001All right, we'll call this meeting to order. Time is now 7 o'clock. Has this meeting been posted? Yes, it has. All right, all five board members are here and one student board member and one is excused. Uh we'll begin with the pledge of 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. All right. Do you have any communications for us this evening? Yes, I do. The Greenell Park and Recreation Department received two donations recently. Sharon Fianowski made a $200 donation towards the Greenell Senior Social Club Christmas Party, and there was an anonymous donation of $150 made to the Senior Social Club for an art class. Thank you to both donors. On April 11th, Greenell Middle
002School was required to evacuate when a small gas leak was discovered at the point of entry for the main gas line. Students were evacuated and then reunited with families using the standard reunification method. The planning and training as part of the safety plan was valuable and the process was tested. The middle school staff and the administrative team worked well and feedback from the process will improve future responses. The gas pipe that was corroded was reply and school resumed as usual the next day. Is this microphone cutting out or is that my imagination? Yeah, it did. But okay. Uh ArabAmerican Heritage event was also held the evening of April 11th at Highland View Elementary. Cultural learning opportunities included food, art, dance, and vendors. Rajua Abukamira and Joseph Woodland uh worked with the community and the student
003equity team to host this amazing event. The event was covered by local media with a story airing on CBS 58 that evening. On April 12th, the tech director and the business manager and the director of instruction and I attended a cyber incident response training hosted at CISA1 and led by the United States Cyber Infrastructure and Security Agency. The team was able to walk through local protocols for a number of hypothetical events and receive feedback to improve our cyber security. On April 21st, all staff participated in professional development and focused on advancing the building goals in relation to the board's strategic planning goals. Over the lunch period, administration treated staff to an ice cream treat from scratch, an alumni owned business, and the community alliance team focused on mental wellness, held a raffle with information on
004resources for staff. And despite the chilly weather, it was a great treat. Um, this Wednesday I will be hosting the superintendent's coffee at Sugar and Flour on Broad Street at 8:45 a.m. That concludes my communications. All right, thank you. Uh, can it over to the student updates? Sure. So, we have a blood drive this Wednesday at the high school that will take place almost the whole day. Prom tickets have begun to be sold. Some scholarship recipients from the Greenell multiple scholarship application have begun to be notified. Today during our flex period we had a group discussion about the panorama survey and whether somewhat positive is a good thing or a bad thing. So we had discussions today as a whole group and collected feedback from students and right now we also have multiple students including
005Noah at the DECA international career development conference and that is all for my updates. All right thank you. Uh moving on to comments from uh visitors but I'm not seeing anyone so we will skip that. Um, moving on to oath of office. Tasha, I'll let you do yours first. Kim say anything? The you you both took the official o oath of office. So today is our uh symbolic public oath of office. So you may read your oath of office. Okay. Um, I, Tasha Hughes, swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin and will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office of Greenale School Board member to the best of my ability. So, help me God. All right. Thank you. Uh I, Robert
006Kullesco, swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin and will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office of Greenale School Board member to the best of my ability. So help me God. All right, moving on to the election of officers. I will turn it over to you. Thank you very much. So, the process of determining the president for the upcoming year is now called to order and I will call for nominations for president. Is there a nomination for president? I nominate Rob Koblesca for president. Is there a second for the nomination of Rob Kovaleesca for president? I second. Are there any other nominations? And nominate Brian Bach for schoolboard president. Is there a second for to the nomination of Brian Bach for
007president? Seeing none, are there any other nominations? And for a third time, are there any other nominations? Rob Kleska, do you accept the nomination for president? I do accept. Nominations are now closed. Is there any discussion? Yes. Um, with this vote, I'll just note that I can't support not Rob for president due to his prior vote in favor of our current federal administration, an administration which is directly contributing to the financial instability of this school district. Uh, like many districts across Wisconsin, Greenale is grappling with the rising costs that are not being met by corresponding increases in state general aid. And recent directives from our Department of Education have only intensified this strain. According to the estimates from our Wisconsin Department of Public Construction, Greenale now could stand to lose an additional million dollar and
