001To 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. Now move the approval of the agenda. Can I have a motion, a second to approve the agenda? So moved. >> Second. >> And all in favor? >> I motion carried. At this point, we will open the Northern King County budget hearing. Um so the tenative budget has been on display for um 30 days and tonight we're asking for a formal approval of the final budget. Um the only change from the final budget from the tenative to the final. Um we did get slightly new numbers for the federal and the per um CTI grant. So the Perkins grant um got another $23,000 and the CTI grant went up
002109,000. So, minimal increase, but we'll take it. Um, because we were expecting it to stay flatter or cut. So, that was the only change from last month's um to this month's reports. Um, the cash reserves are going to be about $853,000 and um it'll still have a positive fund balance. And then I just wanted to point out because I didn't get to last month when it was presented, but the pre PowerPoint presentation was actually created by the summer interns that we had. We had two finance interns that were Central High School students. They created my budget presentation for me. So um it it's different than what I normally do, but um I didn't want to change it too much because they put their heart and soul into it. So um Isa and um I forget
003Deborah. Isa and Deborah were the two that did this for us. It was a cool experience for him. >> So on the budget hearing, we'll open for public comment. Thanks, sir. That's all I have unless you have any questions or there's no public comment. So, good. >> We'll go ahead and close the um budget hearing then. And now we're on to open forum. Just want to welcome everybody. Thank you all for coming tonight. We have a few more people here, so thank you for being here. Um, and as always, we love hearing from the community and love people coming forward and talking to us. Please just remember to be respectful in our comments and not make any disparaging comments about anybody um that might be in the district or maybe some neighboring districts as well.
004So, for our first public comment, uh, Dave Chapman. >> Uh, good evening. Uh on behalf of CA, I first wanted to say congratulations to Miss Ward for being appointed to the school board. I wasn't able to make the board meeting last uh last time, but congrats and we look forward to working with you. And then I wanted to say uh thank you to the board of education and the administration uh for a very positive and productive negotiations. Um I think it was very professional, collaborative, and I know our team felt very valued and heard throughout the whole process. Um, I think it definitely shows that, you know, we have a strong commitment to our teachers and especially our students. So, thank you for for your time throughout the whole summer. We we appreciate it. So,
005thank you. >> Thank you. >> Next, we have Jamie Garza. >> Hi, guys. I'm from transportation. I talk a lot, but never publicly, so I'm a little nervous and I usually watch from home. So, I am just here because um I've been with the district for 20 years and last year the drivers were offered um health insurance, which we are so appreciative of. Um the only thing is is that there's a few hiccups in there that I just wanted to kind of bring to the attention so we can work them out because we are short drivers, which this year I think we've finally got enough drivers. So that will I and I don't want to lose anybody over something that is just a hiccup, you know, that we can that can easily be worked out
006or, you know, just because we've never had insurance, so it's not something, you know, anybody's ever worked on before. So I just made a little paper. Um, it just is how the tiered insurance works. Um, the average bus driver gets about is guaranteed four and a half hours a day. Most of us, most most people are guaranteed four and a half hours. Um, now that we have a lot more drivers, um, like myself, I'm I'm usually at six hours because I've been here 20 years, so I get a little bit longer routes. People have been here, we have some 35, 40 year drivers, so they obviously get way longer than I do. Um, so, um, I'm sorry, I'm so nervous. I can't think of what I'm trying to say. So, um I just wanted to
007just kind of go over like how it how it worked because this year route. So, we were told that insurance would be um whatever you have on the first day of school, which most people because you figure the first day of school, you know, your routine. For bus drivers, it's usually the first month of school. We is when we figure out our hours because so many kids things change, routes get added, unadded. Um this year, route pick was eight. um four and 85. Open enrollment went from um August 7th to August 14th and obviously the first day of school isn't until the 20th. So let's say I pick my route and it's five hours as of the 7th. I'm signing up to pay the the seven hour premium, right? But the first week or two
008of school, I may add on an extra hour or two. So that's not going to be included. And I could actually get cheaper insurance, but I'm not able to because it was it kicked those hours kicked in the first week or two of school as opposed to before during the open enrollment. If that kind of makes sense. My paper's a little bit more self-explanatory than I am. Um, so that was that was all I just wanted to maybe see if there's if anybody has any suggestions on how to because I think insurance is the biggest thing with drivers. You know, every insurance is such an expensive, you know, so the less you work, the more you're going to pay for insurance is how the tier is set up right now. And not knowing what your
009insurance rates will be until two weeks before your insurance rates up, which is what happened this year to many drivers. That's not really cool either because it's like we don't even have time to figure out if we can, you know, obviously not find another job, but find like a different insurance, you know, you can't even go on your spouse's insurance at that time. So, I just would like, you know, I don't really have the answer, but I think that we could probably work together and figure something out because I don't want to lose people over something that's new and they they're upset because they've been here so many years and, you know, now all of a sudden, we finally got insurance, but now it's unobtainable. So, if that if that makes sense. So, I was
010my only suggestion would be maybe a tiered insurance by how many years you have. So that way each year you're not worried about, oh my gosh, are my rates going to be unaffordable because of my hours or because there's very few people that work under four hours in transportation. There's that's the retired people that have come back to help out because we're short, you know, and 99.9% of us love this job. Like I love my bus job. I I've lunch lady at Prairie View and Lily. Like I love like my kids don't go to school here, but I have more Central stuff than I do U46. So, like I said, I just made these. I'm not a professional typer or anything. And I was going to um type a little bit more, but the tornado
011sirens went off and I got scared. So, this is what you get. And uh thank you guys for your time. And I will be, you know, if you have any questions or you know, you I'm always available. So, and thank you Dana because I used to drive for kids. I love them. >> Thank you so much. You did great. Uh PK, >> thank you. I'm PK B. We probably all had the same issue with the Tonio sirens and hopefully there's a there's a way to help address what her concern is on the insurance. Um first off, I'm happy to read in the new athletic director's report that uh CHS will be piloting eight new clubs this year, including debate club, STEM club, coding, chess, DECA, uh and others. Um that's a big step in filling
