 75 and that's usually out in about november that's what we use to do our december revision if you're used to that it does include all of the pandemic relief funds and it does reflect the increased base level support base level however in the draft it's we projected a little bit higher and we have the actual base level there that will be in the in the revised revision and um just as a reminder we will have to come back in september to bring you this

006budget adjusted with the new forms the new funding totals etc so this is as accurate as it is now but we will be coming back september 15 on the actual forms and have another one approved our future budget challenge a lot of them are similar you've seen some of the same things on slide shows in the previous presentation but we have the ongoing enrollment issues we have gentrification all of that that adm has a direct impact on this budget we have declining revenues and that's in the form of the tax cuts that happen statewide and then we have like inflation this budget we were maxed out at a two percent inflation cost and we all know that inflation costs are much higher so we're actually not getting enough inflation bump in the budget to cover

007the actual cost of goods and services that are much higher than a two percent and then we have the one-time nature of the pandemic relief funding that we have talked about a lot since those are one-time funds and they're going away we'll have a lot of those funds being shifted back into emino or that would have to be cut when those funds go away so we have that on the horizon and then um the carry forward as i've mentioned it's it looks heavy but when you consider that had we filled all the positions there'd be at least 3.5 off the top had we been paying for some of the expenses that were in in esser funding for example we would be looking at a significantly less carry forward and with that we will open it

008up for any questions or clarifications do we have any questions miss my caleb on the phone any questions from here we didn't we did not thank you and we do appreciate all of you for coming in uh for this emergency meeting so that we can be compliant with statute we appreciate it thank you and we appreciate staff coming in [Music] all right so with no questions no more comments that concludes our budget hearing and that moves us over to our special board meeting um so i do have here with us mr campos miss harris myself and miss mccaleb ms mcsheffrey is not here and i move the governing board adopt the total aggregate school district budget per ars 15-905 for fiscal year 2021 2022 second all those in favor aye aye perfect so for our

009next item is um i move the governing board approve consent agendas items 2.1 through 2.3 and 2.5 through 2.7 i'm going to go ahead and pull 2.4 second all those in favor hi hi hi i just wanted to pull the agreement for services and products between corwin and crain elementary school district i will be voting no on this item but i wanted to pull it to give my explanation i know that corwin does justice and advocacy leadership training deep equity workshops that's the kind of stuff that we do but i do believe that we have community organizations like mass liberation lucha poder puente there's a lot of different ones that can be providing the same services and i feel that um we should be giving those opportunities to the local organizations who already know our

010community are deep rooted in the things that we do so this is why i will be voting no on this item i don't know if anybody else had any questions or comments on this okay [Music] yeah go ahead i think you're right like it would be amazing to tap into some of our other resources that we have more locally um but i do feel this is for like the second half of training that was already started in year one so i i do feel that it's important to finish that training i agree with you i just wanted to make my voice stated on on this and for that year that they've been i haven't really been having positive feedback from the community so those are just my thoughts but i appreciate your input ms mccaleb

011so with that being said i move the governing board approve consent agenda item 2.4 second all those in favor perfect all right and then that brings us to our last item move the governing board approved to adjourn did we do oh sorry yes sorry i was on policy second yes that's correct it's a friday morning um mr campbell seconded all those in favor aye aye thank you guys have a great weekend thank you everybody

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