008$40,633 in federal funding, an unacceptable blow to an already stretched budget at a time with serious financial uncertainty. I really believe the school board should be led by individuals who prioritize our financial stewardship and look forward to protecting the educational opportunities of our students. Is there any other discussion? Um, so I just going to say why I support Rob. Um, first of all, the schoolboard positions are supposed to be nonpartisan. Um, and I do feel that Rob does a really good job at talking to everyone in Greenale um, from both sides. Um, it doesn't really matter what their political affiliation is. And I do think like in this position, we need someone that who's willing to work with the entire community, not just a portion of it. Is there any other discussion? Seeing none, we'll
009take a roll call vote. No. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm Yes. Rob Kovaleesca has been elected as president of the Greenale Board of Education effective April 28th, 2005. And I now turn it over to you. All right. Thank you. Um I don't really have much to say. I didn't have anything uh prepared, but um I've enjoyed working with this board as the president um for the past seven months. I've enjoyed working with them with all of you for the past year and um I look forward to serving the community. Um it's been an honor to um represent the school, the school board, and um I appreciate the support from my fellow board members. So, thank you. All right. Uh moving on. Um, so we need the vice president. Uh, is there a nomination for vice
010president? I nominate Tasha Hughes for vice president. I'll second. Oh, you're supposed to call for that. Sorry. It's okay. Uh, is there a second to the nomination of vice president? I second. Right. Are there any other nominations for vice president? Does she have to accept the nomination too? Tasha, do you accept the nomination of vice president? Yes. All right. Uh we will do a discussion. Is there discussion for Tasha as vice president? I'm not seeing any. All right. Uh so we have a second for Tasha for vice president. Uh, we will do a roll call for Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm Yes. Congratulations, Tasha. Thanks. All right. Moving on. Is there a nomination for clerk? I nominate Kristen Settle. Is there a second to to the nomination for clerk? I second. Are there any
011other nominations for clerk? Not seeing any. Is there any discussion? All right. I'm not seeing any. We will move on. Or do you accept the nomination of clerk? Yes. All right. We will now move on to a vote. Voting for Kristen. Settle for clerk. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm Yes. Congratulations. Thank you. Moving on. Uh, we have the nomination for treasurer. I nominate Brian Bach for treasurer. I'll second. Do we have a second, Kathy? Oh, sorry. I know. We're all very excited. Second. All right. All right. We have a nomination and a second. Are there any other nominations for treasurer? Is there any discussion for treasurer? All right, I'm not seeing any. Uh, we will do a vote. Voting for Brian Bach for treasurer. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm Yes. Congratulations, Brian. All
012right. Moving on. We will now do the approval of the depositories of the district funds. Uh, Jonathan, did you want to add anything to that? And, uh, if you wanted to talk about the checks, contracts, too. Uh so the first item is approval of depository. So each year the board as part of the reorganization meeting approves the bank accounts that we utilize. So here you see those listed. Um the only one that's changed is Northshore Bank. We no longer make food service deposits to that bank. We now utilize US Bank. So that's been eliminated. Um and with that uh no other changes to this from prior years. And then the authorization 1.4 authorization for checks, contracts, agreements, and purchase orders. So here reiterate information that's covered in board policy. Uh board president and treasurer digitally
013sign checks after they're approved at the monthly schoolboard meetings. Contracts are approved and signed by the director of business services. uh except for those contracts that exceed $150,000 always require board action and approval um and then can be signed by the director of business services. Um agreements can be entered into by the director of business services if they're specifically 66301 shared services agreements. Those require board approval prior to being signed by the director of business services. And then purchase orders are approved by those in charge of allocated budgeted funds and signed by the director of business services. Those are digitally signed and then sent to vendors. So happy to answer questions the board has on either of those. Any questions for Kathy? Um yes, thank you Jonathan. Um I had a question because several years
014ago I believe the amount was 300,000 that had to be approved by the board. Is that correct? um 300,000 for it was 150,000 and the policy committee recommended and the board took action to reduce that to 100,000. So So my question is it 150,000 right? It was okay. So I I just wanted to ask has that been working for you? Like is that is that holding back any purchases on anything or is that a good number? That's good. Okay. Yeah, it's been working fine. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Yep. So, the clarification that Kim made is you're correct. Um, the board has made a change and so it should read contracts over 100,000 require board approval to align with the latest board policy. Thanks for catching that. Do we have any other questions for Jonathan? All