012out our extracurriculars uh in the district and uh great news to share with all parents, not just high school parents. So um wonderful to see that. Um second, last month in the public comment, I mentioned um a number of the public's concerns about financial dealings in the district over the past few years. Um I won't repeat them here because of time and and I think you're all pretty much familiar with what those questions are. Um I had asked you to ask the auditors and the district to look at those questions. Um and you didn't discuss that in the open forum. Um and somewhat to the contrary, Superintendent Powell uh made a statement uh when introducing the auditors in that part of the agenda that essentially kind of minimized concerns and made it sound like things
013are totally fine and clean because past audits have not found issues. Um, and I think that statement, which I think was pretty incredible, um, combined with your silence during the meeting, does leave the public wondering if you're going to, you know, perform your responsibility to understand what happened in those dealings over the past few years and put the things in place to prevent those things from happening again in the future. That's really, you know, thinking about the future. Um and and furthermore, if you didn't realize it, the standard annual audit scope is limited and does not cover the kinds of things that specifically have happened in the past. Um as the board as fiduciaries, you would need to ask the district or the auditors to look at specific additional questions that you're concerned about. And
014that's, you know, so the the statement that audits in the past have been clean doesn't really pertain to the questions at hand because the scope of those audits didn't pertain to looking at the kinds of things that people are concerned about. Uh but ultimately, you're asking the auditors to look at it and provide you with recommendations on how to strengthen the district's processes, controls, approval authorities, or whatever else so that the history doesn't repeat itself and we can enter a new area of high public trust and confidence. And that way when we need public support to do things, big things in the district, we can get that. Okay. Lastly, on the tenative budget, uh 301 has had increasing average class size, that's total students divided by total teachers over the past few years, and it's
015become the highest average class size of all the districts in King County. Uh the budget presentation indicates that expense assumptions reflect additional FTEES. So directionally good, but it's unclear how many FTEEs and in which staffing categories. Are they teachers, counselors, support staff, administrators, which buildings are they for, which types of programs are they for? Um, and so I think as part of your board review in the next 30 days, um, that should include whether this proposed budget enables meaningful progress in bringing the district staffing ratios in line with our districts. We can't close that gap in one year. We have sort of fine amount of money. um choices have to be made, but um can we take a meaningful step in in addressing what's accumulated over the past few years and then we take another
016step the following year and the following year and we sort of to close that gap over time. And then lastly on the uh also on the draft budget to easily see what's changing. It would be very helpful if you published a version of the spreadsheet that has one more column on the right side which shows the proposed 2525 the proposed 2526 budget versus the 2425 actuals. the uh plus or minus percent change. It doesn't have that and it's very hard to eyeball that with uh all the all the digits. Uh that would help a lot with the review. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Virginia. Good day. Um, I just want to talk about the um there was a an opinion given by one of your attorneys about the open meetings act stuff and uh
017with your close session meetings and um she did commend you on that. They were well done. Um but she did caution you on some things as far as um has to do with the discussion about appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of specific employees. And but the pack has ruled that this exception is limited to matters concerning individuals and does not include matters pertaining to classes of employees. So, I'm not quite sure if that was maybe you were talking about general employee salaries and stuff like if that was that can be dis disclosed or Yeah, I guess um instead of it could be something you open up from your closed meeting sessions um because it wasn't about a specific employee, it was about the general overall aspect of that. Um, that's pretty much all
018I had to say about that was just that I hope that that gets if I don't know what to say. I don't know if this is a concern should be a concern or not, but it just I would I think it's more because there's a lot of things I feel like get put into closed meetings that maybe shouldn't be. So that's I guess my concern with that. So thank you so much. >> Thank you. best. >> Good evening. We are two of the executive board um members of the Burlington Educational Support Team and we are here um to represent the dedicated support staff throughout the district. I'd like to introduce myself to you. Don't know many of your faces. So I am Carol Galoy. I am the president and I proudly served as the president
019of BES for the past five years. My involvement with BES dates back to his very first contract in 2015 and I've remained actively engaged ever since. In addition to my role with Bess, I work as an administrative assistant at HBT and have been a dedicated employee in the district for 29 years. I'm Laura Ben and I am a retired teacher 35 years under my belt. I needed to have some insurance and so I'm a library assistant at the high school. I joined best as soon as I got this job and I will continue to support and work for everyone that's a member of the organization. So our members our members are the people behind the scene who help keep our schools running whether it's in the classroom, the office, the cafeterias or the buildings and
020grounds. As we head into the new school year and with this being a contract negotiation year, we look forward to working respectfully and constructively with the board and the district leadership to reach a fair agreement that reflects the essential work our staff do every day. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. At this time, I need a motion and a second to discuss. We're moving on to action reports. I apologize. Moving on to our action reports. First is our consent agenda. So on this agenda, there's the meeting minutes from July 21st, 2025. The regular board meeting, executive session minutes, July 21st, 2025. The treasures reports, these are all listed within your the board book as are the attachments. Payment of bills, the Empress, CHS, Empress, and bills payable. Payments of the bills for Northern
021King County Regional Vocational System Personnel report. Recommendation of the high school AP German textbook that's been on display for the last 30 days. Recommendation of the high school physics textbook that two has been on display for the last 30 days. The board of education and central community school district 301 and central education association IA. This is anou for us to hire special ed teachers through a a company. >> Yeah, they're a company. >> That Thank you. between the board of ed of Central and Northern Kane region and Fox College for CTE course work. The annual review of the hazardous bus routes. This is something that the board just has to see every year and a temporary facility annual audit which is part of also making sure that our buildings are our mobile units are able
