001[Music] I'll tell you later. Right. Good evening everyone and welcome to the May 1st, 2025 open public hearing for fiscal year 2026 budget. I just want to quickly thank everybody in this room, obviously district leadership um and uh and really all the administrators and staff um for pulling this together this season. I know that fiscal uncertainty that we are currently facing definitely call for additional scrutiny at times and I appreciate uh as I'm sure this entire board does all the efforts to continue continue moving forward uh regardless. So uh we'll start with a a motion to open the public hearing. I have a motion to open public hearing. Thank you. I think this is an official thing that I did not get clarification so we're going to do it anyway. Motion by Brendan, second by
002Megan. All in favor? Thank you. The public hearing on the budget is officially open. We have invitation to speak next which do not see anyone for this portion of that. We can pass on that which brings us to the vote on the fiscal year 2026 budget. And the final amount that we're looking to have included in the motion is 79,63,384. Is there a motion to approve the fiscal year 2026 budget and that amount? So moved. Oh, Chris got there first. Motion by Chris, second by Michael. Any discussion? Matt, I just wanted to reiterate your thanks, especially to when this is your first time through it. It felt incredibly smooth and so I just want to thank you for all your efforts helping us digest information, responding quickly to all the requests that we had. I
003think it was virtually a seamless process, which I think was amazing. So, I just want to say thank you. Thank you. U to build on that. Um you set the bar high, so we expect higher next year. Good job. Thank you for the dive. That's that's great. I I I agree with that. Everything went way smoother than um than than I thought would just be new, right? Um there's no hiccups. No, it's great. Thank you. Any other comments? No. No. All right. We had a motion by Chris, second by Michael. All in favor? Thank you. That brings us to I'd love to make a motion to close the public hearing. M. Thank you. Motion by Megan to close the public hearing. Second. Second by Michael. All in favor? Unanimous. And we can do that one
004more time to adjourn this portion of the meeting. Motion to adjourn. Motion by Michael. Second by Chris. All in favor? Thank you. That was fun. All right. We'll be back at uh 7 o'clock for the general meeting.