001Stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge >> to the flag of the United States of America. To the republic of the courageous stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice right since we had few, you must ask them to stay for me. So then I defended [clears throat] record it. >> Okay. Um, there is an open meetings theft statement on the south wall of the boardroom. Moving on to 1.3 attendance and absence approval. Five board members are in attendance this evening. Let the record show that board member Baruka is not present. Aaron Maruka submitted a letter of resignation from the David City Public Schools Board of Education effective February 10th. In order to comply with the Nebraska Open Meetings Law requirements, the board will convene a special meeting of the board on
002Friday, February 13th at 4:30 p.m. to formally approve the resignation as submitted. In accordance with board policy 9120, the board will begin accepting applications to appoint an individual to fill the remainder of Mr. Barupa's term. Applicants must be a registered voter within the school district and may not hold an employment contract with the district. Applications can be obtained on the district office and must be submitted no later than noon on Tuesday, February 24th. Moving on to item two, student and staff involvement. student board members have um submitted their reports. Thank you to the both of you. Do you guys have anything to add? >> No. >> Okay. Um moving on to public board. [snorts] And we do have several public forum tonight. If you would please um state your names when you stand up to
003speak just so that we make sure that we have um the right name in our minutes. We appreciate it. The board welcomes public input on policies and issues affecting our school district. Per state statute, speakers must sign in at the beginning of the meeting, completing the public comment board and giving it to the president of the board. Speakers will speak in the order of the forms were received. Policy 8346 outlines a speaker's ability to address the board consistent with free speech rights. However, offensive language and defamatory remarks will not be tolerated. Further, concerns about individual staff members that cannot be resolved at the level closest to the situation should be directed to the superintendent. This board will not permit charges or complaints against the school employee without having followed the school's complaint procedure. In an
004effort to maintain the ability of the board to sit as an appellet body in student employee appeals, comments regarding individual student or personnel issues cannot be presented at this time. Public forum is an opportunity for the public to share their thoughts on matters related to the school district. Therefore, the board will not respond to questions or comments. However, should board members wish to respond, they may do so at the end of the meeting or they may respond via email at a later date. Public comment is limited to three minutes per speaker with a total of 15 minutes available at each meeting. And our superintendent, Dr. Daker, will act as timekeeper. Once you get to three minutes, then I will just hold up my hand and ask you to please um stop your stop speaking. So
005in the order that we were that they were received um Lyn Maruka it's for name >> oh I'm sorry I was a 15y year on the board >> I stand before this board and administration as a mother who is honored to represent her son who faithfully served on this board for three years. He approached every meeting with a servant heart and with good intentions. He would be the first to admit he is not perfect. That's making him in need of a savior. He came prepared for by his many hours of research and study for each proposed topic. He often spent time listening to constituents, parents, staff concerns, and their views. But most importantly, he came prepared as a man of God who searched his own heart and listened to the voice most important to him,
006Islam. He knew that his viewpoints would not always be agreed with nor his ideas accepted. Yet, he willingly came to these meetings and he voted his conscience. and he usually left frustrated yet committed to the cause of David City Public Schools and the and the county people that they that lives here. What he did not expect nor did I quite frankly was the absolute unprofessional behavior of this group of leaders and some of the consistent public speakers who often set him fruit. He was regularly shut down, shouted down, ignored, misrepresented, lied to, laughed at, called names, disrespected, thrown under the bus, mocked, pressured to resign consistently, and made to witness the verbal battering and misrepresentation of a man who pursued a seat at this very table. date victims. But this board member was labeled the
007bully because he doesn't always agree with >> you are sir. >> Again, I'm going to repeat that. He was labeled the bully because he doesn't always agree with you. Please. His goal was to faithfully serve the students, staff, and people of Butler County while at the same time serving godly principles. Apparently, those are two non-compatible qualities in the eyes of this group. I would have thought that educators and lifelong learners such as yourselves would be avid proponents and celebrators of these known educational principles. And I will say them slowly, robust debate, diversity of thought, creative ideas. I'm going to continue. You have two good things. >> Honest disagreement. Ma'am, thank you. >> If we can go on with the next person, >> our next person. >> This is exactly Miss Tiffany Hind what we're talking
008about. >> I will leave this room walking out of this boardroom as a proud mother of a god-fearing patriot. And this is exactly what you did to him EVERY SINGLE MEETING. SHUT HIM DOWN. May it be noted. >> Hines. >> Good evening. I would like to take a few moments tonight to state sincerely and fullheartedly say thank you. Schoolboard service and being a superintendent is really glamorous. It's often quiet behind the scenes work that requires countless hours of reading, listening, discussing, and making incredibly difficult decisions. It doesn't come with applause, and it certainly doesn't come with extra time in your day. Yet each of you continues to show up to meetings, the events, the conferences, to our classrooms, the hard conversations that you genu genuinely believe in our students, our staff, and this community. That
009kind of commitment speaks volumes. Thank you for the evenings you give up, the family time you sacrifice, and the weight you willingly carry so that DCHS can continue to be a place where families like mine feel proud and confident sending their children. That sacrifice matters. It's seen. It's felt. As an educator and a parent, I witness the impact of your leadership every single day in our classrooms, in our culture, and in the opportunities our students are giving. Thank you for being forward thinking and courageous in a time where education is constantly evolving and often scrutinized. You don't shy away from the responsibility placed before you. You attend conferences to stay informed. You study the issues. You ask the hard questions. You lead with transparency, holding open meetings, welcoming the public to attend, and providing opportunities
010for patrons to listen and stay informed even when they cannot physically be present. That openness builds trust and trust is the foundation of a strong district. Thank you for keeping students at the center of every decision you make academically, socially, and emotionally. Thank you for supporting initiatives that strengthen instruction and expand opportunities. Thank you for being visible at events present in our buildings and engaged in conversations that shape the future of our district. Your presence sends a powerful message. This work matters and our students matter. But perhaps most importantly, thank you for being willing to take the beat. Leadership requires courage. It requires steadiness when opinions are loud and perspectives stiffer. Decisions aren't always easy and they're not always universally popular. Yet, you remain focused on what is right for our kids. That integrity and
011resolve make an immeasurable difference. DCHS is a place where I am deeply proud to teach. It's a place where I'm proud to have my own children attend. And that pride is rooted in trust. Trust in your leadership. Trust in your vision. And trust that every decision is made with someone's best interest at heart. Please know that your work matters more than you may ever fully realize. You are valued. You are appreciated. And the difference you make in the lives of our students and families will extend far beyond what any of us can see today. on behalf of our staff. >> Thank you, please. >> And um our last speaker uh Mr. Greg Tubby, >> Greg Tubby, David, [cough and clears throat] can I just sit down? Hello there. That acceptable speaker. I just want to
012thank the board and the administration for allowing me to speak. I you know there's been a lot of disagreement lately about how to fund capital building projects in the district. I know some people uh would have won and uh that way there could be a public vote on it and I think the school district stance is that we have uh elected representatives on the board and we should just trust their judgment and the judgment of the administration. But I just want to pose you know what if the philosophy that they're using to make the decision is is flawed. So what I think to be occurring is that these capital building projects are conceived in what is called a positive feedback loop structure. Now you may be asking yourself what in the world is a positive
