001Stand and say the pledge of allegiance, please. >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right. The first item on the agenda, consider approval of proposed 26 school corporation budget. Mr. Herbert. >> Thank you, Mrs. Cherry. Uh just wanted to kind of run through the presentation that we went over uh back on our public hearing which was on October 1st. Uh so I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this but I did want to run through it very quickly and then be happy to answer any questions before we get to the actual approval of the budget. So uh again as we talked about uh what we're talking about here today is
002the education fund, the debt service fund, the operations fund, and the rainy day fund. Uh these funds obviously are specifically siloed [clears throat] uh and we can only spend and use these proceeds for certain things within each one of those. Uh talking about the budget here again this is the authority to spend it necessarily is not necessarily the ability obviously if we do not have the funds then we cannot spend those. As we look at our revenues uh here on the form two uh we can see that we've had uh quite an increase here over time that is uh not only in line with the increase from the state but also uh primarily driven by our ADM increase. We can see [snorts] here year-over-year as we look at the history here over the last almost
00310 years now uh of where our total tax rate has been and what our net assessed value has been. Uh we can see we've had substantial increases in our net assessed value. Uh which has also allowed us to have a significant decrease in our tax rates as we have come through this time. Uh but also still allowed for us to do a lot of things that we've talked about with our master campus plan. uh to be able to do a lot of work at the high school, to do work at South and some of our other facilities as well. Uh as we look uh just a comparison for our net assessed value here, uh Hendrickx County came in at 3.55%. Uh this would be for just the schools in these counties. This isn't necessarily the
004countywide or all taxing units in these counties. These are just the schools. Uh but you can see we're fairly on the on the light side uh when it comes to some of the comparables around us. Johnson County standing out there at almost 13% increase. Uh we talk about the maximum levy growth quotient. Uh this is what drives our operations fund. Uh so we are allowed to increase this by 4%. That's the cap that statutoily uh we have placed on us. Uh so we would be looking at doing a levy increase of 4%. Uh so our 25 levy was just over 4.7 million. Uh if as we look at this 4% increase for 2026, uh that puts us at 4.949 million, almost 4.95 uh that we'd be looking at here for the operations fund. Um oh,
005wrong direction. All right. Uh talking about education to operations transfer, uh we've done a a fairly good job of managing this over the last couple of years. uh there for several years 21 through 23 uh we just sat at a solid 13 and a half percent. Uh that was just kind of what we transferred over. Um here in 24 uh you can see that's a little bit lower. That was largely in part to the fact that we were really trying to manage the education fund uh and make sure that we were in the black in the education fund uh and being able to make sure that we kind of drive we've used the term deficit financing to to get us out of the deficit financing. uh this is one of the main tools that we
006use to do that. Uh we also know that going forward uh that's going to look a little bit different as well uh just because of the uh stipulations and the changes that Senate Enrollment Act One has been putting onto the district. Uh not only Senate Enrollment Act One but also the fire territory uh here locally uh is going to be uh really putting a stress on our operations fund that we're looking at making sure we uh are being attentive to and making sure that we're knowing what we're doing. Um as we look at total revenues here, this would be uh total revenues excluding property taxes. So this would be uh really everything minus property taxes which uh if you can see here the education fund uh we are projecting a 9.23% increase. That's largely uh
007impacted by our enrollment growth. Uh for don't remember but we had our ADM count here on October 1st uh and that has come through. We are at 2,917 was our final official count. Uh so that I believe is the highest that the district has ever seen. And so we continue to see that growth coming through which in turn uh leads to more dollars. Uh debt service fund. This is just miscellaneous revenue. Again, majority of the revenue coming from the debt service fund comes through property taxes. And then same thing [snorts] with the operations fund. About half of the operations fund comes from property taxes. uh the remaining is coming from transfers and miscellaneous revenue. Uh that would be interest earned uh revenue from uh rental expenses and things like that. As we look at the
