001Can't start early. >> Nope. Can't start early. >> Now it's six. >> Please rise for the pledge. >> I can wait for Darcy. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. Secretary, call the role, please. >> Uh Boehner >> here. >> Nenza. >> Uh Dunlap >> here. Casper >> here. >> Hammerick here. Lloyd >> here. >> Barry >> here. >> All right. 3.1 super superintendence report. >> Yes, thank you. The beginning of the school year is quickly approaching. All staff will return on Monday, August 18th. The keynote address to staff will be on Tuesday, August 19th at 8 a.m. in the cafeterium at Central. The board is welcome to
002join us. And the first day of school for students will be Wednesday, August 20th. We look forward to welcoming students back into the buildings. We also have open houses next week. Monday, August 18th, uh the elementarymentaries will host their open houses. And Tuesday the 19th, Central Middle School will host theirs and the open houses will be from 5:30 to 700 p.m. We hope you will all join us. Uh welcome. I'd like to welcome Gina Lamort as the new principal at Ferick. We're looking forward to Gina leading Fick to the next level. I'd also like to welcome Jim Sappheric uh to Central. He's the new dean and he brings a wealth of experience with him and he'll be a great support to the students and staff at Central. So, welcome to Gina and welcome to Jim.
003Um and I also want to point out um Carrie Radkkey and her new role as curriculum director. She's off and running and doing a great job. Um, Central Middle School renovation update. The buildings and grounds team and contractors have been working hard at Central to make sure the building is ready for the first day of school. They are scurrying about that building because, you know, we've got all these new floors and they're putting a fresh wax on every square foot of that building. Um, so it looks great for teachers and students. Uh, next week all the flooring's been installed. Um, the flooring is being waxed. Electricians have completed all the lighting control work and have finished programming. Replacement of ceiling tiles is complete. Uh, corkboards have been hung. Classrooms and offices are being cleaned. Furniture
004is being moved back. And new concrete's been poured and pressed at the front entrance. So, notice that on your way in to door one. Um, now I'd like to throw it to Kelly to talk about Panorama. Hi, welcome back. Um, our district MTSS leadership team met last week on August 6th and we had a full day training with our Panorama education trainer. They It was great. Um, Panorama, as you we've talked about in the past, it's going to be a new student success platform that we're working with. It will house all of our academic, behavior, and social emotional data all in one place. So, we are going we are really excited to start using that to support our MTSS um process as well as our PLC's. >> Thanks. >> Some condolences this month. Sue Campbell's
005mother-in-law, Judith Campbell, passed away in May. Sue is the district controller. Uh retired central teacher Peg Hanigan's son passed away after a battle with cancer. Uh Don Hansen's grandmother Arlene Hansen passed away recently. And Larry Kosolic, father of Sarah Lions and husband of Betty Kosolic recently passed away. Sarah is an instructional coach at Central and Betty is a retired pair professional at Cruz. Um as you know, Don is the principal at Central. Um and former teacher Peg Hanigan. Did I say Sue Campbell's the controller? I want to make sure nobody's left out. So, uh, the district, uh, sends our condolences to those folks and their families. And that's all I have for the superintendent's report. >> Thank you. >> Can I ask a quick question? >> Um, the mental health screening that was just passed
006by the governor, is that covered under a panorama? >> Do you know? Um, once we start doing that screening, the results will certainly be in the Panorama database, but I don't know whether or not Panorama has an actual instrument for that or not. >> We that's what we use. >> Oh, good. Okay. Just checking. >> Thanks. That's what we will be using. We've used something in the past, but we're switching to here. >> Perfect. >> Thank you. 4.1 citizens may address the board. Seeing none, 5.1 Welcome back. Um this week we have the par training um the Wednesday and Thursday. So I believe we have majority of the pairs that will be showing up. Um and then we're looking forward to seeing the kids if we haven't seen them during the session. Um, do you
007know anybody? I think we do have a few openings regardless. So, >> thank you. Moving on to action items. Can I have a motion for the consent agenda? >> I move uh we adopt consent agenda 6.1, approval of minutes, 6.2, approval of the destruction of close session tapes. 6.3, approval of financial items, and 6.4, approval of personnel items. 6.5 policy updates. No, >> that's not on the concern. >> I have a second. >> Secondary. >> Boehner. >> Yes. >> Nanza >> here. Sorry. >> Yep. >> Donap. Casper. >> Yes. >> Hammerick. Yes. Lloyd. >> Yes. >> Barry. >> Yes. >> 6.5 policy updates. Second read. >> Yes. This is the second read of the most recent recommendations from the policy committee uh as recommended by press service. Um there's one new policy 7255 with regard
008to uh students who are parents or expected parents. Um that's a new policy. Um otherwise lots of updates in uh references and also um five-year reviews. And then any policy that referenced Title Nine has been touched again as the Title N uh rules changed um again under the Trump administration. So they need to u update that language. In fact, there will likely be another round of those in the next batch. Um and also changes in current law with regard to administering medicine to students. >> Thank you. the 7.1. >> No, we have to approve. >> I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I apologize. Can I have a motion? >> I move that the board of education approve the policy revisions and adoption as presented. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Secretary call
