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1/18/2022 Finance Committee Meeting.

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2022-01-18
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Western Connecticut Planning Region, CT
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5,602 words · about 32 min
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2026-06-06

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001well certainly could if if the committee would like to do that um al i don't know how you feel about about co-chairs you did ask me about vice you could you could set it up as co-chair or you could set it up as i'm okay with i'm sorry i say that again i said whatever the group decides is an aggregate i'm okay with but rich and i didn't bump into each other too bad and remind us were you were you and he co-chairs or was was rich a chair and you were vice chair correct i was vice chair the ladder yes would you like to handle it that way sure that works so given uh mr russo's experience already being involved with managing this committee um i would uh nominate him to be the chair

002if he's interested thank you kate um so there's a nomination on the floor is there a second oh second thank you lisa all those in favor saying i any opposed seeing none motion carries i will turn the meeting over to al and you can open the floor if you if you'd like for vice chair thank you rachel we have a motion on the floor by kate for uh for the position of vice chair i will try your minds to see if you all would like a vice chair uh i am good with what whatever the aggregate wants to decide we have a motion for a vice chair do i hear a second a second okay all in favor of vice chair signify by saying aye please hi hi hi any opposed all right the motion

003is carried we will we will now vote on advice to prove this position of vice chair i will open up the floor for nominations for vice chair i thought that's what you just did i'm sorry why like what i did the last time was just open up to see if the group is an aggregate one i see i am opening up the floor for okay the position of nominations to the position of vice chair i'll nominate kate for vice chair do i hear a second i second okay all in favor or the secretary cast one ballot according to robert's rules and artists but we don't have a secretary so named so moved congratulations kate kate now all right the first point on our agenda has been has been satisfied that the records show that uh

004for the next year i will be chair thank you very much for your support everyone and kate i look forward to working with you again as always not only we teammates but we're neighbors that we are oh yeah okay uh the second second item on our agenda is uh november and december financial reports um our finance team sent out some documents this morning thank you very much for your efforts a little bit different instead of just seeing someone screenshot we actually have the documents in front of us if we choose to open them up um john i'll give you the floor sir well thank you alan um we appreciate it um i think i'm gonna have uh eddie deliver uh at least talk briefly about the report in general that we made a couple revisions

005late today and and emailed that at maybe it was around five o'clock did people get that one or that's the one we'd like to talk from if no i don't know just just our um so our i our printers currently aren't working um they kind of went down around like 450 um so for us to scan some of the uh data or the updated documents i'm sorry um i plan on sharing it on this if you guys can see it and i'll zoom in and out if it's too hard to uh view um but i'll go through the first part john if if if you don't mind at least opening um the narrative um as we begin 2022 we know that uh the omicron variants has taken us out and we can't see it yet

006ed one moment edward eddie just uh for my personality the only one last one i got was from uh what around noon yeah i didn't have anything from five o'clock so could uh after the meeting if you could also email the committee out copies of those updated reports go ahead i'm sorry um i i will email it i'll email if i can right now the thing is i can't our like our email database is down so i have it kind of like screen shot of what i saved it at before the system went down um so i'm going to share it right now give me a quick second and uh just drag once the system goes back online that would be great as soon as no problem so we can as you say uh past

007two years i've looked at a screenshot and i'm just not comfortable with giving my lasting impression on a screenshot that goes away that i don't have anything to go back to look at but gotcha thank you can you guys uh let me see what are you guys looking at here can you see i'm sorry i'm using two different screens so i just want to make sure you can see can you see this so right now we can see that spreadsheet okay okay so i'm gonna i'm gonna tab into the dps uh budget summary i'll leave that up for right now i go through the narrative does that work for everyone sure okay um so like i was mentioning you know uh i go through the narrative real quick you have it in front of you