015right, we'll start out by uh approving the depositories of district funds. So, I'm looking for a motion. I move the approval of the following depositories of district funds as presented and agenda item 1.3. US Bank, Local Government Investment Pool, Wisconsin Investment Series Cooperative, and Tri City National Bank. I second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Any other questions or concerns? No. All right, we'll do a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm Yes. Passes. Uh, next up, we will approve the authorization to sign checks, contracts, agreements, and purchase orders. I recommend that the motion include the amendment to indicate $100,000 for whoever is making the motion. So, I move approval of the authorization to sign the checks, contracts, and agreements, and purchase orders um over a h 100,000 um as presented
016in agenda item or I guess amended agenda item 1.4. I'll second. All right, we have a motion, a second. Any other questions or concerns? I'm not seeing any. We'll do a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm Yes. Motion passes. Uh moving on to committee assignments. So, uh you have a discussion regarding committee assignments and ultimately come to consensus. There's no vote on this. Um and I did a survey of the board members to determine who was interested in what board committees. So I can share some of those as you work your way through. So the first committee is the CISA1 delegate and liaison. Uh Brian Bach expressed the highest level of interest in that. It's yours committee. Are you guys all good with that? I'm good. Right. Um WSB delegate assembly and liaison
017Christian expressed the highest level of interest in that and no one level what quite met her level of interest. Did you mark it wrong? You're a little shocked. You probably put a two, right? A little higher than that, but great. Well, my only question is it's it's that Wednesday that you would have to take off work. So, if you're not going to be able to take off what Wednesday? The delegate in January. January. Oh, I'll worry about that in January. Okay. Okay. And and I if I can add in the past there has been a situation where the delegate wasn't able to go and then they someone else someone else to go in their place. Great. Park and rack Rob you expressed the highest level of interest. I do have um Go ahead. So like
018the legislative updates is that part of that? There's um legislative advocacy and SWASA leazison. It's down below. Okay. And so that's the legislative updates come from that. Okay. Parkin Rob, you express the highest level of interest. I accept. Village board leazison Kathy, you expressed the highest level of interest in that. I go to virtually all the meetings. So, um, then the Greenale Education Foundation and the GOES committee. Kristen expressed the highest level of interest in that. Great. All right. And then policy committee. Tasha and Rob expressed the highest level of interest. Kathy and Brian, you both expressed a level of interest, but not quite as high. Um, so if you want to have a discussion about who you want on policy committee, uh, would you guys like to discuss? Well, I guess it depends how
019the other committees. All right, let's skip and come back. Yeah. All right. Uh, finance committee, Brian and Tasha expressed the highest level of interest and as treasurer, Brian gets to be on no matter what. So, you want to reappoint Tasha? Thanks, Brian. Thanks Tasha. You're welcome. I enjoy it. Uh legislative advocacy and SWAS leaison. Both Kathy and Brian expressed high levels of interest equal level. So you can either discuss or rock paper scissors, your choice. So there's usually a monthly meeting um that that does sometime that does conflict with part of my school day. So I do it before my students arrive and then I have to bug out and usually Jonathan's there. But if you think you can make those meetings, I I would still like to attend at least the portion of them,
020which is fine. Other school board members, would you like to take the lead on that? You can do that. It's keep doing that. It's fine. I I could do either on that one. So, sounds like Kathy is the winner. And then Greenell Global Board. Uh it's an independent governance board, but the board appoints a liazison and Tasha expressed the highest level of interest there. Are there any other takers? Which one was it? Looks like you got it. It's not on here. Oh, I was gonna say it's the charter school that Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's linked in the the descriptions because you didn't have it last year. So, what's on the memo is what you had last year. Okay. And so, it just started and it wasn't on that memo, but it is linked in the
021descriptions. So, will that also be time for learning as well? Nope. Time for learning is different. Okay, that's coming up. Kristen expressed the highest level of interest in time for learning charter if you're still interested in being part of that once a year board. Yeah. Um and then uh you have school liaison and this is participating and engaging with the schools as a a conduit from that building to the board. Canterbury Rob expressed the highest level of interest. College Park Kathy expressed the highest level of interest. Um Kristen Highland view some of you expressed interest in multiples but this is if you take everybody's interests everybody gets one of their choices if you do it this way u Brian middle school and Tasha high school and Kristen time for learning makes sense is there any
