001Second. All right. All those in favor? Motion carries. Before we continue, please join us in 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. On to business tonight. We'll start with the consent agenda. It's a long list. Do I have a motion to approve all items on the consent agenda? Is there second? All right. Any questions on the consent agenda? A through D. I just have one question. with the student activities and the parent handbook. Do they have to turn in that signed p that signed page? I'll defer to Mr. Yes, they do. Okay. Okay. So, parents has a parent signature and and the student signature. Yeah. And they have to turn
002that in. Perfect. Thank you. Any other questions, items to be pulled or concerns with agenda items to see? Okay, hearing none. All those in favor of approval. Opposed. Motion carries. We'll then turn to some reports. Turn it over to Dr. Isacson for superintendent reports. All right. Couple of things this month. Want to um wrap up summer school tomorrow. And so want to thank our summer school staff and uh administrators and bus drivers and everyone who's worked through that. It's gone extremely well and the kids had uh a good time and it appears to be very well attended and uh thankful for the summer school teachers can and staff can now start their summers and so feels like summer's already rolling along pretty good but u it's been a great summer school. Uh wanted to mention
003congratulations to our board of education on being awarded uh the 2025 governance team award. Uh Mr. Winhorse went up and got the plaque uh at the MSBA summer summit here. And so it's a the award recognizes your exceptional leadership, commitment to effective governance, continuous professional learning, and strong legislative advocacy. And so it's a well-deserved honor, and we look forward to working towards it again and checking uh those things off as you continue to be leaders in governance in the state of Missouri. That's a repeat. That's two in a row. Yes, two in a row. um some legislative and policy updates. Um I put within the report uh Senate Bill 3, the property tax credit. Um I think we'll hear more about this uh statewide in uh at the plus board meeting today. Uh they updated
004on that. I do think there'll be some court challenges uh and as it impacts this here has been a unifying um thing as far as not only the political subdivisions but even in St. Louis County who has a 0% change to theirs um people on the eastern side of the state are going to end up paying for that stadium. And so it'll be interesting as this goes where uh you know we kind of talked about it at our last meeting when we were doing the budget a 0% increase and so all the taxpayers uh would have their assessed valuation stay the same as 2024 sounds good on the surface but it truly the macroeconomics of it is economic devastation Jeff Scott and to our school district and to uh it's not even the government entities
005and I talked about this and I'll say it again as on camera is the macroeconomics of our assessments being frozen and they're already below market value significantly um in our community is what's going to occur is the tax rates are going to go up unless we say we don't want a fire department, we don't want uh quality schools and such which is then a decline to home values. um is ultimately people will pass tax levies and what we're looking at is a community not just Hillsboro Jefferson County uh with high tax levies overall where maybe now in the Hillsboro if like right around here it's like $693 $6.93 cents when you add Hillsboro's the libraries uh and all those together I could foresee if it was constitutional uh a situation where it's like 89 and
006you get those tax savings as long as you don't leave your house. But new homes, anytime there's a transaction, it would move to that current value. And commercial doesn't apply to them. So commercial properties would see their taxes rise significantly. Um that's not that's going to completely halt economic growth in Jefferson County and impact home prices. uh even if you try to sell your home is it would be cheaper to buy it other places. It'll be interesting to see how that impacts. Will it impact Hillsboro if it is deemed constitutional? We have put on the ballot. Sure. But it it's um it'll be interesting to see how that goes down through as we uh work through that. But that's just the impact and the impact on uh not just schools but our construction workers and
007uh those that do projects. There's a huge economic because that will tap the brakes, you know, and there's um a lot of construction that goes on in the summer with prevailing wage uh sheet metal workers, you know, I went through the high school SMCI was down there is there's not that work for those people that live in the community that are working on Hillsboro High School doing our HBAC because it's not affordable or we're able to pay for and so the trickle down actually impacts people in their homes. homes, uh, not just a school district. It's a it's a huge economic issue that I've visited at length about with our legislators, um, and continue to do so as a result this afternoon. So, um, put some other information in there about legislation that was passed
