001to reconvene open session tonight at 7:00 >> to take your picture. >> All right. All those in favor of reconvening open session. All right. Uh next up, please join us for the pledge of 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. All right, first item of business tonight is the approval of the consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve all items on the consent agenda as presented? >> Uh, any questions tonight on the items on the consent agenda? Any items of note or concerns with that list? Questions? Okay. All right. Hey, hearing none. All those in favor of approval of the consent agenda. None opposed. Motion carries. All right,
002we'll turn it over to Dr. Isacson for this month's superintendence report. Few items this month I wanted to go over very briefly is we have a new interim commissioner of education uh that was appointed uh just in the last week or so replacing Dr. Esinger. So uh Dr. Priest uh is taking over and still working on the A3F report card. Um I don't know a whole lot about her background. I'm sure we'll find out more as we go through uh this upcoming year. Um had two new state board of education members sworn in. They had a busy month in Jeff City. Two of the state board members uh had resigned and left, including the board president, and so they were replaced by Jordan Bradberry and Robbie Meyers. Congratulations to the board for receiving um the
003governance award for 2026. This is the third year that the board has received this award. Uh and is part of their strategic plan goals. Uh as each of us has different goals within our document, this is part of the board. So congratulations to them. They received this at the um summer summit meeting a couple weeks ago. Let's see. One of the things I I wanted to uh touch on very briefly is uh we approved the attendance report that goes to Desi just in consent but in putting together the budget this year and as we get to that document you'll see that it's very expansive and try to uh bring all the different things that we spend money on um to show the public like how it all ties together instead of just in spreadsheets And
004in doing that, um, if we average out all of our, uh, months of attendance on our attendance report, uh, that equals 93.4% above our strategic plan goal. So, we accomplished that particular one for uh, this school year. Along with those lines, kind of trended those out. Obviously, August is a short month. Everybody's excited to go to school. Uh and then the by month you can kind of see uh how it went down in February with cold and flu season especially with the littles and then uh kind of recovers back up. So um one of the things this is important as it goes to the budget. So that's why I'm putting it uh in here and we'll probably add this to the budget document. not the numbers but just at from a historical standpoint is this
005is the grade level enrollment at the beginning of the 2425 school year and last summer. Um and so wanted that's really messing me up. Can you slowly go down? As you can see the drop in kindergarten um and everything stayed fairly consistent. But one of the things I put a a red marker there is you can see the significant uh decline there in enrollment. Now to be fair as I'm walking across here you can see sixth grade is going here. Right? So there's some correlation as cohorts going through. But one of the thing that still fascinates me really with our district is our high school has declined but not to the extent of the other buildings which further reinforces what I've talked about in the past. It's just um the homes that are becoming available
006and moving into those younger families. But it's interesting as we kind of see if that trend still holds true. We're expecting a class of 220 in seventh grade next year. And so that's how we're uh we're planning our staffing, but that's a pretty significant decline. And at the secondary levels, uh we've done commend our principles on that. It's a it's a lot more challenging at any grade level, but um it's not as clean. I use I guess that's a better term for a sixth grade teacher, a fifth grade teacher, third grade teacher has a set number of students in their class. When kids are traveling, six periods days, it's going down one teacher, they all teach different subject groups makes it a little bit challenging. Uh but we continue to do that. Um one other
007thing, this is a comparison of the first day of school this year to the end of the school year. looking at here as we look at transiency and and staffing is how much change is there during the school year. So kindergarten in August had 188 uh in these two charts one is September because I used the September desi count and this is the start of the school year day to make it consistent. As you can see really not much change throughout the school year. that becomes important when we talk about uh class sizes and um that eb and flow. But I do want to point out is there was 69 students that we lost during the school year um from where we had started. And so 83% of those are in grades 7 through 12.
008And of that, 48 of uh the 69 are in grades 11 and 12. So because digging a little deeper into that, that's not people leaving the district, right, during the school year. It's more normal grade transition, early graduation, workforce entry, uh you know, the college alternative, post-secary pathways, etc. And so um looking at that is I think it's kind of interesting back in several years ago like early grads was much a larger number >> you know just in that number. So that's uh gotten smaller, but also wanted to look at just do we have kids moving out and in and are we slowly decreasing uh throughout the year? And that's not necessarily uh the case when you uh take out the juniors and seniors in high school. So overall a 2.2 net decline. Uh I
009do foresee that coming back. I drove through the subdivision on Jarvis. I think they're closing on two houses a week in there. So, um that it'll be I was thinking about that as we drove through is maybe putting out a door hanger for do a survey just on how many may have children for us to probably be good in July just to have that idea. So, 93% on the ADA. Um and then the outlook as we get into the budget and staffing still looks strong and consistent. Um couple final things introducing the Hawk Talk podcast. Um we went and did the first three episodes uh this week. Surprisingly uh Mr. Quinn asked me two questions and I filled up a half hour. So there you go. Um but anyhow, that's going to be an exciting
010that's actually what the studio looks like behind us. and uh excited for this, not for me to be speaking all the time is I'll do the speaking in the summer, but to have kids and principles and activities and board members and really use it as uh a means to uh communicate in addition to our social media items and it's a good way to do some presentation. I think that uh Pat's actually got an intro. >> Yeah. >> A sneak peek. Yeah, sure do. Here we go. >> And uh it's muted. I'll bring it back here and we'll play it. >> From our classrooms to our community, Pop Talk brings you the conversations, updates, and stories that matter most across the Hillsboro R3 School District. Hawk Talk is sponsored by Schneider Electric. The podcast starts now.
