001body. I'd like to call in order a special meeting of the board of education of the Gan Central School District being held on Monday, June 1st at 6:30 p.m. in the boardroom to the flag of the United States of America. I need a motion for executive session. John Brett be resolved. The board of education will enter into executive session with the intent to reconvene the business portion of the meetings for discussions related to the employment history particular person or person. All those in favor? Great. Thank you everybody. We'll be back. Billy. All those in favor? >> Obviously, no one's posted. Keep this moving. Thank you everybody for being patient. >> All right, on to our next item, the president's report. So, just a few items for everybody tonight. Uh, first of all, the audience [snorts]
002is a little bit late tonight. That's okay. Thank you to everybody who's been coming out the past few weeks and speaking up, sharing your opinions. I I will say it was incredibly respectful, privileged. The floor was the greatest. Everyone followed the policy. We appreciate that. We've had community members who sent out some emails, which we also appreciate. It gives us an opportunity to follow up with some of those questions they have because this is not necessarily the format for that. So, if you've sent an email and you haven't had your questions answered yet, thank you for being patient. As you know, our first biggest priority is to get this budget passed. It is our biggest goal and please be patient here and back. There were some great suggestions and I think they, you know, definitely
003deserve a little bit more of an in-depth answer. All right. Secondly, the budget. I just want to say that tonight it's our intention to adopt the budget. And although we know that this budget may not be perfect in everybody's eyes, I really just want to say thank you to the whole team sitting here for working very hard at listening, hearing the community, hearing the team, answering the call to the best of their ability. And [clears throat] you know, there might be something that a [snorts] question that was raised. Oh, do we have a lot of administrators for instance? You know, people were emailing about that. We hear you. >> [clears throat] >> We feel that that should be looked at diligently. We want to give that the time it deserves to make sure we answer
004those questions. So, please keep in mind that some of those big suggestions you gave, we hear you. We want to get into them diligently. And tonight, again, we hope that you find that this budget meets the needs. So, [clears throat] thank you for all the hard work. Thank you. [cough] Lastly, I just drink water. Excuse [clears throat] [cough] me. Sorry about that. Um, just a quick update on the superintendent search. Um, bullet points. The board spent a lot of time RFP. Got a bunch of proposals from folks to help us in the search. We ended up [clears throat] going with BOSIES. They didn't have any charge. It's a service they offer component districts for free. We felt it was fiscally responsible. Uh month by month we tried to give updates. There were three rounds of
005interviews and screenings. We set up a subcommittee to work with Boseies to go through everything. And in each rounds of the interviews we you know had some staff members, some building leadership, some union representative uh even community member and then finally the last stage is is the board. And throughout that whole process Mr. Bonjovi made the cut every single step of the way. Um, tonight, unfortunately, the board heard from Mr. Bonjovi that he is willingly rescending his application or his candidacy, I should say, from the permanent position. And so, the board has decided that we must continue our role, our search to go ahead and find the right fit for the job. Being that we are close to the end of June, we also discussed with Mr. Bonjobi if he would be willing to stay
006as an interimm and extend his time here for a six-month period and he was amicable to that. So we thank you for that. But it is our intention to continue the search to reach out to Boseies to make sure we have the right team representing us to find the right candidate. So I just wanted to give everybody an update on that and I I appreciate you sharing that with us. We're >> absolutely, >> you know, in June here, but we are going to keep moving forward and do our best to make sure we have the right person for the job and and we we appreciate that and and thank you. Honestly, >> there's been a tremendous amount of work that has been done. Huge steps forward have been made. I'm just going to say that
007from our perspective from the charge we gave coming into this, it's been a incredibly productive year, but we have to keep moving forward. So looking forward and moving on with the rest of the evening, I'll turn it over to our interim superintendent, Mr. Bonjobi. >> Thank you, President List. So tonight, uh Dr. Carter, Miss Lam, and I will be presenting a revised budget which will be uh adopted tonight. Good evening to the board of education, uh members of the public for here and certainly the voters and members of the community at home. Uh so tonight we'll be presenting the revised budget for the June 16th revote. So again uh voters community, we've heard your concerns. We've heard your suggestions. We've consulted and discussed with the board of education and made adjustments to the budget accordingly.
