001is the approval of tonight's consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve all items on the consent agenda as presented? >> Second. >> All right. Any questions or comments regarding the consent agenda? >> Okay. No items to be pulled. Okay. Hearing none. All those in favor of approval of the consent agenda tonight. >> None opposed. Thank you very much. Motion carries. >> All right. We will move on to tonight's reports. And the first one tonight is with regards to uh a presentation from um the R3 Public Schools Foundation. To give you a little bit of uh background information tonight, the R3 Public Schools Foundation hosted its first annual golf tournament on October 2nd, 2025 during the homecoming week at Rainree Golf Course. The event brought together more than 18 teams and 37 sponsors to
002support the new Early Childhood Programs playground. The tournament was a success, an overwhelming success with strong participation, great weather, and community involvement. Uh, representatives from the foundation are with us tonight, including Jamie Lambert, a foundation board member and golf tournament lead. And, uh, Jamie is here tonight to present a check-in support of the playground project. So, Mr. Lambert, could you come on down and share with us uh, >> Wow. Wow. >> And we can present this to president, please. Can we get the president? >> Anybody else wants to join for >> the principal? >> You're the most fun. >> John here's the only one that doesn't have blue on. Look at all the holiday. This is amazing. Now I feel bad. >> The picture. >> We'll get you all >> We're going to take three
003pictures. Ready? >> One, two, three. >> Smile. >> One, two, three. Last one. One, two, three. >> Thank you. TWO or three. >> Just a big thank you to all of the foundation, the efforts that they're doing, just a tremendous work that they're doing in support of the district. So, thank you again for everything u everything that the foundation is doing every day. All right. Uh we'll move on to uh superintendent. I'll turn it over to Dr. That's a let down. >> Again, thank you to the foundation. >> Uh and Mr. Reed on our behalf as a district does a lot of coordinating, a lot of work with that. Appreciate him as well. So, we um it's amazing that we're all here at Christmas break for six months now and uh 25 26 school year.
004Uh it's going fast and it's been a great year. A lot of successes uh throughout this past fall and we just recently had the Christmas at the farm event which we had another uh successful night even though it was very very cold. >> Very cold. >> Um but a lot of people came out to that, enjoyed the gingerbread houses and uh going upstairs and seeing that that event just continue to be a feather in the district's cap. And thank you to everyone there. A short uh report this month as we near the holidays. Just wanted to provide a couple quick updates on something that Miss Noak has been working on um working as far as our application platform uh with Nimble Connect. You want to talk about it? >> Oh, sure. All right. >> So,
005Nimble Connect is a new job board for the state of Missouri that um pairs educators that are looking for um different types of um teaching jobs, administrator jobs. It will match them based off of their desires on location, grade level, certification. um it will the job board will pull job postings from our website to the state board and they can get notified of those openings as they become available. Um and also I gave Nimble all our principles names so they will be reaching out to the principles as jobs come open um once a week or once every couple weeks and say here's some interest if you're interested in these candidates and just connecting the two groups. So, I think it's it's a free service for 20 uh 26 and then they're going to re-evaluate it
006for the 2027 year. It's it's basically a talent matching. >> I think it'll be it'll be really interesting and really good. >> Yeah. Thank you to Miss Noak for her work on that. Uh a couple of this items as well. Uh we'll talk more about this probably in January than in the spring is legislatively uh the new session starts in 2026 and on the first day of pre-filing over a thousand bills were uh pre-filed by Missouri legislators. Um there was a high volume of proposed legislation uh impacting public education. Uh there'll be an increase in fiscal notes that'll be sent to myself working to provide answers on um but taxes and education will be the two main focuses um statewide. I know I do believe they are planning to move up the um governor's address
007early on in the session. Uh I've heard that. um as well as looking at state income tax and eliminating that. In regards to uh school related items, there's the lawsuit related to the voucher uh program, the Missouri scholars program um is still ongoing. Had a meeting uh with the superintendent and was shared some information that approximately 38 million of the $50 million appropriation uh that the state of Missouri put into that this year. Typically, it was always privately funded. Um and how that scholarship was funded is you could pay into that 50% of whatever you owed in Missouri income taxes. So, if I owed $1,000 to the state of Missouri, I could write a check to that program for 500 and it would be the same as if I was paying my taxes. But this
