2026-06-08-Board Meeting

001All right. >> Good. Excellent. Um it is 6:03. Um and we do have quorum today. Thank you guys. This is going to be the last meeting, right? For the fiscal year. >> For the fiscal year. >> Okay. Um if you guys will rise and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance. I 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. I salute the flag of the state of New Mexico, the Zia symbol of perfect friendship among the United peoples. >> Awesome. All right. Well, we got a nice full packed room today. Yeah, it's really nice. Um Okay. Item two, consent agenda, and this is no special request there, I guess. >> I'd like

002to move that we adopt the agenda with flexibility. >> Okay, we have a motion on the floor. Do we have a second? >> I second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Um motion passes unanimously. Um All right. So, item two B, consideration to approve minutes from previous meeting. Do we have a motion on the floor for that one? And I broke it down because we are adopting it with flexibility. >> Yeah. I move that we adopt the last meeting minutes. >> Okay, we have a motion. Do we have a second? >> I'll second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. Awesome. Motion passes unanimously as well. Okay. Item three, reports. >> So, I would like for us to

003go ahead and do student teacher reports first so we can recognize students. I do see two more students out in the hall though, so >> They're able to come in here as well. I guess sitting in the back of the class you just don't want to get called on or have to say something. I'm here. >> Yeah, they're coming. So I'm going to recognize we have five students receive the seal of biliteracy and bilingualism. All five of these students um showed proficiency in speaking, writing, listening, and reading in a second language. So very impressive. Not only did these students meet requirements in English but also in a second language. So very excited for these students. The first student receiving this honor is Eric Campos Garcia. >> Good job. Congratulations. >> Ashley Hernandez Naomi Hernandez And

004then Diego Mendez Congratulations. >> Pretty much like this. >> And that's what I'm talking about. >> Can we get a picture of you guys? Uh Diego, can we get a picture with the board? >> You want us to come around? >> Yeah. >> All right. Wait, let me get in front. >> You're sleepy and right now >> I'm putting you still in the third row. >> There's some tall ones. >> Oh, we're going to mix in with the little little guy up here. >> Yeah. >> Just stand right here. The reason that you stand right here. >> There we go. >> And then we got to pull those up. >> Awesome. >> So, I didn't hear if parents wanted one. Hold on. If parents wanted one >> Uh guys, do you want to be in

005that one? >> Okay. >> Yeah, we got to listen to Mom. >> Congratulations. >> We do have one more student who couldn't make it today. >> Okay. >> Oh, sorry. I just messed up. Can you say your name? >> And then I I promise I don't do that at home. >> Natalia Olivas. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> All right. We have four minutes. Is Kayleigh on? While he works on that, uh elementary, would you like to present your textbook adoption? We do these with scissors. >> I mean Those are for you guys to look at or if you want to. They're by grade level except for except for third. The third grade teachers already have them. >> While they're looking through the books of We're happy to be here. I'm a second

006grade teacher in the elementary building and >> I'm Tiffany Rigalado and I teach kindergarten at the elementary. And we're just really glad to be able to say that we have had so much fun looking at the different curriculum there is out there for our school and we were amazed at how many varieties and what you could find and we after looking at eight specific ones or was it nine? >> I feel like it was eight or nine that we ordered looked through. We had different teachers like teach lessons from each one of those, report back and we narrowed it down to four and then spent a whole day on Zoom with with those four different representatives going over the components of these. >> And and we feel that we worked hard. We we had our

007parents to come by and look and see the material. We had teacher input. We had parent input. We had just about everybody and we're going to go ahead and present Carnegie and this is what the board members are looking at right now. And these are the curriculum has so many options. We think that Carnegie and it's called learning clear math is a strong fit for Dexter Elementary. It provides a balance that we actually need with vigorous instruction and a conceptual understanding, teacher support. We all looked at it and we just felt that concisely it would do it would help us a lot. And it does align with the goals of our of our school, improving math achievement while supporting the teachers. And we looked at these books from the front to the back to everywhere

008else, just trying to make sure that we got the high quality instruction that was consistent for all of grades K through 5. >> Okay, so we came up with some of the five key reasons for choosing Clear Math and why we did. So we thought it builds strong conceptual understanding with procedural fluency. It does not only focus on memorizing steps, it helps students understand why math works while still building fluency and problem solving. It's clear, it's teacher friendly structure. One of the strengths of Clear Math is organized in its usability for teachers. The lessons are clearly structured. The curriculum is only affected if the teachers are confidently using it and using it consistently. Number three, supports for our diverse learners. Our students have a wide range of learning needs. So Clear Math includes scaffolds, intervention

009supports, differentiation, and enrichment opportunities to help better serve struggling learners, multilingual learners, and students needing acceleration. Um The student engagement was another big component. This curriculum includes opportunities for discussion, collab collaboration, visual models, a lots of hands-on learning. And so students are not just solving problems, they're explaining them, they're thinking through them, they're making connections, and engaging in in the productive struggle. So this is important to us so that the teacher isn't doing all the talking and doing all the work, the students are engaged. Um the standards alignment and assessment readiness. Clear Math aligns with grade level standards and prepares students for rigorous assessments by emphasizing math reasoning, vocabulary, application, rather than um just skill practice. And um number six, supports teacher consistency across grade levels. A strong curriculum helps ensure all students receive high

010quality instruction regardless of teacher or the classroom. So, Clear Math offers um pacing, resources, and instructional routines that support vertical alignment. And we also thought it was an easy um enough for subs to follow when um teachers were out so that lessons could continue. Um if that were the case. >> [clears throat] >> And then we were hoping with all of this material, everything, it's going to be the curriculum that's rigorous, first of all, manageable for teachers so that we can work with it on a daily basis, engaging for students, and capable of producing long-term growth in math. Um we believe that Clear Math offers a strong um balance of those components, and you know, it's a worthwhile investment. All right? And for our Dexter students and our school and for for them for their

011lifetime. Have any questions? >> I was part of elementary's process um as I was had my home over there for a little bit, my office, and I really enjoyed the fact of all the steps they took. They were teaching out of these books to see how friendly they were, but also um taking that information and how well did the students receive that, um and then going through the process. Something big at elementary school that they continued to say is like we as teachers need that, not necessarily an online program for help. That's a support piece, but they really wanted it to be teacher-student engagement, um and not just paper and pencil, but also with manipulatives. So, that was a big reason is so that way they can prove their mathematical practices better um with physical

012um movement. So. >> Any questions? >> Awesome. Um Yeah, how long did it take you guys to narrow it down to this after seeing all the >> What was the process? >> Yeah, that process was about >> Um We looked at several. We ordered had several in the building. So, we did we like um you know, kindergarten took like four four different ones. Each teacher took um some taught lessons from then reported back. Um I would say it was for sure a couple of months at initially we started looking at them and then um when we realized like oh yes, we we do need to choose one by the end of the year. So, we did then have to kind of like brush through like hurry up, let's let's look at the best ones. So,

013that's when we narrowed it down to our four best ones. Um then we really like delved into like looking at like teachers uh manuals and um all the components that were in there as well, not just like one or two lessons. And so, we got input even like when parents came for awards and and different things like that for we sent the each of the different um samples out of not just their math, but others for parents to look through as well. Um I would say it was about two two months. I mean, we spent we spent that whole day after school was let out for teachers. We met and from like 8:00 to about It's probably about like a full day at 3:30, 4:00 day looking at all of those and going over um

014things, really looking into them with the actual representatives from that and they met us on Zoom and and walked us through a lot of things and answered questions for us. So, it it took a good two I would say two solid months. >> And was there Was it this was a clear choice or was there a close second? >> Um >> Or >> Well, actually I think I feel like the majority of us really did like that one. But we we it Um there is a lot of things that some teachers like from this, some teachers like from that. I think overall looking at everything, this one had the most of things that we really liked. So um >> We had check off lists and we looked at this this cover and this and we

015just looked at it carefully. >> I mean and and one of the things that like we really liked in the teachers manuals like at the beginning of the the lessons it would show um like for me that I teach kindergarten, it would show what the next steps were. So we go all the way from first grade what they're going to be applying this to, then what second grade, third grade, fourth grade. And likewise like you know a third grade teacher could look at it and say okay well what did second grade do or what what was expected in first and and and what is going to be expected of them in in um fifth grade. >> And it's scaffolded enough to where like a Tiffany was saying, you know, we can see what the needs

016are in a certain grade level and then you can go ahead and move on up to see what the needs are going to be or what we're looking for. And so we we need scaffolding. We need to be able to cover the bases on each grade level. >> Awesome. >> Something else um that this curriculum had that others didn't is that it teaches about four lessons and then it has um essentially like a review {slash} push lesson. So depending on where our kid is, you separate them into groups and it does that pretty seamlessly um in there and that way you you have a review day and also a check-in day that kind of creates where most of the time math books wait until the entire concept is taught to go back and reteach or

017to even gauge if we need to push kids on. So that part I think was very appealing as we looked through that as we're checking in more often in a formal way. >> Mhm. Nice. >> And these are these are consumables that they'll use they'll give you the information for the year. >> So, you yeah. Those are Those would be like the student books. So, we gave you um a teacher's manual and a student book. Yeah. >> Yeah. I have no questions. I just know one, I trust you two, right? Like especially teacher of the year. Um but two, I love the process that you guys to narrow that down. And then three, just easily flipping through this, the words that it uses even for a fourth grader, right? Decompose, generate, manipulative, partition. Uh and

018then the that it page number itself is written four different >> that was that was a cute little thing that we liked. Each page number is written out in like different forms, yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah, just so many things that it's challenging their vocabulary >> Meaning in kindergarten and their math at the same time. >> And their um professional development typically professional development for any curriculum is very rooted in the curriculum. Um a lot of theirs is also just in good teaching strategies. So, even whenever they I was with the these ladies on the last day of school looking through this and that this company taught everything through good teaching strategies that even we could take away. So, that was an impressive piece that not just here's our textbook, here's how to use it, it's

019here's how to do really good teaching with this textbook to help support you in your math instruction. >> And then I mean like a lot of the center game or like when you get into like um putting kids into groupings, like that's done and it's there for you. For some teachers that may not know how to do that, it's there and it's um like just teacher friendly to get kids going in in wherever they're at. So, we we like that that it differentiated >> Wow. >> the learning for them. >> Good job. I really like this stuff. I'm going to close. And it'll be here before school starts. hoping so far as we know yes awesome we are going to it is on the list and they happen to okay this is also I'll probably

