001e e e all rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge algi to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all okay um at this time I'm uh going to ask for a moment of silence uh we had a tragic loss um here recently with one of our fifth grade uh BMS students um javarius Gus Williams um tragically passed away in a fire and um two of his brothers were also hurt um I understand that that one has come back to uh school today um just uh if we could have a moment of silence for javarius and um hopefully his two brothers can have for con okay public to be heard all right uh good news
002that's me all right from the high school Jeremy metler I recently missed a couple of weeks of school due to surgery and Kelly buau stepped up to cover both clubs and run and recruited new members to join them in her first year of BHS she has gone she has made a positive impact on the building and more importantly on our students uh from the Middle School Karen shusky hope I said that right congratulations to the BMS robotics club for placing first in the research presentation at the first Lego League competition in lero on January 25th thank you to Chris Cummings and kianne McBride for their time and dedication preparing the students to be successful in their first ever competition and let's here from Jackson Amanda Thomas and mallerie shell we would like to thank kren
003from KMC Custom Cakes located right in bavia she came in to present two our first grade cooks and Bakers attending the cooking club cooking club is part of the 21st century programming at bcsd Kristen not only taught our students how to make buttercream frosting from scratch but she also donated all supplies to complete a project our boys and girls crafted the cutest valentine cupcakes Valentine lion cupcakes I'm sorry um and then from Robert Morris from Jessica corzilius thank you to the dedicated staff at Robert Morris each day they show up ready to learn and grow together their commitment patience creativity passion and teamwork make a significant difference in the lives of our children every day please know that your efforts do not go unnoticed and I'm incredibly proud proud to work alongside such a talented
004and caring group of individuals uh from the wintergard from shanon Mander congratulations to our bavia wintergard they hosted 28 winter guards from Canada and Western New York on Saturday February 1st the school was bustling all day with performances and was an enormous success a million thank yous to all the volunteers and staff for making the bet the bavia Winter Guard home show a huge succcess the student volunteers school resource officers and BHS custodial staff were intergr making the whole day run smoothly we could not have done it without you and there's plenty more where that comes from so um please um take a look at that and let's see up next now let's see here we have a bavia high school update Miss wesp and her team Miss Jordan and Miss Bina thank you you're
005so Qui well we are happy to be here to share some of the updates of the HS this year so we'll just start by introducing ourselves I'm Jenny West I am the high school principal R be assistant principal TR Jord sister schol oh I'm really bad at this my apologize so first we just always want to start with our mission and vision statements we know that this is really the road map for and so as a team um last year we um really highlighted some of these bold words and then we've continued to work around them so we just picked out a few of the words that really just talk about what it is that bavia we want to provide for our students and grow in our students in words like empowering students for their
006maximum potential and also the safe and nurturing environment to really just connect with that high moral character and to help children just meet their life's challenges successfully we also know that our strategic plan is the road map that we use Ed to guide all of our goals into all of the work that we do at the schools so um we just kind of put this up here and then we'll connect our goals to the actual strategic plan so as we thought about our work this year we really wanted to hone into two like bucket areas and so one of them is instructional practices we know that we are working on the PLC process we understand how important that is and truly the most um the the biggest bang for your buck in school honestly is
007truly learning how to grow your instructional strategies and classroom and really from the ground up building your school that way so with using collaborative structures and practices to actually maintain the PLC process um we have different things that we've added this year to enhance that goal also Safety and Security so this is my second year at Pavia so a lot of um last year was just kind of learning some things and trying to figure out our practices and our procedures and as we know Safety and Security are super important so one of our charges um as a team this year was to really to establish and maintain our structures and our protocols so really see what we have in place try to Almost Do A needs assessment and then also to be responsive to anything
008that we need to respond to so these are the two areas that we're just kind of focusing on in Broad and general ways so this year our theme um built on last year's so um as we talked about it and Miss Jordan was with me in the summer so that was nice I have two new ATS which is great we're so excited for Miss Lina to join us as well so when we really talked and grounded oursel into some of the work that we did last year you can see that we worked a lot on helping students St to really name some of those skills that they needed to develop and have our student or our teachers to kind of help these practices along the way so we had posters we talked a lot about
009it last year we had different um student meetings and that was a big theme of ours so this year we really talked about what do we want students to now think about and we decided everything we do in school is for learning so we really exist for learning it comes all the way from safety to what you're doing in a classroom to how you're interacting with your peers and things like that so we just really wanted to hone in for students that our goal here is truly to learn and grow so our first goal area hits three of our um parts of our strategic plan and as I said it was about the structures and the practices to maintain the PLC so the heart of PLC is really high quality instruction and this is really
