001I pledge allegiance to 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. Thank you. Mr. Mr. Pisher, would you please call the role when you're here? Mr. Christensen. Mrs. Feice here. Mrs. Hedley here. Mrs. Hoppy here. Mrs. Janis here. Mr. McGregor here. Mr. Scowzo here. Mrs. Turner here. Mr. Modrack here. A present. Thank you. uh announcement of an executive session here today on May 13th for personnel legal matters and to receive information. At this time uh we have updates coming from our contractors uh from site logic and for the IMS project. Thank you sir. Good evening. Um just as a brief update um to uh the locker rooms the lower level uh by the gymnasium uh today
002we received temporary occupancy so the school can uh go ahead and start using that area and speaking with Mark the this afternoon most likely will be moving down there on Monday. Uh our movers are scheduled to come in on Friday to help move the orchestra and band area down to the health rooms temporarily uh through the end of the school year. Um, excuse me. And the music wing, which we take over starting on Monday, we will start the demolition of the areas that we have not already taken over. Um, the auditorium is currently under construction. Uh, all the demo is complete. Currently, the electrician is in installing new lights, running new fire alarm, and the AV um data cabling. The uh roof uh is going to be about 85% complete as at the end of
003this week. The roof above the auditorium, uh the PVC is currently down. We have a approximately about 20 ft left on one section of the roof and one small area to continue to complete that roof. Uh we will be moving the roofer over to the music wing as not to disrupt any of the students currently in the classrooms because we obviously will be right below them. It just makes a little bit of sense that way. So, uh, in that regard, uh, the gymnasium we will take over at the end of the school year to start that work. Uh, we have new lighting, uh, new sound panels, uh, new seating going in there. Uh, as for the auditorium, the seating for the auditorium is due in roughly uh, mid August, maybe the first week of August.
004We're still trying to push that air that up. Um along with the gymnas gymnasium, we will also have the new bleachers installed during the summertime as well. Uh it is our plan to be complete with the music wing at the end of summer. So we'll have that back. The school be 100% uh except for punch list items going through most likely September. Just finishing up things. And during the summer time, we will also be picking up the remaining items outside. Uh I know that there was a little bit of concern with uh some of the exterior the landscaper starts uh this coming Monday starting to infill around the sidewalks start to beautify with a little bit of the plantings around the front of the building. So that should all start taking place this coming week.
005Can you give us an update on the cafeteria roof that was causing issues? Can you roof? Uh the cafeteria roof actually was done in October. that roof itself is not having any issues. Uh where we did find the issues obviously were in the beginning stages working with the roofer finding little issues when they unrolled it that they got what they cons called fish mouths. So when they unroll it and let it relax when they put it down it start to start to show little bumps which was allowing the water to come in. Uh us working with Garland has addressed that with the roofers. So we shouldn't see any more issues after this. have some pictures. Oh, okay. This is I believe the boys locker room in the lower level. This is the main corridor looking
006down from what is the fitness room headed towards the main corridor of the gymnasium uh exit. That floor is not going to be done until um summertime or towards the end of summer. Being that we are going to be inside the gymnasium, we don't want to roll over brand new flooring in and out. Plus, the new uh storefront doors, we're holding off till the end of summer as well because we don't want those obviously being damaged during that time frame. Uh the small exit corridor you see there is between what is a health room and the fitness room. That is a secondary exit going out. This uh picture on your left is the fitness room with the rubber flooring and the other uh are the health rooms that are down there. There are two health
007rooms for the where the band is going or orchestra is going to be moving down. This is the auditorium. Obviously, it's under construction. Uh all you see in the picture on the bottom left, that's all brand new lighting there. The uh picture on your upper right is all the brand new down lights that are there. Uh obviously the row of conduits for all your AV, power, fire alarm, and the top left picture is basically the back of the uh auditorium seating itself. As for the roofing, as we stated, what is currently uh completed with the white roofing would be the auditorium, the high roof that you see uh mid picture far left and the lower portion of that. The Lshape that you see is the in green is the last piece of the auditorium roof
008that will need to be finished. That would be what is basically above the production room. Few classrooms there. We should hopefully have that completed by the end of the week barring weather. And then like I said, we'll move to the music wing which is the lower pink level on the left. And these are basically the pictures of the roof u on top of the auditorium. Uh that is your new PVC roof. Uh you see there, the white and off to the left is what is the membrane of the uh classroom section which we consider area C on the drawings. And I That is it. It's still uh completion date with all the the full scope. Would you anticipate that again being if you're speaking in along lines of punch list? We're looking hopefully by the
009end of September which is final substantial completion. That's that is including all the punch list items. Very good. All right. Thank you. Anybody else? I'm so sorry I'm having trouble hearing you. Maybe my question What what was the completion date? Completion date is the well for the interior portion of the school to have it ready for school will be obviously before school starts. Then punch list items will be completed by the end of September. Okay. Thank you. All be done. Okay. All right. Thank you, sir. Thank you. All right, RC, it's time for Miss update on the new construction. RC, thank you. Good evening everybody. Okay, so we'll start with some pictures. So here's the uh overall um view of the building. Some of the things that's changed since last time we got a roof