008year uh the state uh put $50 million from general revenue and to that of that 38 approximately $38 million has already been spent. Most of that is in the St. Louis region. Um what does that mean to schools? If that had been put in the uh like towards education school budget, you take that money out, it actually breaks down to a little bit over $50 a student. It's $2 million to Jefferson County, $170,000 to Hillsboro. Um the state treasurer has uh asked for an appropriation to be doubled to $100 million uh for next uh for the next year. So that why did that matter to us? You know, all of those different things related to um how things are financed. I know that we work hard on our expenditure side. Um the revenues matter as
009well and uh we're about 5050 as I'll talk about uh in the financial uh side of this from how our district is funded is 50 uh% of the funds coming from the state and 50% locally. So if that state drops um if it's not could create a larger tax increase or impacts on our district. So, just something we're keeping mindful of. Um, and then communicating with our legislators and I'll just keep everyone informed. Okay. Appreciate any questions tonight on the superintendent report. Okay. All right. Moving on. Um, we have a midyear report on the early childhood program from Mr. Whitehead and Mrs. Phillips. Mr. You want to pop that up there? Miss Phillips and I are just going to give everybody kind of an update on where early childhood is over the past five months,
010even though we've been working on it for well over a year. Um, and then we're also going to do our annual required parents as teachers report as well. Kind of throwing them all to together on that. >> All right. So, first semester as we're wrapping it up. go back there. Um, so at the start of the year, um, we had six integrated classrooms, um, within those six classrooms, three and a half were prek. Um, so those are kids that are getting ready to come to kindergarten the following year. So we had three full-time ones, and then one of our classrooms, her AM session was prek, her PM session was three, threes and fours. Um, and then we we have uh two and a half classrooms that are three and four year olds. We have one
011life skills self-contained classroom. Um a gross motor lab area which is a very large area um that is actually two separate ones. It's got an accordion wall between them that is able to be opened up if need to or it can be closed for two separate classrooms to be in there at the same time. Um we have a parents as teachers classroom as well which is used for meetings and screenings and home visits. Um, and then we have an OTP sensory room and an SLP room as well. In October, we added an additional life skills self-contained classroom based on the numbers of students and the needs within that one classroom that we had. So, we split some of those students apart. So, we've actually at this point right now we have eight classrooms total. Two
012are self-contained and then our six integrated classrooms. Um, we have as of today 118 students attending. um that number changes and it has changed since the start of the year and it will continue to change as we go into second semester as well. Um we'll start adding some more kids and I'll kind of go into more detail on that. So that's how kind of that first semester piece of how we started the program. Um next semester Miss Phillips and I have been talking over the past couple weeks we're going to make some little adjustments on the program itself. Um so Mr. P, you want to go to that next slide, please? So starting in January, um so we've got those six integrated classrooms and how that works is you're always looking at two components. How
013can you maximize the number of students in early intervention and how can you also maximize the revenue and the funding requirements that DESIE puts out on those specific classrooms themselves. Um and when I say that from a self-contained there's a criteria that has to be met on those specific classrooms. There's also tuition based if you want to charge families. There's ADA which is attendancebased. There's specific number of hours that you have to meet in order to qualify for the reimbursement side on that. Integrated is another one. Um and as I mentioned back in the spring of last school year, what that looks at is at least 50% integrated classrooms has to have the number of students on an IEP has to at least be 50%. So if total if you have four integrated classrooms and
014there's 80 kids total amongst those four classrooms at least 40 have to have an IEP in order to qualify. If you've got and then you've got 41 that are non IEP students it's 0%. So DESI doesn't prorrate anything. It's either zero or 100%. So, as you go through the year on an early childhood component, you're looking at not only the numbers you've currently got, but you're also looking at the number of kids that are in first steps that are going to be turning three next semester, looking at parents as teachers, all their screenings and stuff. Um, so there's a whole bunch of variables that you're looking at. And so, you're trying to maximize both of those key components up there. Um, so what Miss Phillips and I have kind of talked about over the past