020just take it to the elementary school one day when I have nothing better to do for you guys no problem and I can come by and pick it up yeah thank you very much What did you say your last name again I didn't say it Okay RBC is going to sit on the She was bummed out this weekend Yes it turned out good all right you have permissions to share your screen Yes sir and so I will begin to do that right now I was going to say you guys have this in your board folder Okay All right can you guys see if you can see my screen Yes we got you Fantastic all right well if you guys are good I'm ready to get going if you are You have the floor thank you

021All right thank you well good evening president and thank you for having me tonight I'm here to present to you the current year's resolution with the sale of education technology notes with the New Mexico Finance Authority you know before we even get along to the resolutions though I do have a brief finance plan update for the district So from on this slide we do have the district's history of assessed valuation the district saw a growth in its assessed valuation for our current tax year as of 2015 Um, assessed valuation grew by about 10.8%. When we look a little bit closer at what fueled this growth, you know, we did see a slight jump in your residential values, but most of that growth came from your non-residential values, and then also your centrally assessed non-residential values,

022too. So, kind of looking closer into those non-residential values, the growth really didn't come from a reassessment in already existing values. It's not new businesses coming to the community, unfortunately. But, looking at the centrally assessed values, a big jump in it was due to Cheyenne Dairy LLC. They brought $7.3 million of value to the district's assessed valuation in tax year 2025. So, all in all, your 5-year average growth rate is sitting at 2.8% and your 10-year average growth rate is currently sitting at we're just anticipating a 0% growth rate next year, and it's just because, you know, even though we grew by 10.8% this year, we saw a 2.4% drop the previous year. So, to just be conservative, to be in line with your 10-year average, we're just anticipating a 0% growth rate for the

023time being. Here we have the district's history of tax rates. So, the district levies an operating tax rate of 35 cents. Additionally, the district has SB9 in place, and that is a $2 tax rate. Additionally, the district has levied a $1.15 tax rate for our education technology note program, and an $8.85 GO bond tax rate. So, in total, your total debt service tax rate is $10. That's both your ETN debt service tax rate and your GO bond tax rate combined. Um, our current plan of finance is based off of keeping your tax rates at their current levels. So, the approval of tonight's sale, you know, won't increase taxes, but rather continue to support that $1.15 education technology note tax rate, uh, uh that that total combined debt service tax rate can continue to be $10.

024For current outstanding debt, the district has a total of uh nine issuances outstanding for a total of $3,950,000. Um uh additionally on this slide, too, we can see your outstanding principal and interest payments on all of your debt. You'll see that, you know, your debt is structured in a rapidly declining manner. We pay it all off within the next 10 years. You know, that's done by design so that we can continue to issue, you know, both education technology notes and general obligation bonds without needing a tax rate increase. You know, additionally, too, all of your previous issuances were sold through the New Mexico Finance Authority. We are planning on selling uh this EPN with the New Mexico Finance Authority, also. The The why we decided to go with the NMFA and why we have in

025the past is because the district can save a lot of issuance costs by going through the New Mexico Finance Authority versus public markets. Um you know, for example, if we tried to sell this EPN on public markets, we would have to go to Moody's for a bond rating, and those start at $15,000. So, to avoid the issuance costs and for this cost savings, we plan on continuing to issue through the New Mexico Finance Authority. This slide is just an overall uh debt management plan. So, as I mentioned, the district does have SB 9 in place. Um the last time the district renewed its SB 9 was back in 2021. Um that lasts for 6 years, so we don't need to worry about that. Additionally, too, the district last renewed um your GO bond back in

026November of 2023 for $1.2 million. You know, we sold $600,000. We have $600,000 of GO bonds to sell. Our plan is to sell that sometime in uh 2027. We just want to make sure that we sell it before it expires in November of 2027. You know, after that last GO bond sells of 600,000, we'll only uh we'll have no authorization left. So, we'll be ready to go back out to voters for geo bond authorization. That amount for the election we're currently projecting is 2.4 million. You know, that's based off of keeping your geo bond debt service tax rate level at $8.15. But, we'll definitely refresh that figure once we get once it's the November 27 election. Additionally on this slide, we just have an overview of the tax rates. So, is there a question? >>

027No. No, we're good to go. >> All right. For tax rate setting, you know, as I mentioned, we levied a $1.15 education technology note tax rate. That $1.15 ETN tax rate is meant to produce a $450,000 ETN every 5 years. The last time we sold an ETN was back in 2011. You know, it's now been 5 years. We're ready for the next ETN sale. This ETN sale though is expected to be $650,000 though. And that's because we have some excess collections in our ETN debt service fund. But, essentially that $1.15 ETN tax rate supports a $450,000 ETN sale every 5 years in perpetuity. Additionally on this slide too, we have the district's legal bonding capacity. So, state statute allows school districts to bond up to 6% of their assessed valuation. You know, for Dexter schools,

028that is $5.3 million. Since we only have 3.9 million outstanding, you know, we could technically legally issue an additional 1.4 million. But, due to tax rate capacity, we're only selling that $650,000 ETN now. This is just an overview of your elections. You know, as I mentioned, you know, we're we're scheduled to go back out to voters for geo bonds back in November of 2027. That election amount we're projecting is 2.4 million. But, again, we'll refresh that. You know, you'll note that there are not education technology notes on this election timing page, and that's because state statute does not require school districts to go out and vote it for each general obligation. The only thing that's required is an approval by the board, which is what we're doing tonight. For we can time It's just an

029overview of this transaction. So, we have already started um uh conversations with the New Mexico Finance Authority. Um so, tonight with the board's approval, we'll then be able to go to the New Mexico Finance Authority board at their June 25th meeting and have their board approve the district sale. The interest rates will be set with the New Mexico Finance Authority on June 29th, and then we'll have to have a special meeting on July 5th. Fortunately, state statute requires the final terms of the education technology note be approved between 3 and 4 weeks from the initial approval. So, with tonight being the uh the initial approval, we'll have to have that final board meeting on July 6th. After that, closing then will be set up for August 14th, which is when funds will be available for

030the district to spend on its technology needs. There are some constitutional amendment updates in the packet. Um I won't bore you too much with those. Essentially, back in November of 2024, voters uh approved an approved expanding the standard veteran exemption from $4,000 up to $10,000. Um additionally, the disabled veteran exemption was expanded to uh apply to all disabled veterans. So, in the past, a veteran had to be 100% able in order to qualify for 100% property tax exemption. That has been changed so that a veteran can qualify for property tax exemption at the rate that they're now disabled by. So, a veteran that is, you know, 80% disabled could be uh qualified for 80% property tax exemption, you know, 30% 30% exemption, so on and so forth. And so, because these things do impact your

031assessed valuation, we watch them very, very closely. And so we did monitor last year versus this year and we saw that your veteran exemption, your standard veteran exemption, jumped from 266,000 up to 544,000 and then your disabled veteran exemption jumped from 268,000 up to a million. Um which is really impressive considering that we still saw your residential values grow. So your residential values outgrew, you know, the hit from this exemption. Um for financial concern, uh to be financially conservative though, you know, we are anticipating that that disabled veteran exemption may grow a bit more. Um and just talking to county assessors and treasurers across the state, just a lot of disabled veterans didn't, you know, file for the exemption in time or they didn't know that they could file for it. So with that in

032mind, we're anticipating, you know, this will impact your assessed valuation and we did include it. Included in our financial model. I also have a market update in the back that I'll try to not bore you too much with, but really just to kind of highlight, you know, we are in a volatile interest rate market. Um fortunately, going through the New Mexico Finance Authority can shield us from some of that volatility and also allows us to price at the end of the day triple A ratings. Um you know, in in very uncertain times too, we often see that bond or uh the investors like to uh flock to the same ratings such as, you know, education technology notes that the district is selling tonight. So with that in mind, we don't foresee any liquidity issues with

033the district sale. Um that really does, you know, conclude my presentation. With that, I will stop and see if there's any questions um for me regarding tonight's sale or about the district's five-year plan of finance. >> I don't have any questions. Sounds good. Love all love the information. >> Great. Thank you. And additionally, we're already starting to talk to the media about the tax rate setting process. You know, rates will be finalized in August, but at this moment, we don't foresee any, you know, changes within your guys' tax rate. Again, our goal is to keep that total debt service tax rate at $10, so that your total residential tax rate continues to be around $12. >> Thank you. Thanks. >> My pleasure. I'll see you on the line. Does anyone have any questions about the

034approval? >> Perfect. Thank you. >> [laughter] >> Would you guys like to go ahead and address the >> Yeah, we can. There's no need for her to stay online. >> So, where's Senate? >> It's going to be in the finance and facilities. So, 7E and 7F. >> 7E and 7E E >> Yes. >> F Okay. >> I I think maybe what you should know about this is the reason we have started this process now is with our new build, there are things that are not included technology-wise that the district will have to fund. Case in point, no security cameras are purchased by PSFA. Only the main entrance and the vestibule key card access is purchased through PSFA. So, as we're looking towards that process coming sooner rather than later, this will give us that option

035to spend for our new build on things that are needed for a school, yet the state currently just doesn't fund. Yeah. Okay. >> Okay. >> So, question. How do you want to And I guess it doesn't matter, but on the paper it's 7 E and F and on the >> Do it by this cuz this is what was posted. >> Okay. Okay. So, item uh 7 finance and facilities, item 7 E, uh consideration and approval of a resolution authorizing submission of an application for financial assistance to the New Mexico Finance Authority. Do we have a motion? >> we approve this resolution. >> Do we have a motion? Do we have a second? >> I second. >> Do we have a motion and a second? All in favor say I. >> I. Motion passes unanimously. Item

0367 F, uh consideration and approval of a resolution determining the necessity for lease purchase of education technology equipment. Do we have a motion on the floor? >> I move we approve this resolution. >> Okay, we have a motion. Do we have a second? >> I second. >> Do we have a motion and a second? All in favor say I. >> I. Motion passes unanimously. >> Thank you, Taylor. >> Thank you. Thank you. I'll be in contact with the staff as we go through the end of the board approval and then again you'll see me again in July for that special board meeting. But should you have any questions until then, please don't hesitate to reach out for any reason. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. Thank >> Thank you very much. Appreciate it. >> Thank you