022objections okay then we'll come back to policy committee now that you know how the other ones have shipped oh well I just wanted to say one more thing on the school leaison I think like part of that too is trying to go to some of like the PT to meetings that I know you've been going to and like the parent teacher advisory meetings. I know like the high schools are always like on Wednesdays, there's like four of them from 5:00 to 6:30 and the middle school ones are always on Thursdays at 6. So just FYI. So then the only other committee could I comment on that too? Um we used to not have liaison but I think it is nice since there are five of us in five schools. So, um, it doesn't mean that
023you don't have to pay attention to any of the other schools, but I think it was just a nice, uh, when we decided to do this several years ago, it was to have a touch point from the school board for each school. Um, so yeah, but I I do agree that I think it's nice to be able to attend um, PTO meetings and events and things like that. And at the time, only one of the board members had children in the school. So, it it helped you to focus on which events to attend. So you didn't go to six concerts, you went to one concert based on which school you were the leazison for. However, when you get an email on Bloom saying your kid has an all school field trip tomorrow and you panic
024and then you realize it's for the school that you represent and not your child's school, just keep them separate and strange. Well, that is so nice of you to be going on field trips for both schools. Nope. All right. So you still have to identify policy committee for who you want to serve. Yeah. Well, who is interested in that? Again, um but Tasha and Rob indicated a interest level of five and Brian and Kathy uh an interest level of four. Um I don't mind doing it. I think I think it's important for the president, no matter who it is, to attend the policy just because there's a lot that goes into it. Um but if I would be h I don't know. Are you Well, I'm not like jumping for joy. I Well, just because
025I have the the other two like the finance and the I don't know how you feel. Go ahead. But um I am kind of a policy nut as you guys know. Kathy does love policy. We'll put Kathy down. Okay. So policy is Kathy and Rob. And those are how often again they're they're on Mondays usually. No, they're on Mondays uh typically at 5:00 and they're scheduled and they will be on the board calendar. Okay. And they're typically on non-board nights, right? Correct. Okay. Yeah, my Monday nights are good. I think there's only like three or four of them. Yeah. Yeah, I'll do it. That's fine. Is Are you good with that? Yeah. All right. That's it. Hey. All right. Uh moving on to approving the meeting minutes from April 7th. We had a regular meeting
026and a closed meeting. So, we'll need to approve those minutes. I move approval of the April 7th, 2025 regular and closed session board meeting minutes as presented in agenda item 2.1. I'll second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Is there any questions or comments? I just want to thank Christie. She always does a great job with these and um they thank you for your work on that. Got to pay attention to everything we say. All right, we are looking for a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm yes. Uh moving on to the monthly financials. Included in your packet is financial information through March 31st of 2025. Uh for the operational um fund, uh we're at 60.54% of expected revenues. That's ahead of the pace last year. That has to do
027with the community approval of the operational referendum and less um prepayment of debt. So, we've received more in tax levy into the operational fund specifically at this point in the year. Um, fund 38, the non-referendum debt fund, there's about 120,000 there that's still to be um allocated in revenue. Uh we're working with the Department of Public Instruction on the coding because we're doing something that's um different uh and they're having to create some coding for us in order to maximize some um state aid revenues that we can receive. So we'll see that in the month of April. We'll see that revenue uh fully collected. Um otherwise, we're in line with where we expect to be at this time of year on the revenue side. For expenditures on page two, um fund 10 operation expenditures are
02854.02%. That's slightly higher than last year at 52.54%. Um we reviewed this information with the board finance committee last week Wednesday and talked about how last year we had a lump sum allocated um for health insurance adjustment that was going to happen at year end. So, we would expect uh expenses to be slightly above where they were last year, and that will even out as we get to the end of the year. So, we're still on track um to hitting the budget within the operations fund. Um the other areas that we're looking at, there's the capital expansion fund. We've covered that in previous months that we haven't gotten final billing on the boiler project that was done. Um so, when we get that, we will fully expense that area. and um capital projects fund. We
029are now over budget and that relates to a separate state trust fund loan for an athletic van that we took out. So that will be part of budget adjustments that come forward to the board in June. Um otherwise uh we're in line with what we would expect at this time of year. So, uh, before I take questions, I know specifically on checks and dispersements, there was a question about reissued checks in the amount of I'm just going to get the exact amount, the $5,461.65. Um, that's a conglomeration of 28 separate checks that were reissued. Essentially, we have a number of checks that have gone stale over multiple years. And as part of the audit cleanup process, what we have to do is go back to people or vendors and say, "You never cashed the check.