008um, earlier this spring as we kind of finalized. That all hasn't been signed by the governor yet. I assume that will be by the middle of next uh that middle of next week. And then in a couple weeks on the 8th uh I'll be out of town. I'm headed to Washington with uh again some superintendents were selected. We will be going to Capitol Hill. I'll be meeting with uh the Missouri delegation. I know that um I got an email today uh meeting with Senator Holly and there's three or four that have been confirmed. So, we'll be spending time there focusing on the arbitrage issue and some other uh federal funding issues and just talking about how those decisions there are impacting Hillsboro, Missouri uh Liberty, Missouri Summit and so we have kind of a blend
009of small large uh and rural schools and we'll spend a couple days on Capitol Hill just talking about that. So, I'll be taking our nest and talking about Hillsboro and it's it's fun when they go back because they've heard about the farm, they know about our community. Uh, and so we have some new uh congressmen up there from the previous year. Uh, there has been some turnover. So, uh, I would I enjoy it. It's kind of very educational for me, but also it's pretty impactful and us being there having those conversations to make those connections. So, looking forward to that. That'll be I'll be there the week of the 8th through the 11th. Actually, I'll be back in the office on the 11th to fly back and included some information at the bottom of the
010superintendent goals uh as to kind of the past month of uh what we've been working on. Not not a whole lot of early childhood items. So, uh you can just keep out of that and then we'll kind of close button that up next month or at the August meeting. All right. Okay. Any questions? Good. Jump back over to you for the uh All right. In the finance um report is we have the uh May summary. Uh Mr. Moore, are you able to maybe put that up? And then uh this ties into the budget document, but this is where we are through May. Um see minimize this. Um is there a presentation one in there? Potentially another document like I put both in there. presentation summary. If you go back to the main assembly document, I
011think I have it embedded in the I see it. Oh, yeah. I'll request access. You know what? And then just I can just run us through this one is uh if you sorry overall um revenue collections remain strong closing at 95.6% of the budget. expenditures have reached 86% um which includes some of we had the February um budget adjustment. So that's uh reflected in those numbers. And so we still have June, which is going to be, you know, the teachers checks and the last finishing out the the fiscal year, but through May 31st, we're at 86.5%. Uh on the expenditure side, uh our preliminary budget was to be 13.9. Uh our net position to change. uh we had talked about that on the deficit spending that is our debt paid off you know through the
012debt service and capital uh as we'll see reflected uh even as we go into this year's budget. So, moving on down, um, on the revenue breakdown, I do think that this is important to point out is I'm going to go, you can scroll down a little bit further there, Aaron, to the 20 last year's, the next one. [Music] I guess I should get ahead of you. There we go. As you can see, our local revenue is down. Um and so that's when we talk about the assessments uh and the value that economic indicator shows that the Hillsboro school district economically is falling behind are actually having less growth. home values are decreasing. Uh because that's what that the roll back uh look and when I you kind of look at how are we getting less
013local revenue when real estate prices uh historically have been going up from 23 to 24 kind of leveled out. But when you look at what we project uh into the future taking that in and so 22,443 is actually less than it was in fiscal year uh 23 which would have been the 22 23 school year. So following those trends. Um as far as revenue coming in, county revenue also in part to be fair that's also we've been decreasing our tax levy. So that's going to uh a combination of that is bringing in the total dollars. County revenue kind of held the same. State revenue uh has went up significantly with the SAT uh going up. federal revenue with SSER funds have gone down went down significantly. And then on the other revenue, see that kind
014of bounces around from year-over-year. The 289 is from the sale of five RGwood and then tuition. So just putting that on there for the board to look. I was visiting with Miss White about this is year overyear having that historical data uh also helps during the budget planning because you're like that's a w why are we $10 million off paying attention that. So um overall things are going very if you know scrolling down through that kind of expenditure by fund classifications. So we break it down uh as you can see debt service uh I want I do want to point that out is uh in 2000 fiscal year 23 we spent 85,000 out of that fund last year 4 million this year 13.2 um million. So you're like wow why that spending go up 193%.