010something that I care deeply about and when I think about highly high quality instruction I've been around for quite some time and there's a lot of buzzwords in school and a lot of things that we focus on but ultimately you know I was a special teacher for a long time as well and there's like three components that really make high quality instruction important and matter it's that epidemic rigor that everybody thinks about but it's also really that social emotional learning and community inclusivity so when you think about social emotional learning a long time ago we talked about it is it a separate thing and we also talked a lot about you know meeting kids where they're at cultural responsiveness things like that is almost like a side peripheral But ultimately in order to have high
011quality instruction you have to have all three of those components all the time working in conjunction with your teachers in your classroom as well as even in the hallways and study halls and things like that another way to think about it as really habits of heart mind and soul so if you think about mind right that's what we always think about school as being you're learning math and you're learning Ela and you're thinking about all of those important pieces of your content but also how are you at learning do you understand how you learn do you understand how your brain makes meaning do the teachers meet you where you're at as a you know an individual learner as well and then when you think about the habits of Soul you know a lot of times
012you talk about cultural responsive but it's truly about who are we how do we build that Community within how do we build tolerance acceptance inclusivity all across the board for students and how do we help them to know about each other right so they have to coexist in classrooms and sometimes they're friends and sometimes there's not but we all know because we work in the world you have to figure out how to maintain relationships and the better of a relationship that you have the more that you get out of that environment that you're in so professional learning communities so we looked at we started some of that great work last year and we looked a little bit at some of the things that we could work towards to help increasing increase our mission as we
013move forward so some of the things that we've done so far this year was We increased the amount of our common course teachers who have planning time that is pretty difficult in high school I'm not going to lie secondary has a lot of moving parts and teachers teach a lot of different things or a lot of different levels so we really looked at our core teachers especially in our regions areas with our high stakes tests and we try to increase increase the amount of common course planning time so we've charged their teachers who have that to take two out of their four monthly planning teams to use like that for data meetings and collaborative structures which works within their contract and they've also reported that you know it's great so it's really building that we
014don't want to be isolated in our space we're trying to really build that guaranteed and viable curriculum so if you go to one person's classroom and then get changed you're going to actually have a very similar experience that's enriching as structures that they're really digging in more than just kind of sitting around as a department saying what have you noticed lately or you know not as structures so they're um conversations are deeper and we're grow we're trying to grow that truly across the entire the whole entire system but entire our entire building so there are some things you know that we obviously start to work towards but this is a good first step in helping people to internalize these structures and have that common time together and then um we you know just that PLC
015professional learning and ongoing support So Dr Cory has brought us like a ton of wonderful resources through PLC uh solution trees so we're continuing to try to dig into those and to you know do some of that learning and growing as a team and pulling out that important information to continue to refine our instructional practices um so AP Focus right last year we w we talked a lot about questioning and discussion techniques and really just the reason I put this is those collaborative structures that's one of those highly effective ones that has a lot of impact when you look at res search so at faculty meetings we talk about high quality instruction we also go through the classroom observations as you know and we really focus in on what is the feedback that we're giving
016teachers and is it timely and is it you know important and comprehensive so we're really trying to not just make it kind of like spaghetti to wall right but make it make sense and come up with some common things we're thinking about and again with that post observation Fe that so the year year to glance has been going on for some time and I think a few years before I even came but last year we started to really look into what we have done and that's what we're we're charging our teachers to continue to do so our goal over time is to have our curriculums truly have a curriculum map to make sure that our teachers are offering the same experience as we said and really making sure that we're kind of Shoring off so
017sometimes when you you know someone might leave a district or something happens sometimes there's a gap because that person had a lot of that knowledge in their brain and maybe that knowledge and that expertise left with them so the goal over time is to not not everybody's an expert in different areas and we want to celebrate that but we also want to make sure that we have something that will continue no matter what changes in the school another thing that we added this year was Universal screener so we're still um kind of in the process where in our second goar around soon of just pulling some dat data Baseline so this is similar it's ISL you might know about it but it's kind of similar to I ready at the little kid schools so it
018gives us a chance to kind of dip in with our students and just get that student profile of where are their actual skills and then being able to measure it a few more times over the course of the year um ISL is pretty awesome it has a lot of great things it's aligned to the New York State curriculum it's aligned to the national standards it has a ton of things that are built into it it can support teachers in many different ways so the way that we really wanted it this year was truly just to start having another data point that we could have across the school that we could Monitor and um check in over time but this um ISL also has many other things so it has a lot of supports that kids
019can use almost independently so we think about it as a tool for our teachers to differentiate right we have many kids with many different skills in front of us and our teachers have a big charge they have a lot of time with their students there is 82 minutes which isn't always easy for a teen brain so we have to learn how to make small groups and how to just kind of be fluid and this just lifts some of that work for teachers because differentiation is is difficult but it's important um and I excel will also adapt to a student performance so it also has that other piece where if there's a student and there's a recognized skill deficit and perhaps that student wants to continue to work on it they can and that um program