015couple weeks, if you go back to this, um, is making a small adjustment on the integrated classrooms themselves. So, taking those six integrated classrooms, making two of them what we would consider general education prek classrooms. So, there's no funding on that. However, you can maximize and bring in more students to those classrooms. The cap is 15 kids. So, you can maximize as many kids as you possibly can on those and then keep our four integrated classrooms. So therefore, from a funding source, get funded on four of those classrooms, our two self-contained classrooms, which is six total. So therefore, the district then is is funding those two general education prek classrooms. What this change does, it also looks at our weight list. So, we're able to pull every student that is on our prek weight list
016off and put them into these classrooms. Now, we've already started the process of reaching out to those families. Some families are like, "Yep, let's go. We're going to start the enrollment process." Some we're still trying to reach out to. If there's families that are like, "Hey, you know what? We moved out of the area or we're not interested." Great. Then we'll start looking at the older threes and fours that can go into those classrooms as well. So, what that does that it brings in an additional 23 to 27 students that currently aren't in the program which gives us about that 141 to 145 range of students which last school year I believe they comment that our kind of goal and what we're projecting based on the styles of classrooms that we got anywhere between 140
017to 160 kids in early intervention so we're kind of at that mark um as we start adding these kids and then more kids second semester will start qualifying will start coming into the pro program. Um so we we feel strongly about making this shift. Um yes, from a funding source, the district is is is funding those two general education pre-k rooms, but we're also adding more kids into that program itself. Um while still taking as much, I guess we want to call it, trying to get as much revenue as we can from death on the funding requirements because they're very specific. You got to meet them. if you don't meet them, it's nothing. Um, so it's how can we make tweaks and we'll every year we may be in this ball game of looking at
018numbers. What are we looking at at this point? How's the program looking like? So that's why this midyear review is a good time um if we're wanting to. So it's keeping the same classrooms, the the same number of classrooms that we got. It's just bringing more kids into the program. And like I said, that prek weight list will be completely eliminated and we'll start work on to the threes and fours as well. So will you be shifting kids then like if they're in >> this integrated classroom then are they getting new teachers to then bring in? >> So and that's what we've closely started to look at as well. So one we're going to focus on the prek which we've got about 20 or 21 kids on that prek weight list. So we're going to
019find out from all of them >> who's interested because we've got enough space in those prek classrooms >> for all of those kids. Um, and then we'll start if we have to look at like if there is a like one of our classrooms is split. Her AM session is prek, her PM session is three, three and four. If we have to look at shifting anybody, it's going to be across the same session. So therefore, it's not like the parents are like, well, my kid was going to AM, now they're switching to PM. We've also talked about earlier this morning that if we're going to do that, while we're also going to start pairing up the teachers together doing some different things. So therefore, if a kid does have to shift from one classroom in the
020AM to another teacher in the AM, they've already connection with them. >> There was going to be a transition. >> We we talked about that this morning. Uh what may help with that transition piece if we need to. >> Yeah. Fortunately, we only have about five students on an IEP, two rooms that we've identified. >> So, it would just be involving those. >> Yeah. I mean, that's hard anyway, but shifting kids on an IEP, it's going to be a little bit trickier. >> Yeah. So, we kind of brainstorm how can we make that transition as smooth as we can. Yeah. >> So, Matt, you said classrooms of 15 is going to be kind of >> Per session, right? 15 per session. And that is without a pair or anything. That is >> No, they they
021they've got an A in there on that. So, >> every class does. >> Yeah. So in early childhood, every classroom has has an instructional aid with them. Yes. Now your self-contained class can have up to two on a funding source component to it, right? Just because of the needs. >> All right. So the next highlight on early childhood is just highlights in general. We kind of pulled this put some information in here. Overall attendance for early childhood is at 95.66, which is actually very good. Um, I actually did reach out over the past 24 hours to other urban childhoods, um, not just in our area, but throughout our, um, the state as well. We're actually the highest. Most of them are running low 90s, upper 80s. Um, so to see 94 95% on our first
