001[Music] abby miss you teddy can you hear us i can thank you thank you [Music] we'd like to welcome you all to tonight's regular governing board meeting tuesday june 21st 2022 thank you for joining us either here or with us through the broadcast or the recorded broadcast we will begin with a call to order followed by a moment of silence and then a pledge of allegiance led by mr bill parker if you'll all join me for a moment of silence please i pledge allegiance 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 thank you we will now be at item 1.04 and i will ask miss wilson for a roll call please dr charles santa cruz
002here mr bill parker here miss sheila eugetti here miss laurie wood here miss jill humphries here madam president all board members are present you have a quora thank you very much we will now move to 1.05 call for a public hearing pursuant to ars 15-905 board members may have a motion i move that we call the public hearing on the budget thank you mrs humphries is there a second second thank you mr parker it's been moved and seconded that we call for the public hearing pursuant to ares 15-905 all those in favor please vote by saying aye any oppose with nay okay thank you very much that passes five zero that will take us to item two public hearing and i will turn the time over to dr mccord thank you madam president governing board
003members tonight we bring before you the request for the approval of the fiscal year 2023 proposed budget and tonight's presentation for the public hearing will come from our associate suit bonnie betts and it'll look very similar to what you saw a couple weeks ago miss betts thank you dr mccord president wood governing board members so let me connect wrong way so as dr record shared um this presentation is pretty much the same as you saw two weeks ago for purposes of the public we'll go through the details uh in addition there was one slide added at the end that discusses the hb 2866 which came out this morning and so we thought that we would give you some information about the possibilities associated with that house bill so today's report introduction we talk about how
004this budget aligns with the strategic operating plan as well as the override commitments we will propose the m o budget the classroom site fund budget the understated capital budget go through a very high level summary of the other fund budgets present to you the budget risks and opportunities provide the fiscal year 2023 estimated tax rate and then finally the addendum is just the compensation details that you all approved at the end of march of 2022 will not be going through all those details again that was intended for the public and for the employees of gilbert public schools so they would have that accessible to them so alignment to the strategic operating plan and override commitments you've seen and approved our strategic operating plan we're in our going into our third year of the strategic operating
005plan and note that all of the goals point to student success so this proposed budget does include cost increases that are fully aligned to the strategic operating plan as well as the override commitments made in november of 19. and one of the the details regarding one of our goals is in employee excellence so just a reminders that we believe all functions of gilbert public schools contribute to the achievement of an inspiring excellence in every learner all employees regardless of their role contribute to the achievement of this vision the strategic operating plan employee goal is to retain and attract high quality employees in all positions throughout the school district and then compensation increases when possible shall be consistent across all employee groups so the fiscal year 20 20 23 proposed budget is also consistent with the
006override commitments that we made in november of 2019 we maintain the 2 million annual allocation for class size reduction that amounts to about 20 fte teachers maintains the social emotional supports that includes the social workers and behavioral health counselors and then finally maintain salary competitiveness so the proposed maintenance and operations budget capacity we always have to start of course with our student counts we've been sharing three years of student accounts just due to the pandemic to give a reminder as to how the the coven 19 pandemic has impacted our student enrollment and to highlight as well that we seem to be bringing all those students back to governor public schools so 2020 revised number three was the the highest student count that we've seen in a long time over 33 000 students and you can
007see the small numbers in 2020 on our arizona online when we move into the fiscal year 2021 revised number three you can see the the drop in the in person but the significant increase in the arizona online both full-time and part-time a drop of some somewhere in the neighborhood of 2500 adm or average daily membership or 2500 student counts and then 2022 revised number three again we've increased our in person about 1600 students our arizona online full-time has decreased and part-time decreased as well and you can see our growth of about adm over the revised number three in 2021 and then note the proposed as we've been saying all along we are assuming a 400 student loss a 400 student count loss which we have assumed the last three years and we are distributing those
008100 from from high school and 300 from k-8 um from k-6 and you can see the estimate for next year is 31 419 student counts note that the math does not work out perfectly that that's 400 from the revised number three 2022 budget the reason for that is that our student counts for the current year are not finalized until the end of july when they do the statewide recalculation so every month these student counts are changing that reflects that difference so the governor's budget this proposed budget that we're requesting you adopt this evening is based upon the governor of arizona governor ducey's budget so the 2022 bla or base level amount was four thousand four hundred and forty five dollars and fifty three cents the increase of inflation of two percent uh brought that up
009by 88.90 to the 4534.44 cents note that the two percent inflation is required by um the prop 301 that was approved by the voter back in 2000 and that back in in november of 2000 and also just a reminder that inflation as of today is over eight percent so the two percent inflation increases is pretty low so again the additional parameters associated with the proposed budget capacity the teacher experience index it is going down it's gone down the last three years from 1.0196 to 1.0167 primarily due to again our retirees leaving the school district and retiring and then bringing in less experienced teachers total add-on weighted student counts based upon fiscal year 2022 revised budget number three we just are keeping those the same it's really difficult to know which types of add-on students we
010will have going into 2023 so we just keep it flat as if it were the same as in 2022. budget balance carry forward estimated at 29.9 million dollars and then the trickle or the transportation revenue control limit is set equal to fiscal 2022 so the comparison the budget parameters you can see the teacher experience index in the middle where it's gone down here you can see the total weighted student count in 2022 adopted we grew from adopted remember that when we adopted the budget in 2022 we also assumed a 400 student loss so not only do we recover that 400 student but we also increased over about and above that so our revised number three was forty five thousand and our proposed is forty four thousand about five hundred and eighty reflecting that four hundred
011student estimated loss then the base level amount you can see the two percent increase over here the transportation support limit um seven million five hundred thousand about in comparison to the transportation revenue control limit the nine point three million and then classroom site fund is added here to remind us that the classroom siphon has continued to grow over the last two years and the budgetary amount is 708 dollars per student so i'm highlighting these two things you can you can see from the revised number three our transportation support level was just under six million in comparison to the revenue control limit the difference between the revenue control limit and the transportation support level is levied against the taxpayer here in gilbert public schools and so that dollar amount or that difference is decreasing which means
012more of the transportation revenue control limit is being funded by the school finance formula so that results in savings to the gilbert public schools taxpayer before i go any further are there any questions on any of this okay great thank you so now we're getting into the high level the budget capacity so note that the revenue control limit reflecting those students and the base level amount mostly the base level amount has increased by about 1.2 million dollars year over year note the 15 percent override that too has increased about two almost two and a half million dollars it's a reminder that the m o override is based upon the prior year student counts not the current year student counts so the revenue control limit is calculated based upon the current year student counts and the
013override is calculated with all the parameters associated with the new year's budget the new base level amount the new tei etc but we're using the student counts reflected in the 2022 budget then you can see the budget balance carry forward calculation estimating the 29.9 million dollars and the prop 123 and tuition in going up a little bit to 2.2 million dollars and then note the energy water savings transfer that is going away we made our final payment and so there's no longer any additional need to take money out of maintenance and operations and put them into that fund the other thing i wanted to remind everyone is this transfer emino to unrestricted capital that 20 million dollars that you all approved and the final revised budget for 2022 putting that money into unrestricted capital and