008um nothing changed from that uh in the beginning um you know we are at the end of december at this point this is the closing as of december 31st um for the 10-month school year have gone by our budget of 139 million 585 thousand one hundred fifty six dollars and six cents uh is what our budget was the adjustment is zero those are just transfers between line items so they'll stay at zero uh we just wanted to leave that up there so you guys could see it a little better on the sheets thank you kevin for doing that if that was kevin i think you're sharing the narrative correct it's mia okay thank you um the expenditures expense year to date that ytd is uh we've spent a little over 59 million dollars which is

009about 43 of our budget um we are about you know as i mentioned we are for the five months this or a little over 40 percent of our budget we've spent um the balance of 79 million it is encumbrance into many different things it's just what is left out there um that's that 79 million dollars and then i go into the point of the narrative where you know right now we had some difficulties in the first two weeks of the year in regards to staffing um with the omicron variants kind of having a surge in covet uh shortage and staff i know um that uh kevin and john mentioned is at the board meeting last week um you know we had anywhere from 300 people out to now to roughly about where we normally at

010about 1 30 to 140 as of today um and then we go into january we're beginning the budget season uh john um and the team kind of did a budget presentation for the schools uh earlier or late last week i'm sorry thursday friday of last week explaining uh the new budget process we've um implemented we're giving more of the schools to kind of uh create their own budgets and we'll be assisting them in that where in the prior past kind of everything was centralized um and then i'll share my screen now in regards to the breakdown of uh general fund and grant fund reports one quick question how many what is the total number of teachers in the whole district yes i would have to i don't know that number off the top of my

011head um kevin or john do you know if now we can reach out to kim we could have that morning i'm sure that's easy to get no i was just wondering you know what the number you're saying regularly out 130 140 out of what that's all okay i'll get you that number thank you okay i'm gonna take you guys line by line kind of on this this is the budget summary so that's the account description here's your budget uh in regards there's budget adjustments range to date year to date and then your balance that two hundred and one thousand dollars that's standing out there i left that there so i can go into it and discuss what that number is um in the past uh the athletics department at the high school around this time

012in january february they've exhausted all of their money for the budget um and what's happened in the past is uh they come to central office uh and ask for the money they need for busing for spring sports that begin in march first as we know right now is the time we need to be ordering things whether that's buses we need to get people on the payroll in regards to games um so what we did is we we transferred some monies from the workman's compensation line which would be the next tab and you'll see why um there was a big amount that was budgeted in the workman's compensation line and year-to-date we haven't even i think we've probably used about 10 or 20 percent of that so we took 200 000 out of the workman's compensation

013line and transferred it into different line items to cover our spring sports for high school um hey can you do can you do us a favor i don't know if this will show up on your screen but for view options at the top can you see if you can get to 150 and make it yes make it a little bigger for everyone the board but also people at home maybe 125 might fit on your screen better oh okay well maybe not that big i'm sorry i just clicked that zoom button that that zoom button should let you choose the percentage that's why the the dot in front of us would work out so much better than these little screen shots which was my problem last night 120 yeah they try 125 uh okay that might

014fit if that works for you that works that works for me how about everyone else does that work that's 150 that's 150. nice i don't need my glasses okay all right so if you could see the account description um their salaries benefits uh personal service property service other purchase services supplies program improvements and then it breaks it down to your total budget year-to-date and then the balance very similar to what we did on the in the narrative in the first page there's a key to terms um tab at the bottom right here so what does budget mean the original july first budget transfers are transfers between line items that we do on a monthly basis daily basis you have your gl report which is your general ledger report that we grabbed from our financial system

015tyler um range to date is very similar to a year to a year to date um so those are your expenditures uh your balance is your unspent funds and then your encumbrances your obligations that we haven't paid yet um salaries uh purchase orders etc etc i'm gonna click over to the next tab which is the budget detail um and i'll and i don't know if you guys have this in front of you but let me make it a little oh how's that is that good and you may you may want to go 125 we can't see the columns from left to right unless you want to maybe make see a little bit smaller so we can see everything how's that is that good okay all right so this is more of a detailed budget breakdown