008expenses side here on form one uh we can see a slight change uh slight increase here in the education fund. Again uh do largely impacting from the increase in student enrollment. Obviously more students means uh that we do have to hire more teachers uh and we have to be able to accommodate those needs and make sure that we have all the services that we need in the classrooms as well. Uh same thing with the debt service fund. This is what is needed to make our payments uh for this year on all of our bonds operations fund. You can see a slight increase. Uh that has been a a area that we've really focused on trying to make sure that we are decreasing the expenses in there. And even though I know it is showing as
009an increase, uh just if you remember us talking through in our work session, uh the secondary priority expenses that we have in that fund were really only about 300,000. Uh we've been able to cut quite a bit out of that number. Uh almost all of it. Uh and some other areas as well, we've been able to try to scale back a little bit. Uh however, that only being a small portion of the operations fund, there is still um some increase in the operations fund that's just coming from general uh appreciation and general uh increases in costs. Uh specifically around insurance, we see a lot of increase in insurance uh that there's not a lot we can do with that. Uh so that's why there it is a little bit of an increase, but we are
010definitely keeping an eye on that and trying to reduce those expenses as much as possible. Uh as we look through on the debt service fund, we talked about really three different options here or kind of three scenarios on where we would sit for the debt service fund. Uh recommendation before you is going to be the 89.99 cent uh rate for the debt service fund. Uh this allows us to make sure that we are still covering uh our operation or our priority and our obligations, that's the word I'm trying to say, our obligations from our bonds that we do have to make payments on. uh but will still allow us to uh try to maintain a level uh rate. If you remember, we are currently at 86.41. Uh we did advertise at 92 because 92 being
011the highest. Uh we know that as we go through this process, we can always come down, but we cannot go up from what we have advertised. Uh so uh but before you the recommendation is the 89.99 cents for the debt service fund. uh that will allow us to be able to uh make sure we meet our obligations for this year and then [clears throat] looking into next year on what potentially could come from there. As we look at the form 4B, this is what kind of brings everything together. Uh the top half of the form 4B is just essentially for the rest of this year. Uh really looking from July through December. I know we're almost here in November, so it's towards the end of this. Uh obviously at the bottom we want to make
012sure that we still have positive cash balances in all of our funds which we do show. Uh and then the bottom part of this is just looking at where the estimated revenues are going to come in and where the uh potential estimated expenses would be. Uh and then trying to figure out making sure that we again stay with a positive cash balance for all four funds which as you can see uh that is the case here for uh this year. So, uh, obviously that's quick and I wanted to leave some time to be able to answer any questions the board might have. Uh, but other than that would also ask for the approval of the 2026 uh, district budget. >> All right. I need a motion to approve the 2026 district budget, excuse me, district
013budget as presented. >> So moved. >> Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Second. >> Second. Thank you, Mr. Bryant. Comments or questions? I >> have a question on uh your slide on education operations transfer. >> You have the 2024 projected, but we're in 2025. So, where are we at with what we're transferring from Edops for this current year? >> That is that's pretty much right on for the projection for 24. Um, so for the next year we would see an increase in that that transfer uh just due to the fact of like we talked about Senate Enrollment Act One. >> I guess I'm a little confused. It says 2024, but yet we're counting here 2025. >> Yes, you're I'm sorry. Those those dates are off. >> And you said And you said here we are in >>
01425. >> That's why we shouldn't do 7 a.m. meetings. >> So is what's in is what's Well, actually, no. This was also at the October hearing. So that 24 projection is that 24 or is that 25? >> That's 25. >> So what was 24? >> I believe they're all of these are just off one year. [clears throat] >> Okay. >> Was 12.92. >> Yeah, like I said, let me [clears throat] >> Sorry, 13. >> Just, you know, trying to remain clarity here on things and then looking at uh your form on service debt service operations with your recommendation of 8999 for the debt service rate. Um that appears to be just under a 14% operating balance in the um debt service fund. State allows up to what a 15%. Yes, we can we can levy