014not leaving it in maintenance and operations for two reasons the 20 million dollars is largely one-time money and in addition unrestricted capital is eligible to earn interest earnings and we are able to increase our budget capacity associated with those increases in interest earnings so the budget increase from revised number three is 11.8 million dollars that's for information we always share with you the delta between the prior year budget and the current year budget or the current your proposed budget we are not using that 11.8 million dollars though as part of our budget balancing calculations this year because of this budget balance carry forward situation so we opted to balance the budget considering the the monies that we had available that we know we have available and that look budget to budget so the other the
015other notable event that occurred in the current year is in january february time frame you approved policy db that is the budget policy where you agreed that we would allow school carryover into the subsequent year what that did is required us to establish budget balance categories and one of those categories are assignments so in this particular case you can see our budget balance carry forward estimated at 29.9 million dollars we estimated that our school carryover will be about 400 000 about 20 percent of the allocation and then we also in that in that budget policy db defined that we would like to have a target of a four percent carryover in our maintenance and operations budget so we've assigned that as well leaving an unassigned budget balance carry forward of 18.5 million dollars this treatment
016that you see here in front of you will be evident when we do the comprehensive the annual comprehensive financial report which will be presented to you in december of 2022 any questions on that this is something a little bit new that you haven't seen yet i i do want to comment that we are in a really good financial position and i think that's very positive and i thank you for that hard work to get us there i mean it does help the federal funds and the esser funds too but but it is nice to be in a good financial position yeah it is okay so the fiscal 2023 proposed classroom site fund budget capacity so based upon that information that we are looking at a 208 dollar per weighted student count an amount it calculates
017out to an allocation of 20 and just under 28 million dollars you can see right here in addition we do have an estimate for our budget balance carry forward into this fund of 13.7 million dollars there's interest earnings we are able to increase our budget capacity and classroom site fund by interest earnings and our new budget limit is about 41.7 million dollars reminders the fiscal year 2022 amount per weighted student count was 733 dollars and the new one is 708 dollars it looks like it's a decrease but remember that for the fiscal year 2022 budget we were told be careful because of that 733 dollars 192 dollars per student is considered one time calculating that out in this budget balance carry forward that 192 dollars per student amounts to about 7.1 million dollars so 7.1
018million of that 13.7 million is due to that one-time money so we've been sharing a lot of information through our school business school association of school business officials here in arizona and i stole this this graph to give you an idea of what classroom site fund has looked like since its inception back in 2000 and it might have been november of but the first fiscal year that it was available was fiscal year 2003. so you can see the dollar amounts to the left the left axis is the dollar amount available to gilbert public schools and the right access is the dollar amount per student so you can see that it it was pretty flat initially it increased in 2006 2007 through 2009 then plummeted in 2010 representing the crash that occurred due to the housing
019market here in arizona and it stayed low are a little bit on purpose the jlbc the joint legislative joint legislative budget committee opted to keep the amount the same to not increase the deficits associated with the school districts throughout arizona since 2014 we've seen a steady rise and then in 2022 the large increase associated with that 733 dollars and then the 708 dollars per student that we see today representing over 25 million dollars of new money to gilbert public schools reminder about classroom site fund it is designated for those employee groups that are eligible primarily our classroom teachers and the statute did change a year ago allowing this money to be used for our student support personnel such as our speech-language pathologists our occupational therapists physical therapists as well as social workers and psychologists so
020i wanted to make sure that that was pointed out here as well um mrs betts i do i do want to remind the public that doesn't the classroom site fund come from the .06 sales tax it does along with a contribution from the state land trust okay that's correct so again dollars per count was one time amounting to about 7.1 million dollars in 2022 just a reminder so the 2023 proposed spend increases now we have all of our budget capacity and our available monies and now we're going to look at well how much how much are we recommending to you to be spent in new in new expenditures for fiscal so our medical insurance premium these these are non-discretionary increases items that we don't have a lot of control over generally speaking so our medical
021insurance premium increase is one percent we had other insurance premium increases we we were obligated to go out for bid for several of our health insurance programs that resulted in an increase of about 120 000 general inflationary increases this is the first time in the last three years that we've presented to you an increase in budget budgetary spend due to inflationary increases as i indicated earlier over an 8 percent inflation that's how we calculated that 1 million dollars is looking at all of our fuel and all of our utilities and increasing those by that um i think i think we use seven and a half percent to arrive at that one million dollars and then special education increases we have seen continual increases in our special education costs over the years and so we have
022budgeted one to two million dollars of spend increases also over the last three years total increase need is 3.42 million dollars i wanted to point out to all of you again that the inflationary increases are impacting our schools as well and so we are making a recommendation that we increase our discretionary allocations to our schools to reflect the five dollars per student at the elementary and junior high and eight dollars per student at our high schools any questions on that okay great so these are our discretionary budgetary increases and a reminder again that these are all consistent with the strategic operating plan adopted by you all in gilbert public schools so we are recommending programmatic increases to include instructional coaches behavior coaches they were added in mid-year 2022 also fte for acceleration campuses all of
023these items were specified in the strategic operating plan starting salary increases again for competitiveness and struggling to find these positions we increased the starting salary as well as made equity adjustments for those that are still with us to make sure that we don't create that compression issue that we've seen over and over again so this impacted our speech language pathologists psychologists otpts and nurses about 250 thousand dollars last year you all approved that we would buy back sick days from our teachers so we are buying back sick days from our support staff our hourly support staff at 10 cents per hour that's a cost of about 500 thousand dollars just remember a reminder 10 cents per hour does not seem like a lot of money but if you consider the fact that 260 days of
024work so remember you have to include holidays etc multiplied by eight eight hours and then a 10 cents per per every hour that amounts to 266 dollars for the year and our buyback rate that has been in existence here in gilbert for a long time is um 65 per day so the the 10 cents more than pays for the value of those two two sick days at 131 inc so 266 dollars in comparison to 131 so that total of discretionary increases is just over 5 million um the other thing i wanted to point out the master capital planning this was not included last two weeks ago when we proposed the budget however it was that night that you approved the award of the master capital planning partner to or cut winslow and so um we
025added that 500 000 additional cost here on this grid so the total now is just over 5 million dollars so our budgetary increase is associated with competitiveness for retaining and attracting employees so you can see the certified employees hourly employees professional exempt and administrative employees whenever we made an adjustment that was applicable to a particular employee group such as the 10 cents per hour we added the 10 cents per hour before we added the pay increases in addition for our certified employees taking advantage of the change in law due to classroom site fund we decided that it would be better if we could put more of the classroom site fund performance pay onto the base as ongoing salary so we made the recommendation to you and this has been approved that 14.95 for 1 495