010uh the rubber roof on area E classroom wing. Uh the remaining steel for areas A or I mean uh B and C which is the LGI and kitchen cafeteria area has been set. Mhm. Uh this is classroom wing E. Uh you can see the exterior sheetings going on. Um that's the same wing with the roof. And the goal there is to get interior space that we could work on and start hanging drywall and putting finishes in eventually. Uh this is a view from the um back of the building. This is area E classroom wing. This is F if I'm looking at that correctly. Yeah. Uh classroom wing F view from NMS. You can see the uh exterior framings going on. Um we're making a mad dash to get the building enclosed and dried in. Um
011that's the main goal right now. This uh is the gymnasium/storm shelter. Uh all the CMU block is complete. Uh the walls are topped off. So now the uh roof will get installed which is a concrete roof. Um this is the main entrance area and the remaining of the steel that was set. Um main entrance is is right here again. LGI kitchen cafeteria space in the back. Um this is this area is all the main administrative wings and and and whatnot in here. You can see our our beam right here. uh interior. Um the uh MEP roughins are are going on right now, hot and heavy. Um so a lot of these pictures will look the same, but trust me, it is a lot of progress. Um so ground floor area A, this is the auxiliary
012gym. Um ground floor area C, all the studs are up, wall studs, most of the MVPs are in. Um, but you can also see why I want to get this building dried in as soon as I possibly can because we're still getting quite a bit of water in there. Uh, ground floor area east is where we started is where we got the most progress. Um, all the MEPs are up. Bulkheads are being built. Again, another shot down area E. Area F is uh very close behind. Um, you can kind of see our pattern. We're working E around to F on every floor. E around to F. E around to F. Um but everybody is uh keeping up, ramping up. First floor area A. Again, this is the admin areas and building. Area B, which will
013be this is the LGI. Yeah, LGI space here. Uh, so all the steel's up. Next is to finish up the little bit of undergrounds we have in here and then get the slabs poured. Here you're looking at the cafeteria A is here. Here's the kitchen area. Cafeteria B, which is flip-flopped on the other side. Uh, finish again finishing up the little bit undergrounds in the kitchen cafeteria area so we could get the uh, slabs poured soon. This is standing outside looking towards the cafeteria. So, here's your like loading dock area in the kitchen area. Again, all the block in the gym is set. Um, we are uh topped off. We're breaking down the scaffolding, fireproofing on the higher floors, which is the first step, and beginnings of uh the roughing. You can see the track,
014the stud track on the floor and and the pipes going in on the on the upper floors. The second floor is going to be real close behind area. E roof rub roof is is on. That's done in complete um courtyard. Again, you can see all the of the progress that the guys are making with the exterior skin and the exterior studs that are building trying to get dried in. It's the other side of the courtyard. And then uh here's our p few pictures of our steel topping off party that went uh very well. There's a guy setting our beam still out there. You could still go out there and take a look at it if you want. uh hasn't been uh covered up with roof deck yet. So, the tree and the broom and the
015flag will be there until we set roof deck. So, very cool. Very cool. I think that's the end of my slideshow. Yeah. Uh so, continuing much of the same as you see in the picture. Uh making a race to get the to get the building dried in. Um interior studs, me rough ends. Um, we're going to keep putting as much roof on as we possibly can when we can. Um, topping off the the storm shelter roof, getting the rest of the slab on deck grade or slab on grade poured and uh getting that portion of the building closed in. Any questions on the pictures? 325 days. So, 325 days without a recordable incident. Knock on wood. And what's the completion date? Well, the completion date hasn't changed. So before the school year begins, right? Yeah.
016As like I said, the substantial completion date hasn't changed. It's contractually has has not changed. We are still behind schedule. We haven't picked up that much time, but we are picking up time. We are racing through the building as fast as we can. When do you think you'll make up most of it? by the like could you estimate and say by the end of July we would make up that time by the end of October. We're not going to make up 12 weeks in in three months. We'll have a plan to make up that that time say by this time next year. But I don't want to tell you that until I have a final document that says that you know what I mean. Will you be adding I can't suck up three months in
017in three months. Will you be adding second shifts or third shifts? Well, right now we're we're going through the exercises of seeing, you know, overlapping activities, you know, putting the mechanical contractor in the same space as electrician. You know, when you set up when you first set up the uh schedule, kind of give everyone their own time in in a space. Well, if we kind of put more people in there, what does that give us? What does that do? I'm going to exhaust all that before I we s we sit down and say, "Okay, do we need overtime? Do we need second shifts?" So, I'm in the process of vetting all that out. Well, in six months time from this point, how much time could you make up in six months? In six months, I
018hope we make up at least four or five weeks. Yeah. I'm hoping to pick up a week a month. Okay, keep us on track. You can guarantee we'll be ready. I will do my best. I will I will have a better answer for you when when we have a schedule that everyone buys into, all the primes buy into and sign off on. How about that? We're working on that. Roughly when would that happen? When we when we would first see this possible schedule? Soon. I'm hoping by the next time we meet. I'll have an answer for you. in June then. Yeah. Okay. All right. RC, you move from one hot stick to the other. Um, change orders. There's two of them. There's an HVAC 5 RTS for rough. I'm rounding up 243 and HVAC06 for
019a transfer duct for 2700. Can you explain both? Yeah. So, uh, HBAC number five, uh, when the, uh, spec was written and the bids were received, uh, the refrigerant that was used in spec was what was current at the time, uh, which was the old, um, R410A refrigerant. Uh, the around the first of this year, uh, the code changed and no longer allowed to use that refrigerant and they had to switch to the 454B refrigerant. Um so the specs had to change to account for that. Um the sequencing of operations of of how the unit performs based on environmental conditions, trouble, you know, stuff like that. um the internal uh wiring of the actual unit itself and the programming and stuff like that. All that technically that whole unit almost had to be the redone.