022year is really good, especially knowing we got a lot of kids that have been sick for a long time. Um, so to see that, that's kudos. That's letting our families know as well. I actually pulled some attendance from last year when our kids were going to Sodto and just the Hills kids were at 82% in attendance. So bringing it to here families are happy about that part of it. So um and then I know Miss Sil is going to kind of talk about some of the other things that have gone on throughout first semester. >> Yeah, sure. So uh back in October we celebrated our first fundraiser. We weren't sure how it would go with three and four year olds, but they raised over $3,000. So sells. But as far as fundraising incentives, all of
023the students who sold an item went into a raffle for free TV and then each session had a class with the most sales earn a pizza party. So that was fun. Um, but probably the most exciting was Pi the principal. So they all gathered together for their first assembly. They had no idea what we were doing. I did not. And uh we filled up some pie pans with some cool whipped and syrup and sprinkles. And then I asked if we should smash it in someone's face and they said absolutely not. And then I said, "What about my face?" They were all on board. Anyone who sold at least 15 items came up and smashed it in my face and they're still talking about it, still asking if they can do that again. So that was
024uh Veterans Day was super exciting. So we decided to take time to talk about what a hero is. They all have a superhero backpack or shoes, you know, they all know what a superhero is, but we talked about what our real life heroes are. And then we talked about how to show respect. And we invited our veterans that were friends or family of the students to come in. And they we had 18 veterans show and they spent some time visiting with us. We showed off our classrooms. Of course, we're very proud of those. And uh we served a patriotic snack, showered them with some homemade gifts that we had made. And then we lined the halls before we ended and each little preschooler and three-year-old went down the line and shook hands. So that was
025really sweet. And then Friendsgiving was a big hit. So each classroom they had divided up basically a Thanksgiving meal. So each classroom had the responsibility of making a homemade butter or mashed potatoes and then we all came together to enjoy the dishes together. And I know that we had invited of course the school board to join us but we had thought about who would be the right audience to invite to that and we decided to not invite family but instead to invite our school family who had a part in you know developing the program but they don't get to spend the time playing with the kids like we do. So we had um Mr. Lynhor had joined us and Mrs. Hilderbrand and Mr. Whitehead and I know Mr. Quinn did too. We had one little
026girl that didn't want to leave us side. It was adorable. Um, but we had a good time just talking about what we were thankful for. So, that was special. That was the day before break. And then just this past Tuesday, we lucked out. We had beautiful weather for our first road trip. We went all the way to the farm and it was very exciting because most of them hadn't been on a bus and so that was pretty exciting. Just that piece alone would amaze the day. But then we of course went upstairs to the lights and um played with the guinea pigs and met the sheep and walked the goats and the goats walked us for the most part. Uh but they were belly laughing, having a great time and just absolutely exhausted when we
027were done. So it was pretty great. >> All right, so that's the early childhood um side. Anybody got any questions on that? >> Sounds like things are going really well. Did we Did you guys end up doing bus like is there bus for IEP kids or >> Yes. >> Okay. If if they want it. Um and we got a very large amount that are but we do still have some of those that parents or grandparents or somebody bring in. >> Okay. Because I knew we had talked like in like the planning process that that wasn't going to be something the first year, but I figured for kids >> we're we're offering that. Yeah. >> All right. So parents to teachers um kind of the annual overview of that. Um so this is a program that
028we have been a part of for a very very long time. Um in years past it was a consortium hills dotto sunrise and grand view. Um this is a first year with our early childhood in place. This was our first year that we kind of moved ourselves out of the consortium. Um at that point we had about we were we made up about 48% of our consortium. So we were large enough. So we we moved out on our own. Um so parents as teachers basically starts from birth through age five kindergarten age. Um and actually they work with teen parents as well from at the very beginning of it. Um it is a program it is a different program because the year runs May to April. So it's not a January December it's not an
029August to May it's May through April. So the program year is is is different than most of our our programs. Um it is a it is a program that provides not only group connections, activities, events in the community. Um providing screenings and home visits free of charge to families. Um DESIE basically gives the district based on a formula um specific allocations of funds in regards to screens that we can provide to families. And it's not just individual screens. It can be mass screens. I know they're part of the kindergarten registration, but we can also do mass screenings as as as well. Um, and then they provide our parent educators provide home visits to the families that want it. So, part of the evaluation criteria for parents as teachers, I kind of talked about it a