026of the former plc stipend would go to the certified teacher's base salary and then if you all remember we came back to you on april 4th and said hey we just received the classroom site fund allocations and we'd like to recommend an additional one percent increase in ongoing salary which brought us up to that three percent ongoing salary increase which you can see in all of our employee groups going down to the professional and exempt group of employees we also continued our buying back of sick days for our professional exempt employees adding 200 or 250 depending upon whether they were 12 months or 10 or 11 months um and then we increased three percent uh note 2 that the three percent that was a one-time stipend in the current year which was just paid today
027by the way the second three half of the three percent stipend was paid today we made that ongoing and then increased that total amount by the three percent so we've done that for all employee groups except for the hourly employees and again a reminder the reason that the hourly employees did not receive the three percent ongoing stipend and then the three percent on top of that is because you all approved a dollar fifty pay increase for all hourly employees back in september of twenty one and the value of that dollar fifty was depending upon your hourly rate was between four and twelve point two percent so we we already did realize giving all of our hourly employees that three that three percent one time making it ongoing back in september of the current year so
028that total for all of our salary increases was 11 million dollars so now we go to budgetary savings so the premium holiday credited back to maintenance and operations you also approved a premium holiday we plan on that premium holiday occurring on pay period eight which is over fall break in addition there is an arizona state retirement rate reduction that has a value of about 60 thousand dollars it's not nothing so there's a little bit of money there in addition uh as we've indicated before there we are expecting a 400 student loss so we would expect if we do realize that loss we would have that many teachers less of a need and so that would save us about 1.5 million dollars and then finally that energy and water performance lease paid off that was savings
029as well for a total budgetary savings of just over 2.6 million dollars and just to clarify that decrease in personnel would be taken care of through attrition absolutely okay thank you then the total budgetary increase need um this is where we are um we're going to do the math so to speak so ongoing available from budget balance carryforward we had the conversation that we have 29.9 million dollars of one-time money available in budget balance carry forward based upon history vacancy savings all the other all the other transactions that occur at the end of the year we believe that about 5.8 million of that represents ongoing money so we're crediting that back against those increases in expenditures there's the projected ongoing savings of just over 2.6 million dollars there's the total non-discretionary increases remember that was
030inflation special education health benefit premiums etc and then finally the total discretionary increases of just over 16 million dollars leaves us with a budgetary deficit of just over 11 million dollars so now how are we going to close that 11 million dollar gap so this is balancing the budget so the budget balance carry forward 5.8 million dollars we've already considered you can see that the one-time money then of 24.1 million dollars that's left reallocation of mno expenses to other funds we do this annually we have dual credit that we offload emino expense into the dual credit fund other the instructional improvement we have class size reduction in instructional improvement all those types of journal entries that occur at your end we are expecting that to realize about three million dollars of ongoing savings in m
031l and then increase the classroom site fund contribution uh seven million dollars going now to to be able to be allocated to more of our personnel throughout gilbert public schools because of the change in statute so that's seven million dollars of new money there along with eight hundred thousand dollars of new money one time um that that would take care of the pay for performance additional cost associated with speech language pathologists otpts etc that are now eligible for classroom site fund pay for performance so finally our total ongoing is 10 million dollars our one time available is 24.9 so the deficit was 11 million dollars available ongoing is one million dollars so we need one point just over a million dollars per year out of this one-time money to draw down to balance the budget
032making this a very sustainable budget plan over at least the next three to five years so we feel very confident that this is a good budgetary plan before i go further are there any questions on that well i was just going to mention that you said the governor's budget was probably the least favorable and my understanding is the legislature is working on that budget there might be something dropped tomorrow but they have until june 30th yes that's correct it's coming sometime so one of our requirements in the budget document is to present to you the average teacher salary and presented on the budget document so we did change this up from the proposed budget so note that the average salary of all teachers employed in 2023 we expect to be 62 297 dollars that's different
033from two weeks ago because we decided we have a group of employees that are rolling over into next year and are staying with us they've signed their contract we have a bunch of new employees that have come on board that have signed their contract so we have the data so we went ahead and ran the average salary in 2023 for those employees that have committed to gilbert public schools in addition to that so remember that those salaries already account for the 1495 of the money that was formerly in pay for performance that goes on the base and then on top of that they received the three percent that was one time in the current year to be ongoing and then on top of that they received another three percent so all of that is included
034in there in addition we also added the 750 of pay for performance we also added the fifteen hundred dollar one-time stipend that you all approved back at the end of march and then we also uh added about 1 491 of general supplemental pays that on average teachers receive every year here at governor public schools and that's how we achieve the sixty two thousand two ninety seven so the average salary of all teachers employed in the prior year 2022 was 57 we are comparing apples to oranges at this point in time so i wanted to make sure that that's clear we are transitioning to include all of the supplemental pays moving forward so right now that five thousand dollars more reflects an eight point eight six percent increase based upon the calculation in the budget forms
035but when we truly look at the average salary increase from last year to the average salary increase in the current year it amounts to about 8.5 percent so the 1495 added to the base along with a 3 percent added on top of that and then three percent added on top of that contributed to that total of about 8.5 percent which is real and when you look at the budget documents you'll see all of those notes in the box where we're describing to the public how the changes have occurred over the the last few years do we have an average length of service that this average salary represents the only thing that comes close to it and i don't have it at my fingertips but the um the seeder the sder report that's our employee report
036that we submit by october 15th of every year that data goes to calculate the teacher experience index so we are over 1.0 on the teacher experience index which means that we and gilbert have more years of service in our teacher population than the average in the state of arizona so that's that's anecdotal and not the data that you're looking for but it does have an indicator that we do have teachers that are in gilbert have been here for a long time and continues to stay with us okay thank you so um the moving away from maintenance and operations now and talking about the unrestricted capital budget for adoption so this is just the math the district additional assistance formula you can see that we're going up about six about 550 000 over the prior year
037note that there is no adjustment we we opted to keep this row in there for one year to remind you that fiscal year 2022 the current year was the first year in which there was no adjustment into the district additional assistance so we've seen two years of no no negative adjustment the budget balance carry forward adopted was 5.2 we realized 7.4 we are proposing a 28.5 million dollar budget balance carry forward remember that that includes that 20 million dollars that we moved out of mno and put it into unrestricted capital and then the interest earned i also shared why we wanted to why we made that recommendation to you all because we are able to gain interest earnings that increase our budget capacity in unrestricted capital so we know that our interest earnings will be
038higher this is a very conservative number we believe that 20 thousand dollars will easily be be beat given the circumstances that we are in now with our interest rates so finally the total budget limit in unrestricted capital is 44 million dollars because of that 20 million dollar transfer from mno it's an increased year-over-year of just under 1.7 million dollars any comments or questions about that well i i did want to remind our community that last year was the first year i don't i don't know how many years district additional assistance was we were not given the full amount but i believe it was like eight or ten years it was since 2013 since 2013 this is the last year was the first time we had the full amount that's correct by the formula so you'd