022to be um housed students this year. This is the new units that are being built. These are the existing mobile units that are there. So those are the consent agenda items. Okay. So now do this. >> So now I need a motion and second to discuss and approve the consent agenda. So moved. >> Second. >> And any discussion? >> Roll call, please. >> Yes. Now, we're going to go on to the approval of the Burlington Central High School graduation event agreement. >> This is more with NIOU. Um, we're very excited that we actually have gotten NIU booked for the next four years. Uh, the dates are not always the most ideal dates right now, but we've got them booked. So, and there will be some room if we need to to adjust. Um, but that's
023what that agreement is. So, I'll need a motion and a second to discuss and approve. >> So, moved. >> Second. >> Okay. Any discussion? >> Seems very reasonable. >> Roll call, please. >> Dogen, >> yes. >> Gorman, >> yes. >> Hurst, >> yes. >> Mva, >> yes. >> Papis, >> yes. >> Ward, >> yes. And now we'll move on to the approval of the veterinary agreement. >> These are veterinary affiliations. These are all veterinarians within the area that have agreed to work with us um within our Vette program. So those are all listed in there. Um it's it's quite a list of of groups that are willing to work and I think it's an amazing program that we have and u excited they are willing to assist with us. >> All right. Motion and second
024to discuss and approve the approval of the veterinary agreement. >> Some moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> And roll call, please. >> Gorman, >> yes. >> Hurst, >> yes. >> Verva, >> yes. >> Papis, >> yes. >> Ward. >> Dogen, >> yes. >> Wasson, >> yes. >> Motion passes. And >> we're going to move on to old business. on that one. So, we're doing the resolution now after your presentation. >> This is Northern Kane. We There really isn't any presentation needed. I >> apologize. I'm still learning. >> We held it in the the public hearing. >> Right. Right. No, no, no. I'm just checking to see Okay. >> But I think I'm guessing you need a vote. >> No, this is a D. If you look >> on the annual budget, the FY26 resolution
025on the tenative budget is for >> for central's tenative budget. >> So I'm not down here till later to present. >> Right. Should we move that down >> either way? It doesn't matter because we have to post it anyway. >> So, this is just saying that we agree to post it, >> okay, >> on there and that it's for the 30 days. It's been posted since Friday. >> Okay. So, we'll move on to the resolution to adopt the annual budget and appropriation ordinance for fiscal year July 1st, 2025 ending June 30th, 2026. And then, okay, I see a motion and a second. So, >> moved. Second. Roll call. >> Dogen, >> yes. >> Gorman, >> yes. >> First, >> yes. >> Murva, >> yes. >> Papis, >> yes. >> Ward, >> yes. >> Wasson, >>
026yes. >> Motion passes. >> Okay. And now we'll move on to old business. The approval of the fiscal year 26 Northern Kane budget. Motion a second required to discuss and approve fiscal year 26 Northern Kane budget. >> So moved. Second. >> Any discussion? Roll call, please. >> Dogen, >> yes. >> Gorman, >> yes. >> Hurst, >> yes. >> Murva, >> yes. >> Papus, >> yes. >> Ward, >> yes. >> Wasson, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> Now, facilities update. Daner. Good evening. >> Thank you. >> Monthly presentation. Um, uh, first thing I want to talk about, again, like I try to do this time of the year, is thank our staff. Our staff is worked really hard this summer, put in a lot of hours, a lot of Saturdays and everything. And I appreciate the
027work that they do to get our buildings up and running for our staff and students. our buildings are in really good shape and I just want to thank them and show our appreciation for everything that that they do in the summer. Um updates on projects. Uh the HBT roof project um is substantially completed. We have some coping and trim work to finish. Um one area of coating to finish. We've had some weather days over, but it's not going to impact the start of school at all. And that project's in in pretty good shape and will be definitely completed this week. Um the CT mobile project has had a few hiccups. Um so the new section of mobiles won't be available for the start of school. Um we met with uh the ROE and our architects
028uh this morning. We'll be able to use the current four classrooms that we have um and use the connecting annex for an emergency egress. And our plan is to have everything completed in the next two weeks and try to have students in there September 2nd. um kind of some unforeseen things that have come up and kind of challenged over the last few weeks, but contractor, staff, architects, everybody's been working hard to get through those, been partnering with the ROE and the city of Elgen to get everything in line. So, we should be in good shape in the next couple weeks. Um architect update. Um I'll be meeting with the architects in the next two weeks. The plan is to have them present kind of an update and a plan on where they're at at September's
029meeting. kind of give a schedule of time and kind of where they kind of foresee things. We've had conversations. They've been again provided a lot of our documentation all of our buildings and they're kind of getting up to speed. Summer's a challenging time to do all that because they're really busy like everybody is that time of the year, but they'll present in September and give us kind of an update and a timeline on kind of where their process is. Um, one thing that's in the board packet that I just wanted to share a little information on that maybe some of our newer board members, we've we've been doing working through um, Nania Energy for our um, gas and electric services over the last few years, which is a a partnership at no cost to us
030that helps us bid or get the best pricing on our utility costs. Utility costs are skyrocketing. So, this gives us an opportunity to either do an annual agreement or a multi-year agreement. the electricity. We've done a reverse auction in the past where literally the the vendors that want to provide services. This is above and beyond Kameed's service and their their transmission of the energy. This is actually purchasing the energy literally bid online in a 15minute time frame. They're seeing each other's bid. So, it's pretty competitive. And in the first couple times we did, it's kind of interesting to watch and kind of see how things shake out. But, we've got really good energy um pricing based on that. So that's the process we decided to use again with them. Um so we'll be bringing that
031information um in September. Also, another um thing that came to light that I just wanted to update on, we've been kind of been working with Matt over at uh PKMS. PKMS is currently out of student lockers. We have no available student lockers for any new students. Um we've talked a lot about elementary growth and kind of where our district growth is. We've got middle school growth, too. It's not just elementary school. So, we're working um through some processes to add some additional lockers um that kind of give us some flexibility. But again, there's cost to that. You know, to add four uh 14 lockers is like $6,000. So, there's going to be costs to address that growth and then to try to do that in expedient process. They weren't out of lockers up until two