011>> Welcome to the first edition of Hawk Talk. Uh it is the official podcast of the Hillsboro R3 School Digital. >> I had more of a face for radio, but a voice for radio, obviously. So, >> all right. So, that's going to be exciting. He's just finished up editing the first episode. >> Yep. Um and then we'll be starting to drop those up and he's able to then cut them up into different topics. But it'll be exciting to take kids up there and uh again administrators and for everyone to get involved with that. um want to make a special announcement um that on Thursday, July 21st, uh it's a Tuesday evening at 6:30, we're going to have our first community information session on project planning. Um, as you saw, the leader newspaper today, there's an
012article on the master plan and um, the architects will be here that evening and we're going to be putting out invitations for community members to come and um, offer insights on what they feel like they would like for the district from a facility standpoint. Um, and we can even take that talk further. What do we want to see the district to be 5 10 next year? uh and really start having those plans. And so want to encourage uh all our community members uh to come. We'll probably have two or three of those uh here in the coming months, but that's our first one, an important one to really kind of kick off and give uh the architects and us as a district uh some additional insight. So inviting more on that. Just wanted to talk
013about that publicly. And then as far as for the board, we have our stars and scholars gall the foundation's putting on Saturday night third uh July 3rd next next week. Is that next week already? Wow. Uh district will be closed. Uh the community information um session at 6:30. And for then the board typically we do executive session at 6. We're actually going to change that out and do a work session with the architects at 6 and then trans transition into uh the board meeting at 7. That's all I got. Any questions on Dr. Isacson's report this? I appreciate all the updates. All right, we will then turn it over to Dr. Laroo for a high school HVAC update. So, I'm going to introduce Bo. Bo is the site superintendent for Shiner Electric. He's overseeing the
014project. He's a been a Hillsro community member for the last couple months and hopefully have around for the next month. I did get a chance to walk to the high school today. The uh units were it was chilly in there on the on the north side. The rooftop units seem like they're already going. >> Yes, got six rooftops uh running. So, the commentary is running and uh few others got the AC going. Not the heat yet, but uh we won't we don't need that. So, um, uh, anyways, I'm Bo Champion, site superintendent at Schneider Electric. Uh, I also have I manage the day-to-day construction activities, uh, along with my assistant, Connor Murray, who's not here tonight, but, uh, you all know Hannah. She put together a little slide. So, uh, we can go to the
015next one and I'll talk to some of these. Um, so back on, I believe it was June 10th, Wednesday, we, uh, set all started setting all the rooftops. Took them three days. They got all the equipment set with the exception of uh one which I'll talk to that point here in a minute. Um so you can see a few of the pieces of equipment and then up in the right hand corner is the new domestic water heaters with the piping there. Um we go to the next one and then on the right is our the the big the big uh part of the project in building a the water source heat pumps. You can see a few of those. Um we are still on track uh to finish on time for the school. Um boiler
016startup will be in mid July. We have to get the boilers in pumps water source heat pumps and the whole plant boiler plant together before we can fill the system. Then once the systems filled then we'll we can start starting up the water source heat pumps which is going to take a couple weeks or 74 of them. And then um domestic hot water heaters are on track to get started up too. We have the gas shut off to the building right now because there's a lot of uh new gas pipe being ran. And um so once we get that work done, then we can turn the gas on and start the boilers and the water heaters. Everything, like I said, was set the week of 68. We were uh we had a twoe delay on
017the water source heat seat pumps. They were supposed to be here on May 29th. They actually didn't show up till um June 11th, I believe. So, we're about two weeks behind on that. Um, and then BAS is in tandem. It's all they're falling right behind everybody. Uh, electricians. And then, uh, we had eight, uh, mini splits, which, uh, I believe six of those as end of the day today. Six of those were started up. We have two more of those. So, um, so we had um there's a a little delay as you you'll have in in construction sometimes. Um, three pieces of equipment are delayed. Um, two of them are the fluid coolers which provide the cooling for your water sourcing pumps and those are the two big ticket items. They are scheduled to be
018delivered in the end of September. So, working with Clay and Ray and Justin um to get those installed. Uh it'll probably take about roughly a twoe period. Um sometime towards the end of October, November uh when it gets a little cooler and and you know, we don't need AC or we're working through that because I meet with Clay and Justin Ray once a week. And then um RTU18, which is a big unit for the gym, we found out uh the week before we set all the equipment that it was delayed until midepptember, end of September, so it'll be shipped then and I believe you have a day off uh October 14th. No school is the first day of no school. We'll set the unit there and then have it running in a couple days. So,
019and uh I mean the guys we they got we got all the water source heat pumps um on June 11th and in six days they had all 74 of them home. So, they're they're they're humping along. Um really really happy with the progress out of the guys. >> So, and that's all I got. >> Questions? Questions? >> Appreciate you being here today. >> All right. Thank you. I'm going to head head home for even >> moving on. We also have a presentation from Carrie Doctors from the American Heart Association. Welcome back. >> Thank you. It's always good to be back. Congratulations on your governance award. Again, that's a a huge feat. So, um like you said, I'm Carrie Bockard. Um I am the school engagement director that partners with you all um from the American
020Heart Association and um it's always my pleasure to come and just share the amazing work. Well, thank you the amazing work that um your students and staff do and your entire community does for the American Heart Association. But before I start, I always try to do something a little bit fun and um when I um meet with students and I do assemblies, I do this little thing with them. So, I need you guys to all start doing this with your hand, right? Audience, you can participate, too. There you go. Okay. Your heart Oh, you need to go a little bit faster. Yeah, there we go. Your heart beats about 100 to 120 beats per minute. Right. So, every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month of
021every year. I just celebrated 53 yesterday. is your hand getting tired yet? And usually the kids are like, "Right." And then what I say to them is, "Hey, can you go down to Walmart and get a new heart?" And they're like, "No." Well, how about, you know, how about Target? No. Oh, I've got it. You can order one from Amazon and have it shipped to your door. And of course, they they laugh and think I'm silly. But we talk about the importance that you only have one heart, and that's why you need to take care of it. So that's our main mission um of Kids Heart Challenge and and working with the schools. So um right here this slide I just want to highlight two things. Um the American Heart Association has been around over
022a hundred years. The two things that I think that are extremely important on there um that's pretty amazing in my opinion is that since um we started we've cut cardiovascular disease in half since our founding. And the other piece there is because of communities like you, we've been able to bri provide 6.1 billion with a B dollars towards research and funding education. So, um, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um, and as you all probably know, last year the Missouri state legislature uh passed that all schools had to have a cardiac emergency response plan. I'm sure you guys are wrapping that up or it's already done and ready to go. Um, but one thing that we did across the state, we partnered with Project ADOM and the Missouri EMS. So, what many school districts were
