001I'm moving around. Heat. Heat. Hello everyone. >> Hello everyone. I'm calling the administrative cost resolution pier to order. >> Diana roll please >> here >> I'm turning the meeting over to Frank Adams for his presentation. Right. >> Thank you. Um, so under the Illinois school code, public school districts are subject to a cap on the growth of their budget administrative and spending time. The district predicts its administrative costs are going to increase more than 5% compared to the prior year's tax. It must If a district projects that its administrative costs are going to increase, >> all right, >> by more than 5% compared to the prior year's actuals, uh it must wave the limitation through the resolution. The administration does anticipate this year to budget administrative cost to exceed that 5% limit. So to determine
002if a district is eligible to wave the limitation, it must determine that it's in the fourth quartile of district rankings of their administrative cost. So that means is every every year ISBY ranks all school districts within their specific category like elementary, high school or unit districts. um and it's based on the administrative cost per pupil. Districts are then divided into four different quartortiles and district 3 is in the fourth quartile of the rankings. Out of out of 367 elementary schools in Illinois, beach parks ranked 338 in the administrative expenditures per pupil. Um that's 92% of the elementary school districts in Illinois spend more on administrative costs per pupil than each part. So if a district's administrative costs per pupil fall within the fourth quartile, you are allowed to wave it through a resolution. So we'll
003be voting tonight on the approval of the resolution later in the meeting. Are there any questions? Thank you, Mr. Okay. Do I have a motion to adjourn this particular meeting? >> Roll caller. >> I >> Andrew. >> Hi. >> Okay. Now I'm calling a regular school board meeting to order. Roll call. >> Mark White. >> I'm here. Butler Andrew here. Okay, let's stand for the pledge of allegiance. United States of America and to the republic for it stands nation. As many of you, we've lost a favorite friend in the district. I just like to have a moment of silence for Alex Marvel. Thank you. Also at this point I would like to invite your You're going to There you go. We're going to be administrating the oath of office for our new board member. Okay,
004just repeat after me as I read the steps that you have that in your hand. I, Erica Smither, do solemnly affirm that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of member of the board of education of each part District 3 in accordance with the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of Illinois, and the laws of the state of Illinois to the best of my ability. I, Erica Sener, do solemnly affirm that I will faithfully discard the duties of the office of member of the board of education of Beach Park District 3 in accordance with the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of Illinois and the law and the laws of the state of Illinois to the best of my ability. I further affirmed that I
005shall respect taxpayer interest in interests by serving as a faithful protector of the school district's assets. >> I further affirm that I shall respect taxpayer interest by serving as a faithful protector of the school district's assets. I shall encourage and respect the free expression of opinion by my fellow board members and others who seek a hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees. I shall encourage and respect the free expression of opinion by my fellow board members and others who seek a hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees. I shall recognize the board member has no legal authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by a majority vote at a public board meeting. >> I shall recognize that a board member has
006no legal authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by a majority vote at a public board meeting. I shall abide by the majority of decision of the board while m retaining the right to seek changes in such decisions through ethical and constructive channels. >> I shall abide by majority decisions of the board while retaining the right to seek changes in such decisions through ethical and constructive cannons. As part of the board of education, I shall accept the responsibility for my role in the equitable and quality education of every student in the school district. As part of the board of education, I shall accept the responsibility for my role in the equitable and quality education of every student in the school district. I shall f I shall foster with the board extensive
007participation of the community, formulate goals, refine outcomes, and set the course for Beach Park District 3. I shall foster with the board extensive participation of the community, formulate goals, define outcomes, and set the course for Beach Park District 3. I should ex uh assist in establishing a structure and an environment designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to attain their maximum potential through a sound organizational re framework. I shall assist in establishing a structure and an environment designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to attain their maximum potential through a sound organizational framework. I shall strive to ensure a continuous assessment of student achievement and all conditions affecting the education of our children in compliance with state law. I shall strive to ensure a continuous assessment of student achievement and all conditions affecting
008the education of our children in compliance with state law. I shall serve as education's key advocate on behalf of the students and our community schools in advance the vision of the Beach Park District 3. >> I shall serve as education's key advocate on behalf of students and our community schools to advance the vision for Beach Park District 3. I shall strive to work together with the district superintendent to lead the school district toward fulfilling the vision of the board. The vision the board has created fostering excellence for every student in the area of academic skills, knowledge, citizenship, and personal development. I shall strive to work together with the district superintendent to lead the school district towards fulfilling the vision the board has created, fostering excellence for every student in the areas of academic skills, knowledge,
009citizenship, and personal development. Congratulations. [applause] Stand No, I'm turning the meeting over to Adoba. >> Looks like we have a future board member right there. So, for my superintendence report, just wanted to say [singing] how awesome it was to have our back to school bash. Had over 2,000 people attend. Uh we will meet again in September with the other three school districts. Just to kind of recap how things went, I just want to say a huge thank you to everyone that was able to attend the back to school bash to help support our community. And to anyone, thank you so much who did any type of donation of their time or money in order to make sure that the back to school dash. uh registration. We've been doing blast to parents who have not registered.