013feedback loop? Well, and instead of giving you a definition, I'm going to give you an example. Um, I remember back in the early 1990s, there was a public service announcement warning about the dangers of drug use. Now, I'm only using this for an example. It is not an indictment on anyone and it's not an accusation. I'm just here to use it uh to explain a thought process. So, in the public service announcement, a guy comes onto the screen and he looks into the camera and he says, "I do cocaine so I can work longer so I can earn more money so I can do more cocaine so I can work long so I can earn more money so I can do more cocaine." So I wonder if the same rubric is being applied to campo
014projects then. So this is how I think it would look like. Well, we tax the property owners so we can raise funds so we can start and complete projects so we can tax the property owners. so we can receive funds so we can start and complete projects. So my question is when does the cycle end and when do property owners catch a break? I mean why can't the taxpayers decide for themselves which projects are important by way of the ballot box? Thank you Bri. Thank you very much. All right, that completes the public forum portion of our agenda. Moving on to consent agenda. Um 4.1, approving minutes of the previous meetings. We have both the minutes of our regular board meeting and our working um our board retreat from the 28th. So I hear any
015comments or correction sheets. Eight. Okay. Then we'll go ahead and move on to 4.2 approving claims against the district. >> You can see if you look through the claims, we're starting to get into contract renewal season um with not just employees but also software and products we use. So you'll see things like app G, which is our uh website and our communication system with families and parents, the wheelchair. You'll see the school boards association membership. I don't know. There's maybe some others in there. Um I I don't think there's any unique bill this month that I really necessarily needed to bring to your attention, but between myself and I think Annie is here at the back tonight, we could probably answer. You had a question about a specific thing. of wish to removal to me
016[clears throat] then create >> okay if there aren't any questions about the claims we'll move on to the financial reports >> we uh general fund is sitting in good shape and in fact we had a really big tax draw more than I anticipated uh here in February in the general fund and so uh where we're sitting with about 4.9 million is the uh general fund which is ahead of where we were last year at this time uh but I also look at our monthly expenditure report And uh we've only we're believe it or not we're halfway through a fiscal year. God, I think that's crazy. Just seems like we're just starting a new fiscal year. We're six months in we spent 40% of the uh anticipated budget for the year. So you know you're on
017average you'd think you might be about 50% but we are behind on at this point. So there isn't one particular area that I'm concerned about right now in the general fund that maybe doesn't look uh where I think it should be at this point. uh in the year uh depreciation fund. Uh we did finally um take care of the heaters and the vestibules over at Bellwood. Uh sometimes when it rains it pours and so all four of those vestibule heaters went out last year and we were just now finally able to get replacements and get them installed. And so uh that's a lot of the work there you see from Wy the depreciation fund. employee benefit fund. Again, that's really the the teachers money for the most part, employees money that they put in there
018for daycare and medical expenses pre-tax. So, I don't get too concerned about that fund. Uh activity fund is sitting in good shape with over 400,000 in there at this point. Um lunch claims were a little higher than the month before. uh just over 57,000 and that's really where we've been hovering between 55 and 58,000 most months. January was a little bit lower. Uh but we're sitting in much better shape in terms of our overall uh lunch fund balance than we have in any other year since I've been here. And so I really am hoping, like I said last month, that we can potentially u finish the year without having to make a 60 or even $80,000 transfer. Um, however, I said that last month and then lo and behold, the dishwasher of Bell is out.
019So, [clears throat] we have about uh uh I don't know 15 or maybe even an $18,000 expense coming over in Bell in the lunch fund. I replace the dishwasher over there. They they don't give those things away. And I'll have a better idea hopefully come next month's bills on exactly what that'll be once it's installed. uh bond fund. We haven't levied any money into the bond fund since before my arrival and uh we haven't received any back taxes in there. So that's for the most part sitting idle other than some interest uh payments. Uh the building fund um I think we're going to get a big enough tax draw next week that we'll be able to make our uh last lease purchase payment early. Uh that payment is not due until June. Uh but uh
020I think with the next tax draw we'll have enough we'll pay that off early and and uh save some interest on that lease purchase payment. And so u I'll have an update for you at the March feed uh meeting and hopefully I can show you that that has been zeroed out. Uh QC puff uh no activity in there. Um so I don't have anything to report and the same way with student fees we didn't have any activity um in that funding the month of January. So nothing to to tell you there either. Warthing glad to answer any question you have in any of the funds of the district. >> Nope. [snorts] >> That's your questions [clears throat] and I'll entertain a motion to approve consent agenda items 4.1 to 4.3. >> So moved. >> Second
021move by Marcus seconded by Casey. Yes. Justin. Yes. Marcus. Yes. Casey. Yes. I vote yes. I'm moving on to board committee reports known as uh >> just letting you know the American civics committee met uh tonight before this meeting just kind of reviews with the building principles uh what they did for their Veterans Day program. >> All right. uh board workshop conference reports um nothing but we have some upcoming conferences if you're interested in March >> I think that the inep legislative issues conference is at the end of February >> yes >> so I think that works for you to to go you might know a little bit more we'll also have a legislative update March 8 >> um administrative reports Dr. Dick, do you have anything to add to? >> Uh, just two things.
022Hopefully, I emailed you. Um, kind of a rough draft of the additional parking over here across the street. They did get the crush concrete put in and they actually got the poured the sidewalks poured uh this morning and so those are curing. Tomorrow, Travis and Matt plan to start putting in some steel posts of where the parking splats will be. Hope to have those done by early next week. We just need to let the concrete cure where the kids will drive over uh that to get to the parking, but it's going to add 34 parking spots to the district. So, that's significant. And so, if you haven't had a chance to drive by there, drive by and take a look tomorrow. Like I said, Matt Travis will be out there putting uh black chain link
023fence posts up. And so, kids or adults will hopefully in theory park between the two posts. And so we'll have them spaced out the 9 ft or whatever it is per parking spot. And like I said, we'll get 34 more spots. The other thing I was hoping to share with you tonight, but uh um I saw a couple of errors on it, so I don't want to share it publicly yet, but an area superintendent had put together a spreadsheet of what LB 1038 would do for each school district in terms of tax levies. That's Senator Hughes bill. um with the thought being to try to get a more common levy amongst districts across the street uh street. Um, but just to give uh both the board and our community members an idea of what 1038
024would do for our district is um we would get an additional $2 million in state aid, but the problem is we would lose over 4 million in property tax credits. Okay? And so just to break even, our taxpayers would actually end up paying um $2 million more than they currently are just to break even. You know, if you get rid of that tax credit, it' be like a 26% tax increase to the to the patrons of our school mater. So what I'm telling you is 1038 is not good for our district. And so, so, um, those numbers aren't, um, you know, specific yet or common knowledge yet. I do want to give the superintendent that's working on this some time to make sure the numbers are exactly accurate before it'd be fair to share out
025to both you and the community, but that at least gives you a rough idea. I'm at least confident enough of the numbers to know that it's not good for our district. So when you hear that the education cartel is behind in uh 1038, I can tell you we're not. At least schools like David City are not. There may be some in the state that would happy to see it go. I can tell you we would not be. So just wanted to at least give a small tidbit of that. Um once I have the information um where I feel it's accurate, I'll send it out to you and be willing to share with anybody else that would have an interest. >> I did have a question regarding the JAG now that we're back on that list.