015up to a 15% of any debt that was issued after 20 there's a there's a date >> 2014. Anything prior to that, we can levy up to 50% of that payment. >> Okay. And again, could you help me understand the why you're more comfortable with a just under a 14% balance there as opposed to say a 12%. Again, that has to do with the potential because we still have a lot of impacts that we don't don't quite understand what could happen next year. One of those significant impacts is being as we've talked about is the proportionate distribution of the tax credit the $300. Uh currently as it sits it is proportionately distributed which is uh meaning it will hit as essentially hits like a um like the circuit breaker in the both the operations fund
016and in the debt service fund. So the way the statute is written minus that homestead any circuit breaker impacts the debt service fund is protected. So it will not hit that debt service fund. It is solely uh driven towards the operation fund as the legislators passed. Enrollment Act One uh which had the $300 or the 10% whichever is the lesser of the two uh homestead credit that is coming through on properties that was distributed proportionately. Um, so that means that we are going to see anywhere from 475,000 to potentially almost 700,000 less off of the levy that we are going to receive into the operator into the debt service fund. >> Next, April. >> That yes, and that we will not understand until April is when the reports come. Uh, that's going to be the
017earliest we might potentially know. And then, but we don't receive those payments until June. So that's when we will actually understand how much we're truly going to get and what that impact could be. >> So if we if we're submitting to form form four as you proposed here today [clears throat] um DLGF is going to review this. >> Correct. >> And then I think it's somewhere in January they issue us a form 178 something or another >> 1782. Correct. >> Which uh is really what establishes our budget. Correct. >> Yes. And then at that time there's like a 10day window which we have to determine if we're going to keep the rate at the proposed 8999 that will they will send back any uh adjustments that they see that would legislatively be outside of what
018we have done if we've missed anything. Uh they will make little tweaks to it at that point once they send it back. Uh my understanding is I don't believe we can adjust the rate at that time. go down if we wanted to >> that I'm I'll just say I've never seen that done. Typically >> I know and I've never seen it done but the option is there, isn't it? >> I I can't tell you that it is. Typically what they're going to do is say what you've approved if if there was some discrepancy, something changed, something was beyond our control or maybe something we made a mistake on or they're just saying, "Hey, you're you're overfunded here or I'm sorry, underfunded." and they would make us cut our budget is typically what would happen in
019that time period. It's kind of a correction period for lack of putting it a better way. >> That's why I may ask it's usually about a 10day period in there that it's my understanding that >> yeah we have we have a number of days to sign off on it and send it back >> so that we could can't move it up above the advertised rate. >> Correct. >> We can certainly if we think that things are starting to change in the next 60 to 90 days we have that option to say do we want to keep it at the recommended I'm not going to say we do because that I do not know. >> Okay. >> And I'm not going to say we don't either. I I would need to double check that and make
020sure. >> And then uh the last question is looking at form 4 this year where you're proposing the 80 8.899 versus last year form four what you first brought to us was 87. >> And although we backed off of that, we went somewhere closer between 85 and 86. Looking at form four last year where it was 87 cent proposed in this year um debt service the adopted budget only shows a difference of plus 122,27 the adopted tax levy is an increase of 980,154 operations is a increase of 505,132 and the adopted levy for the operations is 190,31. Doesn't seem like a lot of difference between what you originally asking for last year on form one and what you're asking for this year on form one given the difference in the two rates. Can you speak