010The last blast that we did helped us receive 75 new registrations in one day. Obviously, those make a big difference. Um we're much closer to 100%. And I really would like to say a big thank you to our registration team because they have done a ton of work to make sure that kids are registered for the first day of school. We had new teacher orientation last week. We had over 25 new employees in attendance. So, I'd just like to thank uh Tracy Griffith and Rose Torres and all of our instructional coaches for being there and welcoming all of our new staff. There were lots of smiles, laughing, and lots of learning happening. And if you've never witnessed a new teacher orientation, it's a whirlwind of information coming at you for three days straight. And the
011last thing I would just like to say is we have our teacher institute day. They are Monday and Tuesday next week. Um I know I'm personally super excited to kick off a new school year with two settled contracts. And any board member that would like to attend is more than welcome. will be here at the middle school starting at 7:45 a.m. If you'd like to have breakfast with staff, we are having breakfast at 7:15 a.m. And that is all for my superintendent report. Thank you, Dr. Wilcox. Before I ask for the approval of the agenda, we do need to do a modification for a point public hearing on administrative costs resolution. We need to remove that because we've already have done it in a previous meeting. So, do I have a motion to remove that
012item to revise the >> I make a motion to approve the agenda of revis. >> Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda as regards? Thank you. No. >> Christina goer. >> I Andy Luther. >> Hi. >> Marshall White. >> I Andrew. >> Hi. >> All right. On to we have any correspondence. All right. For new business and >> Sure. Thank you. Um in our board packets we do provide some information on stuff going on. Highlight you if you turn down Louisville press you'll see that electronic signs been installed in operation. We still have a couple entrance signs installed on each road. that project is coming along. We are still waiting for GNS to begin renovation of the East playground that supposed to start this. The Newport sidewalk project has been mostly completed
013small has completed and the exterior wall project has been completed. They did find some additional rust headers still headers that have replaced all any questions. >> Thank you. and finance committee. [clears throat] >> Um, finance committee met this evening. We reviewed and approved the uh bills. Um, and I think that was about it. There any questions? I'm happy to answer those. >> Thank you for see. We had a meeting last week. The new superintendent, Dr. Thompson from Kerry is now um just been installed and she is ready to go. Thank you. I should say is there any questions? Thank you. Before turning the meeting over to Frank Adams for the tenative report presentation, are there any questions or comments on the department reports? If not, thank you. All right. So today we're going to be
014talking about the tenative budget. Um so the requirements to establish a budget. First phase of the budget cycle is to present the tenative budget to the board of education and then put the budget on public display for 30 days. So it'll be posted tomorrow in the Lake County News Sun and it's going to be available for the public to view on the website and a hard copy or digital copy in the office district office as well. tomorrow. Um following public display, the board will take final action to approve the budget. That would be uh after the budget hearing in on September 21st at that board meeting. Once adopted, uh it needs to be submitted to the state. So again, timeline is tonight's Um so tonight's the tenative budget. Uh the board will adopt the final
015budget at September 21st meeting and then it needs to be submitted to Gizby by September the last day September. So this slide shows you last year's last year's uh FY26 actuals, but remember that they're unodudited. The audit will happen in September. Um but the revenues total 48,822,949 and the expenditures total $49,1,98. And that ends up with a deficit of $178,000. $178,959. The original budget called for a $59,000 deficit. Um the reason it's higher than that, first of all, it's a very small amount compared to a $49 million budget, but we did have some uh payoffs for the uh wall remediation, the tough pling come in before July 1st. So this has to be paid in June. Um so tenative revenue. So this year we're anticipating 1.7% less revenue than we received last year. The reason
016for this is that uh one of the reasons is our title one, title two and title three aotments are less than they were last year. And the transportation claim being prrated but from 80% down to 61% for special ed, 71% for regular education. As far as the individual funds go, operations and maintenance went up 52% because uh we put $1.3 million of EBF in that fund to uh maintain adequate fund balances in that fund. Um IMRF and social security went up 25% because $150,000 of EPF was allocated to cover expenditures in the IMRF fund. and capital outlay. Notice that went down 99%. Um the reason for that is because we did a onetime transfer of $2 million and we didn't do that this year. So um the TOR fund went down 20%. Last year we
017allocated EVF funding to keep that fund balance healthy, but we didn't need to do that again this year. And the fire and safety fund went down 15% but that 15% on the equals $2,000. So um still uh we are in the green one. Yeah. No, it's back too right there. All right. So, uh, talking about the title grants, title one, two, three coming in at less than they were anticipated last year. Well, last year and the year prior, throughout the year, they kept allocating more. So, we are anticipating more than what we're budgeting, but we aren't sure that's going to come in. So, we're going to play conservative budget, but we know those allocations are now, but the revenues may look better than they're anticipating. All right. Right. So, for the expenditures, they're due to
018decrease 1% over last year's actuals. Um, it's not a substantial uh increase, but this is largely due to&m projects being much less this year. Uh, we aren't going to be doing as many projects as we did last year. Uh, and as far as the individual funds, capital outlay went up 100%. You see that on there? That's because there were no projects capital outlay last year. And this year, we're planning to work on the Oak Crest parking lot. you expect that um maybe $680,000 of that 2 million is going to be spent in this fiscal year budget. So that's why that went up 4%. Um fire and safety went up $1,678%. That's because we still haven't used this fund at all. So it went from like spending $1,500 to we're going to be putting in a