023using across the state was a template that we created along with those two other organizations um to help them um be up and going for the upcoming school year. Um, and also partnered with um the state to get uh allocated resources, ads, money for training, things like that. So, as you can see just with those three little stats there, um now more than ever, your continued partnership and support is needed to make a lasting impact not only in your community here, but also in the lives of the next generation. And I wanted to show you this. Every year, I I realized after how I've done these so many years, it starts to feel like Groundhog Day, but with the little with the littles especially, we have these heart heroes up there. So each year the
024theme changes for Kids Heart Challenge, but our messaging is always the same. So you'll see it talks about um you know systemic issues like kids aren't getting enough exercise or they're not eating healthy or they're not getting enough sleep. So especially those of uh folks that are in education, they see this, they know this, right? But we're able to address those and we also pair it with the health and PE standards at the national level. So you know, we're not just a fundraiser that your school does. We definitely are educational and and pairing with your schools. Um, this is not plain, but I want to share. I don't know if it if you got the link in your board packet or not, but every year I work for the American Heart Association. The thing that
025I'm most proud of that we have really emphasized is the importance of hands only CPR in our communities. And um, I've always used the analogy, I learned stop, drop, and roll as a kid, but I've never seen anyone catch on fire. But I have seen people administer handsonly CPR. What we're finding is that students as young as nine are able to administer handsonly CPR. And I'm not kidding when I say about every month we're getting a story that's happening because we're in schools doing Kids Heart Challenge. So this particular story, hopefully Betsy will send you the link and you can watch. It's only like a minute long. Um this particular story, a young girl and her mom, her dad was out shoveling the snow. It was I believe it was in Michigan. Um he had
026he suffered from cardiac arrest. Um and the little girl and her mom administered CPR until the EMS could get there. So um and the reason why they knew what to do is she had watched the video and learned hands only CPR at school through a kids heart challenge. So we're seeing that um again and again. Okay. And then I am going to uh seal someone's tagline. Um, one of the principles that I met with, and I love this, um, she said, "We need to teach kids to be prepared, not scared." And I have the vision of my husband when we, um, came across an accident, he was scared. He didn't know what to do, right? And so, as we continue to re reinforce and refresh those, kids would be prepared. But the main reason I'm
027here tonight is to celebrate Hillsboro School District. Um, this year, three schools participated. I'm in Kids Heart Challenge raising over $18,000 which is amazing. Um each school does something a little unique whether it's a dodgeball tournament with egg smash at the end, rolling incentives or a fun snow day challenge. That's one of your littles there. And that was part of the snow day challenge. But I want to uh give a special shout out to Molly Vega at the primary school, Aaron Holly at the elementary, and Casey Speed and Bailey Schuman at intermediate. They have been amazing volunteers to work with and none of this would have happened without their support um and dedication and leadership. Um and also I want to present to you all something because you as a district have hit a pretty
028amazing milestone. >> Wow. >> So as a district you have raised over $500,000. So you guys can put this up in your new administration center I guess or wherever you want to hang it. that it's pretty amazing when you think about, you know, the size of your community. Um, you know, it's just we're so very thankful for you all. >> Yeah, that's um for you all. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And then in return, when you all raise money for the American Heart Association, we do give back to your schools to purchase PE equipment. Um, and then also, I just want to highlight, you know, through our program, we touch 1,500 students and families. um and of that when you look at the the video for the hands only CPR I just want
029to talk about that that's an online area where they can go and learn it at home but the students are being exposed to that during health and PE class as well so that would be like extra homework for the kids to go home and watch it. Um, and then finally on behalf of these kiddos here, Kate in the bottom left, she lives in Jackson, Missouri, so we actually have a national ambassador um from Missouri. Um, I just want to thank you all for your support. Um, you guys are so kind to let me come every year and celebrate with you, but um, without the support of the school board, superintendent, principles here, we wouldn't be able to have this partnership. So, I just want to thank you very very much and thank you for helping
030your community and your kids learn how to have longer, healthier lives. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. >> And good luck. Hopefully um hopefully I'll see you again before the official retirement might not be back one more time. >> Thank you for being here tonight. Any questions? Um $500,000 is a milestone. I think it's worthy of a round of applause. AND I forget um the school board member that started it. Who was the school board member? She used to always sit here. >> Yeah. So make sure she knows because she's always really excited when I come. So please share with her. >> Thank you guys. >> See here. >> Thank you. >> Not quite that one. >> I'm not quite ready. >> What's next? >> Next. Next up is our um is our financial report. Just
031a note for the board. This does have an action item at the end of that relative to budget amendment number six. Turn that back over to Dr. Eisenson for our report. This one >> perfect. All right. the last uh monthly report prior to the approval of uh the budget for next fiscal year. Uh we'll be continuing to close out FY26 um officially at the in the July board meeting just because uh the end of the month uh being next week. So this is kind of a redundant slide from previous slides of how we started the school year. Um, we're at 92% of our revenue being uh realized. I put 89% and put an asterisk by there in some of the financial documents uh out of the uh on the summary that I put the ones
032from the uh the district is when I look at some actually I'll just jump here. When you look at uh this percentage of the budget realized on that previous slide, it said 89%. 81. That's because I put 81 up there that if a community member was doing the math, they take 48,000 divided by 6 or 48 million. They're like that isn't it's 81. The stars are that's been encumbered. So those are like checks have been written. Um, but it hasn't been cash. It hasn't spent, but it's uh been accounted for. So, our current surplus is roughly $42,000 uh. Again, it's important to remember that part of that surplus and coming into the capital funds was the HVAC loan that we got uh earlier this year because that will come into play in next year's budget
033because we haven't spent the money yet. We've gotten the money. We didn't spend it this year. So, it looks like, you know, you end up having more money than what you anticipated, but then next year we'll end up spending that, right? And so, uh, that will factor in next year's budget. Um, some year-over-year trends, fairly consistent, um, in regards to our revenue years to date. Nothing uh, that really kind of stands out significantly. Uh, revenue breakdown. Just uh, kind of reiterating uh, what we showed here. One of the things that I want to talk about this evening and I put it in the budget, I got asked a great question uh by a taxpayer in Jefferson County as we're kind of talking through some budget items and we're talking about some tax items and one
034of the questions that came up was your local revenues went up $2 million. Like is that all tax? I'm like, "No, that's not all tax." But it's something I want to talk about um this evening and including the budget to kind of explain what has transpired. So, within that local amount, um within our school budgeting, you have tax dollars, property tax dollars, delinquents, sales tax. But there's some big um big ones as well as far as um our investment earnings, money that we have in CDs, uh treasury, etc. And I'm going to show that on the uh investment report a little bit later on this program is we've done almost a million dollars in each of the last two years. So that's what's included uh as well in local revenue. Also included in local revenue