021to that? >> Uh a lot of it has to do with the circuit breaker impacts uh and specifically for us for the fire territory. Uh we know that last year uh we saw a circuit breaker impact of roughly 450,000 uh with looking at it this year that could be closer to 950,000. So [clears throat] even though we levy that amount of dollars, it does not mean we're going to collect all of those dollars. So that's kind of the difference and obviously with the operations fund, we're limited on how much we can increase that levy uh with the maximum levy growth portion of 4%. >> Thank you. My last question tonight is for Dr. Schaefer. The recommendation of the 0 899% debt service rate tonight, what impact is that going to have on taxpayers given that
022we're currently at 0.85 something? >> Yeah, what you have to look at really is the total tax rate for this year uh which are going to be both the debt service and the operational fund combined. So that's going to be a$124.88. Um, so that is I know debt our operations even with the 4% increase actually goes down very very slightly. I mean it's it's a couple decimal points out there. So you're going to see a slight tax rate increase but because of Senate enrolled act one uh with the um AV being pushed down. I think a lot of taxpayers, at least looking at our rate, we can't control everybody else's rate. Even though our rate goes up slightly, uh because of AV going down, taxpayers uh as as proposed by legislation should see uh tax
023property tax relief in terms of their their payment towards the levy. I describe it as kind of a teeter totter. In the center is the levy that school corporation needs and that that can't that can't change. We're already committed to what that amount needs to be, particularly for debt service. But with the formula, the higher the tax rate, the less the levy, okay? Or I'm sorry, the the less the the less the AV, which they're pushing that down. So tax rate has to go up a little bit in order to maintain balance in here. Okay? If they allow levy to go up like it has in the past, then our tax rate could continue to go down. But since we're committed to that amount of levy that we have to collect based on our our
024future debt service payments, when that levy gets pushed down by legislation, then by default tax rate has to come up a little bit to help make sure that we have the resources to make that payment. >> And that coming up a little bit this year is is about a 4centent increase in the debt service rate. >> Yeah, that's correct. >> And then why did the operations drop a little bit >> uh >> given given the hardship in it? >> Right. That's because of AV again. >> Thank you. >> I got one question. That's form 1782. >> We've never I [clears throat] don't know. I've been on here four years, four and a half. We've never discussed that. And would that be like the January meeting? We would know that or >> is that something you
025bring back to us? And >> that is something that we typically as the administration we sign off on that because we do have 10 days and they're very specific and that is that is 10 calendar days. Uh, so there have been days I've received that on Christmas Eve and that's one day, Christmas is one day, New Year's Day is one day, New Year's Eve is one day. So it is, we do have 10 days. It's very specific. And then so we just sign we sign off on it. I'm more than happy to bring it back to the board in January or at least put it in a Friday update. I guess I'd like to see it if you get it the day before Christmas. >> I'd like to see it. Okay. >> The day you
026get it. >> Okay. In fact, if it's at 5:00 on the day you get it, but it's 5:00 Christmas Eve, I'd still like to see it so that within that day wind 10 10day window, there's opportunity for us to ask questions to the two of you. >> Okay. >> Regarding what it's stating. >> Sure. >> And we I will tell you, I've seen this thing come in as early as December and as late as near the end of February, just depending on the year. So, there's not a set time that we can guarantee we'll have it by. will say typically we're going to get that late December, maybe through early to mid January. It kind of depends on what's happening with the whole tax structure piece. Uh with some of these changes, I would probably
027look for it later rather than earlier this year. So, >> but this is really what establishes your budget for the upcoming calendar year. >> Correct. >> I guess to Mr. Hel's point is that's really what establishes the budget. I guess in my time on the board since January 23, I haven't seen it. So, All right. Any other questions? >> And that 10day window is what I was talking about in terms of the opportunity to move it down if if we felt it was possible. >> Sure. >> But that's the 10day window I was talking about. >> Correct. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions, comments? >> All right. All in favor? >> Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, consider approval of the 26 education to operation fund transfer resolution. Mr. Herbert.