037and have a great rest of your meeting. >> Thank you. Please do. >> All right. She doesn't have a rest of the meeting. Rest of your night. >> I recommend that we move to public forum. >> Yep. >> You're going to have to >> I was assuming that you signed the sheet. >> Yes. >> [laughter] >> Okay. >> You're in. >> All right. So, item five, public forum. Uh 3-minute timeline per presenter. >> Thank you. >> We have Sandavol here with Dexter representing Dexter Historical Society and my lovely assistant is our president Michael McGee. >> Awesome. >> Okay. So, Dexter Historical Society has had long view with Dexter School for a number of years and allowing us to use school rooms over in the brown building to Number one, we have a museum set up

038over there. And number two, we have a work room. And kind of work room / storage room in that building. So, we understand that the that building is going to be going by the wayside soon and so we want to start packing up and doing putting our our artifacts and all of our um we have like 10 filing cabinets full of information about Dexter and putting those somewhere in a different place. So, we're basically here to ask for another alternative spot to either just store the stuff or if there's room, we could even set up a small portion of the museum where the children and the community can enjoy. And our our mission is to educate our future uh our future kids about this. So, that's that's that's why I think that it fits so

039well with the school and they would recall this for so long. So, that's uh that's our first accept for you all to consider and then we do want you to know that we have a plan for a new museum. We just don't know when it's going to get here. We plan to the Dexter had a lot of factors around Dexter had a depot uh for many many years. It came in 1909 and left in the '70s. We haven't nailed down the exact time yet. But it's been in Roswell on private property for all of the rest of these years. It was used as a storefront but on private property and the people that own it, they just have they're passionate about old depots. They have a painted wonderful figure of the Dexter painted and roof.

040It still has Dexter across the end of the depot. The inside is really interesting because there's still like phone numbers from when there was only like four digits long written on the wall and you know, there's some real history there. So, our plan is to bring that back and we're working with the city of Dexter Dexter to bring that back and use that as the museum. Um and it's going to take some cash and that's why we brought our handy dandy little safe box here. We're starting a donation campaign and you're going to be seeing big little boxes around Dexter and in Roswell to try to start collecting uh funds so that we can get that building moved out. >> Is there any idea what it would take? >> Yeah. >> [laughter] >> You want

041me to speak to that? >> You got the numbers, yeah. >> Okay. You know, I went through exercise early 2024 and 2023 I talked to about 12 different building movers. Some of them were retired and I was only able to find one building mover called Big R and they gave us an estimate. They showed up they did a route and we're removing it. We're putting it that niche you know, on the site they want to move to which is near the original site. And his estimate quote to move it was 51,000. So, at the same time though, the family that owns it, they wanted a certain amount of money. They wanted us to pay them 20,000. But, the the family called me or Mrs. She called me about 3 months ago and said that she

042wants to back in Dexter so just gift us the depot. >> Mhm. >> And not require the 20,000. So, I'm I'm just wanting to process the call building movers again to see if I can find a better uh rate other than that. So, I'm in the middle of that. >> Yeah, so that's what we're looking at. So, we're looking at doing a GoFundMe page. I'm exploring which QR code to add to this later. >> Yeah. >> And that's that's basically the gist of it. >> And we're also doing extending out letters to they they donate to the cause to you know, people that have been here for many years and have a real interest in keeping the history of Dexter alive. >> Mhm. >> And and we met with the city council and we have

043a place and they would set it up. So, the other part of the fundraising is also getting funds so the city can use it set up the building. You know, the center box and then get a bunch of stuff >> So, >> Yeah, that would be >> All right, okay. Thank you. >> Okay. And then when that happens, we'd use the inside of it as the museum. >> Yeah. >> I think it's cooler whenever you can have it in something. >> Do you need this back, Mrs. Berry? >> Yeah, please. Oh, is there any place that uh I mean, I don't know if nonprofits can help out other than nonprofits. Any place that we can put one of these back at the school or and we come to the ball game and bring or >>

044We have six boxes so We're going to put them around the school. >> Let me let me double check board policy. I I think there's nothing wrong with trying to advertise Hey, we're doing this. I'm not sure collecting is is We we should look at that before I say yes or no. >> So we have a field box and we can do stuff like that. >> Yeah. >> We're developing a QR code we're going to do. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Thank you for coming down. >> Yeah, that's cool work. Thank you. That's awesome work. Thanks. >> Oh, thank you. >> Help me. >> and down. >> That's interesting. >> No, no. >> I'm sorry. >> Let me see. Can y'all has the town considered partnering with you guys and asking

045for legislative funding? >> Yeah. >> They're not advertising it but they can. >> Right. Right. I mean We've had it in the past experiences and you know government. >> Mhm. >> [clears throat] >> Yeah, they work with the legislature but they didn't get funding. >> Say that again. >> Yes, it's a request to the match. >> Okay, cool. Thank you. >> Good evening. >> Yeah. Good evening. Okay. We're good to go back to the construction report. >> Okay. >> So, construction report we finally have a little go. Um the core team met with the design professionals last week for breach turner. We went through schematic design and received an update to timeline. You have that timeline um in your packet and I really just want um you to know that based upon that timeline it

046looks like we will break ground March of 2027 is the projected timeline for that. So, exciting in that regard but also I feel like there's a whole lot of things that are still up and in the air and not necessarily concrete because the schematic design is very um free, for lack of better words. And as we move through the construction design, it gets to be a lot more concrete and and physical um information. So, the other thing is is we are going to have a design meeting um on this Thursday at 3:30. So, if um I will make sure uh Ms. Cobos knows and then Ms. Miles, if you can come, um it would be great. Yes. And if not, um maybe one of the other two of you or um even Linda could come

047and step in. I think You and Ms. Cobos are the What are we doing on Thursday? We're doing the meeting. >> Teams. When it's all included >> Okay, so they could even do it on >> Yeah, if he can't make it, they won't be here in person. So. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Or your staff >> Of course. >> [laughter] >> And then um So, we already have gone through 3B student reports and we recognize those students. >> Mhm. >> Um I do want to stop at 3C. Uh you have all of the department reports. Um Chris would like to give you a quick overview of um if you notice today, it's not in here, but they have been working on our fire alarm system and there is a change order, so he's going to

048just make sure that you're aware. Um it it doesn't need approval, but just so that way you know. We're ahead of the >> For you guys at this period, you understand you know, y'all already approved the project. Um whatever the plan was sent to the fire marshal of the fire Fire Marshal wanted some different things. So, of course we have to go with what he says and we don't have a choice in it. So, that did make a change order, so it's pulling more wire and a little bit more labor involved. And that's the reason for the change order. So, I mean, any other questions as far as that goes, I can answer them for you if you'd like me to, but it's just pretty much what Fire Marshal wants. Fire Marshal wants. >> Yep.

049Yes, sir. I think we're good. >> Our hope is the new build though, less change orders saves way more money. So, >> Yeah, we we won't have any change orders. Well, we're >> [laughter] >> We're going to limit as many as we can. That's correct. So, yeah. >> With pre-planning, that's right. >> Yeah. >> Well, it's hard when you have old buildings that have to be um >> It is. Oh, and then also just give you all a little bit of an update. Um practice field has got the new irrigation system put in. Thank you for that. They are hydroseeding it. So, hopefully tomorrow afternoon that will be up and going full blast. So, we'll be able to grow a lot more grass. Um the football field will be getting fertilized later this week. And

050then, we also had some grass seed donated to the school. They donated 300 lb of grass. That will be putting on the football field. It's supposed to be a really good grass that they use on the soccer field. They're supposed to last a long time. >> Nice. >> Super nice. Yes. >> And then, the cafeteria. >> Cafeteria Cafeteria plumbing is done. Thank you. So, I think we're waiting on there is the cement that they poured back has to cure for 25 days before they can do the epoxy on the floor. >> Okay. >> Um so, of course at the end of this month they will be doing the epoxy on the floor. Once that's set up, the cafeteria ladies will come in. They'll clean everything up to Shelly's specifications, and then we'll put the cafeteria

051back together. So, it'll be up and going with full school dinners. >> Okay. Are we allowed to know who donated the grass seed? >> Absolutely. >> Can you tell me what his name is? I can't remember. I tried. >> Uh >> Who? >> Travis Gray. >> Other one. >> No. Travis. >> Travis. >> There Yeah, there we go. >> Travis Gray and Coke. >> And Coke Pope. supply. They both went in there the other night and donated all that. >> That's awesome. Thank you guys. >> Yeah, that's us. >> Travis would like us to say go buy Travis that was his one request. >> [laughter] >> There it is on camera so now >> We're going to put you back in elementary for another >> [laughter] >> He really loves floorboard but He didn't he

052didn't graduate so he said that he attended Dexter as a elementary student. >> Oh, okay. That's all we needed to know. >> He has a he has a little blue in his heart. He used to come back to his roots. Yeah. >> He's trying to grassroots. >> He's yeah grassroots yeah. >> grassroots movement >> Awesome. >> Thanks Chris. >> Thank you all. >> Yes, thank you. >> Uh moving on to superintendent report. Um I just came back from the Ron Clark Academy last week. We took There was 18 of us who went all together. Um I really hope to do a little video and have all the teachers share with you guys what they learned because I learned a lot but as I talked to teachers um more and more they're like, "Oh, remember this

053happened and we learned this." So a lot of really good things came out of this. And what I really found the most important is we need to watch other people teach, too. That is really important. All of these skills we can tell people, "Hey, this is a really good idea." But when you watch somebody else engage with students, um it shows that it can be done. So very much teachers are very thankful for the opportunity we had to go and and watch that and um I look forward to being able to present. This will be our third week of PD this week. We've had uh the first week we did SIOP and last week we went to Atlanta and then um this week we're doing Kagan the other four days. So lots and lots of

054really good strategies for our teachers Um and so we'll have them share in the next few board meetings with you guys because I think that's important. >> Do each of those teachers have like one thing that they're going to work on implementing? >> So, at the wrong park academy it was really big on the 1%. Like you're going to learn all of this information but if you try to come back and implement everything in one fell swoop you'll probably fail because of the fact that you're trying to do too many things versus if you'll be 1% better every single day you'll grow upon what you already know. So, yes they all have different and we took a survey afterwards. So, the academy took its own survey but we asked our teachers and and even we