035is all the the gates from like basketball games, football games, all that revenue, lunch, all anything locally sourced, right? So even kids bringing in money for the field trips going to run through revenues, all of that information. So it's not just tax dollars. The other one is our employee health insurance and benefit accounting is that gets when we pay our staff, we take that money, it's accounting thing through payroll, pushes it to accounts payable. So it becomes a revenue item for the district that then pays UHC for our insurance bill. So when you see those numbers, it's not just, oh wow, tax dollars went up because actually when you look at actual tax uh property tax revenue comparison because I kind of put this together as I was having that conversation is you can see
036our current property taxes did go up about 1.2, but delinquent taxes came down uh by 935,000. Sales tax is down, penalties and interest. railroad and utility taxes has continued to decline uh in part that was the Amarind plant uh located near the Mississippi. So year-over-year from last year to this year is overall um tax property tax revenue locally has actually decreased by 57,000 or about uh 29%. So, any questions on that? All right. On this sheet, uh, shows our total, uh, how we've spent the funds and, uh, the how where they're kind at. One of the things here that's going to stand out is this 78% on the special revenue. Why haven't we spent that? We spend that next week. next week when the last of the three checks gets sent out in payroll for
037our teachers for their summer checks. So, that's why that lags behind. Um, and then capital projects, we're at 58% and that's part of our budget amendment this evening because we haven't spent uh that HBAC project. We just got the update on it. We haven't cut that check and we're going to do a budget amendment to roll that money in the next school year. This here is our investment earnings uh for the year. We're at 76,000 uh for the month. Total investment balances in May, this is going back to May, was at 27 million. Average monthly balance 24.3 million. So, we're close to that million dollar threshold that we should pass over that during the month of June. But as you can see, uh you can see the uh economy slowing down year-over-year definitely on our
038investments. So um going into the budget amendment, these are the key items that will be uh approved momentarily and some of our transfers and budget amendment. As Miss uh White was tidying everything up, there's an increase in our uh revenue of about 328,000. A big portion of that is our food service revenue. And it's not a sudden increase of like what happened the last month is, and correct me if couple times a year there's a reconciliation of the funds and putting them right uh there. So that was finalization of the accounting uh and putting them into different uh right accounts etc and sorting them out and so kind of a reconciliation there and we end had a great year of plus $228,000 uh our kids are liking the food. So um Medicaid revenue career ladder
039revenue is actually um went down not as many individual actually I think there's some explanation there. Uh so wrapping that up we do that in June and there is an explanation on uh and this is in your board packet as well up in the community uh there to see what did we spend more on what did we not as we kind of round out the revenue. Um then the expenditure decrease. So this is what I talked about earlier. We're not spending $3.4 million before July 1. So we need to do the amendment. Um we're not spending that. We're actually going to spend that next year, which will have an impact on the budget next year. So it look like we're spending more money than we brought in in FY27. Uh it's because we're rolling this
0403.9 billion over. Um debt service expenditures uh decreased by 219,000. Special education tuition went down. Classified uh salary substitutes special education $544,000 more than anticipated with overtime or hiring uh from special education pair of professionals position FTEES overtime as well. One of the things um that we do in and actually have done it for several years is in regards to overtime um we look at that constantly. It's not we're actually as long as we can run land mean kind of a philosophy. If we could run land mean and our current employees are willing to and able to and would like to get some overtime and it saves us from hiring another full-time employee of which you have to pay the $9,000 of benefits and there's kind of that give and take. If we hey because
041we have two or three people working overtime and covering a little bit more classes maybe on a custodial level then that saves us from having to get a whole new employee with their overtime. The money is the money is we'd much rather pay the people who are currently working with us that it reduces workman's comp potential issues a variety of issues. So, a little backstory on that, but as we're wrapping up uh the year, that is how that shook out with how that uh with our needs and then the associated benefits with that, right? We had to hire some pair of professional special education. So, total expenditures actually went down $3.4 million when you balance that all out. So, an explanation there uh for the public And I go into kind of detail the summary
042um ensuring that our revenues and expenditures are accurate going into the end of the fiscal year. So we'll have more budget talk after that, but that brings us through June. We're up through May. All right. Any questions on financial All right. Well, we do have an item of action relative to that report and that is for the budget amendment. Do I have a motion to approve the budget amendment for June 2026 as presented? >> Second. >> All right. Any questions on the budget amendments? >> All right. Hearing none. All those in favor of approval. Motion carries. All right. Any items of public comment this evening? Okay. All right. Give me just a second here to shift gears for some public comment tonight. Um, reading from our uh our our best practices and information relative to
043public comment in accordance with our district board policy BDDH. Individuals are invited to address the board for no more than three minutes on a topic of their choice. the board president, myself may interrupt this evening's comment if the topic is one that can't legally be discussed here in open session or it strays from the topic as it's uh presented on the signup sheet this evening. And just as a reminder to those in the audience or watching online, uh those in attend or those in attendance tonight, board members are prohibited from making any sort of comment or other discussion that's not a part of of the specifically um presented and approved board agenda. So, uh, with that, I'd like to, um, ask, uh, Candy Passreak to come on down and join us at the podium. I'm
044going to set a timer on my end for three minutes. >> Should take that one. >> All right. And the floor is yours. Your topic this evening is on Constitution Day. It's on the Constitution Day and it goes along with the HR4818 Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2005 which was voted on in the 108th Congress of 2003 and 2004. It's an omnibus spending bill enacted on December 8th, 2004 which appropriated $388 billion for 11 federal departments and agencies. It is primarily known for containing several mass of policy writers and public land provisions, but the one I'm talking about, the component is Constitution Day. It's established that any educational institution receiving federal funds must hold a program on the United States Constitution for students on September 17th of each year. And it's in section 111 of the
045bill. And it says that um requires each educational institution that receives federal funds for a fiscal year to hold an educational program on the US Constitution on September 17th of each year for its students. And if that falls on the weekend, then it needs to be followed up on Monday or Tuesday of the next week. Um, September 17th is the Constitution Day or Citizenship Day, it's also called, and it makes such provision without fiscal year limitations. September 17th, 1776 was the day the Constitution was signed. Public schools are to take time to read and study the Constitution, but 90% of public schools do not do it. even though they are required by law, if they receive federal funding, they must talk on September 17th on the Constitution. So, I just being this is our 250th