030Would you like the money?" And so there's a formal process that the state says you need to go through to contact them. And so of the 77 checks for $15,487.90, 28 of those were reissued, and that was the amount for those 28 checks. So about $200 per check. Um if we don't hear from the others at some point we have to just turn that money over to the department of revenue. Those are checks that are from prior years. So they've been expensed. So there's no new expenses that happen with them being reissued. They just have to be voided and then reissued if someone contacts us uh because they can no longer be accepted by the bank. They're too old. So I was a good question that came up about what the background was. So happy
031to answer questions about that or about the monthly financials. Any questions for Jonathan? Thank you, Jonathan. Did you have one, Kathy? Oh, no. I No, I'm sorry. No, I just want to thank you, Jonathan, for answering that question. All right. Thanks, Jonathan. Uh, so moving on, we need to approve the checks and dispersements. I move the approval of checks and dispersements in the amount of $4,81,69.30 as presented agenda item 3.3. I second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? All right, then we're looking for a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm Yes. All right. Moving on to the budget update. So this budget update is around the money allocated for the board expenses and in the agenda you'll see a link to a spreadsheet about this year's
032year-to-ate expenditures and the request projections for next year. Uh since this is the budget that is used by the board, there has been a request in the last couple of years to review this specifically um at a greater level of detail. So um you have historically allocated money for um professional development and that is a total of 5,500 uh between the the conference fees and the travel expenses for that. So that is the first area that you would want to look at the line item that says software that is Neiola. Uh so Niola is the software that is used for um policies and then WASB online learning platform. There is a fee for that. That is anytime uh just in time video sessions that you can take for professional development. That is less uh in
033the 2425 budget we had $12,500 because there was an implementation fee. That implementation has ended. We expended only seven $6,970 this year on Niola given the end of the implementation costs. So that is down to 5,500 for next year. General supplies in the amount of $600 and food. Uh this is for the staff appreciation breakfast that you uh sponsor that will be out next week. So just so you know, there is breakfast for the staff next week. Uh that is from you. Oh, and then uh there is membership to two organizations. We have membership dues for WASB and S SWSA. Uh and there had been some discussion as to whether or not SWSA continues to provide the value and you want to continue to budget for membership or not. Uh and then you can see
034that there's um $5,900 that's unallocated in the 2425 budget. So, two considerations. Are you comfortable with the 2526 budget for the board? And do you have uh recommendations for how to allocate the uh un unallocated funds in the 2425 budget? So, those are the items unallocated and 2526. Oh, sorry. Budget. Okay. Thank you. So, 2425 there will be an additional $4,400 payment. That'll be the final payment for implementation of NEOLA. So that was broken over multiple years. And so the really what's driving that additional allocation is that's now been fully implemented. Now there's just a smaller ongoing cost to maintain it. So there's 5,900 that would be the reduction unallocated at this point because NEO is fully implemented as of 71 of 25. I did did have a comment about the uh on learning online
035learning platform for WASB. My understanding is that cost is going to be going away in the upcoming year. I don't know if you heard that, Dr. Mizik, but I had not heard that. Yeah. So, we might want to check into that. That'll afford I think $750 or That's correct. That's how much it's been the last two years. That might be an additional Okay, we'll look into that. Thank you. Does anyone else have anything to add? I'm not seeing anything. Thank you. Great. All right. Moving on to new business. We have a handful of things to approve and we'll start off with the um approval of personnel. I move approval of the teacher resignations and part-time teacher appointment as presented in agenda items 5.1A and B. I'll second. Do we have any discussion, questions? I'm not
036seeing any. We'll do a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm Yes. Motion passes. Uh next step, we are approving the library DPI plan. It was presented at the last board meeting. Um high quality board presentation and we are looking for approval of their uh recommended plan. I move approval of the library plan as presented in agenda item 5.2. I second. Any commentary on this? All right, we'll do a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm Yes. Motion passes. Moving on to the 2025 2026 fees. Again, this was discussed at the last board meeting and we have brought it back for approval. Looking for a motion. Um, I move approval of the 2526 fees as presented in agenda item 5.3. Second. If anyone has anything to add, we'll do a roll call. Yes.
037Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm yes. Motion passes. Uh, we need to approve the student trips. Uh we'll start off with uh Costa Rica. Yes, there's information on the trip in the board packet. There is a travel company involved. This is a trip that has happened in the past. Um and Katie Delmo, who is a Spanish teacher at the elementary school, is has volunteered to lead a trip of high school Spanish students to Costa Rica to immerse themselves in the culture. It is scheduled to happen July and August of 2026. It is a voluntary trip and the approval now gives them an opportunity to fund raise for the costs of travel. I move approval of the student trip to Costa Rica as presented in agenda item 5.4. I'll second. All right. We have a motion, a second.
038If there's no questions or comments, we'll do a roll call. Just had one question and this will pertain to both trips. Um if if for some reason the prices go up an exorbitant amount, does that have to come back to us or for approval or not? These prices are locked in as negotiated and so they are the final price of the check. Okay. Thank you. Looking for a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm yes. Motion passes and we will uh take action on the second student trip to Germany. I move approval of the student trip to Germany as presented in agenda item 5.5. I second. We have a motion and a second. If there's no questions, we will do a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I'm Yes. Motion passes. Uh moving
039on to new business. Uh we need to review the 2025 2026 lunch prices. So this is uh an annual review. There was some legislation around increases. Um in the past those were put on pause during the pandemic. Uh and we now return to uh the uh need to evaluate prices. And I will turn it over to Jonathan to share what he got feedback on from the finance committee and information from food service. Yep. So on an annual basis, the administrative team goes through a process to build a budget projection based off of participation rates, student enrollment, um, student days to estimate revenues that we would have coming in through breakfast and lunch programs for the following year. And consider that versus both the fixed costs of um, staffing the program and overhead of the program.
040um as well as variable costs of um food um running the program. So we had conversation about that with the board finance committee um and said that uh we're seeing in these projections seeing a deficit when we model based off of current prices and that's based off of enrollment declines that we've had K12 in this current year and then projected enrollment declines next year. We've seen impact from um extended free and reduced meal benefits uh for Medicaid eligible families that were um pulled back in October. Um we've also seen a decrease in the amount of USDA commodity reimbursement. So we get a set allocation each year and then we're able to utilize those funds that are allocated to purchase food for the program. And so in um the years where we had full reimbursement through
041the federal government for all families, that amount of reimbursement we were receiving for commodities increased substantially. And now that those benefits have gone away, it's um lowered participation because they're no longer universally free. And so on a lagging basis, we're seeing the amount that we get allocated in USDA commodities go down because those are set each year based off of your previous year participation. So as we're seeing some of those lower enrollment numbers and lower participation as we've gone back to fully paid meals, those USDA commodity numbers have gone down. And then we've also seen the impact of food uh inflation and uh uh labor costs. So, we modeled out maintaining current um prices and projected a deficit of $69,25 in the food service program. Uh we provided an option of considering uh a cost
042increase of 25 cents for breakfast and between 20 to 25 cents for lunch K12. Um and with those increases, assuming um uh pretty stable participation rates in each of those models, that would decrease that um deficit from 69,000 to $40,536. Uh we want the food service budget to be balanced um because we need to to do that in order to sustain the program and not have dollars coming from the operational budget. Um but we have over many years uh maintained a fund reserve balance and that is currently at $472,736. So that was built over multiple years with the intention that that's mainly utilized for replacing equipment as needed. So for example, we did full renovation of the middle school cafeteria space when we had fully reimbursed meals. Um so in discussion uh about this in
043order to keep pace with the increasing costs um looking for feedback from the board on increases to breakfast and lunch meal prices and then um we would project that would get the deficit down to 40,536 and administration would have to work through additional plans and ways to close that deficit even further so we can work towards getting um that budget imbalance knowing that if needed we would have fund balance reserves. We discussed um that with the board finance committee um and their recommendation was on a at least on a one-time basis to consider utilizing those food service fund reserves to help sustain that budget um next year. Um at at that um finance committee meeting um I had asked about the alleart items. Were you able to I guess look at that to see if