016of where we're at as of december 31st as you can see it breaks it down into salaries your 500 51 000 series and then it gives each person you know assistant principal deputy superintendent principal superintendent the adjustments any of them made the year to date would be whatever has been paid out as of december 31st and what the balance is so i'm going to scroll real quickly down to the back to the bottom and i'll go back up to just point some things out that we're currently working on in this uh finance office so right here the same thing you know 139 million very similar to the budget summary what the year to date what we've spent that 43 of the 139 we spent and what's left over is the 57 which is the 79

017million that's left over that's 79 million that's left over it's encumbrance amounts of salaries uh purchase orders etc etc that we haven't paid yet there are some line items as you guys will see that um there's a there's some negative numbers in there um john myself marie the finance team we are moving things that and and i say moving meaning that some people might have hit one light item which might have put that line item at a negative amount that should have been moved over to a different line i am we're currently working on everyone who's being paid in certain accounts whether that's general fund or grant funds and making sure we reclassify them to the correct line items so uh in the next you know day or two next week we'll be doing that

018and which we should hopefully have that ready for next month's budget uh our finance budget meeting for february and for the um board of ed meeting that is that is my update on my end um john do you have anything to add or did i miss anything are there any questions eddie i'm at 79 million um earlier report gave us at about a 300 000 lighter number you have 717 i'm sorry and i have 655 okay uh what changed which which number did you have this you had us now 79 million 717 000 in it and in my earlier report i have 79 million 655 um can you just give me an uh what changed what changed that number for tonight in a matter of a couple hours yeah i'm gonna pull up the original

019one quick sent quick second now um can you let me know which page that is i just pulled the original one up that was sent out earlier sure let me see oh yes is that the one you're looking at yes that correct gotcha uh that is the encumbrance amount so that's the amount that um we have an encumbrance there um very similar to the uh balanced budget it's like a difference of about a hundred and fifty thousand it looks like um hey can you scroll to the line item that mr russo is referring to i'm gonna have to i'm gonna share it from the original uh okay let me just download it real quick from the other email sorry i am i'm used to the weather changing rather rapidly but again i was just starting

020to digest these numbers and we got them earlier this afternoon and they've changed so i excuse me so kevin if you could because you're sharing it right now if you can do this is it this one okay if you can scroll down to the keep scrolling it's probably the second uh the fourth to last page so page number six or seven right there you could stop right there that's seventy nine six five five change the program improvement no this this uh second number to the end at the lab the 79655 is the one that's being questioned yes um i'll i can get back to you guys on that i don't know what exactly came from what i did to now i don't know i mean that's of course 1594 23 82 168. all right one

021two and that that number that 79 million 655 number seems to be what the number that's inconsistent with all the other columns yeah 61 it saw 61 000. do you know if we did any adjustments within the last six hours i'm wondering i know we were we were adjusting a few things um in regards to individuals who were being paid in one line item versus the other um all right i don't i know sometimes in the software there are um things that are done retroactive on purpose for example in payroll if um they may have been making an adjustment for december uh on purpose even though it's january uh between the times we first ran the report in a second time but that's just an example of something that could happen i i don't know

022about this one all right yeah in the interest of time uh if you have a slack moment in the very near future like tomorrow if we could just file that if not we it's okay with me if it's okay with the rest of the committee to move forward okay good with that that's fine with me yeah just one quick question um in connection with equipment is there's um is there an inventory of when things are expired and it needs to be repurchased i mean is there a tracking across the board or is it just too much to do you just experience on the need as it comes you mean uh fix so when uh a machine something breaks and uh is there like a fixed asset inventory where someone is scanning and checking the uh

023equipment um you have so many copiers say you have 20 just say 20 across the system uh you know 10 are going to expire on such and such a date i mean do you keep track of that or is it as need happens no we keep track of it we do have a you know a contract with a aztec who's our services for the printer um and you know when a printer goes down or a few of them we kind of contact them and we renegotiate a contract for aztec i think john john did that happen already or are we in the process next year to renegotiate the contract for our printers as an example uh gina has some proposals uh to replace copiers but i think we're going to try and make those decisions