046anniversary, I just kind of wanted to bring that up. I don't know what the school does, but I'm hoping that they do something this year, especially on September 17th. Thank you. >> All right. Appreciate being Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. We are on this evening to some new business. The first of which is the approval of the extra duty committee recommendation for the high school academic team sponsor. This will be a new position for 2627. Do I have a motion to approve the establishment of an academic team extraduty position at the high school for fiscal year 27. It has a compensation of $925. Motion >> second. >> Questions or clarifications on this new position? Hearing none. All those in favor of approval. None opposed. Motion carries. Right. On to our annual agreement
047with Siden Strick Noi Partners for the John Deere Gator utility vehicles. We do this annually. I have a motion to approve the lease agreement with Siden Stricker Novi for three John Deere Gator UTVs at an annual cost of $8,280. >> Motion. Second. >> Second. >> All right. Any questions on this? Okay, hearing none. All those in favor of approval. All right. None opposed. Motion carries. Right. On to the approval of the 26 cross country events timing contract. Do I have a motion to approve the timing contracts with start to finish event management for two meets that we host? This is the uh junior high invitational as well as the Frank Schultz Invitational. This is has an estimated cost of $2,000 as presented. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Any questions on this contract? concerns. Okay. All
048right. He hearing none. All those in favor of approval. None opposed. That motion carries. Right. Next, on to the approval of the three-year agreement with BSN as the district's athletic supplies and uniform provider. Do I have a motion to approve this three-year agreement with BSN to serve as our exclusive provider of those apparel, uniforms, footwear, equipment, etc., and those services starting on July 1 of this year and extending through June 30th of 2029. >> Motion. All right. Any questions on this contract? This is a relationship we have had for a number of years. Questions or concerns? Okay. Hearing none. All those in favor of approval? Opposed? Motion carries. All right. On to our approval of our food services agreement with Sedexo for the coming year. Do I have a motion to approve the annual renewal
049agreement or food service management contract with Sedexo for the coming year? This uh amendment includes a 3 and a.5% increase on their both administrative fee side and a management fee that is charged on a per meal basis. >> All right, any questions on the upcoming legal plan contract? Okay, hearing none. All those in favor of approval? Any opposed? Any abstensions? Thank you. All right. Motion carries. All right. On to the approval of the annual audit engagement letter for this coming fiscal year audit. Do I have a motion to approve the engagement agreement with Mueller Oberfell and Jones for our annual financial audit for the year that will end here on June 30th, 2026 is presented? >> Any questions on this upcoming audit engagements? Hearing none. All those in favor of approval and none opposed. That
050motion carries as well. All right. Approval of the year end fiscal year 26 budget transfers uh and adjustments. Do I have a motion to approve the fiscal year 2526 budget adjustments and authorize necessary fund transfers as presented? >> Are any questions, comments or additional information relative to uh president's material for coming year end? Any concerns? Okay, hearing none. All those in favor of approval? None opposed? That motion carries as well. All right. And then our last item this evening is uh approval of the 2627 annual budget. Do I have a motion to approve the preliminary fiscal year 2627 and budget as presented and authorize administration to continue refinement of those projections and submittal of those budget amendments throughout the year as >> any questions on this? Take a look at the budget on screen. >>
051All right. I am not going to go through each page of the budget this evening. Um and the reason being is earlier this month we had a preliminary uh meeting where I did go through uh this with the board of education the financial items etc. One of the the goals that we have uh at our central office working with Miss White, myself and uh our entire team is a goal is to put and earn the meritorious budget award. um maybe that was my goal and I passed it on to some others to assist me. But one of the things I think is uh it'll just be great for our community as well and it turns uh a $40 million budget into something that uh anyone in the community can read and understand. and it ties
052our strategic plan to uh those dollars to how they impacting kids, how they get into the classroom. That's our focus and highlighting some of the results. And so taking using the budget document, which is typically just known as a math document, and really kind of uh a history lesson in into the district of where we've been and where we're going, what we're doing well, maybe some things improving, etc. So just briefly is in there and some of these pages this is very uh strict on the things that they have to have. Um so we'll be making some adjustments not on the financial items but just uh maybe some grammatical items maybe changing my picture. Um, one of the things that I wanted to highlight is and I it's a testament to the board and uh
053again I've sat down and visited with uh some people in the community outside the community and some of the things that as collectively as a school district that we've been able to accomplish not a lot of school districts have been able to do have it. Um, and so over the years, our tax rate that we anticipate and are planning for in September that'll be set at the tax rate hearing will be $344 um with some decimals after that. To put that number in comparison, that is lower than 1993. That summer there was a flood in this community or in fact think about how long ago that was is our tax rate is will be lower uh this upcoming school year. Um from a high of $4.75 in 2014 it has come down by $130. Um
054why has it come down? It has come down by just us working to uh focusing on paying off our general obligation debt. And as you'll see as we go through here, that will be paid off of this budget year. Uh the taxes last year were $3.67 was the rate. So it's going down 23 cents from last year. So our local community will see that tax decrease. Now, as we're studying on uh I'll talk about this probably on the back end is we've ran lean and mean and adjusted our staffing and such, but that we've had some requests uh from community members. There are some needs that we have as far as safe and secure entrance and facility needs is there's not the money in the current budget and current tax rate for that to occur.
055Um, and there are some things that we will need to address. That tax rate is the lowest in Jefferson County and it hasn't officially come out yet. You know, there's but I do anticipate that being the lowest. I can safely see the among the lowest, but I anticipate it being the lowest in the entire St. Louis metro area when you're talking about St. Charles County, St. Louis, St. county um all down through this um four or five counties around St. Louis. That's pretty significant. Um, one of the things as I was putting this together and doing some research and pulled this from um, DESIE, this is off the our district report card, uh, annual Secretary of the Board report on the DESIE website that the district spends in 2025, $11,189 per student. The statewide average
056is 15,000 $4,000 more than uh Hillsboro spends. And in that Oh, this is bouncing around pretty bad. Is our graduation rate of 95% exceeds the state average of 91.4. Actually had a conversation with Miss Hilderbran about that. Like, well, that's five 100% of the kids don't graduate. That's there's some kids that don't finish what they're supposed to do. I mean, that's kind of thing. But we have different things in place um maybe where they that they can and also we're hooking them into different um fields, you know, which we'll see as uh as we kind of go through the things that we put priorities on. It's been fun putting this together because literally can see kind of the results as I went back and looked at the annual secretary of the board reports is um
057I'll jump down and show some of that just positive things for our kids. One of the things from a leadersship perspective is the state average is 156 uh kids to each administrator. We run at 186. So 30 kids more. That's a great job by this team. One of the things too, I was sitting with that gentleman my office and he had pulled open the data is and I was aware of that was pretty significant but not as significant as I originally thought in 2018. Don't quote me on exact numbers. Um I want to say we're at 1.4 to$ 1.5 million spend on the executive services administration executive services. That's the central office. That number is now 780. It's cut in half in 2025 is and there's we've leaning mean at central office too because we've