008Next slide. So the total budget is 10133 650. So that's actually down $16,81. So from the things we took and the things we put back in and lowering the levy, it's still we ended up not too far off from where uh we were, which I kind of had predicted you would be. The revenue 9660461. The appropriated reserves, that's one 223189. So that's down $73,312. That's a good thing. So, we're not using quite as many uh reserve funds. We're using the same appropriated fund balance of 3.75. And the levy is being reduced. We were at the levy cap the last budget uh presentation at 3.06. So, we're down.26 to 2.8. So, that's down 148,746. So similar to uh the last presentation just as a reminder so this year's current budget the 2526 budget was 5.4% higher
009than the 2425 budget. This proposed budget is 4.4% higher. So a reduction of that 1% moving into next year but still meeting all our needs. Again, the tax levy on May 19th, we proposed 3.06. That was the maximum tax levy for the vote on June 16th. The proposal is 2.8%. Again, that is 148,746. That's what that 26 reduction represents. So, we're below the tax gap while maintaining our programming. You'll see we also leave some room after our discussion publicly in a number of codes to account for any expansion of programs, new programs, new clubs or student activities. Once again, we took uh this is remember a an estimate. This is an average. This is based on town of goan just so the public can get a general idea. Again, based on a 2.8 8% levy
010and homes assessed at 450, 550, and 650. Certainly, some's homes are less, some homes are more. So, those numbers are slightly lower. So, you can then the last presentation again at 450 that's a little over $40 a month. At 550, it's $49.84. And then at 650, 58.90 per month on average. One of the topics was the superintendent salary that was budgeted for. So we had put in 285 which we discussed publicly was the average for the Mid Hudson Valley. So we lowered that to $260,000. So that's the $25,000 reduction in that instructional code. They also made a number of adjustments in other codes. Again, uh the superintendence code uh those various non-instructional salaries. So really we kind of looked at it and we tried to keep any increases uh as close to 3% as possible
011or 3% or lower. The administrative salary of that minus 48 that's uh not having the director of technology position on the right side the teaching instructional salaries. So you see a plus 70. So that's putting Bat the social studies teacher into high school and keeping the TOSA in their position because there are some stipens associated with that the teaching extra classes plus 34,000. So we talked about what about the possibility of any current programs we have uh if we need to expand upon them. I know that we've expanded uh we he did a presentation this year. The American Sign Language has been expanded this year. So that that is just one example that could keep going or we talked about possibly if there's some new courses uh that come up. So the 34,000 represents that's
012using the sixth period pay in the teacher contract that would be that's enough for two people to teach one extra class all year long which would be either a full year course or two half-year courses. the supplies. I will go over specifically some of those codes. So, it's not so general, but an additional 24,000 uh the web hosts and benefits. We just kind of combine that. So that's a a combination of the benefits for the soul studies teach that's being put back into the budget plus uh about close to about $4,000 increase for um cap region bosses because we explained last time that we'll need to m have them maintain our website because it's until we transfer over to parent square. So again, a total change uh from the previous presentation of $16,81. So specifically,
013again, some of those I won't go through all of the codes, but some of the ones that came up again, uh the superintendent salary was lowered, the legal lowered 46,500. Uh the [clears throat] teaching salary. So that again that's the 34,000 that's teaching uh salary extra class$ 34,000 teaching so equipment music equipment for the high school an additional $4,000 uh music equipment for CJ Hooker an additional $2500 uh GIS music equipment $2500 Scotttown they do a little differently it's kind of goes to their total general budget $1,000 uh an increase of $4,000 in the high school play art supplies at the high school an increase of 3,900 uh art supplies at CJ Hooker an additional 4,000 and again just to reiterate co-curricular so that's clubs so for the high school and CJ Hooker Middle School
014an additional 5,000 for each of those buildings in case you know someone wants to start you know the hacky sack club and we don't have one you know again We have to be realistic and just go over well what is the impact of a contingency budget that is uh that can dev that would devastate any district. It certainly would have a tremendous impact on this district. Again the total cuts if we if the budget did not pass would be 1,63658. As a reminder certain things cannot be cut. So, transportation, textbooks, mandated supplies, that means supplies that are kind of directly connected to a particular course. Uh, things that that could be obviously you can see, you know, people, that's the your most expensive item is your staff. So, faculty and staff, that's where, you know,
015the largest amount of money. But core programs, athletics, uh, and equip other equipment and field trips. As a reminder, it is mandatory under a contingency budget that the public would have to pay a fee for the use of facilities and it's not the $25. This would be it would be a large fee and that's based on the custodians and other various costs. So, it' be quite expensive for groups to use our facilities. The budget vote again, that's June 16th, 6:00 a.m. to 900 p.m. That's right here. But before we get to that, we have June 8th. So to today is June 1st. So one week next Monday, June 8th at 6:30 will be the public hearing. So uh depending on what if we make any tweaks in the uh amounts or presentation it'll be, you