024as part of the budget decisions and maybe not change anything until we've gone through the process and do it in july or august so i i do know um they keep some good record keeping down in i.t of computers and things like that um but i'm i'm unfamiliar with other fixed asset record keeping that that might be going on uh perhaps if rich albert does some like that but i just haven't seen it yet thank you theresa i i just want to make sure i understand the question because at first i heard the question was that specifically around sports or just everything in the system in general in in general for the classes of equipment like the it laptops you know they're going to be only good for what five years uh you know and

025planning that down the road and and the i and the copiers you know you have uh 20 copiers and 10 are 10 years old uh plans to replace them or as it as they break down okay so so circling back to eda's response um we we do have contracts with these providers um there is a life expectancy is part of these contracts and of course it requires maintenance in between the life expectancy of the machines as an example with the copy machines so that's consistent for us i think throughout the school district and i think other industries use a similar kind of template um the laptops which is you know we've certainly grown considerably in our i t department you know given our one-to-one um initiative in the district and so what we have and

026i'll just start with our staff so our staff is currently kind of on a rotation so for the 2022-21-22 school year um our elementary our elementary staff or is all receiving new updated laptops this year and so we go through a cycle of elementary middle and high school and i believe that is a kind of a four year cycle and those chrome those laptops get updated every four years and so this is the on that wheel this is the year for elementary and for our students they will be on a similar type of wheel the chromebooks don't have the same type of lifespan um and and thank goodness they don't cost as much either don't have certainly the same like lifespan of the powerful um laptops that our teachers are using uh but we'll have

027a similar kind of model for elementary i believe the last model we use it was high school and then high school would be cycle recycled back to the elementary school i don't think that's a model we're going to be able to subscribe to if students are going to be using these devices longer term uh but just as examples in those two cases you know there are kind of cycles for replacements in place for um copy machines and laptops and chromebooks for the district thank you so much i have a quick question please um did i hear correctly about the sports that they um they are running in a deficit the high school that's correct they've they've ran into deficit from what we've seen in the last few years um part of our new budget process

028is to make sure that we give them what the each school needs um you know they've run in a deficit about 150 000 every around this time um in in the spring semester you know we've sat down with dan and chip at the high school and discussed this and did some stuff so that's why we moved that money around for now um but moving forward for you know fiscal year 23 and part of our budget process is to make sure they're budgeted correctly for the full three seasons of sports right and and lisa for clarification we run in a deficit because to ed's point like he just finished on uh we were not budgeted for all three seasons and we just budgeted for one season and so for the last couple of years um our

029athletic director and principal at the high school um they've had to come to district office and essentially you know annually really request money for the additional seasons um so what what what eddie and um john are trying to put in place make sure that the money is at their budget for for the additional season so this is not an ongoing issue for us so it's just been the last few years that they've had this issue or is this something that's been ongoing prior to that it appears uh from what i understand from john it's been a um ongoing practice that needed to be corrected okay thank you are there any other questions no but as a point of interest i'm operating on a screen that is on one of the chromebooks that our children are

030learning off of so that's a bigger font is better first and so if i ask questions and again or have trouble seeing something it's because of the size of screen that that i'm working with purposely so i can have empathy with our students thank you i have a question if no other committee members do we can i just clarify are we talking are we continuing with the presentation is there more to the presentation that you want to share with us or is this sort of like an open mic right am i taking this down now ed and now because i think we brought this up for a question that al had raised yep i mean al do you have any anything else good to move on at the moment thank you thank you it's okay

031to ask a question um so i'm wondering uh uh the um the financial report that we used to get had um projected encumbrances total projected expenditure and projected obligations that show by the end of the year we will have spent 100 of our budget um and i'm looking at this and i see a balance of two and a half million um do you expect that to move i mean is that what is that am i reading that correctly we have two and two and a half million that's that's just kind of floating out there unspent unused unencumbered right and if if i can answer that one um there's uh quite a few things that have not been encumbered or obligated yet uh many of those are just because it's um not the right time of