058always we're going to ask our buildings to do going back to 2019 when Melissa and I first started is we didn't replace me if you remember and working through there and our office staff uh essentially cut that in half as well and uh with that is kind of philosophy like like what I talked about with overtime is there can be that balance of having a lot of people but then it's tough to pay people versus that balance you don't want to overwork people but there's that you have to be able to make a living and so uh that's what we've done and leveraged all throughout the district uh in our budget over the past few years leveraging resources through innovation and partnerships really proud of this is just being strategic in our investments uh generating
059I talked about that million dollars uh annually because when you do that plus have a Mr. Reedour when the board graciously hired a grant writer Mr. Korean hour has written grants uh over the last few years to the tune of $739,000. Right? So you're talking about a million dollars each of the last two years plus this. We're almost $3 million in non-t taxpayer dollars that are paying for different things. uh the greenhouse, the CTE, and I the list of items there, buses, the the scoreboard being paid that was paid off this year, but that paid for by the sponsors uh in addition to more that aren't listed up there, but that was in one of the original mockups um that have committed $10,000 a year and $50,000 each of these individuals here. That was $10,000
060a year for five years. Jefferson College contributed $50,000 to the school district over the last five years and Roberts Wooten Zimmer and so uh thankful to all those partnerships again use taxpayer dollars wanted to highlight uh the nest Mr. Renau uh Miss Sites uh Mr. Pat Mr. Quinn here as well as putting together this news magazine which will be going out uh momentarily uh in the month of July to the district. This particular one from last winter that was mailed home was recognized nationally and we just had received that notification uh couple of weeks back and included it uh in the budget as recognized by the National School Public Relations Association. I wanted to show some of our planning, investing in facilities, infrastructure. Um, I'm not going very fast with this. I got to go
061faster. is talking through you know our safety with the SSOs and put the beginning that one of the things in my message and it's a long message is this is in the last month the legislators warn of tighter budget and we know that it's forthcoming this year's budget reduction for the district of between seven and 800 and $850,000 is going to be significant but it's just year one. This is last week or a week and a half ago, uh June 10th, the the auditor warns that Missouri's on track for a painful emergency budget. So, we do have as we go through this um some our reserves are strong, but they're not going to last forever as we make some decisions. And there's going to be things that we're not able to do. uh barring visiting
062with the community about that. So, one of the things as we talk about this, I felt it was important to include in this budget, especially as we talk about going to voters for a tax increase, is I think we owe it to put the information out that what we've done um that we've done the different things that are common uh questions from citizens. Are we being responsible? And I believe that we are an emphatic yes to that. And so being able to show that um so like explaining here one of the things there this is in the newspaper today that's how fresh this budget is is uh Mr. McDaniel shout out to your article going right in the budget. Uh but community voices are shaping the future of our district and a response to parent
063requests for facility improvements and security needs. the district is partnering uh as I talked about and that first meeting being in July. So the budget is broke down into an executive summary. We highlight the board. Uh figure we give one more nod out of the whisper and recognize her for her years of service and uh dedication to us winning that governance award again. So sent her a picture of that. She's like, "Is that the budget?" Um, our board items in there, uh, budget development process. I'm going down through here. Also along this as you're going through the budget is this is our strategic plan and we tie um, our spending to what the priorities were established in 2023 and through 2028. As you can see, we've achieved having the uh early learning center. So, we're
064able to mark that achieve. Some we've achieved in one year, but they're ongoing, right? Because it's going through 2027 and 28. great partnerships with Jefferson College which that uh you can see it just interrained all through on some of our academic data and what our kids are deciding to do from that uh report card that we get from the state which I'll probably stop at here some historical class size year-over-year as you can see there's a lot of try to uh make this very just visual and not read like a budget. Um, these are the governance award schools as you can see that's throughout all the state of Missouri over 500 schools. It's a pretty short list. Um, excited here. Develop a promotional strategy in the last month. you know, Justin Lawson, Regina Moore, Jan
065Hawk, Jenny Walter, all people that we promoted up and just even some pair of professionals we hired to this evening that will be teaching for us uh next year. As you can see, this looks a lot different than normal budget. One of the things too, I was actually showed this to my wife last night and she was amazed at just how large our school district is. That is um impacts us financially. Now, like when we talk about a road, the buses still have to roll, but long term in the school district, that's going to be an asset just on sheer land size as Jefferson County grows. Um few different things on our demographics. is, and I think this is important because it speaks a lot about our community. I've already talked about people not being
066very transient. The age group of our students and people moving in. This stood out to me as well. Our free and reduced population is 20% lower than the Missouri average. And even in Jefferson County, the school districts around us, they'll be at 40% just or north of that, just to the south. Um is even some would probably say, well, Fesus is high. No, Hillsboro um ranks among that's a very uh I would say low, it's 30%. But comparatively, when you look at the Missouri average at being 50, that's a significant number. also um our gifted program 5.9. So I have the state averages there next to it. Graduation rates. One of the things I do want to point this out because I put this little uh Missouri average because you just heard me say, "Well,
067our attendance rate is 93%." Why does this say 81? I put a little note in there to clarify. Our daily attendance is 93.4. That's kids coming to school. But how Missouri assesses us like when on our MSIP, they look at how many of your kids are there 90% of the time. So how many kids are there 90? So 81% of our kids had 90% attendance, right? So when you have a 93% average, we have a lot of kids who are the 100% attendance, perfect attendance, missed two or three days, but we also have kids who were missed 20 days or whatnot. So, and you can see the state average is 78%. Um, we talked about this at our uh work session. our ACT. A lot of times people come talk about like how we go
068about conduct our business academically and the different programs etc. even when they talk about the state test uh for me is I like seeing our it may vary in fourth fifth grade third grade on a math test but as kids are leaving to be adults that's when we get kind of see the end product of our work is on the ACT uh our average is a 20 which you can see R7's at 22 Crystal Northwest Aesus are at 20 and a half so literally state average is 19.9. So you can throw a hat around that. Just put a another little bit of graphic there. This is interesting to me as well. 2017 uh in our district, 24% of our kids when they graduated entered employment. That's up to 32. Uh two-year college. This is there's
069actually a little bit less but a whole lot less going to a four-year institution. Why is that important? In our budget to me as a community when we look at our strategic plan, we talk about career focused academic investments. And when I tie that in to the 20.5 at Hillsboro, I'm very proud of this that is the kids who have desire to go to four-year school can go to any school that they want to go to. Their ACTs are throw a hat around that everyone in the county. But I think probably what may set us apart, I can't speak, is we have the different programs that are leading to the career ready and that investment that we've made with the farm and CTE and uh not just the things but it's also I think encouraging