016know, the presentation won't be very different than tonight, but that is a requirement. So, this gives a week for the public, the general public and the board to kind of digest all the information. We have the public hearing next Monday, 6:30, and then the vote is Tuesday the 16th. And that concludes the revised presentation. Thank you. Not particularly in order here on the agenda, but do any of the board members have comments to discuss to the presentation they just saw? >> Great. Sure. So, uh, first thing, uh, I just kind of want to second what, uh, Mr. Loft said earlier regarding, uh, that this doesn't represent a perfect budget, right? We, I think we all feel that way pretty passionately. Um, but we feel like this budget is the first step in turning the boat,
017if you will. That way, you can imagine a big uh big giant warship. Takes a lot of effort to turn that boat. Um, and this is the first start of the week. One other thing I want to point out because if I hadn't spent so much time looking at budgets [clears throat] the last, you know, month, weeks, whatever, you know, it's been all weekend. Um the uh I would I would look at that budget and say, "Oh my god, you guys got voted down 16,000. That's what you came up with." So, I just kind of want to speak to that really quick as a you know, as the dumbest guy in the room, like, you know, maybe hopefully it'll resonate with other people here or watching. Um, we didn't just cut 16,000.6,000 was kind of
018that result. We took closer $2 to $300,000 and took it from we heard a lot from the community and I'm looking at the audience but people at home too. We took a lot of feedback from the community that we wanted a more the community wanted a more student centered budget and we took you know over 200,000 probably 260 something like that the exact number you know a few minutes I can add it up but we took that out of the the what the the proverbial fat was in the budget and in administrative clubs legal c all of these things that the community said hey this isn't about students this isn't student centered and we put it back to people that directly face students people that are teaching students uh programs for students. And I just
019think that's super important for everybody to understand that when you look at that net delta of 16,000, you probably don't feel great about it cuz the first time, full disclosure, you get that email and I'm like, "Oh man, the fly is the end of it. I don't want to read anything. I just want to see what the number is." And I saw 16,000. I like kind of threw my pencil. I'm like, "Wait, do we all this work for $16,000? Then you feel free." But when you look at all of the money we move from things that don't touch students directly every day into buckets that do, whether it be art supplies, whether it be teachers, whatever it is, I think it's so important that people see that movement, too. That doesn't always show up. Um,
020so that's, you know, probably my soap [clears throat] box here, but I just I really want the community to understand that we heard you a thousand% and we're looking forward to working on it. So >> yeah, I'm I'm glad you shared that. If I can just piggyback on that, I second everything that John says here. And also, you know, you're the ones who make these presentations all the time. So I trust in you putting that together. But if there are any ways that you think some information can be shown, demonstrated, graphed to kind of get how one bucket filled another to make that a little bit more clear. maybe for that person who wasn't at the prior meeting or the prior special meeting or on all the posts about what's happening so they don't miss
021the vote. >> For the people follow along at home, if you look at the white the the slide that was with the white background and the column on the left, the column on the right. The column on the left was stuff that you didn't really feel like were a student facing the column on the right. That's all stuff that directly affects students. So easiest way at home if you know take your pencil out, draw students, non- studentents. That slide kind of kind [clears throat] of dictates it too. Any other comments on that? >> Right. And the key is uh the levy's down to 2.8%. >> Um you know, we did get some extra state aid. >> Um so we're able to, you know, that helped us defay the going down to 2.8. >> Great. All
022right. Thank you. Yeah. Since we were talking about it, I figured we sharing comments right now. Absolutely. Thank you very much. All right. Moving on to our next item. Need a motion to approve the new business. John Scott. Do you resolve on the recommendation of the interim superintendent of school? The board of education approves the new business items as presented. All those in favor? >> I opposed. Great. Any signups for privilege of the floor at all? All right. Thank you, Moren. Any other open agenda items covered? >> I just wanted to remind the board and the public that uh we have a lot of great things going on this time of year and I my today's video which will be coming up shortly will be covering them. But I wanted to specifically highlight the Special
023Olympics. >> See, we have at least the >> What a coincidence. Yeah, [laughter] that is this Saturday. Uh it is the 10th annual. It's at the high school and if you can help out, that's great. But just come on and cheer on our students because it's just a such an uplifting day. Um you know, you know, if you're having a tough week, go to the Special Olympics and that's going to just raise all your spirits. It really will. So, good luck to all the athletes. >> Yeah, well said. There was an army of uh supporters and volunteers there last year. I think every board member was there to witness it firsthand. Really well done. >> Great job. All right. Okay. With that, we just need a motion to close the meeting. John Brett, all in
024favor? All right. Thank you. Have a great night, everyone.