032year some examples of like grant expenses for graduation or even some of the money we moved into the athletic department buses for uh the sports i'll use the example if teams are going to the playoffs we don't know if they're gone and where so they're just things that happen um in the springtime that haven't been ordered yet um you have that but they're also um we've tried to catch up on some of the encumbering that should have been done in july one of the things you'll notice if you looked at last month's report it was a much bigger number because we had not reflected uh all of our health insurance that we expected to spend we hadn't reflected the school bus contract so in the last few weeks we've put some of those things on

033at least what would be for the the rest of the year uh but there's still some things that are not uh not encumbered yet uh that we know will happen uh every uh every month for example electricity and things like that so um right now we're not we're not expecting a balance uh on june 30th that could change uh but right now we're we're not seeing it and i'm hoping um each month uh to give a a little better look uh a little sharper focus of what june 30th should be looking like okay and i know we're we're in the middle in the process of hiring some some new staff backfilling some open open seats there but um is was there a reason why those like the projected encumbrances fell off the report and is

034it possible or or helpful to put it back on so that we can kind of see where we are where we're landing for the end of the year for clarification is it projected balanced or projected in conversation rejected encumbrances what because we looked at some last reports and i'm not seeing that in the other ones i don't know if that's something john you know we can add but i'm not seeing that in the old one we pulled we pulled uh what courtney and joe did in the last especially this month being you know the january first the beginning of the new calendar year um but there was nothing in regards to projected encumbrance in those reports i'm looking at one from january 22nd on from that board meeting of last year and it has the

035you know it has the budget has the um year-to-date expended and then also projected encumbrances total projected expenditure and then pre projected obligations in a percentage showing that you know it was foreseen that 100 of the budget would be spent by the end of the year he said january 22nd correct rachel yes right 21. i i have it in front of me that's the i think you know one of the uh one of the points i think we were trying to make in the cover man we wanted to want to do something that was pretty much an executive summary or um you know i had to had to keep the major point and um on our first page this month i think we showed 43 was it that had been spent and um and that's

036after uh four of ten school months i i thought i heard uh eddie say we're on track so we we thought that percentage might be a good way to look at things for the rest of the year but it doesn't have to be that way we just felt that was a good no that's true that makes sense it was just nice to see that the rest of the year projected out that we're we'll have spent our budget that was it for me yeah thank you john or eddie in your earlier report there was there was detail on on grant expenditures do you have anything to add with that for tonight's presentation yep those are the last three pages them again let me see here what as he's getting one if i may uh just jump

037in one of one of the things we'd like to do is um just provide reports that come right out of the system that are not um not things where we take the data uh uh use the words type it into a report and then uh give it out we like things coming mechanically and you know it's it's a new system uh a lot of the reports have to be written uh we've done that i think uh we made some strides this month what you will see when we send it out to you is uh those are i'll call them machine totals they're the real thing um but it's uh we can make it a lot cleaner i think with uh you know you see those uh dark lines that are throughout i think we can

038do a much better job eliminating those uh but that's why it looks the way it does you guys can see this correct okay so yeah as john mentioned you know you see this danbury public schools like i'm unable this is grabbing from tyler um infinite uh systems so when it exports it into excel as this is excel it shoots it this way and copies it so you know we're working on it we're going to fix it and make it very cl a lot cleaner um a lot more uh readable but basically as you can tell you know has the descriptions the budget for example title three you know budget we go by budget numbers in regards to budget 11 is title three then your big ones are your essers uh one two three your alliance

039your title one um and then you can see what the budget is for example s or two 11 million what we've spent and what the balance is encumbrance per se um sr2 we have till uh september of 2024 correct kevin and john is that correct that's a that's a two-year grant the i think our plan is to spend half uh this year and a half next year and then another big one is the biggest one of the users is the sr3 which is that 25 million dollars and we have till uh 20 24 25 to spend is there any way to put the expiration dates in we can do that just for you know how much we have left how much time we have left to spend i'll do that teresa thank you and as