032weeks ago and then we had just a ton of new students that came in and were out of lockers. So besides the issues we're dealing with at an elementary level space and kind of being creative i.e. mobile and things PKMS is seeing that also growth at C at CM at CMS also high school issues we're we're seeing. So growth is a across the board thing. So I just wanted to bring that up. I talked to to Dana and Kyle about making sure that I made my observations from the facility end and what we need to do available to you guys that those things are happening. It's going to come at a cost. We're going to have to make some some decisions moving forward here pretty quick. So, any questions about any of that? >> I
033think I zoned out with CT. Where are those kids going to go for them for the first two? >> So, uh Teresa Koko, the principal there was got a a great plan to give use some of the alternate spaces. IE library, um, music room, some of those spaces for those two weeks. She's made accommodations and definitely did a good job to to help me out and help us out to kind of get through these couple weeks. So, she has a plan for those four classrooms. >> And any other foreseeable issues that would slow that project down to where we can't >> No, I think we should be should be in good shape. The mobiles themselves, all that work should be done by the end of this week. putting up finishing touches on the connecting link
034and getting fire alarm and intercom and all that stuff in. Um, talked to Brian about getting our IT and technology in, you know, the end of this week, next week. So, no, I think we should should be in pretty good shape to get that that done by that time frame. >> Any other questions? >> So, right now, PKMS, we every student that's there has a locker. We just don't have any for any >> I I I think there may be a few students that Matt had have some conversations about sharing with a buddy type thing because I think they're like over capacity at this point with some of our new enrollments which is again a challenge. We come like we were talking about with with transportation. People need to register early. These late registrations kill
035us every year. But uh >> maybe we can do higher cubbies for the tall kids. >> Yeah. That's what makes them expensive. >> Right. >> Any other questions? >> So, while you're up here, I know the next topic on here is um CHS parking. So, I know we talked a little bit earlier today, but I know that that came up as a topic and I know I certainly have gotten a couple calls from from >> So, it's it's obly obviously that time of the year. you know, the high school's process for Dolan art parking spots was given out. I'm sure there's people who wanted or thought they deserve parking that didn't get it. So, we have the same conversation. I know I presented I mean there is an option for that that west area. Um
036there's a lot of considerations to look at. We could make that a staff parking lot so we don't have students crossing that egress. that drive to enter that lot would be have to be way south just to make that safe for traffic flow coming in and out of the site. If we wanted to entertain it for students, we'd have to move that drive all the way to the west to make that safe so kids aren't crossing that drive. That just budgetarily that could be an $800 to a million dollar parking lot. That's not even talking about changing the drive. I mean the drive would be additional costs when we actually get the engineers in to look at it. detention. If we have to do underground detention, build retaining walls, all the things we could kind
037of foresee happening, it it's going to be an expensive parking lot to get, you know, 100 parking spots. >> And that's to be a paved parking lot, right? Have we looked in? >> So, so there there's a So, and a gravel parking lot doesn't pro preclude you from doing any of the detention things. It's still not a permeable surface under the codes and under what King County is going to want to see. All that creates is a nightmare to take care of. Striping, plowing, done, everything else. So, a gravel parking lot makes no and you're going to save money, but it's not like it's going to be, you know, $20,000 to do that. I mean, you're still going to look at an expensive gravel parking lot. >> I only ask because St. Charles North has
038a gravel parking lot >> across a major street. >> Correct. >> For their students. So, I'm just wondering how they manage it. Is that something >> that's feasible here? >> Any other questions about >> it's probably feasible, but they don't have a water issue like we have. >> I'm assuming. >> Yeah, we've maximized the site with the additions and stuff. All the detention and everything we have in that site is pretty pretty maximized. No, it's it's a comp it's a complicated project. Um, you know, I I looked at it a little bit myself. Um, everything Dan and our engineers have told us um are exactly what I would expect um based on my experience. Um, you know, I I'm I'm glad we put this on the agenda because I think there is I mean, obviously
039every district has an issue where people aren't happy. Um, I don't know of a single high school that has parking for every junior and senior who who who wants it, right? Um so that that is not realistic. Um my concern and obviously we can't make everybody happy as a board, but there is a bit of a perception in the community that we as a board are failing in some way. And um I personally don't think that's true. We are asking about options. Um we are having a facilities plan done by architects to help us identify um our facility deficiencies and challenges and come up with recommendations and suggestions. And ultimately I think the community needs to tell us what they want if they think that million dollars is worth it. Um that's information I think
040we need, you know, um and we we have to understand that um right now um as we're considering a budget and um and I I feel like to make decisions here as a board member, I need to know more about where the community is on this. You know, when we did our board training um and I promise I'll shut up in a second here, we learned about um public concerns or global concerns versus customer concerns. you know, um I'd like to know um just how global of a concern or an issue this is for the district um and our parents and our kids um as a whole um so we can decide what we want to do about this. >> I think it's a confir concern for 75% of the junior class. >> Yeah. >>
041But just the junior class, right? You talk about spending the money from the district like how many elementary uh parents are going to care about that or want to spend the money in that kind of way. >> It will it will become an issue. >> It may. >> Well, yeah, >> but there's going to be something else that's going to be we need to do something different by the time those people come up. And it's like change the way that parking is is handed out too rather than a lottery where nobody's held accountable for it. Maybe we go because we're a school, we base it off of grades. Holy cow, there's a great idea >> and do that. Maybe you have less iate parents because the kids who bust their ass and get good grades,