009the role. >> Boehner, >> yes. >> Nenza, >> yes. >> Dunlap, >> yes. >> Casper, >> yes. >> Hammerick, yes. Lloyd, >> yes. >> Barry, >> yes. >> 7.1 FY 2026 preliminary budget presentation. >> Yes. I have a brief uh PowerPoint to go over. >> What's this? >> I'm sitting right underneath the air. >> Yeah. >> Feels good. >> Too cold for you? >> Yeah. All right, there we go. All right, so this is the preliminary budget. Just as a reminder of how the budget works, uh the law requires us to present a preliminary budget that has to be on display for 30 days and then at the September board meeting, we will have an official budget hearing and then approval of the official district budget. So this is the August preliminary budget report. So
010I'd like to start out with a highlevel overview of all of the funds combined. So uh you could see that our opening fund balance is 49.7 million. We have anticipated revenues of 53 million expenditures 54. So that's a a deficit for the year of 1.2 million leaving a June 30 of 26 fund balance of 48.5 million. Um so get starting with the revenue uh you could see that our our revenue comes from three sources and the biggest one by far is local. Um those numbers have changed over the past five years or so due the due to the property tax relief grant. It used to be about 85% local and 10% state. And so that has flipped by about 10% each way. uh the federal amount has stayed fairly consistent over the years. So total
011revenue budgeted 53.4 million. On the local side, the majority of it is property taxes and we will be receiving the second half of 24 taxes when the CPI was 3.4% and then the first half of 25 taxes where the CPI was 2.9%. But um we have been abating for several years due to the property tax relief grant and those abatements are starting to roll off. So even though normally our revenue would be uh an average of the the two numbers there at the top, but it's actually going to go up 5.2% because of the abatements rolling off. Um so property taxes will be up about 1.9 million which is 5.2% compared to last year. And then also interest revenue will be up about half a million dollars compared to last year as well. So all
012put all putting all of that together that means our local revenue is increasing by 6.3% um compared to last year. So in in real numbers last year it was 38.6 million. This year 41.1. So that's a $2.4 4 million increase or six six and a quarter percent. On the state side, uh for the evidence-based funding model, we're moving from tier three to tier two. Tier the the highest level of funding is tier one. So, we're actually moving to a higher level of funding, but the majority of the money goes to tier one. So, even though we moved up a tier, we're only getting $57,000, which in the in a $50 million budget is is not much at all. And then the property tax relief grants, which we have gotten for the last four years in
013a row, are going away. So, no more new money from that. Um, some small increases in the other state revenues. So, the grand total, last year's budget was 9.7 million, this year 10.1. So that's an increase of 450,000 or um almost four and three 4.68%. Federal side, federal revenue is fairly stable from year to year. Um it's going down a little bit. We still had some Esser money coming in last year that is not coming in this year. So even though it's a big percentage decrease, it's a small dollar uh decrease compared to some of to the federal and state. So federal is is down just a uh a little bit on a dollar basis. So the revenue summary, local revenue is up. Uh again, property taxes and interest state is up. Uh federal is
014down. And put that all together, the total revenue is up 2.6 million uh for a total of 53.4 million. That is a state or that is a total revenue increase of 5.3% compared to last year. On the expense side, uh this is how much we spend in each category and you can see that the the vast majority of it is salaries and benefits. That's twothirds of our total. um purchase services. An interesting note there, about half of that total is just transportation. Regular ed and special ed is about 2.8 or 2.9 million of the total. Um and then the capital outlay of course includes the $3 million renovation project at Central, which will hit this current year's budget. So all of those things add up to 54.7 million. Um, and here is how each item
015has changed. There's a lot of numbers here. I apologize. Um, a couple of notes. The the benefit cost is increasing. Um, that's about a 9 and a half% increase. Um, it's a combination of our health insurance costs going up about 6% and then just the mix of who chooses single or family. Um, we had more people picking higher levels of insurance. So, uh that that one is probably the biggest percentage increase. Uh purchase services are up a a goodly amount. Also, uh utilities are included in that amount and we are anticipating a big increase in electric bills this year. um the the way they do electricity billing especially for commercial properties has changed and we're anticipating that that's going to go up quite a bit. Um those are the most notable things in there but
016you can see every category is essentially higher than last year. So expenses are going up by 4.4 million to a total of 54.7. So again, the the summary, um it's a deficit this year, uh but the district is still in good financial shape when you consider the fund balance compared to the amount that we're spending. Um it's spending down on purpose a little bit with the capital projects that we're doing. Um and that's basically it. Any questions from board members? So if we don't do anything >> yes, this budget actually anticipates an additional abatement beyond what is required as we uh the idea was to step down the abatements. Um, so there is an extra $1 million of non-required abatement built into that. That decision doesn't get made until the springtime, but for budgeting purposes,
017I put it in there. Okay. Thank you. in case I forgot. 8.1 communications and correspondence. >> I've got one here um from uh Mary Beth uh Casper. Dear Jeff, Julie, Jill, Amy, Darcy, and Rick, thank you very much for the beautiful flowers. They lit up my hospital. My surgery will be two weeks on 7:14, and my flowers look as beautiful as the day they were delivered. Thanks again, Mary Beth. >> All right. Can I have a motion to go into close session? >> I move to go into close session for collective bargaining. >> Can I have a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? Secretary, call the role. >> Boehner, >> yes. >> Dunlap, >> yes. >> Casper, >> yes. >> Cameron, yes. Lloyd, >> yes. >> Barry, >> yes. There'll be no action after close.