028>> Thank you, Mrs. Cherry. Uh, as we previously discussed, uh, this is the resolution that we have passed every year. Uh, state statute allows for us to transfer up to 15%. Uh, and so this resolution would give us the authority to transfer the up to that 15%. Uh, in the past you know that we have committed to 13 and a half for several years and then last year we actually were transferring even less than that. uh this upcoming year with knowing the differences that we have here in the education and the operations fund and Senate enrollment act uh the impact that that is going to cause on us uh we do feel like that the transfer is probably going to be closer to 14 to 14 a.5% uh but we we are not going to
029go above the 15% uh but this transfer resolution does allow us the ability to still maintain uh that transfer that we do on a monthly basis so uh more than happy to answer any questions with that I want to ask for the board's approval of our ed to ops transfer resolution. >> All right. Motion to approve the 2026 education operations fund transfer resolution as presented. >> So moved. >> Thank you, Mr. Hempil. Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Comments or questions? >> So, even though we're making a cut of would you say $300,000 in the operations fund >> and then you're still going to increase the transfer from head to ops closer to 14% which is >> close to a 2% increase. I guess I'm a little confused is that are we really
030cutting anything back in the operations? Yeah, we we again are looking at reducing the expenses as much as we can. Um, when we talked about at our work session back in October, maybe September, can't quite remember the month, uh, we discussed the secondary priority expenses that we have in the operations fund. And those were expenses that we felt like, uh, were still needed. They're still priorities, but some that we could perhaps scale back a little bit. Uh, those are the ones that we have scaled back. Um, but if you also remember, we we had said it was a roughly 250,000 is how much we could cut there. we needed to cut about a million out of the operations fund. Uh and so this is going to be increasing the transfer to help offset the additional
031750,000 that we needed to reduce. So we could obviously either reduce the expenses or we could increase the revenue. Uh this transfer being really the only way that we can increase revenue into the operations fund. And so that's the >> what is 2% of our education funding? Uh >> yeah, four million 2% is 480,000. 480,000. We're trimming 300,000. So that's a difference of 180,000. And then according to this year's form four, the adopted budget area for operations is going to be an increase of 505,000. It seems it's kind of cogn going to be a wash between what we were this year and what we're going to be spending next year. The only place it's going to take the hit is going to be the education fund because it's going to see a 2% increase on
032transfer from that jobs. >> Yeah. The a lot of it has to do with the expenses that are in the operations fund that I cannot cut being electricity utility bills our insurance costs. Uh we're forecasting insurance costs to go up significantly because we've seen that over the last couple of years. >> What about things like membership dues? Say like the urban superintendent association. Is that being cut? >> That's in the 300,000 that we're cutting. Yes. >> Thank you. >> Any questions? All right. All in favor? >> Any opposed? >> Thank you, Mr. Bryant. That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, approval of proposed three-year capital projects plan resolution. Mr. Herbert. >> Thank you, Mrs. Cherry. Uh, this again before you is the 2026 capital projects plan. Uh, what this is requiring is that we
033uh disclose any capital projects that we would be doing or taking on here in the next year. Uh, number one, that would be paid for out of the operations fund. Uh, that would be capital in nature. Uh and so as we look at that uh we will not be doing any capital projects out of our operations fund this year. Uh any capital projects that we have really done over the last four to five years uh specifically been out of our bonds. Uh so really coming out of kind of the debt service fund. Uh and so therefore there is nothing on this capital projects plan. Uh but we still do need the approval of the board. So happy to answer any questions and would ask for the board's approval of our capital projects plan. >> All
034right. Excuse me. Motion to approve the three-year capital project plan resolution as presented. >> So moved. >> Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Hempil. Any comments or questions? >> Did we successfully complete last year's plan? >> Um, we did. I believe I'd have to pull up exactly what was on there. I know there was some seal coding at South Elementary, which we did complete. Uh, but again, that was again used out of bond dollars. Uh, so we did not use operational dollars to complete that project. Uh like I said over the last several years, uh anything that we have done from a capital improvements has been done with bond dollars. So that was put on there as a just in case. Uh but we did end up doing those projects