026Yes. Hopefully. >> Yes. >> And it's actually going to go through. Um >> how are how are we involved in that hiring process and when does that start? >> Um it will start anytime now. Uh they'll send us the link. anybody can apply to be the JAG uh teacher or instructor. Um they do the initial screening. However, Stacy and I and whoever else we think would make sense of the district would be in on the final interviews and final selection of that can. They're not our employee. [clears throat] They're a employee of JAG which is funded through the United Way. Uh the first two years that instructor is free. If we continue with that YAG program a third year it'll cost us about 22,000. Um they haven't received nearly the grant funding they used to
027get. Um a year or two ago it was 8,000 for the third year. Now it's like 22,000 but that's still a pretty inexpensive cost in the scheme of things for an instructor. So but the nice thing is is you can uh it's a one-year agreement. So if you get to that third year and you decide it's not beneficial or you don't have the funds as a district to continue with that, you can cancel with contracted. So Stacey, you were not meeting anything else to it's important to know at this point >> that was something that we were very disappointed in last year. >> Yes, >> it's good. um for the all the other administrators reports are attached. Does anybody have anything if you may like to add? >> Does anybody have any questions specifically? >>
028I just >> Okay. Okay. >> Chad, you talked about the curves and I remember what you named it for the 12 varsity letter. >> The platinum mats. >> Platinum. Yeah. >> The how long would they use that? >> How long can they is it? It's lifetime. >> Okay. And then the other question I have pass >> is it just NSAA approved just because >> it's the ones that >> with dance and cheer if somebody does sports and the 12let pass winner and then they have their dance on top of it they could be up to 15 16 >> it's whatever we use at the end of the year that ABC that get that 12 parcel letter >> so just so it's sport so >> yeah okay changed okay Any question? >> Well, the question was,
029did we get our football schedule today? >> We did. They were not nice to us. >> Actually, was it's not terrible. >> It wasn't available when we >> um they gave us Stanton, EMF, Wisner, Shelby, Rising City, Sierra, Bluffs, Cross County, Nebraska, Christian Arman, and Glen Wubber. >> I'll post that up tomorrow. I just time to get it posted publicly today. But >> yep. So our out of districts are Stanton, EMF, Wisner, and Chilton. >> If you look at our district calendar, I did take the liberty to post next two years varsity football games on our district books. >> We will have a look, it appears right now we will have a 2:00 game in 27 with us sharing the >> All right. Any other questions? >> No. Okay. All right. Moving on to discussion
030and action items 8.1 long range facility plan and finance presentation followed by board discussion >> talk. All right, here we go. Um, just so the community knows, two years or two years ago, two weeks ago, we had our annual uh admin board retreat. We typically pick five or six topics um of discussion each year and have a more thorough conversation. Um, and as a result of that, at the end of that meeting two weeks ago, the board said, "Let's have that same repeat conversation about the long range facility plan and financing again at our February board meeting." Number one, hoping we'd have some community members in attendance at our February meeting, which tonight we do. So, we really do appreciate that. But also, um, we record all of our regular board meetings. We don't record
031our work sessions. And so we thought for those that could not attend or didn't want to attend or listen to me 45 minutes straight could watch the recording at their own leisure and maybe break it into five minute increments if that's all they contain. So u so that's just kind of gives you the back history. I have 11 pages to go through. I promise you I won't read it word for word but I will go through it in length and in detail. I would ask the board if you would kind of wait for clarification and questions. So, after I go through it, I'm afraid if I lose my train of thought, I might lose it for the rest of the night. So, if you would um indulge me by just letting me go through the
032document, and then I'm more than glad to explain anything, clarify anything, and then you [clears throat] guys can have all the discussion you want, but if you can just give me the next uh period of time, I'd appreciate it. So, with that being said, I'm going to go ahead and start on page one and just give you a little bit. Is it okay if I just stay sitting? >> Yep. >> Okay. talk a little bit about the uh timeline of our long range facility plan. This actually started a year ago. We had a strategic planning meeting. Uh we sent 160 letters out to staff members and community members that we thought was a cross-section representation of our community and our district. In addition to that, we uh posted on our website uh and our social
033media that we were having some meetings. We invited the entire staff. we invited every family member uh to come to those meetings. So that was back in January of 25. And as a result of that, two months later, um the uh community and the people in attendance really came up with three things that were priorities when it came to uh facilities. You guys need more parking. you need some more CTE space uh namely in the area of family consumer science because the kitchen is too small and we're turning several kids away each period uh who would like to be in some of like the culinary arts classes for example and we need more gym space not just for high school and junior high use but also uh elementary activities. So those were priorities mentioned uh
034at that time. And so I took the liberty of meeting with Clark Anderson and uh explained to them what our priorities were and said, "Can you take our map of our facilities and give us an idea of where it would make sense to locate some of those um things if given the opportunity?" And so that's where uh page two comes in. It's marked March of of 2025. We talked about at that time a practice gym is what I had envisioned. A practice gym on the northwest corner of our truck facility. So directly west of the weight room. We would put a practice gym and a couple more locker rooms. And on the east side, directly east of the activity center is where the family consumer science room would go. Now that family consumer science room,
035the thought behind it was not just for family consumer science during the uh school day, but it then would also double serve as the hospitality room when we host big events. Okay. And then thirdly, we've talked about uh blowing the east wall out of our current competition, Jim, and adding 60 feet to that. And you might ask, well, why would you do that? Well, right now we can't um host things like district wrestling because we can't put three wrestling mats in there and have enough space between it. Especially now that with the 42 foot ring and all you got to basically have is a toe in the ring. You really got to have a little more space than that. And if you've been to our even our wrestling invite, you know that those mats are
036wall to- wall. You can't walk between them or or behind them. There's just not room. So the thought was with the extra 60 ft it give us plenty of space to do that and also enough seating to make that happen. I shared that uh with the board um in March and at that time the conversation was fairly unanimous that if we're going to discuss a gym in the future we need to look long range and think about a competition gym. Not just a practice gym but a competition gym. it might give us some additional flexibility on how we do some things. Um, and and so I went back to the architects then in July. And so if you turn the page to the to the next two pages, they said, "Well, if you're going to
037do that, then you really basically would flip-flop um what we were going to do and put the family consumer science room on the northwest corner over by the shops and west of the gym. and then build a competition gym directly east of the current gym. So they'd essentially be side by side. >> Okay. >> U now we haven't gotten so far into the weeds to know is the four stall garage going to be in the way. Some of that's going to depend upon how long is that new gym? How much space do we think we need? You know, if I had to guess, I'm going to guess it might be in the way by about 12 ft. It's going to be close, but we don't know because we haven't had an in-depth conversation. We haven't
038met with the family consumer science teacher and get his exact needs. We haven't met with the basketball and wrestling coaches and say if we build this new facility exactly what are your needs? Uh and so just understand that any place you see square footage and dollar amounts just know uh those are placeholders. We have not, you know, like I said, had an in-depth conversation enough to know what those costs are. Now, the one thing I did not ask the architects about is parking. I was smart enough to figure that out on my own in that the parking makes sense right across the street. And that's the reason why we bought the one house on the corner. And we've also made it very clear as a board that we're interested in the other two properties if
039they come available and the price is right. Uh we would really like to have those. It's close enough to both the high school and the elementary for additional parking. However, the board has also said we're not going to make those concrete parking lots because we don't know exactly what our future needs are and we're landlocked. But if we at least have those and own those properties, we can put crushed concrete down and have some additional parking. But knowing 10 years from now, 15 years from now, our needs may change. And in fact, one of the internal ideas that got brought to us by our preschool teachers was we would love it if the preschool building could get moved over uh somewhere close to the elementary. Uh both in terms of sharing staff, not having to
