001Good morning and welcome to the board of education meeting Thursday, June 26, 2025. At this time, I'd like to have a moment of silence. Thank you. Before we get started, uh I'd go to go over a board policy that is board policy 2302 dealing with remote participation uh during board meetings. Board acknowledges that attendance of board meetings is essential for its members to perform their official duties and add to the diversity of thought and opinion in the board's deliberation. The board strongly encourages its members to physically be present at all board meetings. The board recognizes however that extenduating circumstances may occur or case may occur preventing one or more members from physically being present at the meeting. It is further recognized that the advances in technology such as audio and video conferencing have made it
002possible for members to communicate deliberately with each other or remote from remote locations. Therefore, we promote full participation of board members while ensuring access transparency for the public as required by open meetings law pursuant to GS 143-18.9 at the board recognizes uh authorizes remote participation in board meetings subject to the existence of board operational policy state law and following procedures and requirements. One of those authorizations for remote board participation under subp part C is personal illness, being out of town, unexpected lack of child care, family illness, weather conditions, military service, employment obligations, and scheduling complex. We also recognize that while we do promote remote participation that the board u you are not allowed remotely to participate in the voting. So any action item uh will not be allowed to be voted on by the remote
003participant. Uh we do have one board member that is going to be unavailable today but will be available remotely and so we are happy to have her present that way. Uh I will entertain the uh approval of the agenda. I approve the agenda as presented. Uh there is a motion to approve the agenda as presented. Second. I have a second to approve the agenda as presented. Do we have any discussion as to the contents of the agenda? Hearing no. U objection. I will entertain a vote. All those in favor. All those opposed. Motion carries. Items for approval. Yes sir. Um of course we're at our end of year financial closeout. So Mr. Smith will lead us first with our budget amendments. Um that is good morning Dr. Ver I have before you four amendment or
004one amendment for four that we have um for the state fund uh receive additional aotments from the state those four a lotments one was a guarantee a lot amount for 35,000 another for reserve for homeless transportation for $9,276 and another one for uh National Board Certified Teacher Certification $1,900 and $46,696 for technology. Um, a second fund uh is the global carbon spins fund and this is to reallocate um between our program series. Um so the net allocation allocation it's $10,000 and uh or information at this time not to use balance. Um we still have a couple ways to do our processes but right now um the third fund is the federal for federal funds and this is to uh record additional grand revenue $41,000 $41 that's and then our child nutrition program we want to
005recognize uh $110,000 for appropriate additional funds expenses and this is just a part of balancing that it is a selfance. [Music] Okay, we have a recommendation from the superintendent to approve the budget uh amendments. Um I would like to make sure that I understand um the approval amounts. Is it my understanding that we have 92 92,872 in the state public? Yes. And then 10,000 under local current expense and $41,60 under federal grant funds and then $110,000 school nutrition. Is that correct? Um, we have a recommendation by the superintendent to uh for these amendments. I'll entertain a motion with these amendments said Mrs. You said no, we wouldn't go into the fun for the child program. We're going for 110,000 fund for our local right now that we brought in we have and I would just
006compliment our team in a time that spending for school systems has become more challenging. We had intended to use fund balance um over a million dollars is what our original budget calls for, but we have been just very careful with our funds, making sure that we're spending with purpose. So, I want to compliment our financial team, our district staff on that as well because we want to be good citizens. might take a touch, but it's ended up in a strong position. Do I have a motion? I move that we approve the budget amendments for 92,872 for public school fund, 10,000 for the local current expense, $41,60 for the federal grant funds and 110,000 for school nutrition fund. Second motion. We have any further discussion on this particular issue? If not, there is a motion before
007us to approve the budget amendment for state public school fund 92,872 local current expense $10,000 federal grant funds $41,60 and school nutrition $110,000. I will with no further discussion. All those in favor. All those opposed. Motion carries. One more thing I mentioned before Mr. Smith is the next item. Um just for your knowledge and compliment our staff. We still receive money from the state. I think the last item we got was June 11th. So a lot of times it takes a lot of intentional work to the 11th hour to make sure that we use that money wisely and make sure we spend extra for our kids. So a lot of work went into making sure we spend everything. Thank you. And next we have our um we do not have a budget from the state
008yet. So with that we need to pass an inter budget for 256 year. So we have before you a for your approval the general appropriations. So in order to joint stat 115 C 115C 434 mult school district of education hereby makes interim appropriations allowing the finance officer and superintendent to pay salaries in the mutual ordinary expenses of water school district for the interval between the beginning of the fiscal year July 1 2025 until the adoption of the resolution interropation So any shall be charged with proper appropriations and budget resolution. Budget resolution will be adopted in October 2025 unless the state within that time. [Music] Yeah, I do think that that is certainly a possibility. Um I believe the center going home today or tomorrow um with no budget. So we'll continue to monitor that. Um,
009but this allows us to keep lights, keep business. [Music] Any questions? So, I have a recommendation by the superintendent to approve the 20 I guess that should be 25 26 interim budget as outlined. um allowing the chief financial officer and the superintendent to pay salaries in the usual customary other ordinary customary expenses of North School District during the interval between the beginning of the fiscal year July 1st until adoption of a budget resolution by the legislature. Do I have a motion? I made a motion that we budget Hear a second. Second. I have a motion and a second uh to approve the uh or to give authority to the superintendent and the financial officer to pay salaries and usual ordinary expenses for North School District during between July 1st, 2025 the adoption of a budget
010resolution by the general assembly. All those in favor on excuse me is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor. All those opposed motion. [Music] Well, I almost now becomes that time uh in our meeting uh that we must go into close session to with the our attorney to discuss personnel and consult with our board attorney. We'll entertain a motion to go into close session. So moved. I have a motion. I have a second. Second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor. All those opposed. The motion carries. [Music]