019HVAC unit in the middle school for $67,000. So that's why it's such a huge percentage. The total revenues for the 26 budget 27 budget are anticipated to be 47,988,866 and the total expenditures are anticipated spending $694,020. Um, sorry, 48,682,886. Uh, and as you can see, we're anticipating spending $694,20 more than we're going to be receiving. So, that's what our deficit in the budget will be. The good news is that this budget, the tenative budget was created before Friday. Um, and Friday we found out that our EVF calculations came in and we're what anticipated an increase of about $690,000 over last year is what I was anticipating. But after uh we got calculations, we're actually receiving a million more. So like $350,000 more than what we anticipated in this budget. So the final budget will look
020like that. All right. So, [clears throat] we have a healthy overall fund balance. Uh we anticipate that our fund balance on June 30th is going to be $33,83,618. And this is a safe amount of reserve to cover expenses if funding sources fell through. And it also gets us through low points in the year when uh we're not receiving any uh tax revenue u because we receive that twice a year. We do have points in the year where the fund balances get low and we want to be able to cover payroll. So having that healthy fund balance is important. Um not long ago we had to take out loans with interest to cover the payroll and accounts when and accounts payable when the taxes weren't coming in and we were waiting for them. But right now
021we have healthy fund balance. That's good news. So some key takeaways. Uh we have a deficit budget but since our fund balance is healthy there's no requirement to doing deficit spending plans with the state. The district is financially stable. Some potential refinements to the budget from the tenative budget to the final budget would be that we should have more information on grant expenditures before September. We'll hopefully have the classified teachers classified and the teachers contracts ratified. We will refine the personnel budget placing the assumptions of like new teachers and um to be determined so we'll have more accurate uh personnel numbers that we can plug in. Um we should receive more accurate estimates on personal property replacement taxes. Hope to get that September before the final budget, but they're anticipating it coming in late September.
022So I'll cross my fingers and we'll be good. Uh there will be slight changes between now and budget hearing, but this tenative budget closely reflects what's expected as far as revenues and expenditures for fiscal year 7. Um so we're asking the board tonight to approve the tenative budget to be put on display at public notice to be put into the newspaper about the public hearing that's happening before the September 21st board meeting. So the next steps this month today, hope you accept the uh tenative budget as presented. We scheduled the public hearing for September 21st. Tomorrow we'll post that in the newspaper and we'll have it the tenative budget available and public for 30 days. And then September, we're going to hold the public hearing for the final budget. Uh adopt the budget, submit the
023final budget to ISBY and to the Lake County Clerk. And that's the time budget. Any questions? Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Mr. Adams. >> We do have one comment. I'm going to ask both of you come up. Hi, my name is Rose Torres and um I wanted to speak tonight on behalf of the Beach Park educator uh leadership and all of our members. And I want to take a moment to sincerely thank the board of education and Dr. Wilcox for working with us to reach a fair contract for our teachers. This agreement means more to us than the numbers on salary schedule. It sends a message to our educators that the work we do every day is seen, that it's valued, and that we are appreciated. Our teachers give so much of themselves
024to the students and families of each park, and it means a great deal to know that our our district recognizes our commitments. So, as we begin this new school year, it feels really good moving forward together with a renewed sense of partnership and a shared purpose. We all want the same thing. A strong district where students thrive and where great educators want to come, stay, and build their careers. So, thank you to the board. Thank you to Dr. Wilcox for your commitment to our educators and for helping us feel seen, respected, and appreciated. We are grateful and excited about what we can accomplish together. Thank you. Do I have a motion to adjourn to close session? >> Second upgrade. >> I go I go into school session. down. I'm going to get Heat. Heat. >>
025[music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. I'm moving. Hey, that's a feel. Heat. Heat. N. feel. >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. feel. Heat. Heat. I'm moving Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Go. feel. Feel feel. Down. Heat. Hey, Heat. Thank you. All right, we're back into open session. Do you have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> Salute second roller. >> I >> Great. Getting down to the action items. Do I have a motion for the approval of the R Y FY 2027 tenative budget be put on display? >> I move that approved with the budget on display. >> Second roll. >> Andy Luther White. >> Hi. >> Andrew. >> Hi. >> Erica. Hi. Any opposition? >> I >> do I have a motion for the approval of the administrative cost resolution. I motion the administrator second.
026>> Sorry. >> Andrew I go I >> Andy. We have a motion to for the approval of the 2026 27 assistant principal contract for the Beach Park Middle School. >> Salute. >> Second roll. >> Andy Luther. >> Marissa White. I >> Eric I Andrea Green I do have a motion for the approval of the replication of the class 5 union contract >> Ire have a motion to approve the ratification of the surf contract. >> Senator Ish. >> Do I have a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Andrew. I Andy Ler. Hi. We are a journey to all the people who are out in the audience. Have a good evening.