030little bit, is the allegations on home visits and screenings. The data that's up here is based on last year. Um and and it kind of hovers pretty much I I kind of ran a trend for the past 10 years of how many home visits we've done, how many screenings have we done, has there been any changes. Um those are pretty much outside of maybe a few here and there. Um it runs consistent. The only two years that they've been different is the 1920 year, but that's when CO occurred. Um and then the 2021 school year, our home visits were way down because parents just didn't want people in their homes. Um those were the only two years. Other than that, it's typically what we see up on the screen is most of the time 40
031480 to about 495 um home visits we provide throughout the year. Um and then screenings um birth to three is about 49 last year and three years to kindergarten age is 153. Most of those is our kindergarten registry on those screens. Um, and then I was gonna have Amy talk a little bit about the community advisory committee, which is another evaluation tool, which I know our committee just met about a month ago. >> Yeah. So, basically the advisory committee does just that and it advises the program on um ways we can grow and expand and just helps us get a better picture of what we should be focused on as far as our goals. I know Mrs. Petri joined our committee. Thank you. And I know Mr. White was there as well. Um, I recruited
032Dr. Freeman and basically we're just gathering together. We're talking about the program this last round just about what we are hoping to see from the program. Of course with it being our first year in house we have a lot to discuss and so behind the scenes between now and our next meeting in the spring I'm hoping to be able to show all the different ways we've met the goals that we've outlined. Um but basically it's just a group of anyone who is willing to join us to talk about how we can better the program. All right. So, the next couple slides is more of the strengths throughout the course of the year. Um, along with kind of goals for improvement. Um, some of this information is from our consortium program as well. Um, so some
033of the strings I put down is PAT, our parent educators do attend the kindergartener registrations. They conduct the screenings on that. They they assist. Um, they also have participated in the annual family resource night that the primary puts on. Um, and then they basically offer and provide age appropriate resources to them because a lot of families don't even know about PT and what it can truly offer. It's not always the home visits. If you want it, great. But it's more resources as well. Um, and as I mentioned, this is our first year inhouse program. Kind of excited on that end of it. Um, it is one that years past we've worked with the other school districts, but having it in house, our parent educators can now collaborate collaborate with our early childhood staff, which is
034which is huge um on that end of it. And we can provide home visits on our campus. Yes, we can also go to the home if need be, but we can also have it in the PAT room as well within their early childhood center. So, that's kind of a nice piece because in years past, they would have to go down to Dotto for that component of it. For some families, that that's a longer drive. Um so, that's kind of a benefit factor on that end of it. We were very fortunate to hire three part-time parent educators, which is what we needed for this program year. We evaluate that all the time based on the number of families on the weight list and everything and if we need to hire another part-time one or if we
035need to go to a full-time one and have just two part times. Um, so we've got three part-time educators. Every single one of them have has experience as a parent educator. Two of them came from our consortium. One of them came from the Fox parent program. So that is huge on our end of it that we actually were able to hire people um that was not only invested in the community and in our area but that have experience. So that was one of our strengths on on on that end of it. And the last slide is kind of goals for improvements as we look forward to not just finishing out this program year but kind of going into the next program year um for our parents, parents as teachers. We want to continue to serve
036high needs families with more than the minimum of two visits per month. If our allocations from DESIE allow it to, we would love to get into those homes more than just two times per month. Um, another one is, and this was a huge thing that our um, advisory committee talked about as well, is making contact with our teen parents. Um, which is part of that is communicating with our high school counselors of anybody at the high school or any age. um is it's reaching out to those families, reaching out to those teens um because we're able to start providing resources in home business at that point. Um so that was one of our our goals that we want to want to work towards. Um and then through the advisory committee increasing our partnerships. We've got