055presented the survey to ourselves and that way we can hold each other accountable. Hey, you said you want to do this how do we look at that and it's not punitive in any way but it's more of like hey remember you saw this and you wanted us to hold you accountable for that. >> Yeah, awesome. >> I have staff attendance report and so that is in your packet. Just a little end of year information from 24-25 and then the 25-26 school year. Our substitute fill rate went way up so the number of subs we have now is and we were even grown more and they're filling our positions so we're having less jobs open considerably that were open last year and our teachers who are on prep are not having to compensate for that. So,

056that's exciting. And then I actually skipped to slide two but slide one has employee teacher absent hours comparison and so I have all staff on that graph and you'll notice that it did go down by over 500 hours. And then you'll see that our elementary school the number of absences also decreased. We had middle school that increased. We had some long-term subs at the middle school in which they didn't have the previous year which made their hours go up. And then our high school also had a had a decline in the number of hours absent. So, definitely more time with our kids which I think is positive and and things we need to celebrate, especially for our substitutes because um sometimes we don't thank them enough for being here and filling in that gap. So,

057definitely positive in that regard. >> [clears throat] >> I have attached um last year we went over goals for um the district. And kind of where we're at at the end of the school year looking at it. Um the board we did meet last two Fridays ago and determine goals for this next school year and including the next two after that as well, but I I wanted us to kind of go over the ones that I had set for the district previously cuz we didn't have a strategic plan. Um where we're at and how we can still get better in these areas. Um so, the first one was uh filtering climate surveys and walk-throughs. So, we did do those um walk-throughs. What I saw with the surveys that we implemented in the spring and in

058the fall, we did see growth from this last fall to the previous fall, but what we saw to this spring is we did have some dips and I really think some of that has to do with when we provide survey. Even teachers are tired by the end of the year. What typically would not bother them bothers them more, but there is some really good information still to be gleaned from this survey. Um we did not add any of the parent information here, but we had as many parents take the survey um um, in the fall as we did spring. So, they are providing lots of input and the piece we gathered from that is they want more opportunity for parent engagement, not just parent-teacher conference. So, uh that's something as we start for next school

059year figuring out how can we get parents here more often than and to have them involved in their students' education is a big piece. Um, one area that I wanted to mention, um, is when you look at the teacher results, um, our elementary school has some really good growth in the area of mentorship. They're at 88% um, I want to call it proficient cuz it doesn't really have a proficiency piece, but they believe that that 88% of the time that they're supported in a mentorship capacity. And then also, uh, it grew 18% in feedback and coaching. So, elementary school, I think based upon the survey, feels very supported in some ways um, that previously maybe they hadn't felt. So, excited for that. Um, we do have some areas of concern and some areas of need,

060um, that I'm not sure things we need to explore a little bit. Um, but our middle school, the school climate went down 11 percentage points and then, um, uh, middle school school climate for teachers also went down. So, definitely an area we need to to look at as well. Um, but also knowing that the survey is given at the end of the year is hard for for staffing it as well. So, um, we're going to continue to provide these surveys and still provide, um, the feedback cuz I think we gleaned a lot of information especially whenever they can type in information. Students is just clicking through questions and answers, but our parents and our teachers both get to add information in there that they find important. Um and so we had 30 parents say that

061they want to be more involved in their students' education. So out of I want to say there was 56 of them, that's a big majority that you know want more opportunities to come and and be with their kids. So um we'll be utilizing that. Um the second goal was to maintain full compliance with NMPED. As the accreditation rolled out last year, um we when we did a self-audit, we noticed that there were several areas that we could improve. As of right now, we have completed all areas within the due dates um that we are aware of. And so we are still awaiting the accreditation documentation that will come out in July. So excited for that that um hopefully we'll meet accreditation fully in that area. So And then the last thing, um ensuring that every

062minute of instructional day is used purposely to engage students in a rigorous standards-aligned learning from opening to closing bell. Um this seems pretty easy whenever you think about, okay, you're just going to teach the entire if it's, you know, 90 minutes, 55 minutes, or even in the elementary school from the time kids get there in the morning till the time they leave. Um what we gleaned from doing what what I gleaned from doing walk-throughs initially is a lot of teachers just didn't know what that looks like, how to transition to the next activity, um how to keep students engaged because they might still be teaching, but are they engaged with students um synchronously? So this goal after analyzing this, really important that we give some training to teachers. And we've already started that process with

063our trainings um this summer as well as what we're giving them during the school year, but I think that's the expectation should not necessarily cuz this it was very lofty. Nine at least 95% of observed instructional time will be spent on active teaching and learning. Um we we need to go back to the drawing board and we need to really ensure that teachers understand what does this mean? How does that look? Um and that way we can accurately guide this goal in the future. So um we did go ahead and and just decided we needed more training versus um to hold this goal to the accountability piece. Um subs, I just wanted to take a moment to thank them. Um we've had a lot willing to step up and take over classrooms and then most

064substitutes um the most substitutes we had in one day this year was 19 subs. So so that's a that's a lot of people out, but that's also a lot of people who stepped up to to step in for our kids. I provided you the staffing um for next school year. Genie usually puts this in her slide for um the budget. That way there's any changes, adds, or or subtracts from that. Um I wanted it to be a little bit more informational and so you'll see that I've color-coded all of the different areas. If there's a new position, which the only new position on there um is a program secretary. So prior to me taking superintendent, we did have a program secretary and we had a special education secretary. Um before me as well, they consolidated

065to one person um to see if it was possible. The issue we've found is that all of our IEPs need to be translated into that student's language and so our special ed secretary slash program secretary is spending a lot of time on both. Um and so we're having to not I don't want to say pick up the pieces, but we're having to spend extra time that we need that secretarial duty. She needs to be able to do her job, which is those IEPs and the special education office information, and then we need a program secretary that will take care of all of our programs. Um with the program secretary, the um funding for that will be 50% from federal programs, so not general operation, and then the other 50% will be general operations. We had

066um a maintenance uh maintenance man, that's all I can think of. Um leave, and so we would we have that funding we were not looking um at losing to move to that position um for next school year to to pay for that position. So. Next, um there's board training link. Um Jonathan, can I borrow the keyboard for just a moment? I I really want them to see what this looks like because Yeah, you know, feel free to go to Google. >> [clears throat] >> And go to IN P D training, board training. So, as you're in these workshops now, they have a dashboard, and that way as soon as you get your hours, it shows where you got your hours. And so, it makes it easier to to track your hours as well. Uh we're

067not going to have to track them individually on paper or remember anymore, and so Yeah, or you can do the The one then I can you can tell us that. >> Check. Check your audio. >> Okay. >> It's right here, school board. >> It was It was >> I think [laughter] it's public information and also law distance. >> I'm going to get it. I think you are. >> Thanks. >> I have >> And then I have to say any board members last name. >> B A T A S T A >> Yours is not the one I choose to type just so you I like the short ones. >> I feel like short. >> Well, Miles is shorter, yeah. Cobos is short. >> Oh, no. >> She's a She's a better one. >> Hey. >>

068And so then it pulls up the training requirements here. Um and also if you click on your name, it will tell you even, okay, you went to this, it was at the 2026 law conference. So, I felt like this was something big that came out of law conferences. We have now able to track in real time. >> Yes. >> Yep. And And it's pretty instantaneous. You submit it and it shows within minutes. >> Huh. >> So, you have >> two complete. >> Okay. >> Wow. >> And then the strategic uh This is Cobos asked, I guess, the strategic planning that's hours as well, right? >> It does. >> Yes. >> What department >> Uh >> What was it? I don't remember who was it asked. >> I don't know which area sent And I'm thinking

069um David Chavez is coming this next week on the 17th to meet with the leadership team. Um I'm thinking he's probably waiting until the entirety of the process is done, right? Because after he meets with leadership, then he'll meet with board again before it's all over. Um but I can definitely ask them on the 17th what what areas that will go into cuz that will also be helpful. So. >> Oh, well this is a big deal because we were having to remember or keep our emails for who went to what and so. >> Um July 6th, what's the completion date? I'm sorry. >> Is it >> Um assumed out this is that what Oh, this is by December 31st. Yeah, it runs on actual year not um I guess due to the voting and when

070people take off days. Um July 6th board meeting, we need to have a back with meeting so that way we can uh go over the resolution through uh ETN. Um do you want to have it at night? Do you want to have it in the morning? Do you want to have it at 2:00? >> What is that landing? >> That's July 6th you said? >> Yes. >> Oh. Oh. >> And that's the day I was asking about. >> Okay. >> We got to figure something out. >> Oh no, yeah. How about >> Have it in the morning then we >> Is are you leaving? >> No. >> Okay. I was going to say cuz can we change days we can do that? You don't need to? Then let's do morning. Let's get it done. >>

071Yeah, okay. So we'll have that meeting in the morning. It shouldn't take >> Time. >> It >> 0600 or 0700? >> Do you do that? >> 6:00 >> on the 6th. And then last thing on my report is just the requesting the EOLB for 7/6 28th and 29th. Yeah. Not going anywhere, just going to take some time. >> Good for you. >> [clears throat] >> Before we move on, uh Batista, would you like to report on the law conference? It's also board reports. >> What if I said no? I'm just saying no, it's fine. >> We would have >> [laughter] >> All right, public speaking. >> Um public speaking. Uh law [clears throat] conference went well. They are definitely not teachers, but still very knowledgeable and have a ton of information to share. Um Some

072of the very helpful ones to go to were around uh oh gosh, I can see his face, Carl. It was regarding first meeting that um Saturday. Oh, it was all about board compliant compliance and maintaining that and making sure um that you could follow that. Super handy, that will be a PowerPoint I will be downloading and I will hand it off to the rest of us as well as some of the parliamentary procedure uh to be able to maintain. And so those were helpful, but it was rather easy, simple, crank out all your hours in one conference. >> That's >> Yeah. That was good. So thanks for organizing that, everybody who organized hotels, all the things. It was really good. >> Yes. >> Okay, um five business. >> Strategic planning. >> Oh yeah, we should

073>> Um yeah, that went really really well. Um uh Mr. Travis kind of kept us uh on time. We actually finished with like 15 minutes to spare. Um the group came together really really nicely and um it was very productive as well. >> Good. That works well. >> I agree. >> Yep. >> Okay. Five business. >> All right, Adam. No, I six. That's our I had to add one. >> correct. >> Yes. So Adam six business. 6A, first reading of policy advisory number 273-GBGC. Um You want me to just go through them all or do you want to kind of get Tell us on that? >> do A and B and I'll talk about A? >> Okay. So, item six B, first reading of policy advisory number 274-KDB, public's rights to know. Talk to us.