020Yeah. All the guts had to be completely redone basically. Okay. Um and there's what like eight units. So that's all eight units. That 25,000 is roughly is all eight units. It's all of them. Yeah. Okay. Um and then the duck dimensions have are playing on top of the I don't want to put word you know I want to get yeah the the the second the number six there um during the course of coordination um MEP coordination with every project. Um once the design is complete and the awards are bid, the primes are tasked with uh actually fitting all their parts and pieces in the same space with one another. Um during that it was uh clashes are detected. Um rerouting is done where it can where it can't. Um we have to redesign some things.
021So some of the the transfer duct sizes to transfer the air from one room to the other just for balancing purposes had to had to change locations and also um they increased in size. One side note of that exercise was a better balancing system. So that if that eases the pain a little bit. Okay. Um where does this Dr. Corinski, where does this put us with how much is left in the change order currently? Yeah, it it's a small percentage. It's still well below um and we have some um things coming to you that will be credits uh in our next month. So, um we're we're in good shape. Okay. Next month, what's that, sir? Credits next month. There will be some potential credits coming next month. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, we're vetting those
022out. Okay, thank you. So good. Always like to hear that, right? Yeah. The credits we like compared to what's been I'm trying to get I'm trying to squeeze that lemon as hard as I can. That works. I have nothing else, Mr. Moore. Thank you. No one else. Anybody else? I'm sorry, guys. My computer went to There you go. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, RC. All right. I think gentlemen, uh, Mr. Cusk, we have a little presentation of the teams program, right? Thank you. Hi everyone. Thanks for having me back one more time. But I just wanted to give you an update on the team's room because we are still evolving. Each year we've tried to make it better than the year before and come up with new things based on the need of the
023building, the climate of the building. Uh with me tonight is Mrs. Pilowski. She's one of my social workers and we rely on her quite a bit. She's been here since the inception of the program and is now my senior social worker. Um, she's helped train many of the other people that have been in the room with her as well. So, any questions you may have, I sure be happy to answer them as well. Do we have Thank you. One of our ideas we've really tried to excel in this year is collaboration. We have done a lot of collaborating in and out of our building. And what I mean by out of the building is we have made it pretty much a mission this year to try to get releases to work with therapists that a
024lot of our students are seeing just for consistency of service, continuity of care. Um we have quite a few times now that we can be consistent with that because we have met with so many of them throughout the year. um peer mediations that has come from well myself as dean from counselors from teachers but the team's room handles a lot of our peer mediations when the students have difficulties um something else we've started doing this year is going into the classrooms there was um the book Gilgamesh was read by some of the classrooms which deals with death and the teachers asked if the social workers would come and be willing to talk about the stages of grief to to the students. So, um I really welcome the opportunity for them to get into the classrooms.
025We've also offered services to all of our fall play, the spring musical to do some things about anxiety, relaxation techniques, things like that. So, we're trying to get out and about in the building as much as we can. Um did I mention collaborations? Um something else that was new this year in our building is we have done um a lead presentation. Every month we've had lead. We started off with um that they all have a mental health aspect to them and we started off with putting that first and then we realized with the students we needed to put the activity that goes with it first and build the act the uh mental health aspect into it. So we've done some pretty fun things this year. We've made um stones, painted stones that have positive affirmations.
026We've made Christmas cards for hospitalized kids and talked about the power of giving and how that helps us. Um we've made ornaments that had a goal for the new year in December um called a goal is a dream with a deadline. In January we made um big 3D paper snowflakes and that was talking about your own self-care, self-love and uniqueness. It was called My Life is My Message. Um the whole series was called Trust the Journey. Um in February we did the value of non-verbal cues through charades. Um we talked about art therapy in March. We called it if you're feeling blue, try painting yourself a different color. And in April we did planting and talked about well-being and how hobbies help us. So we've tried to really tie that in. It helps the students
027learn a mental health activity and it also helps a lot of kids that have not come to the room be exposed to the room so they're familiar if the need arises. Some other things we've done this year is we are actually right now mentoring a student um towards her girl scout gold award. She's very interested in mental health and has a lot of really cool ideas. So Mrs. Pilowski's been working with her on working towards her award. Um, we do put something in the weekly bulletin with positive affirmations, tips. We created a flyer with a QR code that allows students to schedule appointments with one of the social workers if a need arises. We have them placed strategically in pretty private places throughout the building because no one's going to, you know, put their phone