037several already, but it's expanding that piece of it. One, because that will help us um provide more resources to the families. Um and then trying to meet our screening and home visit allocations. It's not easy from year to year because a lot you may have 70 families, but we may have 20 that just don't want the home visits. So, it's trying to educate the families on what PET does, what our parent educators can offer. Um, so it's looking at that constantly at that data to make sure that we're meeting those numbers. Um, and then it's just locating and securing additional fundings um through grants, through other avenues, with our partnerships and stuff like that. So, that's one those are our goals from a PAT standpoint. Um, part of that is our advisory committee. Um, but
038it's also our parent educators that are truly out there doing events. Miss Phillips is out there with with the events as well. Um, so the more that we can get this out there to families, I get phone calls and emails all the time about we didn't know about it. We didn't know there was a PT. What is it exactly? Um, so it's just it's just getting the information out there to our families. Um, whether they want a home visit or they just want their kids screened, great. We're here to offer it. Um, so those are kind of the goals that we're going to work towards the rest of this year and coming into next year as well. Any questions on PAT? >> All right. Appreciate the report tonight. Good work. Right. Uh, next item of
039business for us this evening is the acceptance of the fiscal year 2025 audit. Uh I believe we have a member from uh district auditor Miller Goldberg Felon Jones this evening come down and share with us the results of the 25. >> Good evening. Good evening. >> How's everybody doing tonight? >> Good. >> I don't have anything exciting like pying a principal in the face or you know early childhood development. Um but I do have some exciting news about the audit. So my name is Hill Fernandez. I am from Mueller Overfelt and Jones formerly known as Daniel Jones and Associates. Um, on behalf of Miller Overberfold and Jones, I would like to thank you all for the opportunity to perform the district's annual audit. It is always a pleasure working with the district's staff. Um, I
040want to extend my appreciation to Jennifer, even though she's not here, and her colleagues um, for their assistance and professionalism throughout the entire audit process. The cooperation and efficient uh, efficiency has made this a successful audit for all of us. Um, during the audit, we issue several opinions. The first opinion is on the district's financial statements. I'm pleased to report that we issued an unmodified opinion, which means the financial statements are presented fairly in all material respects. In other words, it was a clean audit with no material errors or issues noted. This is the highest level of assurance that can be provided and the best opinion a district can receive. The second opinion relates to the district's compliance with Missouri laws and regulations, including budgetary and dispersement procedures, accurate disclosure of attendance and transportation, and
041other requirements listed in schedule of selected statistics. We found the district to be in compliance with all of the applicable state requirements. Finally, because the district expends more than $750,000 in federal awards, a single audit was required. We issued an unmodified opinion on compliance with federal program requirements. Again, the highest opinion possible. Additionally, there were no financial statement findings either. You should have also received a copy of the management letter along with your audit report. This letter contains standard verbiage that we are obligated to share with the board each year. There were no additional recommendations or concerns noted. In closing, I would like to congratulate the district on an excellent audit and commend the administration and staff for their continued diligence and attention to detail. We appreciate the opportunity to work with the district and
042thank the board for your continued trust in their overflow. >> Thank you very much. >> Take any questions if anybody has any. >> Thanks for being here. >> Thank you. >> You all have to stick around for approval. Some boards like it, some boards are like >> that's next on the list. >> Okay, stick around. >> Do I have a motion to accept the 2024 2025 audit as it was presented? >> All right. Any any further questions regarding the audit audit processes process? All those in favor of approval? Not opposed? Motion carries. Thanks again for being here tonight. >> Stay home. >> We do have some other reports. Uh next up is the senior citizens property tax credit five and it's uh fiscal impact on the district shortly. >> Yes, just wanted to u share
043with the board and also put it in our uh historical records. This is uh the first time that we've had this. This is the Senate Bill 190 from a couple years ago, the senior uh citizens tax credit. Um, and so how that works is we do claim all of the assessed valuation increase as it applies to the Hancock amendment. Um, but then there is also then a credit back uh to those eligible uh seniors um in related to their real estate taxes there. So the applicable credit amount for the school district that we won't receive is $117,560.13. And so this is the base line for that um going forward. So that's you know mindful of when we talk about like the $170,000 uh with the Missouri scholars. So we sort of add those two together.