074What do you got? >> So, both of these are um policy advisories from NMSBA. Uh the first one is a recommendation to change our policy to update the language um and make it more clear for when the district can ask for an employee to undergo a medical examination. It used to say um for a physician to do that, and now it's added things like mental health. Um >> Um >> I I don't remember the other but it added some some clarity in the language cuz it just used to say physician. So, um that's the And these are first readings, and so we'll bring these again in July. We have the first reading of the uh public's right to know. This is an IPRA, and so most of the law conference was based upon IPRA, >>

075Yeah. >> which is the uh public inspections act, and one of the changes is that we must post on our district website um and which we currently do. So, it won't be any change to us, but now it'll be in policy that we have to who our records custodian is will have to be on the website, so. >> Okay. Okay, so item Any questions or anything like that? Okay. So, item six C, approval of policy G-3200, professional staff vacations and holidays. >> [clears throat] >> So, these next C, D, E, and F, um are all together and what it's doing is it's changing. We used to have earned personal. And with those earned personal days, um staff had to pay $112 or half of their daily rate um as a personal day option. After reviewing

076the amount that it cost the district, which is about 5,000 a year, uh what which it saves the district about 5,000 a year in which these employees are putting back, um the amount of time it's taking for staff as well as the fact that this is a great way um to provide our staff without days that they have to pay for, we would just put those into personal leave. So, they would be able to still use them. All our leave will now be sick leave in which they'll be able to use six of those six sick leave days as personal days. Um and that way all of them will still stay in the sick leave bank that that go through there. So, um that's the change. When we made these changes last year to some

077of these policies, um we only changed one and there's two policies that mirror each other. So, we have the professional and then we have support staff and they have their own policies and so all the language should mirror each other so it's the same across the board so we provide the same opportunity for all. So, I recommend approval for G 7500, G 2550, G 2600, um and G 3200. >> I I move we approve these policy changes. >> Okay, we have a motion on the floor. Do we have a second? >> I second. >> Okay, all in favor say I. >> I. Motion passes unanimously for the approval of policy G 3200, G 7500, G 2550, and G 2600. Okay, item 6G, approval of policy I 7350 I - 7350 graduation requirements. >> So This

078policy Um, Luis you for sure should have gotten a text message on a survey we provided to all parents and this um requirement we asked parents to let us know if they were in favor for um these changes. So what that looked like is for us to provide um career explorations at the middle school level now taking that out of our high school and which that was a board requirement. We must have two classes that are that constitute um board requirements for our local choice. Um and so what that would do is it's going to change. We're going to have no longer capstone, we're going to call that seminar. In that survey we asked parents what were most important to teach through that seminar class, what things they would like to see in terms of

079um job um uh >> skills >> job skills that um interview skills So interview skills, uh scholarship writing uh even applying to jobs and so we linked all of that information in there for parents to rank that. So that was to be based some of our class off of um for the seminar class in which we'll still um use some of the capstone information where those kids are either picking college or picking their job, but everything they do is built upon that and that's how they present. Um and then the other um secondary option is two options, either A financial literacy in which we heard from the strategic planning that was a big um opportunity we were missing as well as whenever we asked parents about it in the survey that was a great hit,

080but students will be able to either take financial literacy or they'll do a completer for their CTE course. So, they'll have done all three of the recommended courses through PED to provide that completion. So, based upon the CTE courses that they take, it will change, but as we looked at other districts, some of them have 15 courses that could be their completer courses, and they just list them on there. So, that is an option. Um and I think both are good options, and based on students' needs, we'll be able to provide that to them. Um so, I recommend that we do change the graduation requirements to our two local options being now seminar, and then the secondary option is financial literacy or a CTE completer. >> And that takes a motion. >> Yes. >> What's

081that a state pass down? Like you have to have X amount of credits, like we can just add to that and say, "Hey, we >> So, um right now, they have to have 24 credits, and two of those credits have to be a local choice that we enact. >> so we're just choosing those as our local. Got it. Sorry, I missed that part. I know you said that. >> we could add upon what the state requirement is, but right now we're at the 24 that they recommend, and then two of those have to be what we um select, and based upon that, those are our choices. >> Perfect. >> Did we have motion on the floor for the approval of policy I-7350? >> I move that we approve policy I-7350. >> I'll second. >> And

082a second. All in favor, say I. >> I. Motion passes unanimously. Item six H, approval of inventory deletions. >> Um so, some of these deletions have come before you before. However, uh we have a better process to keep track of those as well as um there is a device recycling, is that the best word to call it? >> No, we have a room full of goodies back there. big databases. This is 22 pages of of fun. Some of these things may already be gone or whatever. It's quite kind of unknown. We're just going through the formality. And uh Artesia uh transfer station has a recycle thing on the 18th and 19th. And I gave them a call and they said, "Hey, you're a school. You guys want to come early, so we're going to go

083on the 17th." >> Oh, nice. >> trailer couple trailer loads of of stuff and try and clean this room out back there. >> That's nice. >> So, anything that doesn't um has doesn't have resale value or >> Yeah. Yes. Quite old items. >> Not giant computers, I read on the or TVs. That That's a no-go. They will not let you get rid of box TVs, but >> We still have a few. Interesting. We still have some we need to pull out of the classrooms. >> What? I I recommend approval of inventory deletions then. >> I have a motion. >> I move that we approve the inventory deletions. >> I'll second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion passes unanimously. Um Item six. I approval

084of math curriculum, ES and MS. >> Yeah, so let me talk a little bit um about price and then also middle school. They did send me a PowerPoint, however, it is locked, so I'm just going to talk through what I know about the middle school curriculum each year. Um Elementary school curriculum is going to cost 81,000. And looking at 6 years ago when we adopted, it was 42,000 at that point. So, six years with inflation, I mean it it is doubled in price, but also um that's textbooks for kids every single year. Um and so I I really enjoyed the process elementary put put through there. And I'm I'm not going to discount middle school cuz I just wasn't part of it, but elementary really did dig deep and and really did want something that

085was really rigorous for their kids knowing that the higher that the level it was that they would be able to meet that. Um so middle school has chosen Reveal Math by McGraw Hill. And the reason that they chose this is currently they have a lot of online the the Savvas that they're currently using, a lot of it is online. So, in terms of doing work, implementing that, it's really good so that way students know if they did it right or not instantaneously. However, there's some quirks with the software in terms of if you don't put it in there just specific, it doesn't give the kids credit for that. So, they would like to move away from that kind of style and more back to um teacher-led information, but they do understand that there needs to

086be um a piece of that that is on the computer as well. Um and so they chose Savvas and the reason for that is it has um a program called ALEKS with it and that's an individualized math uh resource that gives them uh where they're at and helps build the skill to wherever they're going. Um so with their intervention time, they'll be able to use that program and whatever they're teaching and they talk together and link well. Um so that was a big seller for them as well. The price of um McGraw Hill for middle school is 40 42, I think. 42,000. And um they also provided parent input for their math curriculum as well. And so I recommend approval for both these curriculums. >> That 81,000 is for >> elementary school. >> But that's

087for >> That's for all the the teacher textbooks, the online >> portal, so that way teachers can get on there. They can also provide at the elementary level, they can still provide tests on online if they want to, but it's not an extensive online piece. There is on the days that they have the review, there is an online game if you want to say for your your kids who met the standard to push on. So there is some of that built in as well, but it is not like online piece. And then that includes your textbooks for students every year. So it'll be on a renewed >> For how many years? >> For six. So that's what the till the next adoption cycle is up. >> Oh nice. Okay. >> Okay. We have a motion.

088>> I move we [clears throat] approve the math adoption for both elementary and middle school. >> We have a motion. Do we have a second? >> I second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion passes unanimously. Item seven, finance and facilities. 7A, approval of May bills and payroll. >> Any questions? >> No questions. >> Nope. >> I move that we approve May bills and payroll. >> I'll second. >> a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Motion passes. Um item B, approval of budget adjustments. >> So get a final list, but I'm going to have to go and check my email and we have two more title three and migrant that I haven't been able to open and look at. So and

089they're due June 15th. Um I don't know how you want to handle that. And they're both They're going to change to this year's budget. So we have to get those bars in. Um I don't know if they need to >> Can we pass it with flexibility on that or is there >> Can we move those in quickly? >> I can tell you that's what we have done in the past at the May meeting. Um back used to bars were due like early June. And at the May meeting it would the board would allow us to process bars and then bring them back to you. Um that would be helpful. I don't know if we're going to get more. So these came after four. I just didn't fetch it in time. >> It's okay. >> We'll

090figure it out. >> Are we allowed to approve those or should you need to pull them up on the screen? Can you show them to us? >> So um well I just looked at the emails. I don't know. I know they're both increases in title three migrant. I just like I said I didn't even realize they were there. So >> There's options in terms of you can approve bars as is um or you can approve bars from here till June 30th. So with with the caveat that anything will be brought back in July. Um that was an audit finding we had last year because on June 30th even though we had a board meeting we did receive an increase that day. >> We have not yet received our tax and that's the solution as of

091That's >> So you know that's coming. >> Yeah. I mean it's a normal thing. Um I was just explaining to all of you in the old days before the election the election shift we got our large distribution in May. Now it's coming in June. So and that affects For whatever reason, CAD only allows us to budget 1% of the revenue they say we're going to get. If we get more, if there's a taxpayer may not have paying simple income taxes in the year paid, those are taken into consideration. And so, our 1% expense goes up and that's um Yes, it is likely that in June, also that income taxes could be affected. >> Okay, so >> So, essentially, you can make a motion to approve these bars and all bars through June 30th. >> So,