040cross a busy street. Sometimes it is cold and it's a little bit of a walk with the littles. There's just some additional advantages of potentially doing that. Uh but obviously doing that right now would steal some parking spots. So it maybe wouldn't be advantageous for us to do that right now. But we at least have that on our radar, but we can't do any of that if we at least don't own those properties. And so we have communicated with the owners of those properties saying if and when you're ever willing to sell that, would you at least please give us the first opportunity uh to secure those properties? And so um so like I said, I didn't talk to Clark Anderson um about uh that part because I figured the parking um that that much
041I could at least take care of. So I I didn't include that in my conversations with them. So that was in March and July. At about the same time late uh summer started having issues with our HVAC again and in all of the buildings to be quite honest. And so we contacted uh facility advocates, an outside group that will do some energy audits and we had them review um all of our buildings. They went through every piece of HVAC equipment we have. Uh put life expectancy uh dates on it, how much beyond the life expectancy we are, and a ballpark figure of what it would cost to replace all of that equipment. I can tell you they then came back to us uh this winter and we have $4.4 4 million of HVAC equipment in
042this district that is beyond its life expectancy. That was good information to have as we were getting ready to start continuing our long range facility plans because obviously 4.4 million is not just a drop in the bucket and that may potentially change your priorities as a district when it comes to long range facility planning. So that was important information for us to have this winter. We did decide as a district and as a board in December, we did go ahead and decide that in terms of the HVAC equipment at least that Bellwood was our biggest priority. Um there are some exhaust fans and some over stuff over there that's actually 43 years old. And so uh we kind of felt like we've already taken care of all the windows over there, pretty much all of
043the flooring. We've taken care of a new roof. If we take care of the HVAC over there, then that building's probably pretty good for a while. So, the board did approve a contract for that HVAC equipment, and I'll and you'll see those dollar amounts here in a little bit in the neighborhood of 700,000. Okay. So, we did that in December. In January, then, like I said, we had just two weeks ago our um long range facility plan. And I shared with the board a couple different timelines of possibilities that um I wanted them to take a look at. And that's pages five and six in this document. on page five, one of the options, and I'm looking at just the 5 to 10ear plan in the middle of the page because we've already at this
044point approved the HVAC and the lighting over at and Bellwood. So, that's already in phase four. It's already been approved. It's going to happen this summer. So, if you get to the 5 to 10 year plan, one of the ideas I said is that how about the following summer we take care of the elementary. We take care of the elementary HVAC and and replace the lighting with LED and then also possibly do the family consumer science ring at that time here at the high school. So, that would be next summer, not this summer. And then the following summer, summer of 28, then we take care of the high school HVAC and consider a gym at that time. So it spreads it out basically over three years. Summer of 26, we take care of Bellwood. Summer
045of 27, we take care of the elementary and and possibly the family consumer science room. And then summer of 28, uh, knowing it would extend into 29 because you're probably not going to build a gym in just a few months. It's going to take some time. And so that was a tender plan I threw out to them um in December or January. And then lo and behold, I happened to run into um oh and let me back up a little bit. And that would be done with a seven-year lease purchase. So let me talk about the finance. It'd be a seven-year lease purchase. The exact same financing we used for this new addition. Okay? So exactly done the same way. Um, uh, so that in in terms of payment, that's what that would be. Now,
046I I ran into another superintendent who said they were looking at using a NEBA loan. You ever heard of it before? So, I called DAD Davidson and said, "Hey, can you explain this NEBA loan to me?" They said, "Well, essentially, it's a lease purchase also, but with a instead of a seven-year limit, you can go out 30 years." So, it's similar to a bond, um, but it's a lease purchase. You run it through your building fund, not your bond fund. So, they called me back and said, "We're going to actually be in the area. Do you want us to come to your board meeting at the end of January, which was literally the next day, and I said, "Sure." So they came and explained maybe for five minutes a five minute explanation of what a
047NEVA loan um was and how it worked. Uh still have lots of questions about it but we at least got the u gist of it. So on the next page I put together um a second option for the board to consider. Same projects just done a little bit differently. is on page six. Still doing Bellwood this summer. Would still do the elementary HVAC and lighting next summer. But instead of waiting another year or 18 months to do the high school and the gym, we would lump the HVAC project, the family consumer science room, and the gym all into one project. By doing that, in theory, they could start that in the spring of 27 instead of the summer of 28. So, you're starting a year, possibly almost two years earlier with this type of financing
048versus the 7-year lease purchase. Okay. So, this was just another option that I provided to the board that night. It would probably be a 12 to 15year loan. If we wanted to give ourselves uh a little bit more wiggle room, the board would maybe even consider going 20 or 25. Uh because the whole goal would be to not raise the tax asking in the special building fund as we do these projects. We would continue with the same tax asking that we're living right now into the building fund. Now, we haven't talked to the fire marshal either. And that was one of the other reasons why I put together doing [clears throat] the gym one summer and the family consumer science another is I'm not sold that the fire marshall will even allow us to do
049both of those projects at the same time because of egress. With all the activities in the current gym, you still have to have several ways out. So, I think even if we would do a NEBA loan, a long-term lease purchase, it would probably still have to be done in phases anyway to meet fire marshall's uh approval. But again, we don't know that because it's so early in the conversation. We we haven't reached out to even have those types of of conversations yet. So, that was literally just two weeks ago tonight when we were first introduced to this uh NEBA loan or long-term lease purchase. So, we've known about it 14 more days than you have. I I knew about it the day before. So, I'm I actually had a head start on everybody by an
050extra day. But, I can tell you that we don't know all of the ins and outs of that loan. We really just scratched the surface at this point. So, that's kind of what happened uh at the last meeting. Now, I went ahead and took the liberty of of gathering up a little bit more information for both the board and the community that I thought might be important for you to know. And part of that is on the next page, page seven, because I had an interest as well of what's the history of the building projects that have been done here in the school and how have they been financed in the past. So, from what I can tell, and I can't take credit for everything because I did Google searches and and some looked at
051some of our old uh school website pages, and there was a lady by the name of Gail Henry, who I don't know, um who actually put a lot of this together and had it on our website already in 2008, so I can't take credit for a lot of the earlier stuff, but um so I took that off of our website from her. I also talked to the county clerk and said, "Hey, can you go back 40 years or so and have we had any school bonds that I'm not aware of?" So, she also confirmed for me and then I took care of the more recent history. But if you look through here since 1916, and 1916 is when the three-story high school was built. Okay? So, it's over 100 years old. From 1916 when the
052high school was built until today, there have been 12 building projects that I know of. Only two of them have went to a vote of the people. The other 10 have all been done through there used to be a sinking fund and now it's special building fund, but it's all been done through funds through the school by a simple vote of the school board. So, two projects have went to a vote of the people. The other 10 have not. So, historically, u bonds have not been the way that it's been done at David City Public Schools. I'm not saying that's right or wrong. I'm just trying to provide you with the historical information so that you know what past practice has typically been. Okay? And so, that that's page seven. Moving on to page eight.
053I thought the community might also want to know how much debt does the school have at this point. So, I pulled this out from our August uh budget discussion. I just changed the date on it to February. And um you can see at the bottom the special building fund is the lease purchase. I left on there our December payment that we made in December. And then our last payment, you can see, is due June 15th, but I think I said earlier tonight, I'm hoping to pay that off in the next week or two. So hopefully by March, when we come to this board meeting, that lease purchase is actually sitting at zero. We wouldn't know anything on that. The QC puff bond is actually how the school district funded the last elementary edition in 2010.