039set it in a very kind way but the legislature withheld money or just didn't give us our full amount for those seven or eight years so thank you so these are our unrestricted capital preliminary budget allocations at this date so note the pie reflects athletics reflects the contingency so these dollar amounts are not yet allocated out but we plan on allocating them out as needs arise operations note that operations is the in the green i'd like to point out the operations in the green and the technology which is i guess operations is the lighter green technology is the darker green it's important to know that technology and operations have a lot of unrestricted capital costs that are in supporting our schools so these are really non-discretionary costs to the department these monies are going to
040support the program at our schools here in gilbert public schools um and then schools the allocation for schools and athletics you can see the allocation for schools and athletics and then finally teaching and learning i think is this bucket over here and remember that teaching and learning uh adopted two curriculums two curricula two curricula right barbara two curricula um in during fiscal year 2022 and so that money was added uh and and they they did that in the in last year and then they're also anticipating two areas um in for 2023 as well and those dollars are budgeted in that in that pie as well so again just a reminder this pie does not include the 20 million dollars held in reserves so we thought it was useful to share with you the type of
041spend that occurred during the current year in unrestricted capital and we'll just go through the pictures fairly quickly you saw these two weeks ago so but these are these are just detailing out some of the monies that were spent by area but library furniture was a big ask associated with our elementary schools and you can see they took advantage of bringing in more innovative type furniture to enhance the desire for our students to go back to the library again just other pictures there scoreboards the last three years we've definitely made an allocation of three to four scoreboards each year and we are in a rotation with all of our schools whether it's women's softball men's baseball or men's and women's basketball we continue to make those allocations the weight rooms we've we were completed those
042really in in but some work was still done in 2022 helmets and pads these are ongoing expenses that come out of the unrestricted capital budget the white fleet and equipment we've had many vehicles throughout gilbert that haven't been touched since 2003 2004 in dire need of our technology areas as well as operations to replace some of these aging vehicles as well as in our warehouse to be able to move around goods within the warehouse marquis this process regarding marquis was started and i think jason martin was a big proponent of that and participated in that effort since 2016. so in the current year going into fiscal year 2023 we have allocated out the last six marquees that are in need of replacement and will be caught all caught up in that in that project do
043we have a plan for going forward to when we have to do it again so at this point we believe in talking to jason that we're probably not going to have to replace a marquee for the next four or five years so we will wait until that time before we begin allocating out understood capital again and then at that point in time there should just be one one or two and then these marquees are expected to last in excess of 20 years so we're in pretty good shape all right thank you so other fund budgets this is at a very high level mostly we wanted to just remind you of our federal funds we still have sr3 monies available epu that is the education plus up grant that was provided by the governor of arizona
044and then the 100th day grant was associated with those districts in 2021 that achieved 100 days of instruction and then other other fun budgets that you'll find in the budget forms are estimated at this time of course spend is still occurring we still have the 60-day encumbrance period between july 1st and about august 26th so we'll know more when we prepare for the annual financial report which will be presented to you in early october so this was another reminder of the retention recruitment stipend that you all approved at the end of march this is a fifteen hundred dollar uh stipend that will be fully funded out of the education plus up funds and the esser funds and if there are if there is not enough available then the mno budget balance uh carry forward may
045um be utilized for a small amount but mostly the s or three monies as well as education plus up funds will be used for these stipends risks and opportunities so again there is no budget yet we are expecting to have a budget by the end of june and again this is everything is based upon the governor's budget assumes a loss of 400 students we could see a greater loss we're doing everything we can to to avoid that and work on that working on getting enrollments and withdrawals done so that we have the information earlier and earlier as we prepare for each new fiscal year also this budget does not consider the minimum wage hike required in january so we know we've seen inflationary increases over eight percent we do not know what that amount will
046be so we did not include any costs in this budget but it's estimated at eight point three percent which will result in a minimum wage of 13.86 cents per hour the total cost for the second half of fiscal 2023 will be about 1.3 million dollars and that portion is just the portion that would be borne by maintenance and operations that's already taken out the community schools portion as well as the nutrition services portion and that includes the payroll benefits as well and now the proposed budget opportunities ms humphreys you mentioned the work that's being done at the legislature today house bill 286 2866 which is the proposed k-12 state budget so for gilbert public schools we went ahead and did that today put the new amounts into our budget documents and we are estimating that
047the increase could be as much as 12 million dollars for gilbert public schools if the if the legislature adopts house bill 2866 um you can see some of the details there where the base level amount increased by six and a half percent over about a 4.46 increase over our proposed budget um that we presented two weeks ago the add-on group a weight increased to 0.293 it was at .091 so that results in about i think it's about nine eight or nine hundred dollars more per student in that group a weight that group a add-on weight which is our specific learning disabilities our speech language students the lowest special needs category and then in addition the amount per mile was increased by 7.2 percent to 2.83 cents per mile we've talked about the difference between the
048transportation support level and the transportation revenue control limit so we will not receive any additional funding because of that transportation support level increase however it again narrows that gap between the transportation revenue control limit and the transportation support level meaning that it will realize we will our taxpayers will realize tax savings on the primary tax rate unrestricted capital also part of the proposal was to increase the district additional assistance by 7.2 percent with put rolling through all of those calculations we could see as much as another 1.1 million dollars in unrestricted capital student loss which we've seen the last three years could be less than 400 students so we're we are very optimistic that that could very well occur and then the budget balance carry forward as always we always work very hard to maximize
049that as much as possible we really believe that that 29.8 million dollars or so is the um lowest possible amount the most conservative amount on the budget balance carry forward so um finally i wanted to talk about assessed values and our estimated tax rates so this has been the the full cash value and the limited cash value trend for gilbert public schools since 2012. so you can see in the 2016 school year that the the full cash value that's in this yellow bar increased by 20 that year i was not here i don't know what happened that year but that was an amazing increase um and then that was the year we passed our we actually got our override back um it's not this is assessed value so it's not about the override this was
050truly what was going on in the the community at that point in time and then it came down a little bit and then now it's on it it increased again and it's leveling off but even at the current year based upon the information that we've received from the assessor's office the 2023 limited assessed value is 2.5 million dollars which represents a 5.8 increase because that's the limited cash value but our full cash value in gilbert increased by 6.4 percent so it's just data i'm kind of easy to see the uh it's really reflective of the economy here in the town of gilbert in and around gilbert public schools and then this is the resulting tax rate so you can see the tax rates in 2022 that were approved by the county superintendent's office the estimated
051proposed tax tax rates that we presented to you two weeks ago showed a decrease of 12 cents about per hundred dollars of assessed value we have since revised that because we have more information we've looked at how much cash is on hand for the secondary tax rate we've also considered the new salt river project in lieu of contributions and the biggest uh contributor of the continued decrease was the cash on hand so you can see that we're now conservatively projecting a decrease in the tax rate overall of just under 21 cents and i believe this to be the most conservative i think when we bring to you the first revised budget it will be even better than that and this is also reflective of the fact that the difference between the transportation revenue control limit