028up and use a QR code in a public setting. We also have that in the bulletin as well. Um, they have been working very hard on summer resource packets. So when the students are not at school and don't have access to us, they still have a lot of information. It includes things like um phone numbers for if for emergencies and crisis, tips for different health and wellness activities, things to do around the city, things like that. We've upgraded our destination rooms a little bit with some new decor, and we definitely have a lot more data to share with you this year. We took a deeper dive and tried to look at some more trends and patterns through it. We offered many groups this year. Uh most of the groups ran four to five weeks. We
029rotated the class period so they weren't always missing the same class. Our social skills group, we probably ran maybe five or six times. We were waiting until we got some students that were similar in interest or ability. that way they could interact together in the group a little bit better. So, we ran that one quite often. Um, we ran one on anxiety, coping skills. We did a self-image group and we just got finished about maybe two weeks ago before the Keystones. We did a four-week test taking uh group that did three weeks of strategies on test anxiety and how to relieve that. And the last session I actually got to go back down and teach a little bit and I did some just test taking strategies for the test itself. One other thing I should
030have mentioned is we also surveyed the students um with one open-ended question on some topics they might want to know more about this school year and from that we picked some of those um groups that you saw there. This is just a reminder of where we started. I want to go over some data with you. So, I thought I'd just give you the reminder of um actually I want to pull the data up of some of the how we help as an intermittent support and the connectedness we have to so many of the services throughout the building and also the fact that we do cross the academic the behavioral and the social emotional elements in the team's room and then I wanted to share with you some of the data we have. So, this has
031been a super busy year in the team's room. We have had 4,316 kids walk through the door. Some have repeated, but we've had a lot quite a few new ones as well. The average number of minutes spent or about one class period, somewhere between 35 45 minutes. Um, that did not update. I sent you the live one. So, I'm going to just give you different information than was up there. I don't know why that didn't do it. The increase was actually higher. The increase from last year to this year was 56%. Last year, we had 2,500 students and this year we have 4,000. Actually, it was 430. I updated those today. I'm not sure, but I can get the new one to you. Um, so it was a 56% increase in the use of the
032room. And I met with the social workers to ask them why they thought that was. We said that because we're doing more groups, we're collaborating with the teachers, getting into the classrooms, we're doing lead, and there's more awareness of the room itself. We've had a lot of kids that have stopped in for some one of these other things and have actually felt comfortable enough to come back down. So on our data, um there's so many things on here, but I'm going to go through it briefly with you. Um there was a few different things. This one shows the reason for the visit. The 68% was regrouping. That's when the kids come down and use our destination rooms, take a quiet corner, and they just need maybe 10 minutes to gather themselves and head back to
033class. The second biggest was actually talking to the social workers themselves. The parts of the team's room that they used the most was the quiet areas and the um our therapy areas. We have drawing, whiteboards, puzzles, um crayons, color, a big poster to color on the wall. Uh those came out as the most popular. There was too much data to actually put on here, so I'm just going to present a few facts that I thought you'd find interesting. Um out of the genders, 58% were female. Um, out of the grades, the most the grade that uses the team's room the most was the 10th grade, followed by the ninth grade, and then the 11th and the 12th. Most of the students that came down were self-referred. And 76% of the students that used the team's
034room had outside therapy resources. Um, also I did want to mention too that um, when I say that they the regroups also included some check-ins with the social workers, some of that is set up by the social workers, but there's also students that come down from their service agreements or IEPs as part of the IEPs to check in as well. These were our goals last year just to continue to try to connect and support the student services, keep working on the room protocol as needed and to rotate the groups offered throughout the year. So I think we did a good job with our goals this year and those are some of the updates to one of our rooms. Uh where do we go from here? We want next year to work with the counselors to
035get a more connectedness with them in the team's room. Um, we've been hearing a lot about focus. We want to see how that's going to benefit the team's room and the classroom teachers to account for where the students are. We want to develop a resource wall for the students and continue to work on the room protocol as needed. Something else I'm just going to touch on briefly is we created a teacher team's room last year. And what I try to do with that is bring in an outside service for them each month. So this year we've had yoga, fresh juices, chiropractors, uh compression booths, a stretch lab. We created a book swap down in the teacher team's room where they can borrow books. Um, in January we did a wellness challenge that lasted for the
036month and they could um, depending on how many times they did different challenges, they could win uh, month gym membership, a yoga membership, facials, um, floats at at one of the float places. There was a lot of different things they could win. So, this is something else we've been working on this year. And I just wanted to send a thank you to Mrs. Pilowski and to Mr. Burnage are social workers. They really make a difference. You know, when they took this job, they thought they were doing just social work, but they didn't know they'd be into interior design and helping with the different rooms. They'd be data keepers. Um, they'd be public speakers in the classrooms giving lessons. So, I appreciate their flexibility and willingness to sit and make our program better whenever they can.