040you guys as you can see that i'm sorry kate no go ahead eddie uh as you can see i'll scroll all the way down and it gives you the balance of you know how much money how much money we're receiving in grants um and can you send to your screen we we can't see the whole thing just maybe shift it over we can see e through m but we can't see like i think you can scroll from the bottom or just slide it over from the top if you grab it is that better no um i'm seeing it okay on my end actually you can okay yeah right yeah i think i think it depends on each uh the monitor size it looks like okay i think i just did something okay and you can

041see at the bottom right here this can you see this 57 mil 58 million really can you see this column column m yes so this is our grand total of our grants but as mentioned teresa as you mentioned um i'm sorry i moved i moved you guys over here so as mentioned uh i'll put the expiration date on the next line so we can see how many years we have we could do two is see how much uh you know like s or is two years that's your guess three years and just kind of put you know beginning to end for each grant that would be great thank you any other questions i'm question eddie um as far as the the grants that have a zero balance in them are those some of the ones

042that that mr wilson referred to last time as uh grants were waiting to receive let me grab one for example here uh i'm gonna scroll up real quick so like for example the title three english language one [Music] yeah so that one would be ones that we haven't received or haven't begun yet um as mentioned i think would be very helpful is putting the beginning of when they begin and when they end so we have an idea of when uh that money will begin to be able to spend if you drop down a few lines eddie i'm looking at like the um the grants project family resource center tuition for preschool mainstream which are both zero balances and it looks like we've spent money out of both of those um already line 60 and somewhere

043around there yeah yeah 296 dollars and 41 cents yeah those are very similar to we're identifying going back and seeing to make sure that they hit the right line item something like that is interesting to see that only is it only dollars that hit that line item what was the budget for that line item as we can tell through the infinite system it shows that there was no budget ever in there but year to date we spent 296 dollars so things like that are ones that were identifying and making sure that it did hit the right line item um you know there's a process we're working with very similar to our salaries and benefits majority our salaries to make sure that individuals are being paid in the right line items so something like this is

044something we're making sure that it's identified and uh it's hitting the right line item i guess i'm not fully following since this is the grant section um and maybe i'm maybe i'm looking at it incorrectly these these line items that appear under the grant section are those grants that we are actively getting or pursuing or are these just things that are these are line items that are covered by grants so these these are a lot these are grants that we have received um the tuition uh for preschool mainstream 15 i would have to do get more uh information on that very similar to the family resources center because i'm looking at it now and i'm wondering why on the gl side there's no uh budget as mentioned as john mentioned we pull this from our

045uh financial system so there may be a disconnect between what was entered and what wasn't entered or what was transferred over um so this will be one of them if not there's a few of them as i'm looking at it right now and and i and as an example i can speak to the family resource center um grant so we like like most of these grants they're competitive grants um and or annually we have to submit a proposal and rationale for the grants um on behalf of the district and so often times you know some of these grants might be in the negative because as an example with title one john and eddie are both very familiar with title two title three um we have commitments the school year starts and you know for us

046in september we have positions coming out of these grants annually we have programs coming out of these grants annually materials coming out of these grants annually that all of us many of our schools rely on however the application period doesn't start until october and so often times these grants are being charged to areas where we haven't received the monies or they haven't been released yet and then once they're released we're able to backfill some of those areas specifically the one for tuition for preschool mainstream i'm not sure but i can tell you in cases like perkins perkins title four title four um family resource center um there was a sizable award uh from the state like i think it's close to a hundred thousand dollar award for the family resource center grant and those monies

047are probably spent against that grant to date and so in some cases although i don't see any here right now um and john will attest to this oftentimes particularly in title one title two title three will start the year in the negative um and then we can pay those accounts back as the year progresses on because we've actually received officially received the award uh because it's finally been released so you maybe see some discrepancies at this point of the year because the grants have been just started um and to teresa's point it might be helpful um as part of our education to the board to the finance committee to board on the public to have some maybe start dates many of these grants um to your question are annual uh but some of them you