070them, right? It's where and I had a son that was that kid that it was okay even being the superintendent's kid that he didn't have to go to college. I'm like Drew I just want you on my payroll right like and he's working and doing very well but uh highlighting that those investments that we made. So included in that in the budget, our post-graduation, I got to talk about this. Missouri State average uh is 33% of kids going to four-year. We're at 20. This aligns with our parents, too, that took the ACT. Two-year college. State average is 22%. We have 34%. I don't think there's a that's we have Jefferson College right next door that impacts that with A+. and then employment there. And so, uh, our CTE placement rate just in over a four-year
071period, look how much that jumped tied to our strategic plan. I gave some information. The board talked about this. This is countywide as far as enrollment. Um, and so this gets into uh how we project enrollment. There's a lot of data here and I put kind of the that information in long term to put in just like a enrollment curve where our peak was in 2006 2008 great recession really triggered kids kids uh people not having as many children the pandemic and we've actually rebounded faster than a lot of other uh districts around St. Louis. I put in the live birth rate. So that's going to be there for some historical context uh as well. So jumping into this uh on our staffing ratios, one of the things here I'm going to restate this is
072in short this paragraph says the great stool um starts with our people no matter what role from paras bus drivers custodians that each person plays an essential role in the success of our students and even if one of the roles is missing or we don't have great people in the system just doesn't work. The custodian isn't there, that classroom's messy. The food service person's not there, you don't have lunch that day. The bus driver is not there, it's a long walk to school. You know, it's not just teachers or administrators. And that's why as we go through maintaining that competitive compensation is huge. And so kind of jump into the compensation, put our information there. actually updated this last evening. Windsor came back and added $500 to their salary schedule. Um, so you'll see that
073they're out of order because I didn't sort them, but putting it in. One of the things that I wanted to include in here is some of the things that Hillsboro does different. I think we're reaping some of those re rewards of that from a uh from our finances getting return on investment is with the career ladder and the activities for kids our special education stipens as we are able to fill sped jobs I'm not going to say easily but easier than a lot of our uh other local school districts the leave incentive um as Miss Ringo has done that data and again it is proving its worth as far as reducing attendance uh and absences um and then the different culture programs that we have thankfulness at Thanksgiving etc. So um included in our budget
074is a plan to get to 50,000 uh dollars. put some information and graphs on our what we've been able to do and uh talked about the salaries as pair of professional since 2013 149% increase uh in the behavior uh secretaries 94% literally almost double and so that's great some allocations there our insurance information all right the actual budget Um some of the things as we get into the numbers, this is a preliminary budget. Um and that's important for the taxpayers to know and obviously the board knows is that's why tonight we did a budget amendment. It was our sixth one this school year. So there's a lot of different variables in a school budget throughout this uh year and we're making some assumptions as we start what that what is that year going to to
075be like is just when you think about last year's budget we didn't realize that the state was going to reduce their funding, right? So that's a change in the spring. There's a lot of different outcomes and so we're making these assumptions as we head in. The first one is that we're going to assume a net increase of 0% in real and personal property. So, we're not anticipating any growth. Will there be some growth? Probably. I would, if I had to put a number on it, and we could, we could put a 2% increase and it would make our revenues look better in this document and be like, "Oh, we have a better balanced budget. Right. I could put 5% on here. It looks like, wow, they're stacking dollars, but we're going to put 0%. And
076that will impact as far as they're going to show some deficit spending because we're intentionally planning to be conservative on this. Why 0%. Because of the Senate Bill 3 law that was passed is that hasn't been overturned. So, we would be going back to 2024 tax rates. So, if we keep increasing this, it's just going to be further that the district would have to roll back. And I don't want to get out too far out in front of our skis on our estimates. Uh factoring in all of our career letter, our population, our salary schedules, uh food service contracts, uh our lease obligations, funding, uh capital improvements, we have the HVAC, etc. wanted to include along with those lines is we have um projected principal and interest payments to pay off $1.9 million on our
077debt service general obligation bonds as I talked about 2019 that was 27.7 million at the end of this fiscal year it'll be zero so that 23 cents I talked about rolling the levy down barring a tax increase approved by the voters, it would be going down another 8 cents. Um, so this will be the sixth year in a row that we've decreased uh the tax levy. So with that also as we plan for uh next year and I kind of explained what I just talked about is we are going to typically over the last two years we've put two or three years we've put 30 cents in the capital. Once we put this money into the capital fund, it is restricted and cannot come out for any reason other than capital purchases to buy a
078bus to replace something that's expensive. The project that the gentleman from Schneider was working on that is if the house projects for lack of a better the expensive ones. Okay, buying a dish dishwasher, but it's not for like buying a couch unless it's over a certain amount of money. We don't buy couches. That's probably a bad, right? Um, but you understand it's for your home thing. So once you put it there, you can't pull it back out to spend it on salaries or any other type of item. And so as you'll see, there's 8 cents in debt service capital project is restricted. So it also won't show up like when we talk about uh our balances. Okay, it won't show up there. This will increase the revenue going into there, but it's going to decrease
079what's going into the general operating. Okay? And that is planned. Now, we could put all 50 cents here and it would generate a million and a half in the operating, okay, to make the budget look better. But we're planning for the future on that. So I explain all that cuz with our revenue all funds we're at 5 48 million and we have a planned expenditure of 57 million. So as a taxpayer if you're listening to that or the board you're like we're going to deficit spend $ 8.6 million. The answer is yes this year because this is very important is that HVAC loan that we got that we just did the budget amendment for and rolling that $3.9 million into this year goes towards that total. Right. The um there's additional monies that we've we're
080rolling in. So, this deficit spend is not spending money that we do not either have currently or will be getting, right? We're not going into debt. We're not putting that on a credit card like at your house. We have that money in our savings accounts and so have that plan spending including that number is um looks a little bit bigger because we also have our insurance in there as well and we have insurance where our employee health insurance gets pushed out from the revenues on payroll. I talked about that. So that factors into here. So uh Miss White or White tried to show that there. So when you kind of net that out, I tried to explain that here. We're at $3.7 million deficit. So I can take you here and I kind of explain
081the pass through um gives some explanation underneath that. And so it brings us to the recapitulation sheet. This is an important sheet because it kind of shows all right $3.6 million deficit spending. I can show you where it's at. So we're starting the year with our balances that different that updated you update. >> Um that's not the budget book. >> No, that's not the budget book. That was me. That's one that we were messing around earlier. >> Did it just go in there? Is that linked to there? Is that what happened? >> No. >> So, I'm starting to replace the stuff. >> Okay. All right. So, what we have is we planned we're finalizing some of this. There could be an amendment on this to where this insurance money wasn't calculating this correctly. So when