035out of bond dollars. >> Thank you. >> Any other comments or questions? >> All in favor? >> Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Next item on the agenda, approval of proposed five-year bus replacement plan resolution. Mr. Herbert. >> Thank you, Mr. Cherry. Again, this is the 2026 bus replacement plan. Uh I will state that again, we do not foresee or have any reason that we replacing any buses this year. Uh just again due to the limited budget that we do have. However, if we were to do that, uh talking with Mrs. Swanson, our transportation director, uh she feels that this would be the order of priority. uh that we would look at replacing our buses. Uh and so that is there before you. Uh and again, happy to answer any questions. Uh but would ask for
036the board's approval of our 2026 bus replacement plan. >> Um I need a motion to approve the proposed 5-year bus replacement plan resolution. >> So move. >> Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Brown. Comments or questions? All in favor? I. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. >> Question uh on two on item 2.2 the adopt transfer. Mr. Bryant, how did you vote on that? Was that >> Nay. Okay. So, it was not unanimous. >> Oh, I apologize. I didn't hear that. >> I did. I missed it. He did vote. Nay. Did pass, but not unanimously. >> That was my That was my mistake. 2.2. >> Yes. >> I apologize, Jim. All right. Are we good, Miss Penny? All right. Next item on the agenda, discussion of the 2526 tenative agreement between
037DTA and DCSC. [clears throat] Dr. Schaefer. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, and again, this is not an action item tonight. This is simply uh a requirement to read discuss the tenative agreement with the teachers association for the 2526 um contract here. Um so I'm just going to walk through the tenants of the agreement. Um and those include uh our starting teacher salary will move from a base of um 52,000 currently to 52,500. Uh the top of that scale will end at 96,000 and that's for the 185day regular contract. That does not include extended contracts or ECA assignments or things like that. This is just the base contract. Um, one of the larger pieces of the agreement this year, which I've provided you a copy of in the attachments there, was a salary model that's
038been created with four lanes. It has a bachelor's lane. It has a bachelor's plus if someone had their early literacy endorsement. Um, you'll see EL in here. Um, that's what that stands for. So, there's a little bit more if you're in that lane. Um there is a master's lane and there is a masters plus the literacy endorsement lane. Uh so on the schedule each step uh will be a $500 step that was agreed to this year. Uh each teacher will first receive $795 added to their base contract from last year and that will remain on their contract. Uh each teacher salary will then be elevated to the next $500 level. So, and the first year on a schedule, you have to move people onto the schedule. So, with the dollars we had available for bargaining,
039uh, we gave everybody a $795 increase that put them on a certain level. Then, we moved them up to the nearest next $500 increment. So, that was a different amount of money for different people just depending on where they were in between a $500 increment. So, some people could have received $795 uh plus $499. uh some people could have received $795 plus, you know, $50 or $60 in there. Everybody was aware of that. The teachers were fully aware of that. They understand how that works. Um teachers that are new to the school corporation, like if somebody came in new uh to the district uh with some uh previous experience or if they were just even a new teacher, uh they get placed on the salary model in the same way that we've previously done that.
040We look at what their years of experience are and what their degree status is. they would be placed similarly then uh with their colleagues here. The herb approved factors there are certain factors by which you can move uh say down the schedule. If down is an increase usually on the schedule um those factors uh will need to uh be in place for future um increases. In other words, not more than 50% of a teacher's increase uh can be attributed to their year's experience and their degree status. Uh but you can also use academic needs. Uh there's a couple other factors you can use as well to to move people down the schedule. So we'll just make sure in the future that we're compliant with herb the first year of putting them on the schedule. That's
041that really didn't come into play because you're not advancing them down the schedule in that first year. Uh we include a disclaimer uh in the contract that clarifies this that schedule has to be essentially rebargained every year. It's not an automatic increase. It's not quite like the old incremental schedules used to be uh prior to 2010. Um there's a schedule there that we look at and try to achieve, but funding will vary from year to year. We all understand that at the table. We want to make sure as people look at the contract, they understand that, too. That if uh if there's money that allows for more than a $500 incremental increase next year, we have to bargain that to increase those steps. If it's less than that, we may bargain that. So those steps
042are less. It'll depend on the amount of revenue coming in uh each year uh as we look at our state funding. Uh we had uh some minor language adjustments were made to the bereavement language to add clarity. Um that was really just again just changing um some verbiage in there. It didn't add any more days. The number of days is still the same available for people. Um, one additional day was added to parental leave for birth and adoption purposes. Uh, and that's available to the to the mother or to the father, uh, if they work for us. The new literacy endorsement was mandated by law to be a pay increase. Uh, we agreed to a $200 increase, uh, each year for those people that receive that. notice of the attainment of that certification has to