037So, thank you for your time. time. I just wanted to let you know where we stood and how we're evolving and changing and we will continue to do so. Thank you very much, Lisa. Appreciate it. Okay, this time we'll have a little discussion about some staff changes. Yep. We're not going to end it. Somehow got moved up. This is the budget presentation. We're going to go right to the budget. Moment we've been waiting for. All right, budget time. Okay, so the goal for this budget presentation is what you see on the screen. It's a balanced budget and this presentation will show us how we can accomplish that. So right now you will see that the total revenues and total expenditures match up which fund bal fund balance utilization $0 and how we accomplish that is
038a few things. Um the first thing is the tax assessment in millillage. Uh back in December the board passed not to exceed the index of 4.8%. What does 4 4.8% mean? It's a millage increase of 1.2515. Um, what does that mean in revenue generated? Uh, that's about $3.25 million. Where does that take our millillage? Our millillage goes up to 27.3263. One mill generates $2.59 million. The median home tax increase is 194. In Bethl Park, the median household is $155,000. Our homestead also went up. the homestead exclusion went up about $30 to $297. What we have to look at this and and why we are recommending that we go to the 4.8% index is because one of the big pieces here that I'm going to touch on tonight, touch on here, touch on the next slide
039is the tax assessment decrease. Right now, as a district, we had a tax assessment decrease of $26.5 million. That's a decrease of 1.02%. 02%. What does that mean for Bethl Park? $723,000. Why are we getting this tax assessment decrease? We've heard it for the last couple years. It's called CLR. And what CLR is? The common level ratio. What is common level ratio? So, the common level ratio is is a method that makes sure that pop properties within a county are assessed approximately the same. Back in 2022, the common level ratio was right around 81.1%. So that's when everything started to change. Weiss has been a great advocate of ours. They've been tracking all the properties that have gone to appeal to lower the tax assessment. That number is 758 properties since CLR changed. You will
040see up on the screen that in 2022 it went from 81.1 down to 63.5. A little up on 2023 to 63.6, but then dropped again in 2024 to 54.5. How do we roughly determine what the scope of CRL did to the district? You take that 758 properties. you see what they would have been assessed at 81.1% compared to either whatever year they appealed, it comes out to about 1.6 million that the district has lost. And that's only properties, residential properties. We haven't even really factored in the commercial piece of it. We did lose $1.8 million in the South Hills Village assessment appeal. Um, we have two big ones coming up this year. What this does for the district is now it's becoming practice amongst all school districts that right now line item budgets, we're putting
041in CO deficits. Like right now, you'll see in the budget for next year, there's a $1.3 million line item to try to make sure we have the money there for whatever property assessment deduction there is. So I think this is a big piece of why if we go back to the previous screen is why the recommendation is to go up to the 4.8%. To try to get to that point where we are generating net revenue at $3.25 million a year. So, I just wanted to make sure before I went through the rest of my presentation is how important these two slides are to the district because this is what something is impacting every day the revenues to the district. Gut and we're still feeling the um millage rate decrease from almost six years ago too
042in this budget. Correct. Yeah. So if you just kind of do a practice here, you'll see that 1 mil generates 2.59 million. So if you either don't increase or if you go down, you're losing that money that year and every year after. So it's a significant uh revenue loss. And especially now in the world that we're living in with CLR, it's problematic to the point where, you know, we don't know what is going to come in the next few years. There's districts out there that I talk to a lot that haven't raised taxes in years and they're raising taxes this year because of CLR and they're getting hit hard just like we are. Um, some worse, some less. So, it's it's a big impact to Alageney County and I know that um, Weiss Barkard and
043Kramer, they're doing their their part to try to go to the courts and try to figure this out and try to bring some normaly to it. So, if we get into the revenues, you'll see it's it's pretty standard where we get our revenues. You know, 72% is real estate. That property assessment that I was just talking about, we get the taxes. 66.2 million. The other is, you know, $13 million. That's your delinquent taxes. That's your earned income tax. Um, and that's the majority of the revenue we have. We also get revenue from the state source. you know, that's the the in tax um the basic education subsidy that we get every year. So, that's in that state fund section. Uh federal funds, that's our title funds, title one, title two, title four. Um and then
044other funds that may come from, you know, 1% and that's pretty much our tech equipment is the $72,000. So, I kind of wanted to take you through this exercise of revenue history. I put two years of actual numbers. I put last year's budget and then this year's estimated actual and then next year's budget. And I highlighted a few items there. Uh you'll see in 2023 24 the other local revenue was 5.8, but for our budget for next year it's 13.5. Why is that such an increase? Well, it comes down to we're earning more in investments. Um and we're actually doing a lot better of a job. Weissber Garden and Kramer. Once again, they're doing a great job collecting delinquent taxes. Um delinquent taxes has never been higher for the district than this year. So, that's
045why you'll see that increase. Um the federal, you'll see a decrease in the federal because there's no more COVID money. Um last year in the budget, there was a $2 million electric bus grant tied to the budget, but the board decided not to take that grant. So if you took the $2 million off the 2425 budget, that would be about 108 million. With our estimated actual after 10 months, we're at 107. So we're within 1% variance. Once again, it just goes to show how good of a job this district does with the budget. And that's everybody. It's the business team. It's Sharon right next to me. It's our teachers. It's our administration. to be in that 1% category once again is is something to be applauded. Um, so if we go over to the expenditures,