092let's >> Yes. >> Let's let's let's make a motion to uh amend right here, approval of budget adjustments through June June 30th. And then we'll we'll uh pass that and then we'll come back and >> Sure. And we'll bring those right on the July 6th >> Yeah. >> morning meeting so that way you guys can see them. It'll be perfectly >> That's good. >> Okay. I move that we uh approve the expansion of the budget adjustments. And how did you phrase it? You phrased it through June 30th. >> Through June 30th. >> With flexibility through June 30th. Um do we have a motion on the floor? Do we have a second? >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Motion passes. Um >> And and just a

093comment personally and again, but well, the state's opinion. You know, if we get an increase like this at this time of year, school's out. We can't That money's intended for this year's kids. We can't use it that way. The logical thing would be for us for them to allow us to add it to our July >> Correct. >> budgets, but but they're they're not being logical there, so if we're going to increase it, we're not going to spend it. >> Yeah. >> It's going to end up being carryover again. It could very likely just keep happening every single year. >> Okay. Fair enough. Thank [clears throat] you. >> So, I just caught myself with something. So, that was just an amendment to it. >> Yeah. Yeah, I was trying to >> Yes. So, Yes. So,

094now we've got to pass the amended. Okay? So, Now, >> [laughter] >> item 7B, the amended uh >> I move that we approve the amended >> Yes. >> budget adjustment. >> Yes. >> I will second that. >> Perfect. Thank you. We're trying to do things right, you see? Yeah? Okay. We have motion and a second. Say, "I." >> I. >> Motion passes unanimous. The amended >> The amended what? >> Yes. 7B. Okay. So, now 7C, approval of FY 27 operating budget. >> Uh here is Genie's presentation. >> Okay. Cool. Your time to shine, Genie. Thank you. I can take a break now. >> [laughter] >> All right. Go ahead. Um I I have a lot of this is just I mean, you've heard some of them before. Other So, I'm going to try to move

095quick. You know, I know y'all don't want to sit here all night. So, please just stop me if you have questions. And if you want to go deeper, I mean, I'm fine to do it here, but also it might be a good time to maybe just take note of things that we want to go deeper down and if you do that, it's more time that's used. So. Um just Here we go. Our process, we start on the 40th day, the 80th day. You can kind of see what happens throughout the year. We really start talking budget come August. When when school's starting, when we settle down, we're already talking about the next year. But then we use our 40th day to estimate what our numbers might be the following year. We use it again on

096the 80th day. And then once we get 120th, average those numbers and we know exactly or almost, depending on legislative changes. Um but that's our calendar. So, revenue is the money that's coming in. Part of revenue is something you hear around is called cash balance. Um we want to try and stand around and try to get this in our heads. We we stopped calling it cash balance. It's an operational reserve. It's money we need before it starts flowing again in July. Um we need it to pay July payroll. Our home employees are getting paid July 10th, they're 10 days in at least. Um our risk premium, our property and liability is like $650,000. It's it's crazy, but that's due in July. And then our June 30th balance, due from the state, our RFRs, our reimbursements

097that we didn't receive by June 30th, we've got to cover that cash. So, and I got to say though, one head has gotten so much better about those RFRs. They're getting them to us quicker. So, hopefully it won't be as um there won't be as much that that's due to us. This is just an overview. And I'm not going to go through this cuz it's the funding formula. Um down there with the little star, you know, I know what the buzzword every year is unit value. What is our unit value? Cuz that's what we need to multiply everything to figure out how much we're going to get. So, I'm just going to break down part of this as I go on. Here, our unit value for next year is $71.17, which is a nice nice

098increase from the previous year. Um and it makes sense that it has increased every year because, you know, the state is receiving the revenue, the cost of education, just like everything else increases. The increase is to be expected. The basis of this what determines this is our membership. Every person is them all the time. And that's what we're reporting on that 40, 80th, 120th instead of Nova. And basically it's it's our kids. It's rears and seats. Um so we we're just counting our kids by grade level and reporting that. But you can see that's where part of our our issues lies because our we're decreasing. Um I'm going to go ahead and go to the next slide just to kind of show you where we're comparing this year. Even though I have it labeled F4

09927 because that's what the number we use, but that's this year's 8120 average. And my little arrow there is just to illustrate, you know, we're looking at last year's kindergarten comparing the first this year's first graders. So you can see where we're >> [clears throat] >> we're going down. Um in membership alone before units become part of it, it's it's a 300 almost $300,000 loss in revenue that we're seeing. But then they take our membership and they turn it into units. Each grade level is weighted. So on um on the left it's just by grade. You know, a pre-K kindergartner costs more to educate. Essentially they get they think it costs more to educate pre-K and kinder and then as they get into sixth grade it costs more to educate those students. >> And on

100the right is by the >> the unit my mom always served. The waiting is always talked about. So you can see what grade two and three is going to be cheaper to educate than pre-K or high school is going to be. So that's important in it. There are other things within the formula that generate units. Um I've got membership TCI. That's our teacher cost index. That is basically a report all based on our total payroll. Which is the reason we tell you staff or any staff, if the staff is moving up a level or have if some aides have additional college credit, we get them a September 25th-ish deadline so that we've got it in September 30th. And we can pay them on that in October because that's when we have to pull the numbers

101as to how many staff we're paying, what level they are. And that determines and there there's a nice little formula that comes up with a TCI index. I don't have a slide on it. Um I found it in my digital file. So this last year or last for the FY26 budget, our TCI was 1.017. So one, you know, everyone gets however many staff I report gets multiplied by one but then that extra hundred and but this year it went down, 1.001. Um went down you know, 0.016. Based on just using because I can't really compare it to last year's unit value. So for using this year's I mean that's another it's $300,000. That tiny tiny change really affects us. When we have um folks retire who are level three and then we hire level one.

102Yeah, we're going to be paying less but in the following year we're going to generate less. Which is okay if that's how it works out but um you know, level one leaves we hire a level three, we're not going to be getting that revenue to you know, for that higher level teacher. So [clears throat] so that's just a very important number in our formula. Um special ed, the different levels in special ed, pre-units. The elementary fine arts program is not a separate fund, it's within our SEG, but our number of elementary students because of unit multiplied out, that's how we get our fine arts budget. The bilingual program, we no longer have the bilingual education program. I I should write that out because that's not affecting us in the growth and national board certified don't

103affect us. Number one because we're not growing. If if we were growing 40 day or um you know, we would see additional units. But our membership is not increasing. We get some units because our high school is less than population less than 400 and our middle school is less than 200. Elementary is over 200, so there are no additional units there. And then, there are also additional units because our district is less than 4,000. And the idea there is no matter how large or small your school is, there are costs that are involved, you know. You still need a lot of the same staff even though we're smaller. You still need someone running payroll, we need a superintendent. So, that's the reason for the size adjustments. There is a rural population index, we get a

104little bit I can't tell you how that is calculated. Haven't figured that one out, it's based on averages. English learners is also based on a three-year average again, this is something new within our SEG this year. There is money not in a separate fund but within the SEG for English learners. And with so, like I draw that out, each of these things like special ed and English learners and at risk I I pull out, you know, what those numbers are to get a to get a figure. Um so that we know how much we have to spend on English learners or how much we have to budget. You know, we don't we may not spend it all, but we know how much is generated. So how much we're going to budget. So I know with

105the EL being new this year, um Ms. Watson and Ms. And Molly and the principals are working on some plans on how to best use that money. I mean there's talk of curricula, maybe CTE, you know, that is it's in the works, you know, but we will we have budgeted that money. Um case law plus is our our calendar because we exceed the 155-day um the are allowed to count the teacher work days and I know when y'all approved the calendar we kind of talked about that. Um out-of-school time activities, this is very minor news. But we take advantage of it. If we have kids here who are you know, they're home-schooled but they live in our district, they can play ball or be involved in FFA. They still register with us even though they're

106not our full-time students. The same for charter school. If we have kids going to an online charter or sitting at Harris, if they live in our district, we get a very tiny amount of money that they we need to take advantage of it. There's other funding within the SCG that has been nothing to do with I'm I'm being honest. We can't like pull it out say these units times these students times unit value equal and so the legislature $55 million for instructional materials, $59 million for those the structure literacy and mentorship CTE and $2 million for free products um menstrual products. Our portion of the entire state's SEG is 0.29%. So, we take that 55 million, multiply it by the 0.29, we get a really close, pretty close, um, you know, that's in some of

107the programs, like instructional materials, they calculate it. They say, "Okay, you're going to get 150,000." Um, and it's it is it is very, very close. So, I don't know how close my percentage is to 0.29, but it's close enough to give us an idea. So, those are the things I'm very scared a lot of discussion going back on emails from some districts. Y'all are really big on this, like, we need units and an index for it so we can calculate it. Um, don't know that. We'll get it. So, this chart just shows how much um, of when we say operational, I know we use it in a couple ways here. When I say operational, sometimes I just mean our 11,000 general operations fund, but like in the budget sense, what it takes to operate our

108our district. So, that's our operational money, our transportation, um, textbooks, instructional materials, and then food service. Even though food service is out of a completely different federal USDA fund, that's still just something we look at. You'll see that next year has no yellow, the transportation, because even now at this point they have not given us our transportation allocation. And I hated to estimate this time because we're going down. That makes sense, we're we're not driving as much, we're driving less, one day less a week. Um, so our allocation is going to look different next year. I just hated Unlike the SEG, there's no spreadsheet where I can estimate my own transportation allocation. But just for the real quick >> On the transportation allocation, um, this is hold held up because districts didn't get their 120th

109day reporting complete um, like they were supposed to. So, they're holding everybody's um, hostage until those districts get their stuff together. So, um, it is not a >> That's good to know. >> [clears throat] >> So, we we don't know what's going on. This is just another picture of this. Like, you know, it um, our operational coming back to the 11,000 general operations, it is probably 100% the SCG that we generate. There are other tiny little things in there. Um, indirect cost is money that some of our federal programs pay the district for just to over simplify like overhead. You know, we're not charging out part of the electricity bill to Title I, we're just taking this indirect cost. And the state sets that indirect cost rate. But it's just another picture to kind of