043be made to the school district by September 1st of the year in which the certificate is earned. Now, there's a little bit of a backlog with that this year. So, we we already know who's applied and we went ahead and awarded them. We added middle school boys and girls tennis coaches to the ECA schedule um in preparation for middle school teams to be added. Uh this next year, we moved the high school varsity head wrestling coach to a co-ed pay group. Uh which is the same as we have for cross country swimming where we have one coach that coaches the boys and the girls. The reason for that is because the IHSA now requires you have a separate girls team from the boys team. Okay. So it's just it's just a little bit of structural
044realignment. Um last year's language that addressed compression that's now removed because those increases have already been given. So that we don't need that language in there anymore. Uh that was also noted by Herb that that language wasn't according to them wasn't 100% compliant. We would probably respectfully disagree with that reading on that, but it was just a don't do it again. So the language is antiquated. We've removed it. U there's no need to have it in there anymore. Um and then teachers who are taking the 401A match uh may choose the amount may choose to match that amount between zero and 2%. We currently have language that says you have to match it either at uh 1% or 2%. Reality is in payroll it doesn't make any difference. You could match one and a half
045or 0.5 or just a dollar amount. Um make it more flexible for the teachers. So we just remove that language. Um that limits it to just percentage basis. So anywhere between zero and 2% uh is fine. So just noted that the language changed to to match what we're doing. And that is a quick run through of the teacher agreement. Be happy to answer questions that you might have. >> What was the new amount of revenue to the corporation this year? the new money being >> new money well no new money is just to the district and then there's a followup question once I know >> $220,867 >> and then what percentage of that did we take into the bargaining Uh the way that we do it is that that all that dollars goes into the
046Barton unit. So they were they were awarded the 100% of that. >> So with all of our new growth of 30 to 150 new students, >> our revenue only increased by 200 some odd thousands. it would have increased more, but we also have to look at the expenses that go with the new teachers that needed to be hired to go along with that increased enrollment. So, we have to back those dollars out. >> So, that's comes back to my original question. What was the total amount of new monies to the corporation before you went to bargaining? >> Um, I would have to do some calculation on that to figure that one out for you. >> If you could bring that back at the public November meeting. I'd appreciate that. >> Okay. >> And then given
047what you've negotiated here, Dr. Schaefer, what percentage of increase is this for teachers this year on average? >> Yeah, it'll be an average overall of 1.7%. A little bit more for some, a little bit less for some depending on where they fall in that incremental schedule. And then knowing what you negotiated this year, is it still your plan as last year to widen the gap between what the pay for teachers is versus administrators where last year you changed it to a flat 3% rate. Is that your plans this year given what you've negotiated so far this year? >> No, we don't have any plans to widen the gap. >> Well, that's what you did last year. That was probably what you stated last year by going to a a flat percentage rate as opposed to
048how you previously calculated it. Will you be changing that or not? You got to ask me ask me that a different way. I'm not quite sure what you're asking me. >> Before last year, administrative salaries were based upon days of service, an increase similar to what the teachers were getting. Last year, you went to a flat 3% raise as opposed to using a calculation from 2023. Kind of wondered based on what you negotiated this year, how you're going to calculate administrative raises. >> We actually have not had those conversations yet. Uh, we'll need to take a look and see what's available for administrative raises. Uh, I we'll let you know, but I I I don't I don't have an answer for you right now what that's going to be. >> But you don't see that
049wanting to widen that gap again this year as you stated last year? >> Um, no, not necessarily. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other comments or questions? >> All right. I think that's everything. >> Yeah. And uh again the the the ten of agreement is just for discussion today. We will bring that back. There'll be a hearing and final approval at the the regular meeting in November. Thank you. >> All right. The next item on the agenda is announcements. Our next regular school board meeting will be November 10th at 6:30 here in the Danville Community Middle School training room. I need a motion to adjourn this meeting. >> Thank you, Mrs. Ward. Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Hemsel. All in favor? Any oppose? That passes unanimously. Thank you everyone.