042oh, they didn't get their name drawn. I mean, and that might not be as big of an issue, too. Just a >> Since we're on this topic, this is something that our architects are looking at already, right? This is something that that is going to be included in our master plan. >> Yeah. I mean, we'll look at every site. So, we'll look at country trails where we have designed additions and all those things. The expand what our options are for additions versus building new buildings. Oh, 100%. All of this stone will be unturned in that process. 100%. >> Ultimately, I feel like we need input. Um, you know, is this a priority from the community? Um, would you want to support this in a potential um future referendum that addressed um a lot of other
043needs and wants? Um, would parents support um I I'll say it here in a public meeting. Would parents support an increase um in the permit fee that could that could pay for a chunk of that process over time? I mean, I think I I feel like to make decisions here, that's the kind of information we need. So maybe we can talk about what that looks like in the coming months. But I do want everybody to know that the board is thinking about looking at this issue and um that we need information um back from the community um and from our staff to be able to make good decisions and act on this. >> Anybody else? >> Any other questions? Now we have a report. Mike Sitter, our new athletic director, and Brett Fender, who's our
044new high school principal, are here just to really talk about extracurricular, co-curricular, future programmings. Um, some is based on the conversations I know that happened at the last board meeting. Um, and I'm gonna keep talking as Mike gets connected to the screens. Looking at I know there was some conversations regarding tennis at the last at the last minute. So, he's going to talk a little bit about that. But also then I think as PK brought up some of the things regarding our clubs and some of the things that have been added in for this year. Some of those clubs I'm excited because some of those clubs actually were students who came forward. Um HOSA and DECA were two groups of students who came forward about starting those clubs. So Mike is connected. I will turn
045it over to Mr. S. >> Well, thank you for having me today. I'm excited about this. Um you know, sometimes as an athletic director, we get caught up in the day-to-day. The rain starts falling now. We got to cancel golf. We got to move soccer inside. And I I lose track of of like looking forward three years, five years, 10 years. So when Mr. Mr. Schumacher asked me to do this. Um, I've only been here seven weeks, so it was educational for me and it was also a chance to kind of look forward and see where Central High School can be in the future. Um, so like Mr. Schumacher said, we do have eight clubs that will be starting this year. Um, these were approved last spring and we'll be meeting with the uh sponsors
046of these clubs in the coming week as students come back to school. In fact, some of those students have already reached out to us wanting to get a head start on this and and meet with myself and Mr. Price about getting their clubs up and running here at the building. Um, so there are we have created a Google form, two Google forms actually, one dealing with athletics, one dealing with activities. Uh, the activity one is posted throughout the building. It just kind of asks kids what they're interested in. Do they have a sponsor in mind who would help them get this started? And some questions like that. And that's already been created. And then we have one for athletics that I'll talk about in a minute. Um, these are our current high school athletic offerings
047uh through the IHSA. Um, you see that number up top. Last year, 174 uh athletes participate in athletics at Central High School. Um, since I've started, I uh Mr. Jesus left me with a couple emails that constituents had sent him concerning flag football, concerning swimming. I know somebody spoke recently about tennis in front of the school board. So, there is an interest in adding some new athletics to the to the offerings we have at Central High School and that's kind of my job to get that that ball rolling. So, we do also have a Google survey uh that the students will take when they start school this week that allows them to say, are they currently involved in athletics and list some of the potential sports we could offer in the near future to see
048if they would like that and to see, you know, what the interest is at because sometimes, you know, people the public or or parents may say you should have this sport, but the numbers may not be there to support it. So, that's what we're looking for is to meet with our stakeholders and find out if they're interested in these sports. Uh and these are the sports who I have uh who I have heard from uh directly or indirectly. Um and I really didn't do a lot of research on swimming in my time in D300. Uh we had swimming there and uh for a while last year we lost our pool in the middle of season at Dundy Rec Center. Um, and we had to go searching for pools and I found out just how difficult
049it is to find a pool as our team ended up practicing at Streamwood High School at 5 am for about a month. Um, so um that would probably be the least likely to be added in the near future. So I kind of looked at some of the costs associated uh with some of the other sports that have been uh brought forward. It you know I'm not here to make recommendations or anything like that. My my job is just to educate myself first of all and hopefully educate you as to what process we would like to see happen at the high school for adding new sports and it would start with me whether it's uh the IHSA starting a new sport and having a state series in that whether it is students coaches parents coming to
050me but it starts with myself uh we make sure we have the numbers we look at it financially and make sure we're not stealing athletes from other sports sometimes that's the problem there is a finite number of students in the building. And I think uh when Central High School started lacrosse a few years ago, they kind of stole some athletes from some other sports. In the first year, they had to compete at a JB level and not a varsity level because they just weren't ready for that step. Now, they've grown into that sport uh very well. So, we just need to be ready, need to know that we're going to take the right steps. Um you know, if I think it's a good idea, I'll go meet with Dr. Bending and talk to him about
051it. We'll come to Mr. Mr. Schumacher or who'sever sitting in that chair in the future and approach them about moving forward uh put the numbers together and bring them to you here at the school board and see what your thoughts are. >> Does that seem like the appropriate steps to be taken? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Um so these are the some of the numbers we put together uh looking at other schools in the area, other schools in the Fox Valley Conference. Um highlighted there at the bottom of boys volleyball would be one of the bigger difficulties in adding boys volleyball. The fact that only Hunley has that in the Fox Valley Conference. So to add 35 matches, we would have to find 35 opponents. Okay. Uh yeah, we can play U46, but they're in a
052conference and they're only going to add three or four non-conference matches per year and we could so we'd be doing a lot of traveling east. We'd be going to the MSL and playing Elkrove, Shamberg, a lot of those schools. So that was just one of the hurdles that that are kind of on on my radar if we do add that. Um we did invite some boys to open gyms last year for girls volleyball and we had at times we had up to 20 athletes show up. Other times we had four or five. So there was some interest. Um there's no way to to gauge it uh uh really accurately right now, but that's that's one of the ways we would look at is having open gyms with the caveat of hey, if if there's enough