048know do have a um a termination date um you know i i.e um the essa grants that um eddie was speaking to earlier so i i just thought i'd provide that little update i'm certainly aware of those things okay thanks kevin i just wanted to make sure that that my understanding was what you had explained and you explained this last time so i appreciate you repeating it um i just want to make sure that you know we have an understanding of that as a board that uh we're assuming that we are being awarded these grants and they are necessary to you know the operations that we have at our schools john can you can explain your brief explanation online to grant number 036 extended learning program where we have a gl of again zeros right

049um that has to be a um a wrong account for that kind of money this early in the year it's um i think the wrong grant number is being used well not most of these expenses like with our school budget are for payroll for teachers and things like that and it it was um a struggle i'm told um in august and early september with so many new people coming in and some shortages here in the business office to get everybody accounted for in the right places so if it's all right let me um along with these other questions i'll uh i'd like to have a better answer on that in the morning all right thank you want to look at who's there yeah as we noticed again there's several several lines with in the gl

050budget line with zeros thank you very much and as as kevin indicated what um one thing we do try and do you know the um people you have to keep your grant money and your budget money separate you can't mingle them together uh the state won't let you do that the city auditors check to make sure you're not doing that and um so if we we may know someone's going to be paid from grants not know the particular grant we'll we'll pay them with grant money rather than tax dollars and then assign the correct grant later it's harder if you you've put them in the wrong fund to go back it's just an accounting entry if if they're already there i ask um a couple quick questions just about the uh the new plan for

051for you know determining the budget um i know that you guys are trying to figure out how to go to all the the different school leaders to you know get an individual sort of building based assessment for the budget uh which i i commend you i think that's a great idea um can you talk a little bit about how you got to the dollar figures that are going to be given to you you know per student to each level of school she talked about i think like a 75 per student john if you're speaking around mute there um so what we did is we looked at what was being paid what what's in the budgets today uh i'll use the middle school as an example we had um two schools with about a hundred thousand

052dollars each and one with 70. and it didn't make sense so what i did was i took the uh i added the three amounts up uh 200 came to 270 uh added something uh for inflation came up with so a slightly higher number because it's for next year and then uh divided by the number of uh expected students uh from our um latest uh demographer and uh came out with a figure is actually higher uh in milk it than the 75 dollars but what we realized was that some of those building budgets are we're actually and are actually being used by uh central office people where there's some uh central purchasing done for supplies to uh keep the curriculum uh the same from school to school so after we um uh got what was in

053there now we took a took out the uh amount that represented the centralized purchasing and left with just what uh we think uh the principals make decisions on uh plus a little inflation um middle school program is a little more complex you know has a few more electives uh has electives i should say in in the high school even more than that so just a more expensive programs to run thanks that's helpful um kevin if i may we're still there or john john i know you have we have a community forum it's seven o'clock yep roughly seven minutes if if we could yes plenty of time i could possibly button this up and and i i i know we're all aware that there needs to be this needs to be cleaned up a little bit

054uh or modified i'm sorry well i'll just it needs to be modified a little bit if if you could uh uh i don't know i'd say at least two or three days before our next board meeting uh send us the the new and improved documents so we can look them over so we can make a or a recogni recommendation to the board to accept the numbers um i realize it's a new program and and there's a lot of been a lot of change in our district but uh this is a jumping-off place to start and and yeah i i do have some additional questions but i'd like to see the final numbers before before i raise them so when does at least you think you could give us a uh a 2.0 of this mr

055russo we will definitely have them available for the board packet um at the latest and probably at the earliest um thursdays before we send them out um we can have that information ready but all right sir thank you and then um i am prepared to take a motion to adjourn for now so we can go on to our next meeting so moved i hear it kate thank you kate all in favor aye aye so moved hey we'll see you all soon very soon thank you we're obviously you soon thank you all right everyone good night [Music] alright that was dirty come on

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