CorpusRecord 258045

Budget Hearing - July 23, 2025

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YouTube / Elma School District
Date
2025-07-24
Location
Grays Harbor County, WA
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Extent
1,383 words · about 8 min
Collected
2026-07-02

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001Call the meeting to order. Please rise for the flag of Igiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with justice. >> Do I have a motion to excuse those that are? I will move to excuse board members Bower and Christelli from tonight's meetings. >> Second. >> It's been moved and seconded to um to excuse board members Castelli and uh Bower. There any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> All those oppose say nay. Motion carries. All right. New business budget presentation. >> Okay. I'm here to present the budget for 2025 through 2029. um start off um I did the same report every year and just add to it so you know um this is our 10-year enrollment history

002and for the 2526 year um and enrollment has been lowered a little um we had the 162958 is what we ended the year with and we're budgeting um6007.27 27. This includes our running start, our open doors, and our transitional team garden. Any questions on enrollment? Here's my four-year enrollment projections. And I kind of tried to make all of the years the same because we don't know what's going to happen down the road. And it had to do with our finances too of why I budgeted there. But as I did the roll down when I got to the fourth year, you can see there's quite the job drop. And that's because we have smaller classes coming in. And so when we get out four years, we have a lot of small classes. And with keeping running

003start when it's running around 60 FTP, it really drops our enrollment down to 1548. but it can be adjust adjusted in the coming years as new budgets are made. Next is our staffing history. And you can see um on our history the bottom part um but we've gone up one in administration and that's going to be our new principal at the middle school. And then we have increased in our classified data because we've added program people within our lab program and our multilingual and they don't show in the current year right now because these are all budgeted. Um the actual are 2324 and back the planeless 275 for the 2425 year is not in until September 30th. Any questions on staffing? I know that certificate includes our administrators. So, we're writing about 100 teachers and

004the rest is administrators. this um according to our budget of the funded staff we have for basic ed we're funded for 4.29 administrators full-time administrators um for certificated staff we get funding for 61.82 82 and for a classified funded FTE is the 18.51. This includes our secretaries, full-time, custodial maintenance, library aid, nurses, and the print shop. >> It's quite the discrepancy, isn't it? >> Excuse me. >> Quite the discrepancy as far as what we're funded. >> What we're Yes. What we have This is um our four-year budget for our general fund for the 25 year. Right now, the projection of the budget, this is if everybody who put in what they've encumbered is going to spend and that we get the revenues that are projected to come in. So, this is an estimated fund balance.

005Yes, it's bigger than what we thought because there is some money being left on the table that will carry over till next year. So it inflates our fund balance a little. Okay. Um revenues are projected at 32 million. Our expenditures at 34. Um the plan is to transfer 562,000 out to our capital projects. That later I'll explain what that's for. And that would leave us at the year end of a 5,44,000 bud um ending fund balance. Here's a composition of our fund balance. So this look this is what is projected for year end. The 7 million um restricted for carryover. That's what I was talking about is the 477,000. This money we receive will be carried over into the next year to be expended. Our nonf funable fund balance is our inventory through the print

006shop and the co-op. Um the unassigned fund balance is that that's not assigned but it does include that 562,000 that will be transferred to capital projects. And then our 2 million for board policy um 6022 that requires me to keep a 6% fund balance. Here is our fund balance for the last 10 years. So the last one is just project projected and then I wanted you guys to know that dip where we see the real low is at the year we transfer the 2 million into the capital projects. That's why we have that big drop. Here's the expenditures by program. and they're broke out by the core, the um programs, regular instruction, special ed, vocational, compensatory ed, instructional pro, other instructional programs, our community service, which would include our co-op, that's why it looks big.

