001Good evening and thank you for coming to the hot school board meeting. The pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisibley and justice for all. Thank you, Mr. Scredo. Welcome back everybody. I hope everyone had a great uh and restful April break. Uh just a few announcements to share with the community. First off, congratulations to the 48 students we had selected to participate in the 2025 Suffach County Music Educators Association. All County Festival. Our student musicians joined other students across Suffach County to perform in the All County Band, choir, and Orchestra. They dedicated portions of their weekends to rehearse for an outstanding final concert which was held at the end of March. Next, this past weekend, we had a number
002of third, fourth, and fifth grade students uh from Pines Elementary performed the national anthem at City Field before the Mets took on the Cardinals. Uh this video was actually shared on our social media feeds. It was tremendous. Uh we had many families who were in attendance to cheer on our singers. They did a tremendous job. The whole stadium applauded. So congratulations to all those students who performed at City Field. Next, just looking ahead, uh we have our annual senior citizen pasta dinner. It's scheduled for next Thursday, May 1st. A big thank you to Mr. Tasmin who organizes this event each year for our local residents. Uh the response the response this year has been overwhelming. Uh expecting close to 200 seniors in attendance. So uh Mr. Tasmin and all of us will be welcoming them
003with open arms and hopefully they are coming with empty stomachs so we can give them a nice Italian meal. And lastly, uh, thank you to all Hopog, uh, faculty, staff, community members who have already participated in our thought exchange survey. I'll be working with the board next week, uh, mining the data to help develop a strategic plan that will, uh, carry the district over the next three to five years. There'll be a second session later in May that we'll be talking about and inviting community members to be a part of. Uh and lastly, there is still time even to add feedback uh to our survey. The window will close on Friday the 25th. That's this week. There'll be another reminder on parent square for those who wish to participate. So, thank you Mr. Screen. Thank
004you, Dr. future when you start adding sports updates because I know our sports teams are doing well whenever I yeah whenever I'm provided sports updates I I definitely say them out loud here so uh I heard Mr. screwed to see flag football. So, I'm looking at the coach to remind him [Music] and break JB softball won. Breaking news JV softball this afternoon. Did it did it go? Did it go uh what was the final? Uh 21 to 16. Wow. Wow. Thank you, coach. Okay. 5 recognition awards. I don't think we have it tonight. So 5D presentation. All right. So tonight is budget adoption for 2526. The 25.6 budget for um maintains spreads in class sizes and programs, supports mental health initiative, supports uh investment in classroom security technologies. Uh in universal prek land, we had
005eight sections for this year. We're expanding it to 10 sections, which is pretty incredible. Uh and it seems that every seat will be filled for 2526. Uh finally, transfer to capital work. So there will be some curve work over at the middle school student drop off uh replacement of the playground in the back of coursebrook the community garden playground there site work also for that as well funding wise so revenues and expenditures both of those budgets have to equal to each other on the revenue side the tax levy is the largest source of revenue for hot school district the tax levy increase is 3.25 25. The next largest is state aid. We are adopting the information from the uh executive run which was in January. The enacted state aid proposal or the enacted budget from
006the governor's office is still not yet available. So similar to last year, we will be adopting based on the January numbers. Pilots are payments in lie of taxes. That number is set at 8 million. Other is interest for banking, uh building rentals and some other areas. And then one initiative to lessen the blow to the taxpayer is reserves and fund balance which historically been utilized for at least a decade here at Hop. So the grand total of the budget is 138 390 328 which is a budget to budget uh increase of 3.88%. On the expenditure side this is everything lumped in al together for budget drivers. At least 70% of the budget are people and their benefits. So we have five bargaining units. We have some individual agreements there. So that's the biggest chunk of
007the budget. And then we have transportation which includes subject transportation contracted both in and out. Uh debt service for principal and interest payments. And then others to make all five buildings run uh smoothly and effectively. So as I said expenditures, revenue budgets have to meet and match which they do. 138 390 328 is the budget for 2526. From here, where do we go now? So, May 13th is the budget hearing. And then May 20th is the annual school budget vote and election in this uh building, Whipple, from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. And then starting tomorrow, all the detailed budget information will be live on the website. Uh this Thursday, we'll begin the first PTA road show, SEPTA. I believe that's at 7 p.m. And then from there are all the other buildings through May
00820th, which is the annual budget vote school election. So that is what I have. Do any board members have any questions? Any community members have any questions? Thank you so much. Thank you. Move on to number 5C. Adoption of minutes, 2025. Thank Mr. Michael Mr. Second. Discussion. All those in favor? One of the six questions, comments on agenda only board members have anything members have quick. I like it agenda 7 to 7.4. Is there any board members that need to agenda? We're going to go motion with second. All in favor? Hopefully there's any new policies right. No adoption guys. We have to make motion to accept this. Yes. Um with the motion with a second. Any discussion adoption? All those in favor motion second. Any discussion? All those in favor reports. We're going to push
009the commission next. [Music] Yeah, looks like the agenda is misnumbered. Oh, seems like we have two 10, two discussion matters. Discussion matters is 12. Three business will be 13. Questions and comments will be 14 and a German will be 15 and 16. Uh any business by anybody? I just want to thank once again the schools are really working well. I appreciate all the security guards that everybody's doing. I still want to reach out to the crossing guards. I think they're doing a great job every morning. Um, number 13, any questions and comments from the community on anything? Mr. Screen, sorry, just one thing I meant meant to add. Uh, today we had uh the pleasure at central office of saying goodbye to a longtime employee, Phil Montana, who had been working here for over 30
010years. I think his first year was 1992 in the district, 1994 in Whipper. We surprised him with a cake and some snacks and his family was here. There was some tears. It was a really nice moment and uh you know I just proud to share that with all of you because hot pub is the kind of place where people come and stay for their whole careers. So uh congratulations to Mr. Montana who's retired today after 33 years. Our next business meeting will be um May 13, 2025. Motion to journ. Thank you. Have a good night.