054And in fact, I called the former superintendent, Jerry Phillips, and said, "Hey, I'm being told that the last elementary edition was done with a vote of the people, and so I'm just uh calling to clarify." And he said, "Oh, no. I was the superintendent at the time, and there were something called Build America bonds. They were 30-year bonds that only required a vote of the of the school board, not a vote of the people. And that's how we did the elementary edition including the gym. Okay. So that that was in in 2010. And those are actually the bonds that I've refinanced twice. And so I did that because you can refinance bonds every 5 years. And we were lucky enough be going through a period of time when interest rates were low. So, we've actually
055cut that 30-year bond down to a 20-year bond. They were supposed to go out to 2040. If you look at the repayment schedule, it's actually done in 2030. We've also saved, my best guess would be about 240,000 in interest uh between cutting 10 years off the life of the loan and the lower interest rate. The combination of the two um was rather significant. It was, you know, tens of thousands of dollars. You can see after this year, we actually only have four years left on that. And that's about roughly a quarter of a million dollar payment uh each year. Uh but that'll be paid off, like I said, in in 2030. Um maybe we'll be fortunate enough to get it paid off 6 months or a year early, but um I wouldn't guess any sooner
056than that. Okay, so that gives you a little bit just if you have um some concern about how much debt we have. The next page is the one uh that takes some explanation. If somebody took page nine and took that home, it would mean no sense to them if they don't get an explanation. I will try to revert back to my junior high math teaching days and explain this. Now, I want to tell you that school finance is a little bit more complicated than this example I'm giving you, but I'm just trying to get it down to the basics. uh and not into the weeds. And so I want to go through both columns. Hypothetical example one, let's say that's uh uh you know, school number one. And th and this year they had $15
057million in revenue. Okay? Now, revenue is more than just taxes, but for this conversation, we're just going to worry about taxes. Okay? But there's grants, there's state aid, there's other things. But let's let's say uh we had 15 million in revenue this year and we allocated 13.5 million for the general fund and 1.5 for the special building fund. I can tell you those numbers aren't really too far off. You know, our building fund is 1.4 million at some change. Well, the legislature instituted a 3% revenue growth every year. So, the most you can grow your revenue is 3%. So, if you get a million dollars extra in state aid and everything else stays the same, you actually have to cut your taxes by a million minus the 3% you're allowed to grow. Okay? So, you've
058got an expenditure lid where they limit how much you can spend each year. In the general fund, it's 2 and a.5%. You have a tax lid on how much you can levy, what your levy could be, and you have a revenue lid. So there's actually three things in place when it comes to schools and finance. So So it's not a matter of well you're only at 70 cents and you can levy at 95 cents so you can go ahead and levy another 25 cent. No, you can't if you're up against your revenue li. Okay. So there's a lot a lot of checks in place. So So let let's uh consider the 3% revenue growth then for the next school year. So I just did the math. They took the 15 million, you know, times uh
059uh 3% it's another 450,000 in revenue. Well, if it's like our school district, we have we've been trying to flatline the building fund and just use all the growth in the general fund to pay salary and benefits and those things. So, if that's the case, next school year, you'd have 13,950,000 for your general fund and still have 1.5 million in your building fund. Hopefully that makes sense. Let's do that just a couple more times. Another 3% in 2728. Okay, that would then give you 15,913,500 in total revenue of which $14,413,500 for your general fund and still have the 1.5 million in your building fund. That just stays the same. We're putting all of our additional increase in the general fund. And then we do it one more time for 2829 where we end up with
06014,890,95 in the general fund and 1.5 million in the general fund. Okay, now let's compare to the other column. same school start out with the same 15 million in revenue in 2526 [clears throat] and for the following school year you still get the 3% revenue growth. So you put the 450,000 um into your general fund, but you decide you want to give your taxpayers a break paid off the new addition. So, we're not going to levy anything into the building fund that year. We're going to we're going to take the, you know, 3% put in the general fund because we need it for dollar, but zero out the building fund. Okay. Well, in 2627, you got the same amount for your general fund as you would in the other hypothetical. You're still at 13,950,000. But
061remember, you didn't put anything in the in the building fund. Okay. Well, look what happens in 2728. You want to add back that levy because now you're ready for a building project. So, you want to go back to levying that 1.5 million into your building fund. Ready? >> Well, remember you're up against that 3% revenue. Okay? So, if you take that 1.5 million and put it back into the building fund, that's fine, but you got to take that away from your general building or excuse me, from your general fund. So, now in 2728, if you compare on the left side, that school had 14,413,500 for general fund expenses. The school on the right only has 12,868,500 because when you got rid of that 1.5 million, you reestablished a new baseline number which you can only
062grow 3% from. So you do that the next year again. You're trying to say, "Okay, now the second year we're going to do 1.5 million a year. We're going to try and play catchup here because we took a year off in the building fund." You're never going to catch up because by 2829, if you compare your general funds between those two schools or those two examples, you're short $1,591,350 in your general fund. You can't recoup from that. Under the current rules, the way they are, okay? And I there are some schools that tried this and now they're cutting staff. They are having bond elections to um not for building projects but to pay their bills. They don't have to cut teachers next year. Okay? We don't have to like the rules that are in place,
063but we have to understand the rules that are in place. And so by thinking you're going to help the cause by cutting a building fund levy by 1.5 million for a year and then recoup it the next year and go back to doing it again. You never you never um can recover from that because your general fund and your building fund when it comes to the 3% revenue lid are tied together. There are some things that the rules apply to only one or the other. The revenue lid is combined. General fund and building fund together. 3% revenue lid. The expenditure lid is only on the general fund side. Okay? It's not on the building fund side. It's only on the general fund side. And you can see at the bottom, I think I highlighted that
064the general fund operates with a 2 and a.5% e expenditure lid. So, sometimes we get questions about if you have money to do these building projects, why can't you uh pay for everybody's free lunch? Well, there's different rules that apply. I just glanced at the numbers from last year. We collected about 260,000 in dollars uh from parents for breakfast and lunch. If we were to give free lunch and red or excuse me, free lunch to everybody, we would have to take 260,000 out of our general fund and put it in the lunch fund because we run in the red typically. Well, we're up against a 2.5% expenditure lid and we're usually right at that cap. So, we would have to cut 250 or 260,000 out of our other general fund expenses to even make that
065happen. It's not a matter of we'll just take some of the 1.5 million you were levy into the building fund and just take 300,000 of that and move it over to the general fund. You can't because that general fund has an expenditure lid. So it's not as easy as just transferring money. You can't do that. The same thing would be the case with preschool tuition. Same way. Now, some of the other things that happen is that we get federal funds based on our free and reduced lunch numbers. So, if everybody is already getting free lunch, the school is paying for it. What family would bother to fill out the free and reduced lunch application? They don't have a reason to. Well, I can tell you that we get title one funds, title two funds, title
066four funds based on your enrollment and poverty numbers. We get a probably another 200,000 a year, at least 150 in title funds every year. Well, if you don't have free and reduced lunch numbers, you're going to lose your title funds also. So, it ends up not even being a 250 or $260,000 expense to give everybody free lunch. It's also whatever you lose in federal aid you lose that you'd have to recoup, right? So there there's just a lot of things behind the scenes that uh um unintended consequences sometimes when you're wanting to do some other things. So uh last but not least, I also put together a two-page frequently asked question and answer. I'm not going to sit here and read them all. I'm just going to highlight a couple of things on uh some