110help you hopefully get a visual of how important that SCG is and how important our membership is. So, the other side of the budget is expenditures. You know, what we're spending. Um, I don't want to spend a lot of time on this, but I think if y'all are ever interested you know, when y'all look at MARS or um, even sometimes you'll hear us talk about the different functions. It's all part of our chart of accounts. Everything we do, whether it's payroll or accounts payable or when we do PO, we have to put in the fund, the function, the object. Um, so, just starting with fund. This is old, an old picture that we Nancy helped us come up with a long time ago. >> A long time ago. >> Yeah. But that I don't know

111what Yeah, but maybe just a visual help sometimes to see. Those are our different types of funds, operational, transportation, food. Down at the bottom, there's a pot for debt service, but that's only debt service is when we're collecting taxes just to pay our bond payments. Um and I'll hit most of these just pretty quickly, but please >> You just down at >> So, special federal and state funds. Right now, I think we're managing about 25 of them. You got all your titles, your migrant, your federal special ed. Keep in mind we have state special ed and federal special ed funding. Um our Medicaid New Mexico pre-K is one, and I should have said this in our membership. Please just know our New Mexico pre-K kids are not counted in that because it is funded completely

112separately with their own formula on how they fund us. So, there are kids, and they are reported in in November, but just not as part of our SEG. >> And they're reported as part of the SEG if they receive special education services. So, that's the reason that it it had them as it had a multiplier next to them as if they received special education services, we can count them towards the SEG, but only if. >> So, so those are our most of our you know, we get some other small ones here and there. Um on the Perkins, the CTE. I think this year we have two new ones at the end of the year that we haven't had before, but they're all for the same purpose. Another set of funds, another pot of money is

113our capital outlay. Usually when y'all are approving a project, it is most likely coming out of one or a capital outlay fund. Because number one, in operational, we can't spend our our program or whatever is 4,000. We can't spend anything in that function out of operational without capital function. Um Now, say that doesn't happen. Some schools save their cash balances or operational reserve because they have a big project and then they ask PED, you know, we'd like to spend this on this new construction. So, it can happen, but um everything for us, for the most part, comes out of capital outlay. Our SP9, part of that is tax money coming in. That's what the majority of our maintenance, supplies, things like that come out of. We have a second SP9 with the election, state SP9,

114and that's going to be, you know, for repairs and maintenance, more costly. Our local SP9 is, for the most part, it is it's supplies and consumables, things like that. And then, of course, we have our local bond and our EdTech notes that Kaylee spoke about today. Our local bond, I have old information there, sorry. Next election, 2023 for 24, but it will be in 2027. We'll have a bond election again for the beginning of January the 2028 school year. We kind of have that shift when they changed the election um timing of the election. You know, board elections used to be in March. So, sorry, I missed that. Um and then bond sold last in May. Once I figured this out, you know, it's we're borrowing money. Um So, we have an election, we have

1154 years to borrow the money. If we go out for a million dollars, we could sell bonds or borrow 250,000 a year, we could borrow 500,000 for 2 years. And we try to really, and Kaylee is good about that. Even though, you know, we need them to be our bond advisor, it's expensive to sell bonds. I mean, it's unreal how much we pay them in the bond council. So, she's very good at working with us and saying, "Hey, you know, if if we can, let's wait and do it every other year. That will save y'all on some cost to the district. It's not you know, going to the attorneys, but it's going towards a building or a roof or funding." Ed Tech notes, we talked about normally that's 400,000. Um but like she said, we

116have some extra reserve extra collections that we can use. The public school capital outlay, that's how we're building this new building. Um I have that split, but right now what we're paying on the design phase of the building is an 1882 split because a two or three years ago the legislature passed that they're going to reduce the match. At that time, they also passed the ability for schools to ask for waivers. So, I'll use like this upcoming project. Say it's um a $49 million project. If we have to come up with 29%, that's 14 million. We can't even bond out that high. And never do we have no bond out because it's staggered. So, but then even at the 18%, that's like almost 9 million, which is more. Our bonding capacity, which is 6% of

117our assessed valuation, is like 5 million. So, sometimes it's hard hard for me before I learned all about this to understand, you know, why don't they just build the new facility? What's the hold up, you know? And something we've heard through the years, we have direct legislative awards. Um our district stopped applying for those back I I want to say 2010. We applied, got $100,000 to get us started on the fitness center. Then 4 years ago when we or 5 year I don't know when we did that big air conditioning project the elementary, they took that $100,000 off the top. So we had to pay it back. So we stopped asking for money. I mean the legislative money's great and our legislators want to provide us money, but it was hurting us, you know. But

118um 2 years ago too, they passed a Senate bill that there's no more offset. Now we can ask for money. We've been doing that. That's how we're doing the field house, the track, and we're not we don't have to pay that back. Hopefully that stays in place um because the state does have money to hand to hand out for these projects. But when we have to pay it back, that hurts, you know. >> That That capital outlay piece for public school, um we will be asking for a waiver after the design phase and so that way it would cost the district zero percent. So we will just have the design phase that we contributed to and then they hopefully will give us the >> And they I I need to count my chickens, but I've

119no doubt that they will because I don't believe they would because all that was talked about before when we went into the design phase. It's like, "Yeah, we can afford that. There's no way we can bond out up to fair market." The cost of construction is so high. So all of all the expenditures I'm going to go now, sorry, back to the operational um kind of different funds. So in this operational is again our SEG. You can see that's the majority of our expenditures. The red is our capital funding, the SB9, those those funds we get along with our debt service. The funds that come in that we in turn have a check to pay pay the loans. And then state and federal funds local are really our only local funds are our activity funds,

120which is fundraisers for the most part and our gate receipts. Neither you know, it does it's not a lot. It's a small part of our budget and those are for very specific reasons. We we're not going to have a fundraiser and then pay salaries with that. So that's just a picture to show you. Um This is where I was talking about the bars. You know, some on the list of bars you see on my list, some say transfer, some say maintenance. It a maintenance bar is money we move all within the same function. So for example, in the 1000 instructional function, you know, maybe we're short on medical insurance but long on dental. You know, we can switch those, move transfer the budget. And then those only take board approval. We don't have to send

121those on to PED. But if we transfer between 1000 and 2000, y'all approve that and then we send it on to PED and they it takes their approval. Within that 2000 function, we have quite a few. We have maintenance, we have transportation, um school administration. Those are maintenance bars that we can transfer with only your approval. So so that that's just kind of helpful on the chart of accounts. Another portion another other chart of accounts is the program. You know, anything special ed, state special ed, we use the 2000 program. So we have this long that's the one fourth element. So we have a bunch of numbers before that and then we put in that program. Head looks at that, let's say special ed. And they make sure that whatever we're generating, whatever that formula

122is generating, we are hitting the inner budget assigned to special ed. We're not putting it in you know, school maintenance. So, so those are just some some chance that they have and that's how they do it. Um also, the almost the last function of the chart of accounts, we have different jobs, you know, because we're able to look and see, okay, we can pull all of 1212 and see the total salary, benefits, insurance, everything that was paid out for librarians. So, it's long that chart of accounts, but um but there's a reason behind it. So, this budget that that we're submitting tonight, this is the operational budget. And you can see we have just that pie chart for 74% of salary, but please, I have the little red box around professional services, because those could

123be salaries easily. Um recently, you know, we we brought to y'all the possibility of hiring our own SLP >> Mhm. >> rather than having a contract. Well, [clears throat] we contract, we have to code it differently because they're not employed. >> Mhm. >> But just know that So, that total 80% is what we really should consider salary benefits. Because if you go back and forth, we could not contract or maybe this is not going to happen, but say our school nurse retires and we can't find someone to hire, but then we contract with someone not as employed, we would pay them differently. So, so you'll see those kind of um they can go back and forth. Uh this just shows you that salaries and benefits is the big expense. Our I pulled out our property

124and liability all by itself because it's almost 5% of our big budget. And it it's incredible. That that includes all our vehicles, uh any and all the schools. Yeah, it it's pretty um I've kind of grouped softwares, textbooks, supplies, utilities are there. Even though we pay out a lot of for utilities, it's not a huge percentage. And we do pay some facilities and maintenance. Um and I I can't think of a good example. Okay, like like tires and tubes for the maintenance pickup, you know, tires. We're going to we pay that out of operational because it's more of a consumable. Um so there are maintenance expenditures in here, but please know that our facilities and maintenance expenditures are a lot more than that because it's all this capital funds. Travel and training, this is staff

125travel and training. It's really tiny in the big picture of things. And then student travel. Just um our our district we kind of you know, some time ago it's like the district, not necessarily football fundraising. The district pays for travel for all of our approved activities up through the state level. So any kind of competitive travel. Yeah, that's everything. Football, golf, everything. But it also includes student council. Even though the two I believe they're going to be two conferences in here, they're not competitive, but when this was put in the phrase, um that was included. But for the most part, it is our competitive programs. Yeah, I I'll use FFA really good example because they go to a lot of competitions. But then, they also um go to chapter officer leadership training that's not a

126competition, so their fund raisers account pays for that. And and and I think our sponsors and coaches and teachers have a pretty good idea. You know, when coaches are putting in POs for travel, they really do know you know, what the district pays for and what what's their responsibility. But our student travel again, even though when we're you know, not only is doing those bills a lot of money, but overall in the budget, it it's it really goes up. >> We are not everyone does that for kids either, so I think that's an important piece for us to continue is that uh we do pay for that, so that way kids aren't having to fund raise all the time at least for the bus and for um cuz our our neighboring district for sure big

127district doesn't do that. So, every person for themselves, you have to fund raise to pay for the bus, for the meals, for the hotels. Um so, something great we're still doing for kids. >> Yeah. Which which is another reason I mean, you know, our just we have some internal procedures in place. I I can't just go out there and start a soccer program and expect the district to pay for it. You know, that's why we we talked about things throughout the year and then bring it together at the budget time to see if if we can do that. And and just uh I can tell you I remember vividly flying to how this came about. I mean, my first year in this position, a band student came to me and said basically, she said they're

128going to football games, football's getting their meal paid for, bands pay their own way. You know, and I don't think we here even realized that was happening. But um football had more kids, you can raise more money. And then it's football, You know, people you know, um So, that that's the reason behind it, and I think like Molly says, it's a very good thing that other districts don't >> They don't. >> So, it's something >> That's important. >> And it's such a small amount overall, and it would really not change, you know. But because we have kids who make a big difference. >> Mhm. >> You know, pay for their own meal. Part of the budget submitted in place of our salary schedules, um y'all approved these at the last meeting. But that's just a