046you'll see that personnel cost once again is is the the majority of what our expenditures are, 72%. You'll see later on in the presentation, I start to talk about debt services as well. debt services. If you look at the principal and the the interest, that's another 13%. So, we have 85% of our budget and expenditures fixed. We can't change it. There's nothing we can do about it. It is personnel, it is uh debt, it is what is fixed for 85%. So, that means that we really have a play of 15% within our budget. So, that's something to kind of keep in the back of your mind while I go through this presentation that 85% of our expenditures are fixed. And I'm going to kind of take you through the expenditure history like I did with
047the revenue and kind of highlight some of the numbers. Um, what for the expenditures for our budget, what's going on for next year, and what are some of the things we're doing. So, you'll see support services, the $28 million. Uh part of that $28 million. Uh we are purchasing three vans. Uh we're going to have two vans for the transportation department and we're going to have one van for our student services department. Um Dr. Mch over there is working hard with his team to uh do the transition program which everybody's extremely excited about. Now they'll have a van to make sure those students get to work. Um so that is something that just to be applauded. That's right. It's something so good for this district. Um, also within this uh support services, you know, Chris
048Bolan over here has been doing a wonderful job and he is doing a project where he is going to replace all the agent network, the switches, the access points throughout the high school and he's going to get it up to the point where we'll be in, you know, today's technology age where we can stop having those meetings about Wi-Fi going down into high school. So, we're going to get to the point where we have Wi-Fi 7 capabilities. Um, so that is extremely exciting as well for next year. Facilities and capital improvement. You'll see that there's a line item there for $160,000. Dr. Corsinski and I have been trying to make a plan to little by little, yearbyear, put money into our stadium to upgrade a lot of the things that are going on in the
049stadium. Um, so that's that's step one to start doing some work at the stadium. So you'll see that line item budget. And then in regards to other services, you'll see that 12 million. I'm going to talk about that. That's going to be the next slide. It's debt services. What is debt services? It's our bonds for the schools. But once again, before I get to that slide, I just want to point out if you look at the budget for 2425 and our estimated actual for 2425. If you took that $2 million grant money out of the 110, once again, we're at 108. Once again, within 1% variance of the difference between the two. So, it just goes to show once again how good of a job this team does. All right, let's talk debt services. So,
050right now we have four bonds out there in the district. Um, the four bonds consist of the 2016, that's your high school uh construction. Uh the 2022 is your IMS project. Your 2023 is the completion of IMS but the start of the elementary school and 2024 is the elementary school. We also have out there still center bond that we pay roughly about $565,000 a year and we'll pay that until 2043. It goes up a,000 down a,000 for the next several years. So it's either 565 6 564. Um, but you'll see on the left side, I know that is small, but it is in front of you as well. That is our debt services. So, that goes to show you what we will be paying for these bonds every single year for the upcoming years. And
051you'll see the next three years, we stay at 11 to 10 to 12, but then that that fourth year, we're at 14 million and we stay steady 14 million all the way until the 201-52 school year. Um, so that's something that just want to put in the back of your mind that that is a fixed, like I talked about, that is a fixed expenditure every single year going forward now is that $14 million. This chart just goes to show you when these bonds drop off. You'll see in the blue, that was the refinance of the high school. The 2016 is the orange that will drop off. Um, in 2000, I can't even see that far. 25 24 34 and then you'll see 2022 23 and 24 when they drop off all the way up until
052205152 school year but this just goes to show you when the bonds start to drop off. So earlier today um the curriculum curriculum department uh had a bunch of changes that you heard from. This is what also is within our budget. We made sure that everything that was presented to you at the five o'clock meeting was also on this slide. The only thing I think I missed was the 28,000 to the foreign language department for Spanish books. But you will see that everything here was presented to you today at 5:00 and that's also part of our expenditures for next school year. So I'm not going to hit too much on this because I know that we did it at the five o'clock meeting, but everything that was presented to you is also on here. I
053also wanted to put a slide in there about staffing changes. Um, retirements, retirement numbers, what does that look like? You know, I get asked a lot, you know, if somebody retires, what does that look like? So, I kind of wanted to break down the numbers for you. This year, we had 12 teachers retire. We had six classified positions, two professional management for a total of 20 staff. Um, what did that look for like for the district? It was about a $927,000 savings. Um, where I get that number is if you go from top step down to step one, that's about a $67,000 savings for a teacher. Um, and then not replacing a teacher is about $136,000. This is assuming that we are continuing their health care. Um, they have an early retirement incentive in their
054contract that gets their health care continued until age 65. So, I put in there that this assumes that we continue their healthcare. So it just puts numbers to it so you can actually see what it what the savings are. We are not replacing one teacher. It would be the social studies teacher at the high school. We are able to absorb that. We're not replacing an instructional aid at Ben Franklin. We had um an extra instructional aid. We hired an extra one a few years back. So with that one retiring, we're back to where all the other um elementary schools are. So we should be fine there. And then we're reclassifying the supervisor of transportation. Uh what that looks like is we are going to hire two transportation coordinators and we are now going to have
055coverage at the bus garage from start to finish 5 in the morning till about s 5:00 at night. The two will overlap each other. One will start in the morning. They'll overlap during the day and one will stay at night. So that means that there will be constant contact with our drivers um administration. So it's just another support level at the transportation department. So this is what our fund balance looks like. Uh you'll see that the actual is there from 2324. What our budget was for 2425, our estimated actual for 2425 and our budget for next year. I I do have to talk about what our estimated actual is. It's our estimated actual is the numbers that we've had for the last 9 to 10 months and then we kind of just play it out