067of the pages for and these are my thoughts, not the boards. Okay, these are my thoughts as the superintendent of schools. Um, I didn't consult any board member for these answers. These are truly my thoughts from my perspective as superintendent. The second question is, has the school board approved another building project? The answer is no. We're in the very early stages of having a conversation about uh a potential project, but no decision has been made. Is now the first time we've discussed a gym? The answer is no. In fact, I went back and looked at our records. We actually talked about a gym at our March board meeting in 2018. So almost eight years ago, we considered a gym at that time already. So that was early in my career here. Maybe what fifth year
068in. Okay. So, so that idea of a gym had already circulated in 2018 at an open board meeting. I think it was March 12th. Don't quote me on the exact date, but it was March 2018. And I also looked then about the elementary gym and the high school gym. Both of those were done without a vote of the people. Those were done through lease purchase or through the building fund. It was not a vote of the taxpayers. And so doing a gem without a vote of the people, I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I'm just saying it's been done before in this district and others. Okay. Timeline for a decision. If the board wants to do this project, and I told them this [clears throat] two weeks ago, if they would like to do
069a large building project when I'm still here, they probably need to make a decision by late summer [clears throat] so we could get it to the architects for blueprints and drawings and make a decision in December to break ground in March. Okay. I only offer that up to them because I can tell you as a new superintendent, it can be a lot to learn the superintendent role, learn David City, and learn about a building project when you're new. Because the school board has been good to me the 13 years I've been here, I'm willing to stay next year and help them with a project if they would like my help doing so. But on the other end, if the board thinks this is too much, too fast, they want to push these projects down the
070road two, three, four years, that's okay, too. And in fact, it makes my life next year a lot easier. And so, I don't want anybody here to get the thought that Dr. Danker is pushing this project to leave some type of legacy before he leaves here. Okay? That is not my intent at all. It is my intent to give this board as much help as I can give them before I retire here in June of 27. So, um, uh, moving on with that, is there more than one option of a timeline? Yes. And that's kind of what I just reiterated. It's truly up to them. I've told them several times they were voted in as the public officials for this district. They have to answer to the public. Truly, it's a board decision. I don't
071have a vote. It's my job to present them the numbers, present to them options, timelines to consider, and in the end, it's their decision. And I can tell you, I will 100% support whatever decision they make in the next few months. Um, the idea that I need this to leave as part of my legacy, I can tell you that's couldn't be further from the tree. Uh, I can tell you personally I I'm more proud of all day preschool and being able to bring that to our district since my arrival. That that's one of the first things that comes to my mind in in all honesty. Uh, having the ability to have three and four year olds and having four all day preschool teachers. It's things like that that I'm proud of. It's not because we
072have a really nice weight room. While that's nice, um, that's not what I want to be known for. U, moving on to the last page. How much outstanding debt do we have? I already went through that. You can see that for yourself on the debt page. I don't need to give that um any more time. Um, would the new building project be part of a school bond voted on by the voters of the district? Again, that's a board decision. >> And what I would tell you is I don't know that there's a right or wrong answer. I think you can see it from either perspective. Um, and again, that's a board decision. Um, what I did give them is what's been done in the past. I can tell you when we've done three projects since
073I've been here, I can tell you when we got ready to do our first project in 2015 or 16, I looked to see, you know, what had been done. I can tell you there weren't any uh uh school bond elections in recent history yet. So, um if you look back, we did one of those projects with a two-year tax anticipation note. We did one of them in which we levied the funds for a year and after a year, we had enough in the bank. We paid cash for it. And this third one, we did a lease purchase. So, even in the 13 years I've been here, we have financed three different projects three different ways. And in addition to those, you could do a a school bond, you know, vote of the people. And now
074we learned about this new nebo loan. This basically long-term up to 30-year lease purchase option. So there's five options in terms of financing at least that uh would be possibilities. Um so again, I give them options. One of the other things I do want to mention here under the uh school bond is the way the rules work now is if we do a lease purchase or we finance it some way through the the building fund. Right now taxpayers get a 30% tax credit on anything you pay that we levy through the general fund or the building fund. You're getting a 30% tax credit right now. If you go to a vote of the people and it's done through a bond, the bond fund is not eligible for the 30% tax credit. So you do pay
075more as a taxpayer through that bond than you do a lease purchase through the building fund to the tune of 30%. To me, that's at least worth having a conversation about. Can the rules change tomorrow? Yes, under the current rules. That's how it works. Why would the district potentially start on a project now? I listed some reasons. We're going to pay this lease purchase off in the next couple of weeks. We could continue with the same tax asking with no increase. We could start earlier, one to two years earlier than through the traditional seven-year lease purchase. I think we would save on the increasing construction costs. My maintenance guys would could stop wasting your time trying to find replacement parts for outdated HVAC. I think it also shows if you're going to do an HVAC
076project in the or in the high school, you're committed to that 1916 building for at least the life of that lease purchase. So, if you do a 15-year lease purchase, you're also telling your patrons, "We're investing in that 1916 building for at least another 15 years." Because you're not going to update the HVAC and two years later knock it down. If you went with a 20-year lease purchase, my recommendation to the people before I leave here is in you leave it up for at least another 20, which is kind of the typical life expectancy of HVAC equipment. So, maybe it's a 20-year commitment and a 20-year uh lease purchase. Again, just my thoughts. And again, like I said before, um I'm willing to help this board with another project if they want if they feel
077like they want or need it. That's not in any way to be pushy. It just means I'll help you. You're not going to hurt my feelings any if you say no. Now, I will probably twist your arm to at least do the HVAC project uh within the next couple of years because I don't want to have to answer the taxpayers if there's no heat in the elementary or the high school one and we are on borrowed time in all three buildings. So, the at least the HVAC I would publicly put a plug in. I think that at bare minimum needs to happen. Um after that, it's up for the board to decide. Um the last question on there was what happens if you don't let me funds into the building fund for a year and
078then try to redo it. I went through that hypothetical um earlier the the example one example two I would end with we can gather all the information you want. You know Mr. Hurl Brock has been working on a list of uh schools uh and how many gyms they have and how many competition gyms they have on site. He also has taken the liberty to go ahead and start putting together all of the conflicts that we have when it comes to activities and the benefits u with a third gym and what it would do for us from an activity standpoint. And I think this is eighth though would be willing to add to that in terms of you know academically some things that could do with scheduling and having another gym and and uh the possibility
079of having an elementary uh recess over here if we get through some long periods of cold weather or snowy weather. Um I know I wouldn't want to be a first grade teacher and go two or three days without recess. Um I just know how bonkers those kids would be. And so the ability to even have, you know, PE in the elementary gym and bring the kids over here for recess on occasion and on those cold days, I think, you know, it even Mrs. Greenfield could probably think of a couple uses of that gym u if given the ability. So, you know, the administrators are willing to put that type of information together. Um, we're willing to do other things. Um, you know, at some point we would need to visit with wrestling coaches, basketball coaches,