044we could raise those? Yes. Okay. We can make additional adjustments to that and we've got that um we have the total revenues built into the projection. Um but we can add additional um overhead to that amount like what we what the profit margin is on those food items. We can move that up a bit to help offset the fixed costs within the program. Do you have any idea how much that would be? How much more we can increase that amount? Is that the question? Well, if we increase the allear prices, how much would that help us with our deficit? Are we we doing that a quarter per item? No. I think the alleart items do not require board approval. So I don't think that they've gone through and identified every alleart item for how much
045that they No, no. I think well Jonathan at one point said there was like a 38% overhead load on it. So but I just mentioned that everything is going up. So I don't even know what our base price is anymore. I mean, so if the annual sales in total district-wide are 180,000 in aloc cart, you could start to do some math. If you said like 3% 5% depends like how much more that margin would be um would be a portion. And so there's a balancing act in terms of how far that number would go. We've not settled on what that is, but when I bring the final recommendation, I can bring an additional number of what we may target um there. But you'd be talking about even, you know, three to three to five percent
046several thousand dollars to cut into that deficit. Thank you. Yep. Anyone else have anything to add? So, just sorry, uh, clarification. So, you're looking at you had the recommendation on the bottom that it's a 20% increase to balance the budget. Is that just for the lunches? Because it looks like it's tiered in the description. 20 20 to 25 cents per meal. So on page two, um, or do you want to talk about breakfast or lunch? I was just looking at the recommended action plan just on the bottom just kind of says recommended the 20 cent increase option too. So the recommended would be to adjust the full paid on the the lunch meals full paid K5 from 305 to 325 at middle school from $3.35 to $355 and at high school level from 350 to
047375. So, those are highlighted on page two. And on page one, uh the recommended breakfast price K12, uh from $2 to 225. That's what's being referenced there. And so with that increase, we'd still be short around 40,000. Correct. food services fund 50. It is outside of revenue limits and it is a self-funding uh program. The exception would be is that if there's a deficit in that budget, it would be covered by fund 10. However, there is a fund balance currently in fund 50 that would address the deficit for the short term. Anyone else have anything to add for that? I just had a question about staff. Um, do staff utilize the lunch and breakfast program very much? Uh, obviously in their case it's a higher price, so they're that's it's most used at the high
048school. Uh, the other levels are less likely to make a purchase. Okay. We did talk about um like making sure that parents know that there is an option like for the free and reduced paperwork. Um I know that there's been some parents that maybe have missed that like in the email. So we were kind of brainstorming at the finance committee ways that we could make sure that parents um are aware of their options. For a long time, we have not seen increases at all, but obviously we've got to do something. So, I I support this. Are we saying 20 or 25? I'm confused. Depends on the level. Some are 20 cents, some are 25 cents. So, you can see in the recommendations, the middle school's 20 cents, the high school's 25 cents. So, that's why
049it says 20 to 25. Gotcha. All right. That's what's And then we're approving this. you're approving this at next week's board meeting. Um, and so what I'm hearing is you'd like us to bring back the increase of 20 to 25 cents as is in the chart. And we did look at other districts as well. Just in terms of pricing, we have um looked at other districts and we will not be low on those um scales. And so this year it's a reflection more of the costs to sustain our program right now. What that looks like, revenue versus expenses versus um trying to be cost competitive versus other programs, right? Yeah. Okay. So if the board would like to see that, I can bring that forward with the final recommendation so you can see what that
050looks like versus others. I mean, financially, I think we need to look at our house and see see what's going to be best for us. So, yeah. Um, but in the past, I know we've we've been right in the ballpark with other districts, so I'm fine with that. Okay. All right. Thanks, Jonathan. All right. Moving on to the legislative update. Okay. So, I guess this is my last one for a while. Um, okay. So, there's there's several. Um a federal judge um blocked temporarily blocked um cutting funds to public schools um K12 that have DI DEI programs. Um the state supreme court also ruled in favor of Iver's use of his partial veto authority to raise revenue limits uh per pupil categorical aid um for to $325 um until 2425. So that will definitely help