056for the rest of the year. Um so it is just a budget. It is just an estimated actual but you'll see that our expenditures won't go as high as we budgeted. So there'll be about $370,000 that we might be able to put into our fund balance. Our fund balance is going to be at right around $6.5 million. Um, PTE allows us to keep 8% of our budget into that line item. That 6.5 is at 5.9%. So, um, we're right around 6%. So, we're good there. All the other things that we go through here, you know, we have stuff in there for committed for retirement, retirement benefits and severance. You know, we're going to have a lot of retirements happening in the next few years. What we're going to try to do is budget for that,
057but if we can't budget for it, we have it here committed to retirement benefits and severance. Um, we have assigned ban uniforms. And then also the other thing I want to talk about is our committed capital projects line item. Um, right now we have $7.2 million. And where that comes into play is going to be the next slide that I kind of talk about is our fund 32. Our fund 32 is where we pay for capital projects and also buses have to come out of capital 32. So right now we have $4.8 million in our capital reserve. This 4.8 is separate from the committed capital projects that you just saw in the fund balance. It's a separate um line item there, a separate fund. So fund 32, we have five uh 4.8, 8. We estimate
058that we're going to probably get about $80,000 worth of interest, which takes us to, you know, and then also what we're going to do is we're going to spend $3.2 million, and I'll go over that in a little bit, but it takes us to an ending balance of 1.6. You as the board have the right to put money back in there for next year. I don't know if I would recommend putting the money in there for next year because I don't think we need it because like I said, Dr. Dr. Krosinski and I have been working to the point where we do have a facilities plan and um maybe this is next time this year or ne this time next year. This is when you start to discuss if we put money back into fund
05932. Um but there will be an ending balance of 1.6. Why we're drawing down from it this year is we're going to buy six buses. Um we're going to replace turf one and two and then we're going to pay Blackhawk Drive and the parking lots on both sides of Blackhawk Blackhawk Drive. Um, these are just estimates for numbers. You know, some might come in uh lower, some might come in higher. Um, but the that's I wanted to make sure that we had a good number there. So, you know that we have an ending balance of 1.6 on fund 32. All right. You guys can ask questions at any time. If I'm going too quick, you just let me know. Can you go back? Yeah. Slide. Yep. Next slide. That one. Can you explain or um
060Rebecca the committed legal trust to the community so they understand? Yeah. So the committed legal trust is for uh student settlements. So we have to have money in our fund balance in case there is a student settlement uh for any reason and that's why we have to have that money there. Anytime there's a student settlement that consists of money, you know, we make sure that Mrs. Copy is aware of that so she can make sure the money is there. [Music] All right, fund 31 is your IMS project. So, the estimated beginning balance for next year for the 2526 school year will be $3.2 million. Uh we'll earn a little bit uh north of $20,000. Um which takes us to about $3.2 million. We are planning on spending it all. We want to be done with
061this project in August. So this is two months worth of project. Let's keep our fingers crossed and that this balance shows zero and everybody's happy at the end of the day. When did he say end of September punch list will be done. So that's the goal for fund 31. So that takes us to fund 39. Fund 39 is your elementary construction project. Uh right now we have an estimated beginning balance of $88.2 million. We may need an additional bond issue at 15 million. This is something that we are tracking as a business office. We got to make sure there is an escrow out there with the community. There is interest that we are earning that we're trying to keep uh track on. You'll see the 2.4. Right now, what we would need to finish the
062project is roughly about $103 million. What we would draw down next year is about $98 million, which leaves us 7.6 for the remainder of the project. um that $15 million additional bond that's something that we would have to start to discuss probably you when did we do it last year was probably right around that October November area where we have to make sure that we have a better number and what we would want to go out to get an additional bond to finish the elementary school. Any questions? And that bond was always estimated in your predecessors correct? Yes. uh he always told if I'm not mistaken that we would have to go out and get that final bond to complete the project. All right, no questions. Anybody? This is the best best finance presentation ever.
063Like Oh, thanks. That was so good. Appreciate that. I wasn't busy. At first glance, those books appear to be already budgeted, too. Spanish. So, oh no, they're they're budgeted. It's just I didn't have it on the spread on the uh PowerPoint. That's all. Okay. Nobody else. All right. Thank you, Mr. Fisher. Miss Copy. Job well done. This time we have public comments on agenda items only. Please come up. You have two minutes. Hi, Jim Mans 3485 South Park Road. I don't have a comment. I do have a question that I'd hope answered. What's the difference between a gross um aggregated gross um debt service and aggregated local debt service? So, you're talking about the one slide, the one slide. Yeah, the with the chart. Okay. That's the way the aggregated growth. It's the aggregated growth
064is something that where we capitalize interest if I'm not mistaken will take that down. So it's you see that how it goes down probably about $600,000. That's something that to do with capitaliz but I can look into that a little bit more to make sure that that's the right thing because I know that that has something to do with it as well but I can email you as opposed to the local the local that you'll see it right here. Yeah, the local is what we pay. That's what we're going to pay at the end of the day. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Mans. Anyone else? Okay. Um let's this time we'll move on the personnel committee Mr. McGregor. Okay. Under personnel tonight there are nine items. I will read them out loud. Number
065one acceptance of resignations. Number two approval of staffing changes. Number three change of assignment. Number four involuntary transfers. Number five appointment of personnel. Number six approval of unpaid leave of absence. Number seven approval of tuition reimbursement. Number eight, approval of extended school year staffing. And number nine, approval of summer help for the custodial maintenance department. We do the staff. Any comments? Any discussion on that staff change? I'm sorry. Yeah. If you want you have questions. Which question we I'm sorry. Could you ask? I was just wondering if you could the staffing change kind of looks like Memorial just no more grade one which obviously isn't the case but maybe if you could let the public know. Yeah. So no there is definitely grade one at Memorial. Um it just last year last year with the