080PE teachers, family consumer science teachers, etc. Uh, we would need to talk to architects about how big of a gym do we really need if we want to have three mats. And, um, you know, because I know some of the conversation has been a competition gym with, you know, a wrestling deck up above. Um, you heard two coaches here a month or two ago how we have 20some girls in the elementary cafeteria right now doing junior high wrestling uh with no pads on the walls or windows over there and how safe is that? And so um we can get you information. We can work on that. Um but we need to kind of hear and know your discussion, your thoughts, what you would like us to do at this point. If anything, if you need
081time to digest it, that's fine. If you want us to do some more behind the-scenes work in terms of fact gathering and bring it back to you in March, we can do that. But we don't want to go down that road too far because if the board has already made up its mind and said we're only worried about HVAC, the other stuff can wait till 2030. Um then we would pump the brakes on any of those types of fat gathering and and prioritize other um things that we need to be working on as well. And so with that, I will turn it over to the board. I'll be glad to answer any questions, clarify anything I can for you, but really it's an opportunity obviously for the five of you to have a discussion and
082and kind of help uh lead us in the right direction from there. And so with that, I I thank you for indulging me for that long period of time and I turn it back over to the board. Thank you. >> Thank you. I think so. >> Sorry. I know that, you know, we had that we had this uh similar discussion two weeks ago and I don't know what, you know, additional questions that anybody might have right now or how we want to proceed. Um you I know last two weeks ago we talked about community meetings that we wanted to discuss that tonight that we wanted to talk about process. Is that what you know is that still the path that we're on or is what are everybody's thoughts? >> I think more information is always
083good. I would appreciate that at least if we get dig into it more and doesn't mean you commit to anything necessarily but just getting what we're looking at is working pretty soon. Yeah, we said two weeks ago to put it on the agenda every month just to have a short discussion just to make sure we're all on the same page just so everything's transparent. Our patrons know have community meetings if need be if decisions are made. I mean, we said that all two weeks ago. >> Well, I definitely think we need to have a meeting to give the community the opportunity to voice their opinions. So listen, I'm trying to figure out what the next step is and far reach that goes to what seems to be like that's opportunity for me. I love the
084attendance science. Great. Um but also in the past we've done something large like that. a committee meeting where we'll give a short presentation [clears throat] allow people to let give us their thoughts I guess and you I don't know what you guys think of as far as that's the next step to be done as well >> I don't know >> I think that if we have a at a community meeting then I would want it to be more than you know this type of presentation because you know my questions center around some of the things that um Dr. Der brought up with what is I I I'm thinking beyond athletics because I think the HVAC stuff leads kind of like that seems like that's just something that needs to happen. Um you know, we've talked
085about that for quite a while and the SCS it's just the lightning rod of the of a gym. It's it's a big it's a big lightning rod and I think that the more information we have about that but for me it's just it has to be more than athletic teams to be how does this fit in um is this really a a genuine need also for scheduling for academics. What does having more PE classes because I did not know and this is something we talked about two weeks ago. I didn't know that there was only one period out of the day available for high schoolers to take a general PE class that every other period of the day was taken up in the gym by middle school and they so and I put myself as
086a high schooler I don't want to take weights I would want to take the regular pee bath I want to do you know bad men and bowling and all that other stuff but you know just with our size, we have staffing limitations. So, if that's only offered one period of the day, but I also want to take this other class that I'm really really interested in, now I have to, you know, it's it's creating choices and um for our students that, you know, that we could potentially um solve those situations that I want to know more about it. >> I think that'll come with Dr. Danker saying that will bring us information. Yeah, >> Stacy will. >> She comes you kind of want that information. That's what [clears throat] I >> before we enter our
087major cleaning. >> I think that's correct. I think that's great. >> Yeah, I think that's the kind of information that people are going to want to know. I don't think that you can come at them with, well, this is just what we want. I want to know and learn about all of that. Um, and whether that's at our next board meeting and then we have a community meeting, you know, a week or two after that and kind of split the difference between our board meeting nights. That would probably be my recommendation is give the administrators an opportunity to bring back to you a few more facts first and then have a community meeting. So we just make sure we anticipate some of the questions they're going to have and we have the ability to answer
088them. And so I guess I would prefer that we have at least one more meeting here and so that we get more comfortable exactly what we're wanting and what we're wanting to present. That gives these guys, you know, a month to put together some information for you as well. And then we look at, like I said, maybe the middle or end of March where we have a communities meeting and then we meet again in April and maybe we decide to have another one the end of April. >> Unless they I mean that's all great information. I mean to know that you have extra gym space. What problems does that'll be? What other problems can be alleviated by specific design things? And so, yeah, I think just gives you time to think through some of those
089things as far as >> yeah, even if it's the elementary coming over for the recess type thing. I mean, those are all things that I wouldn't think of in the back of my head. And so, >> I also have a lot of concerns with and I know this has been a conversation since I've been on the board um is the longevity of the auditorium. And I would like to know how often do we actually use the auditorium? What programs use the auditorium? and what would happen if we didn't have that. Okay. So, you know, like kind of thinking back out of it, not >> this is what we need. I'm thinking what if what we have goes away and then how are we going to fill that gap? So, >> until we I can tell
090you we had to use it the other night. We due further scheduling >> or a game. >> Sure. So, >> and and so yeah, I have a lot of questions. I wrote gasloaded questions and I don't expect them to be answered tonight because you guys obviously don't want those questions. So there you do have to take time to find it out. But um I guess those are the types of things that I want to kind of go back and I really appreciate staff members sending emails to us and giving their perspective on different ways. very interested in how um new the an FCS edition could help um any like skills programs that we would have on you know any district. So there's just a lot in play that needs to be um >> yeah and
091I would just feel more comfortable if we had that month to like I don't think we need to fast play this by any means. You know, I think we need to slow and methodical and I just I would feel better and it also gives you guys a month to digest everything you've heard and and [clears throat] what you'll hear from them at March. This we want, you know, make sure that we do this the right way and and you make in the end make an informed decision whichever way you decide to go. >> What's the best way for you and the building admin to receive questions from us? because I don't want you guys to get 10 emails a day and just it's like as a question post and you know >> I would guess
092the easiest thing would be we just create a Google doc and we share it with you guys and you put all of your questions in that one place then that gives us because then we can access that at any time and come back to you and mark >> I just want to publicly say thank you for doing a lot of misrepresented information that was put out and I appreciate you doing this because I know it took you a lot of time that we weren't expecting you to have to spend the time on good and it's good to have it in writing. >> So, thank you. >> You're welcome. and and I made copies for everybody tonight because I I we truly want this to be a transparent process and take this home. Share it with
093neighbors, share it with friends, share it with family, share it with, you know, somebody down the street if they have questions. Send them to me if they have questions. You know, we truly want to get the correct information out there. >> Yes. >> Um and and so thank you for indulging me. Well, thank you for that and I just want to express to the community in the meantime um our contact information is on the website. Please please reach out and tell us your thoughts because it's a it's a big decision on our on us. So the more we hear the better. >> Yeah. >> Rick, do you have anything else that you >> No. >> Any other questions from board members? Well, the >> Right. Well, I look forward to then we'll um we'll just