052and the tsl the support level has narrowed so we're levying less for that as well so any questions on that okay great um the addendum is next which just shows the details of all those compensation increases that we've already shared with you and that leads me to any questions that you all may have dr santa cruz did you have something nope i think i had just one thing i appreciate that we are conservative in trying to plan a budget especially when we don't know exactly what funding we're going to have yet or what how many students will have that it's based on next year and all of these things and that we've seen all kinds of ups and downs last couple years where we've been in the middle of the year a couple times last
053two years wondering if we would have enough to even keep going what we had but i also am wondering with um possible being conservative and then seeing that we might have more funding possibly plus our budget balance carryforward is very healthy what kinds of things can we do to help our current students our current teachers and really maximize that with you know how can we make the most of the dollars that we have and make sure that we're using them for our students and teachers so we're working on that every day but um dr mccoy do you have anything that you'd like to add there i would just add we would sit down again if once we had a number if there is a number to go over and we just put down our list
054of priorities as always when it comes to staff salaries is always something to be able to be competitive with and if we were able to boost our starting pay above fifty thousand dollars or at fifty thousand dollars that's something to look at we have certain employee groups that we have to take a stronger look at to make sure that their salaries are where they need to be in competitive and then for our students again it is looking at what types of of support they need whether it's academic support whether it's social emotional support whether it's class size those types of things if we need to hire more people which is difficult as all of you know those are the types of things that we would look at and we take any input from you that
055are any suggestions that you would have as well thanks i appreciate you sharing those priorities i also was just thinking too it might be also a way to if with a minimum wage by law being required to raise that a substantial amount we might need to do some compression just to keep on top of that decompression so we might need to be able to use that to stay on top of that the best we can thank you so just to detail on that that 1.3 million dollars did include that everyone everyone who's hourly would receive that dollar six increase yeah we we did consider that so that oh thank you we're working really hard at trying to avoid that compression the minimum it wasn't just okay to make sure that they're moving in that same
056same dollar amount thank you any other thoughts board members yes dr sanchez president wood yes miss betts i'm still intrigued by the budget balance carry forward and fact that we are still spending and we're still paying our bills as it were and we see that going through august is that correct that's that's correct august 26 i think represents the eight week period okay do you see that time frame between now and then having a significant impact on that budget balance it may result in somewhere between one to three million dollars more in budget balance carry forward it's really hard to say i think the thing that we're struggling with right now and i appreciate your question and your comments mrs wood we've been having a hard time spending our money because of the supply chain
057issues and so we're going to have a lot of purchase orders that are open today that are going to have to roll over into next year as an example we ordered the six the six activity buses we ordered those in october of 2021 and we're not expecting to get those until at the earliest january of 23 so the lead times have been really incredible so but continue trying to work to get money out to our schools as quickly as possible i i think that that's important and it speaks to a concern that is going to be with us for a little while the supply chain issues and the gathering of material purchase of material for the various projects may cause us to delay spending and look make it look as though we have more money
058than we actually do have because it's already encumbered but perhaps not reflected in the documents that's correct that's correct i i have a question in the republic today or yesterday was talking about municipalities are struggling and states are struggling with their um projects because of the increase of cost how is that affecting us with our different facility needs and so forth yeah we had our first master capital planning committee meeting last night and our consultant from orchard um he indicated that they are looking at construction cost increases of over 30 percent so largely that will impact our bond but we're not seeing 30 percent increases across the board in the restricted capital but for bond projects we've seen definitely increases we have not quantified it though um but that's something that we'll take a look
059at in the current year okay thank you i appreciate that information yes uh we had an issue this year with the aggregate spending levels yes sir um to my knowledge the legislature still has that requirement and effect that's correct are we facing potentially the same issue this coming year um we're preparing for that as well and if you recall that was over a 30 million dollar reduction in our budget to occur in the current year so it's hard to know what the right amount of money is to have around but but we we in the leadership team are constantly talking about it how do we get it out what's the what's the right philosophy strategy so well thank you i think if i could just ask one more thing uh as far as many of
060those federal funds were targeting um challenges with covid and specifically i think you know trying to address learning loss i just could we talk about real quickly just a few of the things that we use those for would that be appropriate here just as we're i know flexible site subs was part of something that we did that i think was really important to make sure that our schools could stay open that there were substitutes when our stuff without alex our our site base our flex subs have been valuable uh in terms of when we decided to run that same model for next year our principals applauded and that has been significant in terms of just people waking up and going to work and making sure that there's somebody there to make sure the kids are
061covered and so we will continue that model for next year and and kovid need for subs it might be a great model just to continue forward moving forward because we spend plenty of money on subs a year and acquiring those folks and keeping them within our service will help us out in the long run you know we looked on other avenues to be able to alleviate some of the stress and some of the anxiety and although it's not federal funds we've had the you know we've had the social workers we've had the mental health counselors on our campuses and that was something that we obtained through an override which was very valuable and who would have known that that was something that was really needed at a time when nobody expected it also go ahead
062oh i was just thinking of this targeted summer yes our boot camps that we have we started last year and state grants yeah and utilizing that through ducey's uh summer school grants as well we applied for those and essentially we created the program they just kind of helped pay for it and so that's been valuable for us as well going around to these summer school camps and our regular summer schools you see a lot of kids catching up in a lot of different ways and parents flocking to these programs with their children just the mere fact that these kids need to be in school and we had times throughout the last couple years where that was difficult and going through and walking through those clubs excuse me through those classrooms you will see um a
063lot of valuable education going on and so we've utilized that money for um making sure our kids are progressing yeah i think one-time stipends for staff who have been here one-time stipends like what uh ms betts presented in the budget um making sure that uh and and going forward in terms of retaining staff into the next school year uh ensuring that our staff understands how they're valued not just as as an educator but economically as well and that's why if we have more money to spend later on i still think it's something we need to focus on because i will tell you other districts will focus on it and we can't let that gap widen so we have to be careful there i appreciate that thank you dr sakers as to your comment miss betts
064hard to know how much money to to keep around uh as one board member i have appreciated the judicious and conservative approach that you have you and your department along with dr mccord have solidified and it has helped one to keep us solvent as well as to project a budget if i'm quoting you correctly that will be sustainable for at least the next three to five years so the approach that you're taking as one board member is very much appreciated it's not just me it's the entire leadership team just so you know well that goes without saying i know you're you're driving that bus working very diligently with dr mccord and so your department and all of the leadership team thank you appreciate it i would like to share one thing mrs wood so i