015is next year in May that's going to look like it went down 200%. Because uh our budget is right around three million is and I'll talk about this in the budget uh but I like saying it over and over again. It's in 2019 the district bond debt general obligation bond debt is $27 million. Currently as we end this fiscal year it's at 3.3 and at the end of next year it'll be $1.5 million. Um, and that's a thank you to the board and uh the work that we've done strategically is that's saving interest in building room. And that's why uh as we kind of wind down the tax levy will be going down another 20 cents in Hillsboro and u but it's something we're always uh paying attention to. So that's why that number that
016was a check that was sent to pay prepay our debt that we currently had in our debt service account. Um, moving on down is a year-over-year breakdown between elementary instruction. That's K6, not the elementary building. Uh, you know, then middle school, uh, include the junior high, high school, sped, transportation. So, you see the year-over-year variances going back a couple of years. Um and then of the things there you can kind of note this year um elementary hold up Aaron you're going is typically things went up between 10 to you know 14% 18% in sped executive administration is actually down 16%. spent $198,000 uh on executive administration uh this year has continually went down since fiscal year uh 23 on that. So uh principal interest payments you see that that uh that's aligned with that debt
017service there uh earlier. So all right and then you go down just to the end of the year. Uh I explained kind of the the function items there. Our net position uh one of our strategic plan goals is to be within 5% of the number that the board approves for the budget. So, as Miss White uh has worked on the budget and we did the budget um amendments in the strategic plan as you can see two years ago at this report at the May meeting pulled that from two years ago we had spent 80% of the budget. Um last year we're at 82.4 as of that point we're at 86.54 this past year. Um, so hopefully we get to that within that five year end. We're like we spent 95% of percent of the money.
018Not that we're trying to spend the money, but that means we were on target of projecting what we're going to spend. Uh, that allows us to make solid financial decisions. And so, summary, year end of the year end spending outlook. And obviously, uh, this is using the information through May and we only got a couple days left in the year. Um but kind of that's where we were at for each one. So um special revenue is at 77% may increase due to the summer payroll but we expect it to remain uh in the limits. Capital funds could go over a little bit depending on when we get the bills if uh a bill came prior to uh that. It's um that's kind of brings us up through May. That was the information um as they
019reconcile everything. That leads us into the budget presentation this evening and that's why I went a little bit deeper into that. So, uh a great year, great work by Miss White and Dr. McKeen and uh all those that got the numbers and work each day to try to lock all that down. All right, any questions? So, we've been transitioning. This is something that just jumped off the page at me here. We've been transitioning between the board docs to the assembly platform. So, the agenda item that we have in here that's in our agenda tonight is to take action on this report. So, I'm going to ask for a motion to accept the uh presentation this evening as it's been presented. Any further questions? All those in favor of accepting acceptance of report as presented oppos.
020Thank you. Motion carries. All right. Any items of public comment tonight? Okay. Right into some new business. All right. So, first item of new business tonight is the approval of the 2526 school resource officer agreement. Do I have a motion to approve the SRO agreement cooperation between the district and the Hillsboro Police Department as it's presented? Second. Okay. We have a short presentation. Yeah. I just want to introduce um there he is. Sergeant Tus. And he's gonna he oversees the SRO program here at Hillsboro. Um we work with him two or three times. Well, we'll actually do more than that just on planning and making sure we're visible and some of the strategic stuff with our SRO. So, he's going to introduce we have a couple here tonight and he's going to introduce them. For
021those of you that don't know, a current SRO that's been here for a while, Dean Rogers, Officer Rogers, uh he's been here three years, four years now. Three years, right? This next school will be my fourth year. Going into his fourth year, we had an officer here by the name of Shelby Cornet. She'd been here for a couple of years. She's gone back to regular police duties. And we got real fortunate. And uh just a couple months ago, we had an applicant present herself to us, Jessica White. Hi. Nice to meet you guys. With a uh background in social work and law enforcement out of uh Cape. Yeah. I worked um on the on campus police department down. So she had a very large interest in becoming an SRO. A little different than normal. Normally