007Um and then our support services which is the district office custodial maintenance. You guys have questions just stop. Here's by activity, by our um teaching activities, teaching support, food service, people transportation and maintenance and operations, the co-op, other services, which would include the print shop, um principal's office, and then administration district expenses. Here's my object. So, you can see what we're spending on certificate sal, what's projected to spend um classified salaries, employee benefits, supplies, materials, purchase services, travel, and capital out. This is the plan project. Um the 562,000 that we're transferring will add to what we already have there which is giving us just a little over 850,000. This is to re- roof the middle school gym and to do the ADA access retaining wall for the lower CDs. Here's our capital projects right now

008is at 291. our revenues at 565 is what's projected. Um, and then our expenditures and the 565 includes the interest that's in the account. That's why it's a little bigger than the 562. And then our expenditures, which will leave us a fund balance of $6,400. We have no debt service. our transportation vehicle fund. The beginning fund balance 492,000. We expect to bring in about 729. This includes depreciation with the electric buses. Our depreciation has gone up. So, we're bringing in more there. That will allow us to expend about a million next year on more transportation so we can keep our depreciation coming in on a regular basis and maximize it. Here's the composition of it or the four year of transportation. Um, Caleb and I have gone over this and this is what we've projected

009out for years to happen. >> Is the projection out at 2829 expecting that we have to purchase something because it goes up? it what we're we yes we hope to be able well we'll have depreciation coming in from buses that we put on the road we won't receive it until then so we're hoping that's how it works out >> correct >> this is associated student body this is done between the advisors and the kids and so I just put in the numbers of what they would like to see for their um revenues and expenditures right now they're at7 76,000. They plan on bringing in 724,000 expecting expenditures of 770,000 which would leave them at a fund balance of 131,000 and that's the four year and I just put the same numbers across because I don't

010know what kids are going to do but their budget is usually pretty close every year of what they do. And then here is my budget timeline of what I do to complete the budget. I start in March and end in July 10th. And yet, you know, we still have our budget hearing to do at the end of the July. In August, I'll roll in a new um budget. And then October, November, I'm closing the prior year. Any questions? I don't have any. >> I don't either. >> And I'm hoping that I know I didn't get to meet with you guys much as we had hope one time. I think I met with Michael. That's when I found out certain things the board would like. I hope I got them in. I do have contingency in

011there in case you guys decide something that I did not know about. >> There's not much room for Not much room. >> Yeah. So, there's really Yeah, >> it is kind of a tighter budget this year. >> You do a good job with that. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, we appreciate it. This is This was good. Let's hope our numbers stay steady and high um all around. >> There's a lot of districts that would do anything to >> uh Yeah. >> have our numbers right now. >> Especially with just we just don't know. We just there's just so much unforeseen uh for the future as far as funding, federal funding, state funding. Um having a fund balance that's healthy is good. >> And um so you know on the federal programs that the OSPI has

012told us we may not receive because of what is going on in >> um in politics. Um I did budget the revenue and the expenditure. Um Chris has a feeling that it would all get ironed out by November, December, and he thinks that funding will come in because it's already been approved. Um and so he he recommended that we just key both sides in. If we get it, we can expend it. If we don't, we won't. >> I'm putting you on the spot, but do you know what that number would look like if the feds withheld funding? >> For us, it's going to be between seven and 800,000. >> Okay. So, it's >> and that's going to be our title two program which is our professional development um our title three which is um ELLL

013our title five that helps with um any kind of uh enrichment program. It can help with professional development. Um, and title Oh, and title four, which is um pretty much more enrichment money that we can use to help enhance classrooms. >> Yeah, it would be detrimental, but not it's a small portion of the overall budget, which Yeah. >> And the good thing for us is nobody's paid out of those funds, so I didn't have to figure out where we're going to pay them. Um, and so that money is mainly for supplies, for contracted services, um, is where we would use those those funds. >> So, we just want to have those things to offer, >> right? >> But we're not trying to >> figure out how to cut something that's already been committed to. >>

014Any other questions? Any public comment? Yeah. Uh, with that, does anybody want to adjurnn or canjourn? >> I'll move to adjourn the meeting. >> I'll second. >> It's been moved and second and during the meeting. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion carries. Meeting adjourned. Right. out of the next one.

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