044Um there starts to be some real impact there of $300,000 almost. So but that we received that uh from Jefferson County. >> So just just a quick a quick note and I think followup question on that when we're calculating our our revenues with regards to to taxes this 117 was expected to be included there. We did not have a way to calculate what this credit was going to be. So now that we have a baseline, we have a way to factor that in. But this could in fact be wildly different or increase could decrease depending on participation in the program because it is a program that did significantly >> each year. So that 117,000 was due to the district but but due to those that participated that was taken out of what we >> Yes.
045is when you think about also Senate Bill 3 and that's impacting across the board freezing to 2024 levels. You can see where this is a a relatively limited uh population right of not just people in that age demographic but they had to apply for that. So it's a it's a difficult calculation to make on an annual basis. Well, and I have a question and and they may not know the answer. Out of all senior citizens qualify, how many apply? I don't guess the county knows that. >> It'd be nice if we knew. >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, that would certainly help with a just the revenue calculations when the budget. I mean, I appreciate that we have this to go for for our just for our overall financial calculations, but as a program that takes applicants
046every year, just simply >> but it's a good indication from the baseline and you know I do think >> like anything else it'll eb and flow from the standpoint of um different I'll use Jefferson County for example um the price of housing is going to impact is in an area with younger families you're not going to have but if it's an area where there's a lot more retirees uh an older population which Hillsboro kind of is. It's higher priced homes, uh, town homes that people older people. >> He didn't say that. >> Say that already, John. >> People that may qualify for this senior citizens tax. >> But so all those different things will happen. >> Any questions on this? appreciate your input. I know you've been tracking it closely over the last year plus
047see how it goes into fiscal year 26. >> Uh last report on the district financial report, our budget report through November. >> Yes. So um within the board packet, I'll also put it up online the uh one that we typically do. It's a a PDF is I try to uh put it in presentation form as well. Also, I'm going to go through the presentation form if Mr. Quinn can put that up. Just running through um some of the information. We started our balances uh this year at what 17.24 million in our operating, 1.75 in capital, 4.69 uh or excuse me 4.69 69 in capital, 1.75 in debt service, uh resulting in a starting balance of $23.6 million. So, go to the next one to bring you up to speed on where we are financially right
048now. Um, we've received about $17 million, uh, which is about 37 uh% of what we've budgeted. As you can see, we spent 19 uh.9 almost 20 million uh which is almost 40% of what we budgeted. That is to be expected. You know, if you're watching this at home or for the board, you're like, "Wow, we're negative 2.9 um million dollars right now." That's uh because when we receive our funds, we're going into that season. Uh December, January, and February uh is when we receive a lot of our money. And so similar, you know, I was thinking about this. It's kind of like a farmer harvest season. You know, you have in the fall, you make all your money and it's got to last you throughout the year. Schools are similar to that as far as
049for local funds. That's why you see that -2.9 and that should uh start adjusting as we go through. Uh the next slide then um shows our budgeted amounts. Um so similar to what I had shared earlier, next slide. Um as I'd already kind of got ahead of myself so uh the expenditures are tracking very similar to what they had had uh in our previous uh years and with our budget a little bit higher on the expenses with early childhood on the on the personnel side and salary. Um but we had planned for all that great job. So, um, on the budgeted revenue, uh, our revenue to date at 17, um, million dollars. I do want to point out 2324 and last year would have been similar. That's a vast difference. And so, you're probably that's
050wow, what's going on with the $5 million uh, more revenue. Do we have something going on because our enrollment's declining? What that is is the $4.5 million we just got in December for the closing on the HVAC level. >> So we have to count that from accounting principles that's revenue um but it's not state taxes etc. It's alone u but it is on our revenue year today. So next budget year um it's probably going to go back down unless we're getting another loan for $4.5 million. So just I wanted to highlight that and I put in the documents just for the board year in and year out especially we get three years on that look back. It just kind of tells the history. So I included that in there as well. Um and I just