022we put a person on the road for a while, teach them a little more about pleasing in the public. Uh she had the background. We decided to make the switch and bring her in here. Fortunately, we were able to bring her in for the summer school, which gave her a little bit lower key view of school district. Keeping in mind that this is a city within a city. You guys really are a city within a city. And we view it that way. The police department, we're excited. We are having much more I I believe much more interaction with the school with the administration. It's my pleasure to supervise this program. But Jessica is going to be a great addition. So far seems to very much be enjoying the relationships here and I don't have anything
023else really unless you've got questions of Jessica. Probably not of me. Welcome. Welcome. Any questions? Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Before we move on, we like to approve the SRO agreement. All those in favor of approval this even. Yes. All right. None opposed. Thank you. Motion carries. Thank you and welcome aboard. Thank you. Looking forward to having this. All right. Our next item of business is the K12 safety subscription agreement with MSBA. Do I have a motion to approve the K12 safety subscription agreement as it's Second questions on this agreement hearing none. All those in favor of approval and none opposed. Motion carries. We have uh some uh board minutes to approve June 12th. Do I have a motion to approve the board of education minutes from the June 12th
024meeting as presented? Second. Any questions, comments, updates, or corrections? Okay. Hearing none. All those in favor of approval. Any opposed? Any abstensions? All right. Motion carries. We do have one bill for payment separated from consent agenda to Jefferson College. We have a motion to approve Jefferson College bill in the amount of $2,250. Second. Any questions? All right, hearing none. All those in favor of approval? Any opposed? And one abstension? Motion carries. All right. Then on to some budget related items. Do I have a motion to authorize the director of finance to proceed with proceed with making our annual adjustment entries and transfers as needed with regards to end of year budget? Any questions, comments, or uh additional information to share? Okay, hearing none. All those in favor of approval. Not opposed. Motion carries. And on
025to our fiscal year 26 budget. Do I have a motion to approve the 202526 annual budget as it is presented? Question. Questions on the budget? We had a uh work session read of the budget a few weeks above go. Any questions from from them? Anything else come up? Okay, hearing none. All those in favor of approval of 26 budget opposed. Motion carries. We do have some uh policy items. These are first read items 2025 A and B. Justformational for this month's meeting. Are there any questions uh on this read? These will come back next month for approval. Any questions or comments? Sure to share with Miss Not about this, but I knew that legislators passed the like the no cell phone use and I was kind of expecting to see that. Do you know where
026that stands? MSBA is not finished with that. Okay, that's what I Okay. Our policy that we currently have in place will cover us until they come until they come. Okay. Other questions? Okay. See this again next month for approval. Uh last item tonight is with regard to the board of education calendar. Any uh updates to shareformational perspective? Our next board meeting will be July 24th. Um and I plan to have the photographer there so we can get uh group photos and individual photos. um and planning for the next school year and pushing things out. So, um I'm going to have them and also visiting with the administrators on that. I think I put on there that we'll start at like 5:30. Uh, but I may even push it back to six. July doesn't have necessarily
027long executive. Uh, and so maybe the board could uh probably will do six is we'll go from executive from 6:00 to 6:30 to do the photos and if there was business to come back afterwards, but that way uh the photographer doesn't have to be here as long and uh the administrators don't have to be here that so much earlier. Um and did I did put on the uh October 23rd in red um that is MSBA's annual conference. Um put in red because I we kind of discussed do we need to move the meeting or um some of the board members if you we're going over Thursday could uh zoom into the meeting. Um visit with Mr. Lenhor. I don't mind staying back and he had talked about uh staying back to like run the meeting
028uh but that we could still make it work even if some zoomed or went to MSVA on that Friday uh etc. Thoughts on that? I think that um we looked at the the 26 governance award as well. So attendance at a number of events is required but attendance at this particular convention is not it's not it's a conference yeah annual conference is not a regional meeting it has to be yes across a portfolio of meetings one of at least one of those so um it's not a requirement that we have someone in attendance there but because we've already met at the summer summit that's what because we did summer summit and we had a quorum of the board and myself we meet from a governance award standpoint that's been met. So my thought was that
029I would stay here and if anyone wanted to attend we'd have we had some in person meeting for another cruise somebody's got to do it. So I guess the is the board okay with leaving it on that date in the work the MS work it okay right and we did find out I put it on my calendar but we do have the MSBA regional meeting in the I think it's early part of September September 3rd I want to say first September 3rd Any other questions? Okay, that brings us to the end of our business tonight and I'll ask for a motion to adjourn here at 7:30 on the dock. So moved. Second. Okay. All those in favor of journeying