082you take out uh the payments everything the 3.6 million will then impact going down to there in the deficit spending in part because we're transferring as a part of next year's budget 1.9 million into capital as a part of our 7% transfer. So again, that's optional. We do that next June. We just approved the transfer this year. As a part of our budgeting right now, we're saying we're going to do that. And so that reduces this number by $1.9 million, which then impacts this number here. Also, as we continue to look at this that oh, got to go back. By putting 50 cents into capital, I wish that wasn't either at the bottom or at the top. By putting 50 cents into the capital fund, you'll see that generates $3.1 million in new revenue. So,
083if we put $0 in capital and kept it in operating, that would be $21 million in the general fund. Do you see what we're doing there? So, we're choosing to restrict that that money at this point preliminar. And as we get into the budget, there may be some updates to that. The final tax rate uh adjustments will be made prior to September. Um the tax rate will be about that 344. There won't be any variations there. It'll just be what funds are we going to put them in. Okay. Questions on that for the board? >> Can we can we scroll to see your full >> Yeah. Can you >> scroll so it's all one? >> No. All fits on one page. >> Okay. >> That's what Is there a way to get that bigger? >>
084No. If I go bigger, it'll do what? >> So, the recap that you're seeing um on the presentation, which is one of the scenarios that we're playing with, is not what is in the workbook. And I think that this particular scenario, um is assuming a 30% move to capital 30. >> Okay. Well, this >> Yeah, what what you have printed in the on the capital column in the book is 3.8 million. >> I didn't realize he was going to use a Google document for the presentation. >> Sorry. >> So, right. So, that then when you calculate that down on the capital column, obviously that 30 cents to 50 cent, >> the the budget book uh reflects 50 cents. >> 50 cents, right? And that's and that's that's the presentation material that's that we're discussing. >>
085Yes. >> So we just have a discrepancy in presentation. >> Yes. >> Bigger. >> Now we can. >> Oh. All right. Questions on that? >> No. Thank you for clarifying. and we'll have a final an initial update probably on that in the next uh morning. So that would take uh expected percentages uh right at 29% based on uh some of the items we're talking about, but we'll finalize that information. >> So this move this bounces everything around. Um, >> then everything else is as was in the book, >> but it's pushing. We're have to bounce out of this and go to the go to the board board page. >> Okay. >> Assembly. >> Yeah. >> And go down click the PDF. We've run through quite a few numbers and and content this evening. Is there
086any questions? >> Yeah. >> At this point in the presentation, >> do you know what page? Keep going for Keep going. Keep going. We're down towards the end. 76. Okay. >> Yeah. 76 was the last page you were on. >> Yeah. What you've got on the screen there. that says three capital is is a match for what's >> so as you can see um looking at that there's pretty large swing in the balance percentages um and while those are important they given us an idea of uh percentages what is the amount that you have on hand versus your expenses um versus the $14 million in the bank. What you have in the bank is the most important uh portion, but we will get that updated as a part of this process. All right, just give
087some This is going to jump into revenue. All of this uh is full and accurate running through what we anticipate for earnings. Um talk about the investment earnings of last year. Again, that's hard to estimate what it's going to be in the future. As well as estimates for uh property taxes, which I said we're keeping that uh stagnant at zero, figuring in our 169 day uh incentive, but the big one here is the state aid, which is decreased. Uh the calculated SAT is 71.45, but we're running that at $400 less kit uh to do that conservatively. So, as you can see, that's kind of we're very conservative in this budget and so I anticipate budget amendments throughout the school year. Um I explained some of the revenue sources as I did in my previous um
088financial report. This is some information on our investments. And then if you go here as you can see the revenue sourced by all funds as I was talking about earlier is there's we project actually a decrease uh in current taxes a little bit less in delinquent investment earnings a decrease. Obviously, part of that too is we're going to have less money in the investments because we're paying for the HBC project, right? So, there's four half million dollars in there that'll be uh sent out. So, we're not earning money on that anymore. So, as we kind of go through this document be online for the public as well to go through uh each particular item. Um so just showing some of our investment and our big things liquid and being safe uh of our capital funds
089budgeted expenditures. One of the things I put in here is and we talked about it is in the coming days when I say days is uh over the next year couple years um with our tax rate being the lowest is we had a plan in place but there's been a lot that's changed uh outside the boardroom in the district on a state level with the state funding. Uh as we were lowering our tax tax rate, we were doing something that frankly a lot of districts don't taxing don't do by a $130. But when you do that in conjunction and then laws are put in place to freeze. We were already the board had already implemented what some of that legislation such was trying to do as a district. we're doing it. And so we've been
090running efficiency efficient, but it's got a ceiling. And as you can see, even with uh the potential for movement on the percentage of reserves, that's something we have to keep an eye on in our decision- making. Um 80 roughly 78 to 80% of our budget is in our people. And so it's the decisions we'll make over the next year. and two and when we talk about these facilities um candidly if we don't have a tax increase uh the things that we're talking about as a community we won't be able to do when you look at uh not well I want I say all of them any of the significant multi-million dollar projects will be difficult to do barring some of that uh an increase in revenue related to a property tax. So, and these are
091the expenditures going through and then on the back end is just the supplemental items. So all of the uh financial items in in the board book are established on the revenues and such is we will update that recapitulation and finalize uh with a budget amendment uh potentially in July. And that that will also give us the information that we need for setting our official tax rate what funds we want to put into different things. But long story short, long speech short is we are in a good financial situation as a district. Uh proud of where we are. We've uh able to continue to give raises and prioritize that is we are going to be entering some challenging times as a state. That's not a issue. That's statewide. uh and um we're in a good spot
092relatively I think to some of uh those throughout the state but it's going to be some challenge that the district and board uh and community will have to tackle in the coming days and years. So questions, any questions on the budget book? Appreciate the information and the clarification on that one table. All right, that brings us to our action item. Any other discussion before we to approve? Okay, we already have a motion on the floor. Do we have any any further discussion? Yeah, between the workshop and tonight you probably about >> Y. All right, ready for the fiscal year ahead. All right, with that all those in favor of approval of the budget as presented. Okay, none opposed. That motion carries. All right, our last item tonight is not one of action, but as one
093of first read board policy. We have some items um in our board packet for some first reads. So, we'll see those as as policy second reads and approvals next month. Any questions or concerns on those policy items? Okay. All right. We do have some uh dates coming up. We've got um it's a to be decided date for workshop to get kick started on our superintendent search and some additional updates. Um and then we'll be back here on Thursday the 23rd for our regular scheduled committee meeting. So with that, do I have a motion to adjourn tonight? It is 8:29. >> All right. All those in favor? Okay. We are adjourned. Thank you all for being here tonight. >> One minute. Is that 8:30 closer? Boys started when he started talking faster.