065had an opportunity this summer uh dealing with the transportation issue to have a conversation with one of our instructional coaches here in gilbert public schools and we were transporting or asked to transport three students from their home to settlers point every day for an hour and a half or two hours a day monday through thursday just three students and so i'm contacting the instructional coach and i said what is this and she said let's move on when reading and so we transport the children curb to curb to make sure they get to school so i just asked her how successful is this program she said it's very fun to watch because after about the first week you can see where the students that are not reading by the time that they're finishing their third grade
066year all of a sudden they just get it and then they can read and then they can move on to fourth grade so it's just a simple example of how that direct teaching that we have opportunities to do can make a significant difference on the lives of three students anyway that attend gilbert public schools thank you miss fitz thank you all miss you jetty did you have anything that you wanted to add before we go forward i would just like to second what dr santa cruz said he said only one board members but as i'm going to give him a second board member because i agree with everything he said thank you thank you that concludes then our 2.01 fy 2023 proposed budget presentation and thank you again miss betts for that we now move
067to 2.02 request to speak regarding the fy 2023 proposed budget and i didn't receive any requests for that so we'll move now to 2.03 the adjournment of the public hearing and later in the meeting we will actually um vote on adopting that so that sounds good okay thank you we will now move to three to reconvene our regular board meeting and three point zero one i have a i will ask for a motion to reconvene the regular board meeting i'll make a motion to reconvene the meeting thank you mr parker is there a second second thank you miss humphries it's been moved and seconded that we reconvene our regular board meeting all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye and those opposed with an a thank you we will now move to 4.01
068the approval of the agenda if i may have a motion samu thank you dr santa cruz is there a second second thank you mr parker it's been moved and seconded that we approve the agenda all those in favor of approving the agenda please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with nay it's it's been approved 5-0 thank you we will now move to the superintendent's report and i'll turn the time over to dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members uh this will be a brief one our last meeting of the 22 or 21-22 fiscal year uh again good evening to everyone i'd like to take a moment and give a shout out to our director of safety and security mr al kane al was just named the winner of the 2022 k-12 campus
069safety director of the year by campus safety publications al has an extensive resume related to safety and security he's a retired police officer from chicago and spent time with the security division of maricopa county community colleges as well as grand canyon university when you speak with al is obvious he's committed to the safety and well-being of our students staff and community congratulations to al and thank you for your kindness and your dedication to gilbert public schools last wednesday we held a in parent informational meeting at legacy sports at the bell bank park sport complex for those interested in being part of our k performance academy over 100 people showed up to hear the presentation and interest in the program is growing if you're interested in this program please jump on our website at www.gilbertpublicschools.net information
070should be right in front of you click on it and you can see the programs that are being offered and lastly just a reminder school starts five weeks from today i know some people out there like are you kidding me it is we start our modified school calendar for the 22-23 school year and our first day of school this year will be tuesday july 26th so soak up every moment of your summer and we will be back at it before you know it mrs woods thank you and that concludes my report for this evening thank you dr mccord that will take us to agenda item six requests to speak to the governing board if i can ask for the admonition to be played please make an open call to the public during a public meeting
071subject to reasonable time place and manner restrictions to allow individuals to address the public body on an issue within the jurisdiction of the public body at the conclusion of the open call to the public individual board members may respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the board may ask the staff to review a matter or may ask a matter be to be put on a future agenda however members of the board shall not discuss or take legal action on matters raised during the open call to the public unless the matters are properly noticed for discussion and legal action during the open call the board requests that speakers refrain from voicing complaints against school personnel or any person connected with the district as it may impact due process rights policy k-e k-e-b and k-e-d
072are provided by the board for disposition of legitimate complaints including those involving individuals forms required for use of these policies can be obtained from the gilbert public schools website thank you tonight we have one person here who has requested to speak mr brendan waller thank you if you'll come to the podium you have three minutes to give us your thoughts thank you okay is this on kind of okay can you hear me okay uh thank you for taking a minute to listen to me uh mr mccord i voted for you so i appreciate the job that all of you have done uh i know that the board uh position is fairly thankless so i'm actually here not to complain about anything but to thank you you guys do a great job i've had two kids
073go through gilbert public schools and graduate one of them's in the army's over in germany right now graduated from highland high school back in 20 and then i have one more that's at pioneer and i do appreciate your your work it is a i know that um being in this position can be something that's uh borderline thankless and in some cases it can be a lot of accusations that come at you guys for a variety of different things i've seen school boards across the united states make the news for inappropriate things and i thank you that you're not in the news for that so and i also thank you for uh being a good steward with our money that was one of the things i was coming here for and you just happen to have
074a a whole uh overview on what the budget is uh i did notice there's a surplus i i do want to encourage you to please give that back to the teachers i would even take it one step further to try and get it on the ballot to maybe get a an increase of some sort um even if it's you know five ten cents per uh per dollar or something like that on the assessments i think most people would be glad to pay that teaching is a very important part of child's a child's upbringing and especially if you have um very uh well-rounded teachers like i've seen already in the gilbert public schools work hard to keep them you know gas and groceries are more expensive these days and so we've got to do whatever we
075can to keep them i don't have a whole lot more time but i will say this i'll be interested to hear what you're going to do with house bill 2008 civics is an important thing i was in the army myself for a total of 10 years i do own a company here in in gilbert we do contract security for uh government 99 percent of what we do is in in government for city all the way up to state and federal uh all up and down california arizona texas and washington state so the reason i say that is because i have a vested interest here we have our headquarters here i live here i'm the owner of the company so i do understand a lot of the things that you're talk talking about for for budgets
076and things like that because i'm the ceo so anyway i'll sit down i appreciate once again thank you all of you i know that you five are on the hot seat if anything happens so once again thank you very much and i'll sit down and just interested to have see if any of you have any input on house bill 2008 thank you mr weller we can address that at a future meeting mr wall that what that's not on tonight's agenda but i'm sure it'll come up in future agendas so because the legislative the session's still going and we try to address it all at once once it's all done thank you sir thank you very much we appreciate that and our public our public support we appreciate that we'll now move to reports and 7.01
077we will have our monthly budget report respect you haven't heard enough about money tonight yeah well that was for the future yeah now it's today account for what we've done this month so is mr mcintosh saying he would like to do the report tonight oh okay hello again thank you mrs wood yes this is our year to date report as of may 31st 2022 as i indicated earlier on the proposed budget we do have june july and august activity still going on so but this represents what's happened as of today so the summaries are for on the operating funds the federal funds enterprise funds bond funds and the debt service fund so no to the maintenance and operations you can see the available balance of about 26.5 million dollars note that we did estimate that