051the school districts. Um also on 428, Ivers announced that um his administration would be joining a multi-state lawsuit um which would prevent um Department of Education from withholding federal funds from not complying with their latest um Title 9 uh letter. So that'll be um I think having some back and forth between the state level and the federal level. Um, two more executive orders from the Trump administration. One, um, was signed promoting AI in K12 schools. Um, they stated that there might be some funding for teachers. I know we do have a policy related to that. Um and then there was another executive order on discipline policies um which is to enforce action against states that do not comply with title 9 protections against racial discrimination and school discipline practices. And that's it. All right. Thanks
052Dasha. Moving on to board committee updates. Does anyone have anything to share regarding their committees? Go ahead. Oh. Um, the Greenale Education Foundation um has a couple events coming up. There is a Milkman game where people can attend. It's Saturday, May 31st, and you can purchase tickets online and the proceeds of that go to the education foundation. Um, that's the Milkman Games are a lot of fun. And then they are doing schools out again this year and looking for volunteers to help uh facilitate that event. Um, I had a school um school board uh park and rack committee meeting and uh the biggest thing to note um I know it's more of the village but the new playground opened at the community center. It was I was there this weekend. It was heavily attended. It's
053uh it's a nice playground. So should be. Yeah. Yes. Um so that's all I have. Uh if anyone else has anything, not really. Oh. Oh, I was just going to talk about the finance committee. We um had a big discussion around um like the school lunch cost issues. Um and then we also discussed um possible scenarios um if and well how much the federal um contribution to schools will be next year. So we had a 25% reduction that we discussed and then a zero I guess a 100% reduction then in federal funding. So we were kind of brainstorming some ideas. It's not really a committee but it is something that I think um could fall under a committee. Um can I share please? Okay. Um, on June 5th, there's going to be a community meeting
054in Greenale here at Highland View School for the Future of Trenborn Farm. And since we I think our schools, some of them may use that as a field trip site and it's also smack in the middle of a neighborhood, I'm encouraging everybody to come out to that meeting. The county will be there to take input on what some next steps are. um because of the deferred maintenance they're um looking for ideas for the future of that and uh definitely want to make sure that the village of Greenale has a voice in that. Thanks Kathy. The Greenell Global Academy board met on April 16th and um approved some new policies and they will be meeting again this week. They're continuing to work on uh structure and uh graduation requirements. and they're expecting to do a soft
055opening uh as a program of the Greenell schools in the fall with the full launch of an independent charter school the fall of 2026. You mentioned the playground at community center. Can you give an update on when JC Park is going to be finished? Yeah. Uh look good. Yeah, yeah, it's uh coming up. Uh, I assume as long as the weather cooperates, uh, it should be ready by June. So hopefully before school's out. Nice. Yeah, it'll be nice. All right, moving on to board professional development. If anyone has anything to share. This Friday, the board will be participating in professional development uh, from 5 to 900 p.m. here in the library with Dr. Lee Pritzell. Anyone else with anything? No. All right. Board calendar. There's a lot going on this week. Uh Greenell Global has
056uh Greenell Global Academy has a board meeting on Wednesday evening. On Wednesday morning, there is coffee with the superintendent at Sugar and Flower. Uh and then Thursday evening, Jonathan and I will be presenting school finance 101 in person for the first time in a while. Um and we will be here in the library. that is an hourlong session talking about the complex nature of school finance and helping the community to understand what that looks like. Uh when we uh presented an operational referendum, that was a conversation with the community. The board had a goal to continue uh that conversation with the community so they knew how their funds and tax dollars were being invested. And this is a continued commitment to that. And then we have another schoolboard meeting next week, Monday. All right, thank
057you. Um, moving on to comments from visitors. All right, not seeing any. So, we uh we will adjourn and like Kim said, we will be back uh next Monday, May 5th.