053interest in this, then it could grow into a sport and try to get the ball rolling that way. Um these are some of the costs associated with starting these sports. Um, coaches salaries we based on kind of middle of the road on other sports that have the same amount of uh uh matches or games. Um, and the number of coaches that it takes for those sports to run. Any questions on that? The uniforms would be every three to four years. That would be the initial cost and then we replace them every few years as they as they do wear out. So that's not a yearly cost. The rest of those costs are yearly. And then each sport has its positives and negatives and its concerns. Uh flag football, we would have to find a place
054to practice. It looks from the road like Central High School is a very large campus. But once you put three levels of football out there, three levels of soccer after school, it's pretty tight for space considering we have two fields, two competitive fields that we don't practice on. They are game only. Our stadium field and our ver our soccer field. So right now those are kind of off limits after school unless there's a home game. Um it it limits our space. So we have to find a place for that sport. Um and and the stadium is already kind of stressed with lacrosse playing in the spring. Um and football in the fall, it gets beat up pretty well. So adding 15 home flag football games could add to that stress. Volleyball we talked about uh
055or I'll talk about the indoor space in the spring is very very tight. When March 1st about the time of year that spring sports start, you have baseball, you softball, boys lacrosse, girls lacrosse, all sharing space with girls track and boys track in the inside. So adding three levels of volleyball to that would be very difficult. Uh there would be light late practices. There would be somebody would have to go seven to nine almost every night. Not just that, you know, we'd break it down to 3 to 5:30, 5:30 to 7:30, 7:30 to 9:30 would be the three sessions to fit everybody in. Uh the difficulty with tennis is requiring 8 to 10 courts somewhere on property we own. I did listen to the the presentation given to the board last meeting. Um, and they
056did there are and I looked at Google Maps and we found courts all over the area, but having a court in this neighborhood and two courts in this neighborhood is really a supervision nightmare on my end of having people there to to make sure that everything's going correctly for these practices for these games. Um, so that that I didn't feel that that was realistic. And then I put the costs of the two conference schools. Uh, Mckenry is most recent to build courts from scratch and Dundy Crown rebuilt theirs this summer at a cost of 1.1 million. So, it just gives us an idea of what it would take and obviously the biggest prohibitive factor is finding the land. Um, we just talked about how tight the land is. Um, adding more sports does put a
057strain on our trainer. um whether she can be outside supervising events and and hopefully getting to kids quickly if they do get injured or being inside doing a lot of rehab or or prehab and and you know stretching kids out and doing those. She can only be in one place at a time and adding more sports kind of kind of makes that a little more difficult. Um so we would have to look at increasing that that need. And then finally, transportation. And and I I think transportation does it does as good as they can, but not all their regular routes are done till four o'clock. And you know, we already struggle being the southernmost school in this conference of getting to Mckenry, of getting to Crystal Lake on time for competitions. And adding sports that
058could make it more difficult. So, do you have any questions for me? your first slide uh what constitutes a high level of participation like for those the sports that we're doing we're starting up what how how do we gauge those going forward I mean do you have a number like what's >> I don't um when I put flag football up there the conference has two levels varsity and JV >> no I think I'm talking about the eight that we're going to be starting >> oh the clubs >> the clubs sure >> oh what to make a run No, like if you go back to your first slide, you say that they'll be uh looked at or evaluated based on a high level say >> based on attendance. >> The clubs demonstrate high levels of participation
059from official. >> Yeah. >> So what is that high level? >> That's a good question. I did I didn't want to put a specific number on that. Um, if you have, you know, if you have only eight kids show up to this club, but you have 30 in the other, obviously there's a big discrepancy there. But if you put it a solid number at 12, they have to have 12 regular kids and they only get 11. Are we cutting that club or are we going to give them another year? That's something just for us as administrators in the building to sit down at the end of the year and say, was this club successful? One of the ways to do that is participation by kids another but can be judged in many fashions. It can
060be, was there a contribution to the community? you know, is this something that may have low numbers, but it's really needed in our community. So, I think at the end of the year, it's just kind of our job and I'll report back to you and to see what our attendance was like. Um, and just like athletics with clubs, if you start eight new clubs, are we going to hurt the other ones that are going on? Are we going to are they going to lose contributions from students? So, it's it's kind of a chance to look at all clubs and see where we at and what the participation is. And then are those all staffed for the fall? >> They do all have sponsors. >> And then esports, where is that housed? And we have all
061that equipment already. >> That I do not know. I I found out that esports was approved a couple years ago. >> It was. We never bought the equipment. >> Okay. So that's why that's up there. Uh we do have a staff member willing to do it. I don't know if we have the equipment. Um Dana says no. >> So um in the space probably. >> So my my what I would do moving forward on that is instead of competing with the IHSA, I would start it as a video gamers club where kids could bring their own equipment in uh >> you know every couple weeks with a sponsor and start that way and if we get good numbers there then we look at how much the equipment costs and where can we house it. >>
062The difficulty is you can't put it in a classroom otherwise that classroom can't be used during the day. off topic to put you on the spot. Sorry for so many questions. >> No, good. >> So, what in your past experience in your previous position, I can't remember what school you came from. Was it a K12? >> No, I was at Hampshire High School. >> Oh, it was just high school. Okay. So, do you foresee a benefit of meeting with the our middle school athletic director daily to go over things and collaborate with them? And what's the Can you explain the benefit to us? Like the >> um Well, technically I I believe I am the middle school athletic director. >> Oh, >> now there is there. No. Okay. I then I over I I I
063mean >> That's all right. >> Seven weeks. >> I do a lot more in this district with the middle schools than I ever did in district 300. >> Okay. >> I had absolutely nothing to do with the middle schools there whatsoever. Here I talk to Vince Goa, uh the middle school athletic director, probably every other day. um just because he is also a full-time teacher. So that's just a stipen he receives and I kind of help him out. We handle transportation, we handle workers, we do all that stuff at the high school even though it's those events are occurring at the middle school. >> Yeah. >> I'm learning as much as you guys are today. Thank you. >> Anything else? >> Well, I thank you for having me and I I'll be here anytime you