066numbers of enrollment it just Memorial had a very low kindergarten class. Um so that's why the sections you will see that the sections um there was four sections of first grade now there's two sections of first grade and then also there was some openings at Memorial as well. So actually with Memorial they're actually going up a half a teacher because they're going to get more they got more kindergarten numbers so they're going to actually have a increase of a half a teacher for next year. So nobody got cut, nobody got furoughed or anything like that. Okay. Anything else? No else. All right. I'd like to move all nine to the consent agenda. So be it. All nine moved to consent agenda. Very good. All right. Next will be facilities. Uh Mrs. Would you please take
067care of that for Mr. Christensen since he's not here? Yes, be happy to. In facilities, we have one item. There are two change orders that were discussed earlier. Um, so I would like to move that to the consent agenda if there are no questions or discussion. Not being said, so move to consent agenda on the finance committee. Mrs. Walsh Turner. Um, number one, there are 14 items, but number one is the May 2025 salary and bills. Number two is April 2025 financial report. Number three is budgetary transfers. Number four is payment for the new elementary school. Lots of invoices came in. Um number five is payment for Independence Middle School phase three that they went over tonight. Number six is the payment for the um roof project at Independence Middle School. Number seven is declared
068unused and unnecessary. Some of those books are pretty good, Dr. Cororinski. Um, number eight, the approval of alternate transportation services agreement. Number nine, the approval of the AIU comprehensive services agreement. Number 10, the approval of the waterfront learning services agreement. Number 11 of the approval of the for steel center CTE proposed budget for 2526. Number 12, the approval of professional services agreement. Number 13, adopt the 2526 proposed final general fund operating budget. And number 14, approve the PA uh approval of the Pathfinder budget for 2526. Right now, I'm moving 1 to 12 to the consent agenda. Okay. Then we'll move 112 and we're going to pull out. We're going to take we're going to take 13 tonight. 13 tonight. And then I don't know if we want to take 14 tonight. I don't know what
069do we have to display Pathfinders budget for our purposes. We do not have to display it. So there's no reason why you couldn't defer. Move that one. Okay. I just wanted to make sure. So I'd move 14 to consent also. So 1 to 12 and number 14 for the consent agenda and then we will pull 13 and we will vote on and we'll make a motion right now. Go ahead. I move the board of directors approves the administration's recommendation to adopt the 2526 proposed final general fund operations budget with revenues of $110,487,727 and expenditures of the same for a balanced budget. So just for clarity sake, this is being this is the proposed budget. We'll have to display it for 30 days, take public comment, and then in June, uh, which is we're doing tonight
070because 30 days from now, we don't have a meeting. Uh, so we're going to ask for the, uh, board's vote tonight. And then any changes we'll review with you when the board does meet in June. Yes. And go over any of those changes and updates to the budget. So again, proposed budget has been uh, moved. Do we have a second? Second. Have a second for Mr. Poppy. All right, Mr. Pishionary, we will take a vote on the proposed budget. Voting is open. Motion passes. And then also um that if we wanted to go back to facilities, I know that Mero asked us if that is something that you guys be willing to vote on tonight um for the change orders just for pay reasons because we were missing next week and they want to make
071sure that they are able to put that. Can we make that motion? If we could go through that process. Yes. I move that the board of school directors approves the administration's recommendation to approve the change orders for the new new K to5 elementary school HVAC 5 and HVAC6. So moved in a second. Second by Mr. McGregor. Um at this time the vote the board will vote on the change orders. Voting is open. Motion passes. Then finally, Mr. Modrack, at everybody's table is fund 31, fund 32, and fund 39. That was covered also tonight in the budget. Thank you. Move from finance. Go to policy. Mrs. Hoppy, would you please again Sure. Um, we have one item with many policies. This is the third and final reading for all of the policies listed, which is policy
0725, organization policy 105.1, selection of instructional materials and resources. There's a administrative regulation on field trips. Policy 336, personal necessity leave. Policy 339, uncompensated leave. Policy 8:15.2, educational use of studentowned technology and smart devices. Policy 824, maintaining professional student boundaries. 823 opioid antagonist and 828 fraud. Again, this is the third and final reading. So, this will move to the um agenda to vote in our next meeting. Any discussions by anyone? No. Being said, we'll be moved on to the consent agenda. Good. Uh, at this time of the meeting, we have also open up for public comments on any subject that you choose, folks. No. Okay. Any board comments at this time? I need to get the date right. Um, Dr. Dr. Walsh can help me with that. The art and music festival for the Fantastic
0734 is July 27th. 27th. Um, it is from 10 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. There are over 70 artists um between the historical society schoolhouse and the um main floor of the community center. Um there are food trucks, there are live bands, there is a waiting list for bands. So Mrs. Streer has done a fantastic job on getting that um lined up. Um and it seems to be a wonderful day. There will be face painting for kids again and some other great activities. Um and no rain would be wonderful and it should be a fantastic day. So come out and enjoy. There is no fee. It's just fees for the artist and the food that you want to enjoy and you decide to buy anything. Very good. Anybody else? I just want to remind the community
074about about our Monday night uh town hall on the 19th over at Neil Armstrong Middle School about the Bethl Park Elementary School and the programming and what will be happening there as we move forward. And also just everyone is aware we are not meeting next week uh due to the primary election on the 20th. That meeting will now be scheduled for the 27th uh of May which will be our normal uh voting meeting at that time. So if nothing else said motion to adjurnn second. All in favor?