129list of and I have to submit all of those with our budget when when we submit this. So, this is just a summary about some changes. Um of course, our membership has decreased. Our salaries, the state, um there's a 1% average salary. That means, you know, we could have given only cafeteria staff given them a a larger um increase, and teachers, nothing. And and we could have state would have said, "Oh, yeah, that's okay because your overall average is 1%." Our practice through the years has even though they give us an average, we try to do across the board. It it's easier to calculate, and it's it's more it's fair, you know, it's what we need to do. Um insurance and benefits are always a huge cost are medical went up, you know, 10% dental

130went up. And then that property and liability went up 16% last year, went up 16%, and it's just like our own personal insurance because of all the claims. Um it it also takes into effect the 80/20 split that we now have for all employees. Yes, we're we're now paying 80% of our medical, dental, vision, and insurance premiums. Um but really the biggest change in SCG was that we all funding, staffing, you heard about that. And then other factors that can that can affect our budget, you know, we contract our related services, we know that's going to increase because they have the same insurance and 1% mandates. Um you know, we normally you know, we never got this estimate share, we just had the Bureau of Estimates and and then when it comes in, reconcile the

131debt. Of course, utility, just like at home, those increase. Something we always have to consider. So there's if there's a state mandate about the insurance and the salary, our federal funds that pay for some of our staff, including cafeteria, Title One, um federal special those budgets may not grow enough to handle those mandates. So we just always have to be aware knowing that there's a chance that the operational's going to have to pick up more. Um so far, you know, our federal budget's been okay. Cafeteria, not so much, we always supplement it. Um but the others we've been okay, but we do have to keep that in mind. And then because, you know, 27,000, I think, is maybe our cost per year for in the insurance medical premium. If someone we we have staff who

132maybe they're on the insurance, but their kids are on Medicaid, if something happens, they lose that coverage, they can come they have a change and they we can they can pick up insurance here. And so we just keep that in mind, too, knowing that that could happen. Because, you know, that's 30,000 bucks probably that that we get a whole lot. Um so those are our main changes. Anything else? Yeah. No, I talked about >> the staffing changes with the I I felt like that other form kind of gave better information than just a list of of staffing and stuff. She solved that. Um So, this is just kind of my process. After this, you know, all the things I have to put in. Zero-based budget just means in our budget, whatever the revenue is must

133be the same as your expenditures. In your board folder, the are the reports from Head Start system and you're going to see I think there's two things. There's a 43 cents difference. But, our budget analyst told me to just leave it alone and that's because when we did the cash permanent cash transfer, we had it down near the penny, but in Head Start system, it was it rounded. So, there's 43 cents difference. Katrina told me, "Don't worry about it." And then something really strange >> Um well, I think because of the fact that we don't want to deal with pennies and they make us deal with pennies and then there's some difference. People say, "No, we're not going to deal with the penny." and they'll round it anyways. >> Our federal funds were for purchasing

134pennies. No, it's it's called That's what it's called. And then when in there, I had to look before I ran those reports to Sheila to see if she had taken it out. There's a fund 31600. We had SC9 teacher gifts and it's some kind of HBE something fund. There's and some of them are numbers come pre-populated. There's a $3 and something in there. We've never received that fund. We don't have any kind of balance in cash in there. I don't know why it's there and and so I got the same thing like, "Don't worry about it. We'll take care of it." So, my whole zero-based is not true at this moment until they fix that. But, otherwise, you're going to see the revenue and the expenditures are the same amount. The calendar is part of

135our budget. Um Superintendent signs verification saying that we're meeting the school personnel act the minimum salaries. And then I'll have a form tonight that I'll give you all the 901B10s for you all to sign. Um If you have any questions, I I know I zoomed through, but I am always happy to answer questions and especially like if you have any you can tell. It's all in there. That's all it is. >> There was um last year you had a >> [clears throat] >> So kind of break it down and simplify it for me, there's you did a PowerPoint presentation or something. I need to pull it up, find it, and then send it to Ms. Batista so she can take a look at it. >> Please take a look. I really don't remember. >> Well,

136I Well, I It's in there. I just got to dig it up somewhere. It's in my file, but it was pretty neat. So. >> Yeah. Yeah. I am sure I have it saved somewhere, but >> Oh, yeah. >> Definitely, if you find it, I would >> Yeah, I would >> I'll be locate it and then maybe >> Yeah. >> turn over the new sets. >> I think I sent it to you. Or showed it to you or something, but Anyway, yeah, it was kind of simplifying all that stuff and sometimes some of the just way everything getting a visual helps. Sure. >> Yeah. I think so. I was telling her today that in the old days when we did budget, we sat in here and we had the whole budget printed out and we said

137you know, in this year in unemployment, we paid $37. Next year we're going to pay $42. We went through every single line. Um that those lines are in there for you in your folder. It's a bunch of PDFs. You are please call and ask. Like if you have a question about well, what is this object code or what is this money for? Please please ask. But I certainly don't I don't put you all through that torture. >> It was fortunate. >> Yeah, I think that it's important that you have access because then as we look through, you know, each month you receive the the statement that says like, "We've encumbered this much out of here." You know where that budget matched and and the reason why. So, Genie runs last year where our expenses were

138and then maybe there you know, plumbing burst and we had a bigger expense than normal once we need to go back a little, but maybe it's just the fact that everything now costs more and so then she budgets based like you would at home. Um, if you know, gas is higher, you're going to need to budget more based on that. >> If any time ask questions and I will go to the desk. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> First of all, we're on I've been looking up and down to see where I'm seeing, right? Okay. Page 7C. Perfect. Um, 7C, do we have a motion on the table for for the approval of the fiscal year '27 operating budget? >> I move we approve the fiscal year '27 operating budget. >> There's a motion on

139the table. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor say "Aye." >> Aye. >> Motion passes unanimously. Item 7D, approval of revised fiscal year '27 salary schedule. >> So, uh, we brought these on uh, April 20th to you guys and then as I reviewed them uh, in the last month we realized we made a an error on the elementary principal um, starting pay. So, last year starting pay for elementary principals was 98,000. Um, and the reason that we did that was based upon the number uh, that a teacher makes per day and what a principal makes per day so that way there's there is a difference. Well, as we created those this year, we put all the minimums that we had to pay Mimi and

140then we went back and adjusted Well, we didn't get it adjusted. And so with that I'm recommending based upon the teacher salary that we would move elementary principal starting at 104790. For the next school year and the reason for that is so that way that principal is making more per day than a teacher cuz right now at what we have it at it would be the same as somebody who has 12 years of teaching experience. So, we need to definitely make that a a place that we're paying for what what we're getting in that area. So, just an error that we need to correct. >> It is that we approve the revised fiscal year 27 salary schedule. >> I'll second. >> And we have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >>

141I. >> Okay, I. Motion passes. Okay, item seven E >> G >> Oh, yeah, we did. We already passed that. E and F. So, um So, G approval of fiscal year 27 Honeywell con- contract. >> I can answer any questions you have on any of that if you have any. Uh >> I recommend approval. It it is 9,000 more than our previous year's contract and with that just comes equipment. So, if something goes out on a air conditioner unit, they come fix it. Something that they did for us this year that they don't always do is as we redid the cafeteria flooring, they came and unplugged all the gas lines and everything else because they're trained in those ovens and whatnot. So, that's also, you You when we do have the off things too because

142that's covered in our contract with them to to deal with. Chris informed me tonight that they even sharpen our slicers and and maintenance some of that stuff. So, definitely a contract that >> is utilized. >> It's a well worth it. >> Yep. >> They also monitor the temperatures in our walk-in refrigerators and freezers. And if should something happen, they come out day or night. >> Oh, nice. >> Lovely. >> So, they are very important. >> Mhm. That's good to know. >> Then I move we approve the fiscal year 2017 Honeywell contract. >> I'll second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. >> Motion passes. >> Good. Oh. >> [clears throat] >> Item eight, personnel. New hires, Dixie Van, um at the principal. >> She is our new elementary

143principal. We'll have her um hopefully at the July meeting to meet everyone. So. >> Awesome. Good job. Welcome. Um also, Gina Hartwick, the math teacher at the high school, I guess. >> That's right. >> Cool. Cool. Hey, item B, resignations. Trevor Sanders, track head coach um at the high school. So, thank you for your years of service. Item nine, future agenda items. We have nothing there. >> Just uh question on is there anything for our meeting before um My brain just went blank on what we even called them. Our workshop um in which you would want to learn or more information on. Um Genie and I kind of started a list of different topics, but if there's something specific again, um our plan is in July to provide workshop topics to you for the the

144year. So, that way you kind of know what's coming up and and thought-wise so um if you have something please let me know. Okay. >> Okay. Item 10, correspondence, future meetings, and events. So >> I do have a correspondence from um the historical society. They wrote um this Pearson school board, our mission is to educate Dexter students has indeed enriched our own lives and we are so grateful for uh your partnership in their endeavors. We look forward to continuing working with you in the future of your organization and the measures uh we can't thank you enough uh for all you have done for us. So and it's signed by them. So >> Cool. Thank you. Um also on correspondence, I believe uh we got a couple letters. Um >> [clears throat] >> I have >>

145Anonymous, yes. Anonymous letter so we have um >> Yeah. Annabelle gave it to you. >> Oh, okay. Good. Okay. >> Yes, so we passed along to uh personnel matters so trying to follow chain of command and we have to push push it over to our superintendent, Molly Pearson. Thank you very much for that. Item 10 B, future meetings and events. July 13th, 2026, regular board meeting. >> We need to add July 6th, 6:00 a.m. >> Yep. >> July 6th >> special board meeting >> That's what I'm saying. >> Oh, yeah. We got cheese in there. She'll be on Zoom. She doesn't She's not going to be here in person. She'll be okay. I'll be there. Wear a nice shirt. >> Yeah. >> Awesome. Okay, so item 11, adjournment. Do we have a motion to adjourn?

146>> I move that we adjourn. >> I'll second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. >> Thank you guys all for being here. >> Yes, thank you very much. Appreciate it. >> By the way, there's a marker on the door underneath the two.