078our budget balance carry forward will be over 29 million so we did make some assumptions as to how many of those purchase orders will end up being unencumbered to come to our proposed budget budget balance carry forward and then note the unrestricted capital outlay um as well that 26.5 million dollars does represent that 20 million dollar uh transfer from mno into undistricted capital and note that the 15 point almost 16 million dollars here that's expended and cumbered that's one of the areas in which we we will see a large drop in actual spend because we're struggling to get materials in that we've ordered so i wanted to bring that to your attention as we go through the rest of the year any questions on any of that okay great so federal funds details these two
079highlighted funds are brand new there's a the idea high cost since i've been in gilbert we have not received any monies from the high cost fund allocation we were eligible for about eight thousand dollars we haven't received it yet which is why you're still seeing the zeros there but you will ref we will reflect some activity for the june report in addition the asean track summer camps you can see a lot of zeros there right now remember this is through may 31st summer school starts after may 31st so you will again see a lot of activity in that line when we report to you in june nutrition services wanted to share the information regarding our enterprise funds so note the year-to-date expended encumbered nutrition services as well has had supply chain issues however during the
080may time frame end of may time frame they begin putting in a lot of purchase orders to make sure they're ready for this for summer school and all their summer feeding programs as well as in preparation for um for the new school year so the available balance has dropped month over month between april and may again we do expect that some of that 17.7 million dollars that's encumbered and expended will be released in an over-encumbrance when we complete the fiscal year um i wanted to share may 31st year-to-date in technology in particular so note that last month we showed a remaining balance of somewhere in the neighborhood of a million dollars we had an account coding issue in which much of the audio visual refresh was actually inadvertently charged to this fund fund 631 which
081is our 2015 authority fund that was caught and so now those expenditures have been moved into the appropriate fund for that audio visual refresh so you will see the commensurate decrease then or increase in encumbrance or decrease in remaining balance under the technology of that six million dollars so just wanted to bring that to your attention and then this is a summary of both of them together so you can see the the um this is where we have actually the year to date and the encumbrances so comparing probably would have been helpful for me to show you last month in comparison to this one so you could readily see it but you'll see it in these in these year-to-date in the encumbrances you'll see the change in the encumbrances in addition the 630 bond fund
082these encumbrances many of them are new due to your recent actions associated with all these summer bond projects that are well on their way at this point okay and then the debt service fund this is the one i wanted to share because of our conversation regarding the debt service regarding the tax rate etc for gilbert public schools note that right now we have a year-to-date balance of 24.9 million dollars so remember that our last payment for the current fiscal year our last debt service payment is due july 1. so that 24.9 million dollars is needed to take to make that payment on july 1. in addition note the grid below so this top grid here is associated with budget to actual the bottom grid is associated with cash on hand so note that the projected
083cash balance in our principal interest or our debt service fund is 25 million and you can see the year-to-date balance based on the budget is less than that at 24.9 million remember that i indicated that we had a cash balance available to apply against next year's cash next year's tax rate um and so this is an indicator of that available cash to offset the tax rate or decrease the tax rate going into fiscal 2023 okay and that's all i have tonight for the monthly report thank you board members are there any questions [Music] thank you miss butts we appreciate that we will move to the consent agenda items um 8.01 is there a motion for the approval of a consent agenda items i move that we uh approve the consent agenda as presented thank you
084miss humphries is there a second oh second thank you mr parker it's been moved and seconded that we approve the consent agenda items as presented all those in favor please vote by saying i i i believe she joined us is she still there okay and then those um oh thank you thank you mr eugenie and then any opposed with me that was 5-0 thank you very much that will take us to the action items and we will begin with 9.01 fiscal year 2023 proposed budget adoption dr mccord i think you guys have been briefed on what this proposal will be and uh in a very good way so we just ask for your support for this proposal thank you if i may have a motion madam president i move approval for fy 2023 proposed budget
085thank you dr santa cruz is there second second thank you miss humphries it's been moved and seconded that we accept and approve the fy 2023 proposed budget adoption which we've heard tonight and held the hearing for is there any discussion hearing none i will call for the vote all those in favor of approving fy 2023 proposed budget adoption please vote by saying aye and those opposed with nay thank you it has passed five zero now we'll move to 9.02 the video intercom system dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members um tonight we bring before you a request to purchase video intercom system it's it's a buzzer system and it's something that we would like to install at all of our elementaries and junior highs and gca as the tragedy has happened not just
086in texas but in other parts of our country over the years security of course is becoming more and more important and the expectation of our families and our communities is there as well as ours as we've been moving forward over the last few years in terms of safety and security we have a plan to secure all of our entryways at all of our elementaries and junior highs our high schools have been done at this point in time we've been working on those and as all of you know those things those methods aren't cheap and we have to do them in ways that are not just safe but aesthetically pleasing i think we've accomplished that and we've been incorporating those when we've remodeled front areas of office space and so it will take some time to
087be able to continue to to see those along and we'll accelerate them as much as we can but as was pointed out in the budget process and the proposal there are supply chain issues there are labor issues and so there's a lot of things dealing with those so we have to look for ways to be able to have a bit of a stop gap and make sure that we are securing our schools as as well as possible with uh the choices we've been given this video intercom system will be mounted at the front entrance of each one of our elementary and junior high schools again as gca gca will be completed it'll just take a little bit longer before the beginning of the school year and this system is with benson systems they're the ones
088that are doing our video cameras throughout the school district and uh what was nice is right at the beginning of summer we called them in to talk to them about the possibility of this being installed at our campuses and they didn't flinch and they gave us a little range of what it may cost the very next day they went out and they walked our facilities and they checked supplier to make sure that supplies were available and they committed to trying as hard as they can to make sure that all these are installed by the first day of school and so that will come at an estimated cost of 315 000 dollars and um it will be let me let me take a a just a quick break from that and i want to show you
089a video and it's it's real quick and it's not it's not long but i wanted to be able to show you and the community this this i don't know why the volume isn't working this is what the camera will look like [Applause] and if someone comes to the door um as you know at our schools whoever's manning that will either already know this person buzz them in and if they don't they'll present ids to be able to enter and this will be during the school day [Music] okay 8 000. sorry um so again as we progress through this there are and i'd like to point out as i'm just commenting on the video camera as well as it relates to safety and security um this is this is a big step because i think in
090gilbert public schools for years our main goal is to be as open and as welcoming as possible and what i don't want this message to be is that we don't want you in our schools i think the message needs to be is we want you in our schools and we want everybody to be as safe and secure as possible within those schools and and i think this will help accomplish that this will be this is a gatekeeping kind of thing and so we'll be adding some office hours to each one of our schools that have these intercom systems to be able to help manage them so a lot of time isn't taken and and people aren't and their time isn't compromised nearly as much as it it may be we are going to make sure
091that before these when these are installed and before the school year starts that we're going to communicate with families to make sure that they know one that this is how we're going to be operating for the school year and two that they are still welcome on our campus and and again there there are some trade-offs for safety and we all know that and and that's important to me because i think as a school district and you'll see in in letters that go home when things occur one of the lines in there is your your child's safety is is our utmost importance and this is one of those ways that we continue to reinforce that also not just at the elementary and junior highs but at our secondary schools we're looking at adding security guards at