064want. >> Thank you. >> Now we go to Dana. Dana and the presentation of the preliminary budget for FY26. I know Dana presented in um July I believe a little bit and really kind of went over some of the education fund things and some of those um so she'll be going over through some of those slides a little more a little more quickly >> shutting down. >> Um that I think it says shutting down. I can't I don't know. >> Dana's done. >> Computer just shut down. >> I'm not sure which one I need to connect to. One, two. Okay. >> Like somebody told me, you press those two things and you'll join during the meeting, which it says right up there. >> Yes. If I did Windows K, let's see. So, this budget by
065law is is been presented. It's uh it's been public for 30 days prior to the September board meeting. So, September, similar to what you did tonight with Northern Kane, there'll be a hearing right before uh the meeting in September, I believe it's 15th. Um same type of thing, budget hearing, close, and then later on, then you you will vote on on that budget. Um the budget has been been in the paper has been publicized in the paper for 30 days. So that occurred as of this last week. >> I'm not getting that option. >> I'm getting BR01. Just do I couldn't. [Laughter] >> Okay. So, um, some of these slides I'm just going to kind of quickly go over because I did talk about it in the July board meeting kind of how the funds
066work and some of the revenues. They're there. Uh, you guys can read them. Um, but I also don't want to go over everything without any details just because a lot of you guys are new. But, um, so just to review um last year's 2425 budget, uh, revenues exceeded expenditures in all the funds except for the O and M and Tort funds. Both of those ended with a deficit balance. Um but the total fund balance was positive. Um and then which is the second little box there tells you the pos that everything all the funds ended with a positive fund balance. Um the major capital projects that were was done last year was the 20 classroom edition at the high school. Um that was the last couple years. Um Prairie Nolles and Prairie View grade schools
067got uh paving redone and then we got generators at um three of the um elementary schools. this kind of um the budgeting philosophy doesn't change every year, but the top priority is just to provide the needs for the students and the staff um while being fiscally responsible, sensitive to the taxpayers um keeping our fund balance reserves and then um trying to balance the revenues and expenditures whenever whenever it's possible. These are the budgeting considerations. These are all of the different things that I had discussed at the July meeting. Um salaries and benefits are the largest part of the expenditures. Um and then the local property tax is the highest um source of our revenues. This was also presented in the July board meeting. Um these are the different local, state, and federal revenues. Kind of
068breaks it out by um what source it comes from. Um the state is evidence-based funding is our biggest one in that category. our property taxes in the local and then um our special ed grants and our national school lunch are the top ones for federal in that category. This slide shows um the local taxes. When I did the budget projections, we based it off of 50% of tax money coming this year and 50% from last year. It's kind of always been 50/50. This year, we got a little bit more in the spring than I had budgeted. we got 51%. So there was a little bit of the like a surplus in there that you'll see um the deficit kind of they wash each other. It's just the timing of it. Um local property taxes were
069expected to get is about $64.8 million this year. Um for evidence-based funding we did stay in tier one which is like considered the poorest tier. Um in our calculations we are getting another $1.2 million in new funds on top of what we currently had. Um, so our total projection is 16.014 million for FY26. Last year we were in tier one um and we got 2.7 million. So even though we stayed in the same tier, we did receive like a million dollars less than what we got last year. Um, state categoricals is the same that I do every year. They're behind a payment from last year. Um, hopefully they only stay one behind. Um that one is a little leery that there may be a little bit slower with their payments. Um but we're projecting to
070get the last one that's owed to us and then three for next year. Impact fees and transition fees both came in under budget. Um I we've been receiving a lot of impact fees. We like a million five. I think it was a million three. This year we only received 933. So I did drop that down to just a little over a million. um just kind of the three-year average of the last three years just to um kind of have something, but I don't it it is going down. And then transition fees, we only got 5,700 bucks. So I I dropped that from the 50 down to the 10 just because we are not getting those anymore. Um these were the expenditure objects. These are how you break down in the budget the different funds or
071the different accounts inside of the budget which I kind of explained those last u meeting as well. >> Bless you. >> Um expenditures for all the operating funds. This one just as a visual to show you salaries and benefits versus all the other stuff within those funds. It's a 6535 split. This is total operating expenditures by fund. Um This one just kind of shows you the ED fund and on and m that make up almost 87% of the budget. Um that's where all of the salaries and benefits are and um that's those are the biggest two departments in the out of the budget. These were expenditure assumptions. Some of these were talked about in the July meeting. Um you can kind of see the salary and benefits for the contracts. um benefits were adjusted for
072TRS and um IMRF and all of the insurance um staffing from HR, all the new ads and stuff that he's been doing. Um those have been accounted for as of um July that we had capital projects improvement projects. Um so we have Howard B. Thomas' roof that we started. Um most of that will be out of this fiscal year. Country Trails Mobile is mostly coming out of this fiscal year. And then the high school track was the next one that if and when the time they get the thing pulling it, it may be paid out of this year, maybe portion out of next year. Um depending on the timing of all of that. Uh Lily Lakes boiler is still on the on the horizon that we need to do. The CHS parking, whatever. All those
073decisions, those are um th these three were kind of accounted for in the budget. Um and then there there is a line item in there that just is general that can be for any any project that comes up. So that was also included in there. Um a lot of this will come out of the facility committee. Um as we start having those meetings again, the top priorities, those will be coming forward as a board to let you know this is what is maybe moved up or bumped up, bumped down on the the horizon, but these are the three that were that were specifically budgeted for. Um, and then the best we can with all the cro cost of stuff, the special ed tuition has has increased dramatically. Um, I would say that was the biggest