094be ready because I got I got several pages in my book here of question. They'll be coming. Um so, we'll move on to 8.2 discuss action to approve the prek tuition rates for 2627 school year. And I put together the last 10 or 12 years, what we were are charging, we're charging. You can see the cost per day uh for a family. You know, if you're paying full price, you're paying $12.14 a day for preschool. Um if you're a reduced lunch, you're paying $78. And if you're free lunch or sped, you're paying $253 a day uh for preschool. And that includes breakfast, lunch, and the the 8 [snorts] to 3:30 day. So um you can see that our estimated cost to run a preschool program in our district next year is over 900,000. >> [snorts]
095>> I appreciate you saying how much I cost per day because um when I saw this come up again, I just thought just keep using preschool tuition and I just don't like doing that. Um, I also don't have kids in daycare, so I don't know how much it costs per hour or per day or anything like that. >> A lot more. >> Yeah, I Yeah, I I assume assume that. That's why I thought it, you know, it puts it into perspective when you say how much it costs per day. But we've, you know, over the last five years, it's been a sign. So, I'm glad that negate was negotiate. Anybody have any questions about preschool tuition? >> I know. Me. >> All right. I'll entertain a motion to approve the two school tuition rates for
096the 26 27 school year. >> Second, Donnie and seconded by Marcus. That motion does include approving the policy >> which just updates the dollar amount in the board policy. >> Yeah. Some clarify. Okay. Um Justin, >> yes. >> Casey. Yes. Marty. >> Yes. >> Discuss take action to a breakfast and lunch to approve breakfast and lunch prices for next school year. >> Recommending a nickel on breakfast and dime on lunch. I was with Angie. We should meet the minimum threshold. >> Any questions? >> No, I'll make the motion. >> I'll second. >> Moved by Casey, seconded by Justin to approve 2425 or >> do you want to explain the minimum threshold for people that might not know? >> Yeah, as part of the federal hotline program, they do require schools to charge a minimum for
097breakfast and lunch and they give that to us. uh every summer. Uh but Angie's worked here longer than I have. And so I usually defer to her and say, "Hey, how much are we going to need to raise prices to meet that minimum threshold?" And she thought a nickel on breakfast and dime for lunch would would do it for us. Is that right, Agent? Because I'll make you Yeah. >> So you get mad at if it's if not then you don't get as much reimburse. Yeah. >> Um Okay. We did not vote yet. >> It's not you. >> All right. Memphis. >> Yes. >> Tony, yes. >> Dustin, yes. Yes. Spacey. >> Yes. >> Uh, discussed soon to approve with 2425 and reports. >> Yeah. Stephanie does a really good job of putting that together
098for us. So, it's ready to go to be distributed to all of our families and on our social media. [clears throat] So, need approval so we can get that out to everybody. >> I'll make a motion to approve it. >> I'll second. All right. by Marcus, seconded by Casey to approve the 2425 annual report. >> Justin, >> yes. >> Shnie, >> Yes. Casey, >> yes. >> And discuss take action to approve myself, Stephanie Summers, to serve another term on the board of the Davis City Scouts Foundation. >> We had to stagger those board of director positions so that everybody goes off at the same time. So, uh, Stephanie's position was a short-term one that already came back up for renewal. And so we're just asking to reappoint her on that for another four years. >>
099I move. >> Second. >> All right. Go by Casey. Second by Donnie Marcus. >> Yes. [laughter] >> I said do you want to be on Donnie? >> Yes. >> Justin? >> Yes. >> Dy? >> Yes. I abstain. uh personnel discuss take action to approve building admin compensation and the contracts for 26 week that I'm >> can see those there attached as part of you. >> So I try to make sure every year I look at what other conference and area schools are paying their administrators and make sure that fair market value so to speak. Typically our first or second year administrators get a little bit bigger pay raise than the others because we start them I don't want to say too low but um we start them lower than than you know the average market
100value initially and then after the first year they see a bigger chop but second year not quite as big and then by third year usually all the measures receive a similar dollar amount of increase but so that's the difference at the differences in the contracts. It's not a matter of job performance. Motion improve. >> Second. Moved by Donnie, second by Casey to approve building admin compensation contracts for next school year. >> Yes. Donnie, yes. >> Justin, >> yes. >> Casey, yes. 9.2. Discuss, consider, take action on the school psych compensation contracts. Notable. >> You have questions? >> Any questions about that? >> No. I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. And moved by Casey, seconded by Stephanie. Um >> Mark. [laughter] >> Oh, yes. >> Yes. >> Donnie Justin. >> Yes. >> Casey. Yes. 9.3.
101discuss the start to take action on speech path compensation and contracts for next school year. >> They're both carrying. >> I'll make a motion. I'll second. >> All right. Moved by Marcus, seconded by Justin to approve speech path compensation and contracts for next school year. And Donnie, >> yes. >> Egle. Yes. Justin. >> Yes. >> Casey, yes. >> 9.4. Discuss this. So take action on the technology coordinator compensation. We'll stole him again for another year. >> We need him. We need Adam. >> Yes, we do. >> I'll make the motion killer to >> second. Moved by Donnie, seconded by Marcus. Um Justin, >> yes. >> I vote yes. Casey, yes. Tony, >> yes. Marcus, >> yes. >> Discuss. Consider take action to approve school nurse compensation by school. We need a Casey Efforts. [laughter] Moved
102>> by Casey. >> Seconded by Donnie. >> Marcus. >> Yes. >> I vote yes. >> Yes. >> Justin. >> Yes. >> Casey. Yes. >> All right. Does it fit into the end? Discuss necessar subteer compensation for school year one. And this is for one or for any. >> No. is for these two specifically, Rachel Johnson and Bob Orton F. >> Suppose we need them to [laughter] unless you want to come up and sub for us. >> Yeah, >> I'll make the motion. >> Moved by Justin, seconded by Marcus. I was going to say I saw you um teaching the preschoolers. See, >> we want to do that. >> Just that was your audition. You didn't know it, Casey? Yes, >> Justin. >> Yes, >> Marcus. >> Yes, >> Donnie. >> Pointed me and said Marcus.
103[laughter] >> It's the pain meds. >> Trying to help you out earlier. That's me. I vote yes. Okay. Uh, we got I don't know. I would discuss consider take action to approve the substitute teacher compensation for next school year. $5 a day increase for our sub. So they'd make 175 a day. They make sub for us next year. We'll make that motion. >> Second moved by Donnie, seconded by Casey to approve teacher pay. Justin, >> yes. >> Casey, yes. Anie, >> yes. >> Uh discuss the take action to approve classified staff compensation. Six on seven. I'm sorry. >> It's fine. Just make a motion once. >> Like I'm doing well. [laughter] >> Good. Keep going. Classified staff compensation. >> Um I'll make that motion. Um moved by Donnie, seconded by Stephanie to approve the classified
104staff compensation. Justin, >> yes. >> Casey, >> yes. >> Marcus, >> Yes, it's done. >> Yes. >> Um consider discuss the certificate action to approve new new teacher contracts for the 26 27 school year. >> Again, a new sped teacher in Bellwood comes to us with years and years of experience and a new industrial tech teacher for the high school. Boy, three years experience ready. Coming to us from Bert Tran. >> Yeah. >> Neat. >> Oh, go Marcus. You find Marcus. I can invite Casey to approve your teacher contracts for the next school year. >> Yes. Justin. >> Yes. >> Casey. >> Yes. and um no staff resations on the agenda to approve uh future discussion action items. Um obviously has a more authoration about caral facilities. >> Yep. >> Um definitely have a legislation
105update probably going through >> and if there's anything else you think we need. I just want to say I appreciate you guys doing uh the compensation for next year. Um because last year that was 83% of our general fund budget was people cost and so this gives me a a little bit of a head start on trying to start putting numbers together for the poll and so thank you for doing that. That gives me a bulk of the numbers I need to at least get a start. So thank you. >> Right. Um and on from here we will start looking at um community meeting date and things like that. >> Yeah, we're getting Yeah, I think it's more part of that facilities and folk table up. >> Yep. All right. Then with that, I'll entertain
106a motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Moved by Mattis, seconded by Donnie. All those in favor. All >> was 8:32. Casey. >> Yeah. I thought better than >> Thank you guys. [snorts] Thank you very much public. Thanks for being here tonight. Thanks to everybody. >> Yeah. Thanks to everybody who came. That was good. So >> good. Yeah. Thank