092our junior highs and high schools additional security guards we already have some marcy taylor and the secondary principals are walking each campus and sitting down and talking about their security needs not just for the physical plant if there's some things that they need to do different or they want differently but also personnel to be able to make sure that we have the appropriate number of people in those schools to make sure that they have the ability to um seek out and understand what the needs are of their campus in terms of where can we keep students safe where are we not where where are some of the areas that we're not as secure as we need to be and will a person be able to intensify that for us looking at adding two or three
093additional security guards for district security to help cover the elementary schools to have certain sections of the district where they can go and patrol and walk through campuses on a daily basis and be visible and let people know that gilbert public schools has district security officers available if there's anything in need on those campuses um i'm talking about a lot of physical things but the most important part about all of this in my opinion is the people that are involved with this it's very important that our staff and our students as well as uh community members that are on our campus we want to go by the if you see something say something we want to make sure that we identify people on our campus and do they have the appropriate badge are they cleared
094to be in there it's going to take everybody's eyes in all of our campuses to make sure that we are aware and we're all working towards the same goal and that is to be safe while we're there and so um and there's a human element that's involved our door's locked every night the appropriate way our gates lock the right the right way as tragedies happen and as horrible as they are it brings to the forefront some things that need to occur and and i think as a society we get very comfortable in our day-to-day and we have to be a little bit more uncomfortable about this in terms of just making sure that we are alert and we are aware and we are able to say something or intervene when need be so i think
095that human element of it is as valuable as anything we may purchase to help secure campus um and i think that's about it for right now but i just wanted to make sure that our our community our staff and our families and our students know that this portion will be coming and we will continue to construct those entryways but in the meantime this will be our stop gap to help with those points of entry and making sure that our families and our kids and our staff are secure thank you dr mccord board members is there a motion to approve the video intercom system it's pretty i move that we improve the video intercom system for our elementaries and junior highs thank you ms humphries thank you mr parker it's been moved and seconded is there
096any discussion uh i i do have a couple thoughts i wanted to share um one of the things i've been looking at some websites of uh people who study gun violence and i've looked at this and one of the big parts is for a crisis intervention and i know that we really work hard to make sure that our schools are inclusive that we work on anti-bullying and that we work hard to have that crisis intervention in place because that is a major component um a lot of school shooters are um in the schools so even when we hard in our schools we have to make sure we have that culture and i i feel like we do an excellent job of that and we'll continue to do that but it is definitely something that we
097want to emphasize along with making some of these changes just to be more secure but i i do give um dr mccord um thank you for bringing this forward into investigating this and i think it's it will be a change for our community we want to be welcoming and open but it's going to be a little different than what we've had before i've been to other states and um this definitely they already have some of these things in place so i i'm glad to see us moving forward i did have a question i know our sros are armed the security guards i assume are not armed that is correct thank you anything further all right seeing no further discussion i will call for the vote to approve the video intercom system has been presented all
098those in favor please vote by saying aye aye and any opposed with nay thank you that will pass 5-0 now we'll move to 9.03 fy 2023 transportation driving and monitoring retention incentive dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members this is a continuation of what you approved this current fiscal year we are still having a difficult time hiring bus drivers especially those with cdl licenses and we think this incentive will help continue to hire individuals it it does seem to happen where we hire some and then we lose some we hire some and we lose some so this has definitely brought people in but people move on for all kinds of different reasons and we will still be down we're probably currently down probably 35 to 40 drivers as of today and so uh
099the question may be well how are we gonna do this well we make it work and and we get the job done but we want to get the job done easier and and in a more uh conducive way so having continuing this incentive i think will help with that thank you dr mccord i will ask for a motion i'll move that we uh the 2023 transportation driving and monitoring retention incentive a second thank you miss humphries and mr parker it's been moved and seconded that we approve the fy 2023 transportation driving and monitoring retention incentive is there any discussion i hope it works i hope we can find those drivers and make it a little easier on our transportation staff well this is continuing what we've done last year so hopefully we wouldn't keep doing
100it if we didn't think that it was helping so and we appreciate our transportation drivers and department all that they do and their partnership to help our students get to school all right with that and see no further discussion i will call for the vote all those in favor of approving the fy 2023 transportation driving and monitoring retention incentive please vote by saying aye aye aye and any oppose with nay thank you that has passed 5-0 as well we now move to item 10 on the agenda items for future agenda requests if if you have anything please let dr mccord myself know um i will now move to 11 board committee reports uh beginning with myself gilbert education foundation gilbert education foundation partnered with the district to help with study and had a successful turnout
101and opportunities there for teachers to learn and classes to occur and it was a it was a really good turnout we had some great keynote speakers and um you just saw a great energy i think people were excited to be there and some of our presenters were just extraordinary and they're our staff so we're very proud of them thank you we're also working to meet to have our end of the year and kind of beginning of the year strategy meeting so that's where the gilbert education foundation is appreciate their support and those businesses who partner with them to help support our schools and our teachers 11.02 mrs humphries for the city of mesa liaison and legislative representative um i just want to share that i attended the asba summer leadership conference in flagstaff the first
102day we had clap we had breakout sessions on adverse childhood experiences homeless students fosters children and social emotional learning all of those were really good and gave me some insights into trying to help those those students more and then we had some wonderful keynote speakers jd venus talks about warrior leadership and bill de la cruz talked about listening to other perspectives and trying to come to consensus when there's disagreements so all in all i thought it was a very worthwhile conference thank you miss humphries 11.03 town of gilbert liaison dr santa cruz nothing real significant to add as you can tell we are in the throes of election season so all of the signs are there and we'll encourage all of us to become acquainted with the candidates and i was intrigued as i looked
103at the town gilbert website on the water management measures that the town is involved in no impact to the to the general community at this point in terms of its citizens but it's something to look forward to and see what kind of impact it will have on us as we have lots of green areas in the district that will consume lots of water thank you dr santa cruz 11.04 finance audit committee mr parker nothing thank you 11.05 insurance trust representative mrs yujetti i don't have anything to report at this time thank you that will take us to 12.01 meeting dates dr mccord i think madam president governing board members our next meeting which is a board business meeting we have one meeting in july due to summer break that will be july 26th that's 6
104p.m right here first day of school yes it'll be a great day to have have a board meeting and report back on how it went yeah it's going to be great thank you very much that will take us to 13.01 adjournment if i may have a motion i'll move for german thank you mr parker is there a second second thank you miss humphries it's been moved and seconded that we adjourn all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye aye thank you and we thank miss eugenie for joining us telephonically and we are adjourned thank you