001call to order the trust >> at 6:01 p.m. Uh, everyone's present. Uh, there's no visitors. Eric, you want to give us an indication here? I'm sorry. I got you. >> All right. Lord, we thank you for all your blessings. Lord, for so much to be thankful for bringing us here tonight. Most of all, for your salvation, God, we ask tonight that you would just be in this room. Be with us. Guide our our hearts, our minds. Be focused on you. Help us to make decisions. and your will to the best of our ability. That you bless our our community, the students, faculty, teachers, staff, everyone as they get prepared for a school year that's coming up quickly. That you continue to give rest and infuse energy into everyone as they get ready to take on
002this new school year. We trust in you, in you. We thank you in advance for answers to these prayers in your name for now. Amen. Algiance 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. Okay. Um, Mr. Thompson is not here this evening, but he sent the information after we discussed all of this at our last board meeting and everyone was there. Then, if you will recall, uh, we were rejecting at that time a 224,864 uh, um, deficit. Um, our values came in a little different and we were able to get that down to 53,246 which is much more easy to absorb and not that we will during this school year. So that would be the
003budget that that we talked about proposing and that's what we want now. Um, the tax rate is um there's in your packet there's a calcul calculation worksheet that will have to be posted on our website that you use to calculate all this. So that's why it's in your in your folder and the text rate. Um this is part will be um placed in the newspaper. I'll take it over in the morning so we can get it in for two weeks. Um and it'll be the same tax rate. It will be 72 7223 for the maintenance operations and then the debt service will be 0850 to cover what we have in our budget. That's the same propos. Okay. I don't have any questions on that. Of course, I like the budget going down instead of deficit.
004>> Does anybody else have any questions? >> Where did it go down? window,000. [Music] >> And we can easily find that. We're still >> the go% how much the value goes up the state dedects that from what they said. >> Just get ahead. Keep releasing. >> Yeah, >> remember 1.73 cents. Let me let me talk. This is in discussion. >> Okay. Go ahead. I just wanted to make sure we were all didn't have any more discussion to ponder. >> Okay. The next thing we wanted to talk about was the investment report. U this is for our quarter ending in May. And so uh if you if you look over on the page that has the purple bars, you see how much is in our main fund balance. And then these other are in our in
005our small balances in our checking account balance of our corporate overnight and these are smaller funds. Then I think one of the really interesting things that you look at is the next page >> the next page about the interest report. Uh for the year last year we earned $48,333 in interest off of off of that wonderful fund balance and we've already earned 340,872 this year. So that's a really good thing. I think people you know, we don't have to tax as much if we have that income stream and that's a nice little income stream for us. So, we don't want we don't want to take a lot out of fund balance because that's kind of like killing the goose that lays it over. >> So, um that is I commend you for maintaining that fund
006balance so we do have that income stream and that we can maintain lower tax rates. >> Which how does that go back into interest? into maintenance operations >> pretty much as far as these organiz >> he goes into that big one I think >> when I talked to him you know I was hoping that maybe he hadn't figured our interest in when he was figing the budget he said no I calculated interest income when I was calculating the budget so because I did ask him that specific question that was something that maybe He hadn't calculated it, but we did. And you know, there was a time just a couple years ago when we were making hard any interest at all of our funds. And so this is this is really a nice income stream helping
007us to keep our our service, our tax rate down low. So um there will be a when the auditor's finished there'll be a a report for the auditing that'll come they use them to make the report in December they'll finish the audit in August >> okay the the next three items that that we I wanted to discuss was the student parent handbook, the student code of conduct, and the employee handbook. I sent those out to you um by email. I did I read I read the the the employee ones. Chuck read the others. We we have read them. We believe that we have them up to date with what the legislature has put in and um that they are uh coming to compliance with what the legislature most recent legislature said. the normally I ask
008you to approve the student code of conduct but because of the new legislative session when I read it I wasn't real sure that they hadn't changed that to want them all approved locally so action items I'm going to ask you to approve just so we have local changes in this >> there are changes We don't have local changes. >> No local >> other than our cell phone policies. >> That's not a local change. >> Each principal would have had their differences on their campuses for grading procedure kind of things. So this cost no longer a requirement for automatic placement in the for >> but if you read it it's really good it's >> yeah you still have to go to ISS >> and then the second time it's really can be depends on what's in
009that um we found it to real last knowing that the possibility is going to be true. So hopefully kids are beginning to understand the threatening reality that we don't know what's in those things. So inherent in discussion of those three I guess keep moving along. Uh 6.1 is going to be action item on proposal of budget protection for 2526. All four 7 Z 6.2 Two is appro consideration approval of the investment report investment resolution. >> Go ahead. >> Make a motion on 6.2. >> All four. Pass 70 uh 6.3 is consideration approval policy revisions. >> Is this different from last time? >> Yes. >> Okay. These are these are the ones uh that came about because the legislative >> uh the first one is something that we've already voted to do and this is just
010the board policy to reinforce it that we will not allow homesooled students to participate in an extracurricular. There's one about um the cell phone and there's one about library there. The legislature said that schools could u establish a library council that would review all the library books that were purchased, whatever. When I talked to our our TASBY consultant, she said, you know, I really would have gotten not to do that because it was kind of over the hill since y'all were not having a lot of questioning about library books and you have a school library. Some schools don't have a library and they use library services in the service center. So she didn't she recommended that we just go with just keep on doing what we're doing. So that this is board policy saying that's
011a vote for the class. >> Yeah, I I think that we we're careful and we purchase books. We're really careful about finding books that we think are appropriate that I make a motion for 6.3. I'll second >> motion by carry second by ter. This is where recommended approval for the code of conduct and the employee and student. Correct. >> You can't have >> I know I was reading the answer. No grills. Dang. Yeah, I'll make a motion to >> uh all four seven to zero. Is there anything personnel on your conversations from last session? I called that lady and she is considering what we offer. I invite her to come to this board meeting or the one in the office and so she said she would keep that in mind. So she did not contact
012me this past week. So I think she still she has not listed the the property yet. So, as far as air conditioned or >> Yeah, we're both y'all just like it. When we get We've got airflow now. When we get a new budget, we're good. >> We're comfy. >> We don't have $10,000 to do it. >> I'm sitting here. I'm looking at that black box. I'm like, shouldn't it have numbers on it? >> Well, we do have we have gotten proposals and it's so probably >> this is the only system that's just here. >> Well, Mr. Johnson's office in the front the front part of the what we're comfortable