074outlier this year from the prior years. Um, our bus leases have grown. We're getting more buses. Um, and just everything the cost of everything going up. So, all of this has been inputed into the expenditure assumptions. Um these next slides are just going to show you some top level salaries. Um this kind of shows you elementary, middle school, high school. These are just teachers salaries only, not benefits and not all of the support staff and services and everything. These are just straight from the budget. Just I picked these are the ones we pick every year. Um and then the total education fund. So all in that one fund is $38,000 for just $38 million for um salaries. education fund. These are some of these other bigger buckets. Um you can see athletics, food service, sped,
075tuition, um technology, and then the total expenditures for the ed fund, 67.8 million. ON&M, these are their buckets. Um total expenditures 11.2 million. Transportation fund. Um those are all of different components for 6.7 million and then these are the remaining funds. So debt service um IMRF capital projects working cash um capital projects is only budgeted for 590,000 because that is has that money is funded from those impact fees that we're getting less of. the money that doesn't cover the first $525 of the debt certificates goes into this fund. So if we get more impact fees then that budget can go up but with that reducing then that's about all that can go into that fund. Um the debt service fund also this is the last year of the big payments for the bonds. Um next
076next levy in 2025 which will be fiscal year 27 um our bonds drop from the 9 million down to 1.9 million. So there will be a savings on the tax bills for those. But uh and you'll see it looks a little weird this year because of the timing of those payments that some come in spring and some come in fall. Um you'll see that on the next few slides. So all in all FY26 summary this is the the all the different funds. It tells you all the revenues we are projecting all the expenditures we're projecting for each fund and then the difference. So if you see the negatives in the ed fund, transportation and tort, those are deficit spending. So that means we're spending more than what we're bringing in. Um the education fund had
077a surplus of roughly 1.7 million for the timing of those um tax receipts that we got early. So those tax receipts are technically for this year. So that kind of covers that deficit there. Um Those are Yeah, those are those. So, this difference column you'll see on the next slide when I flip to this slide. So, this is the projected fund balances. Um, this is this is the most important slide. Um, so you can see where we think our unodudited fund balances are for July 1. Um, where we where we ended. And then that slide from before, the middle column, shows you those exact all those same different amounts. Um, and then it tells you where we think we're going to land. So, you can see that we're still going to projecting if all of
078these come true, um, that we will have positive fund balances at the end of next year. Um, and then here's where you can see the debt service that, um, we have 6.3 million in there. Um, we're going to deficit spend 3.6 million because we are only going to get probably 700,000 next spring because we only that's when that debt payment takes effect. Um, so that will use up the fund balance for that piece. So it's kind of like you got the money a little bit early to then pay for it. But you'll see that we still have 2.6 million in that fund. >> But just to be clear, the projected fund balance at 63026 is tax money for the future school year. Correct. >> This >> includes >> Yes. >> So it's not like we're
079going to have a surplus of 24.8 Yeah. >> Okay. Because we're on the cash accounting system, we get the money before and so we hold on to it. So again, we're deficit spending in three of our accounts. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> And then this slide um same it's similar to every other year. The the newer things that were on there is that I mean we keep talking about them just getting the the FTE increases because our enrollment is growing or adding more teachers that adds more cost. Our building capacities maxing out mobiles we we know all about those. Um the special ed tuition costs are are have increased a lot and then um the state and Illinois fiscal problems the delayed and the prorated payments. So um not 100% sure what that's going to
080do or timing of all of that. So that is those are the key things on this slide that I think are the most detrimental for us or to keep on our radar. The other stuff's important too, but not as also listed in the um board packet was the actual the budget. This is my working budget. This is what accounting uses with the general ledger account number. So, it literally goes line by line telling you every single line item that um is coded from the state budget. Um this eventually gets uploaded into the state budget form which has a bunch of other tabs um in there. Um so I just wanted to point out that it goes by every fund. It goes by every section that we talked about in July, all the different breakouts. It
081does have my projected tenative budget for next year. So all these numbers that are in here tie to this report. It has last year's budget numbers that we we did for the final budget in 25. It also has our unawituded actual numbers from 2425 which PK was asking for. It is included in in the tenative budget that is on public display right now. And then it also has a percentage change from the budget to the actual for the prior year. So that information is out there. Um it'll be posted. It's been posted since last Friday. So it's up there for 30 to 30 days. So any questions or more things that you guys have, feel free to reach out and we can address them. >> I just want to say thank you. Great job for
082putting this all together. I was able to go through this as well as the um the overall budget when I couldn't sleep the other night and just really well done. Thank you. >> So thank you. You're welcome. >> I love this stuff. So, it's >> that's why I do what I do. Yep. Questions. >> All right. We'll move on to information only. The FOY report is included in the board packet. Um the dates for our superintendent search. Uh the main things that we're looking at there is that uh they'll begin focus groups on September 22nd and 23rd. Communication will be sent out soon regarding those. And then our goal as a board is to hopefully have a superintendent approved sometime in December is what we're looking at. Now we move on to agenda items for
083our SE September 15th board meeting and are there any items that we would like to >> So we heard that Dan's going to have we're architects sounds like presentations at the September >> I think that's going to be really great to hear and for everybody to hear what's going on. So now we're going to move into a close session after the appointment the appointment employment resignation compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees of the public body 5CS120-2C1 collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or the representatives 5CS120-2C2 litigation when action when an action against affecting or on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal or when the public body finds that an action is probable or imminent 5CS120-2C11 >> will
084be taking action >> what's taking action >> we will be taking action after the meeting um so I'll need a motion and a second to adjourn the open session and move to a close session. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Morva, >> yes. >> Papis, >> yes. >> Ward, >> yes. >> Gorman, >> yes. >> Hurst, >> yes. >> Wasson, >> yes. >> Motion passes.