051explained that on the next slide. So you go through on the next slide. um it shows those numbers. And then the final two slides here uh is a breakdown of our expected revenue by source as I had mentioned earlier. Um 51% being local, 41.8 uh state and federal. So it's about that 5050 and the other um coming in on our railroads and utilities and other funds. So that's a breakdown. On the next slide, um you can kind of see the I put the 2024 23 24 school year compared to this year's budget, the FY26 year to date. So you can see our revenues up about 600,000 locally. Um the county revenue basically is pretty stagnant there. It's interesting that the state revenue uh really is about $20,000 difference uh from a three years later. Uh
052the SATs went up, but our enrollment has uh declined. Federal is obviously a pretty big significant difference due to NSER funds uh as we are coming out of the pandemic. Um the other is that $4.5 million, you know, compared to what we had originally budgeted at $22,000. Um and what we had received in fiscal year 24 uh $558. So notated that as well in the report. And I believe it's the final slide. There is just uh kind of shows it in a bar graph as far as what we're plann expenditures by fund. Our special revenue is the teachers fund. So approximately you know 70 to 80% our entire budget uh is related to salaries and benefits of the employees in the district. So um yeah the debt service We've spent it. We show that 2.4
053million. That's actually later on in the agenda is a putting the approvals in for the uh March payment of those. Haven't expended those yet, but that'll be uh forthcoming here in the school year. So, any questions on midyear through the budget year? Questions on reporting? I like the format. All right, if there are no questions, we'll move on to uh some new business. Okay. Uh any items of public comment? No items of public comment. That will take us into new business. First is the approval of a bill for payment to Jefferson College. Do I have a motion to approve the bill to Jefferson College in the amount of $22,275 as presented? >> Second. >> Any questions on this item? Hearing none. All those in favor of approval. None opposed with one abstension. Motion carries. Right.
054On to the approval of our upcoming summer school program for 2026. We have a motion to approve the program for 26 is presented. >> Second. Any questions on the upcoming summer school program? Hearing none. All those in favor of approval? None opposed? Motion carries. All right. The next up is the approval of a of our uh John Deere Gator UTV rental agreement. Do we have a motion to approve this rental agreement with Siden Striker NOI for three Gator UTV vehicles for use during the 2627 school year? Uh that contract runs from June 1st until May 30th, 26th into 27th as it's presented. Any questions on the upcoming contract? >> This is a continuation of this. The same numbers units, >> same number of units. There was a slight increase, $50 a unit, just I mean
055that's an annual increase. Um, and they have to it's such a long time out they order them six months, five to six months in advance. So the they get we get them in time. >> Appreciate it. strategically thinking ahead on that. >> All right. Any other questions? Hearing none. All those in favor of approval? Not opposed. Okay. Motion carries. Last item of new business tonight is the approval and resolution of the amendment to the direct deposit agreement for the 26 redemption of those 2017 A bonds that were were mentioned in the finance report. So, do I have a motion to approve the resolution? and the third amendment to the direct deposit agreement in order to proceed with planned 2026 early redemption of those 2027A general obligation office >> motion second questions additional info or concerns
056paying off debts early okay hearing none all those in favor of approval opposition carries all right the last item on the agenda tonight one of the uh upcoming dates and we will have a workshop that uh scheduled for the evening of January 8th 7:00. That will be the um meeting that we will have with MSBA where we'll go over the survey results and uh budget stuff as well. >> We'll do early some budget stuff. >> No votes but just some some information presentation commission. Uh, any questions on the calendar for upcoming dates? >> Okay. All right. Well, that brings us to the end of the agenda tonight. Do I have a motion to adjourn tonight at 7:52? Motion. >> All those in favor. >> Okay. We will be adjourned. Thanks everybody. to this wellness.