020will be responsive to their levels or we know that sometimes our students need to be extended because they already come to the table with a lot of strength in that area so this Al also um offers another way that's pretty comprehensive and like I said is aligned to give some of that lift for a teacher but the teachers are still working with them it's not just like a go do off in the corner by yourself of course and I'm going switch it over to Mrs um so I'm just going to go off script for two seconds and just say um it's been my second month here and uh I'm learning but I am enjoying it um I work with a great team obviously staff and been super supportive always saying hello how can we help
021and it's just been a great atmosphere so I just wanted to throw that in there um for the academic eligibility uh it's it's really a great setup because we're trying to hold the kids accountable but we're also not trying to completely crush the so it sets them up where it's two different levels which level one and level two level one is if they're failing two classes level two is three or more um and the differentiation between those two is if they're at that level two they can still go to practice but they cannot participate in games versus level one as long as they're doing what they're supposed to be doing they're still able to maintain and participate um we have the extended day in the morning for an hour which that has actually um since
022this has been reinstated working with Joel which has been great um that has an increase so it's every day um obviously after school there's also an extended day that's available Monday Tuesday and Thursday again to support the student make sure that they're going two hours a week which is to get them to focus on academics um but knowing if they follow through with that do what they're supposed to do be responsible and get themselves off of that failing classes and they're removed from this being on either level um which is our goal at the end of the day we know that you know extra Cru stuff motivates kids make might make them come to school they have the best relationships we want to keep that going but economics have to come first too and to
023find that balance um so it kind of plays you know they play and and lend each other well for that um and we're just here to support kids at the end of the day and keep them going um and you know these pieces have really been been helpful and obviously they're responsible to to show their coaches that they're doing what they they need to and show that progress so again it's holding them teaching them responsibility accountability which are all great lifelong skills that they are going to so if I'm good and things are going to Mo well so as I talked about at the beginning that social emotional commitment is really important to students and to instructional um success so we did add a new position this year for seaon um and really what we're
024doing right now is we're taken an inventory of where our building is so we've um successfully done that we have um I apologize we have mental health Mondays and we have mental health circles um so and fern circles so essentially we do a lot of circling up in the high school and we increase that all the time what we recognize is that even though kids will sometimes say oh I don't want to talk about things or I just can't if you put them in a community Circle and you take away the risk value and you let everybody in the room including the instructor and the facilitator be a little more vulnerable great things come out of that and a lot of um harm that happens can be repaired just in that way so we do
025a lot of um those kinds of things and we also have a great student group so last year our students it was really cool I still don't know anybody else who's done this so I was so proud that our students were trained by pury to become student um facilitators of these circles which really has just snowballed there's been multiple cohorts now the middle school is involved we now have um some of our students who have been LED or have been taught to be trainers so we just continue to see this to expand over time and to just continue to be really one of our main Fingerprints of the high school we also have a lot of restored meetings and restorative reentries I'm not going to lie rest restoration takes a little bit of time right
026and it's not a one andone so we're seeing some of that growth we recognize it's going to take some more time um we do a lot of repairing harm and repairing harm conversations so you know often as a principal I get a a teacher who has um you know the incident perspective I have the student who has the incident perspective and I speak to both of them and what I really realized is they often want the exact same outcome they often have a lot of similarity in their perspective and playing a telephone game doesn't help so when we put the people in the room together and we do it respectfully with a structure and we give lots of opportunity to have a voice it really makes a deeper rooted repair versus just a consequence or
027a warning or something like that we're also very gratitude focused we had lots of Staff events staff shout outs student shout outs um we started skill groups really early this year so last year our counselors always do skill groups and our social worker but we really kind of came in this year identifying already some of areas that we could just get off the ground and running inclusivity and connection I also talked about that so during make a difference day everybody knows that usually well it's not usually our seniors go out into the community do wonderful things to connect so we identified that our nth and 10th graders this year may need to do a little bit more even repair among themselves because they have been in you know schools for years and they were reconnecting
028again so we made a make a difference day for the underclassman Edition this year and we took our n9th and 10th graders and uh we took a morning and we set up lots of stations with lots of different activities that they could connect in and play and you know they had games and sports and art making and print right you know all kinds of wonderful things so that was really awesome and it was really cool to see those students just coming together and you know a little prompts on how to share things also we have a student experience that's coming up called Ryan story and that will be in March and the middle school will have that as well and again it's just really about that social emotional piece and it's reflecting a young um
029person's unfortunate story when he was young and then we have our students Wellness faere which is very similar to our underclassman addition we did it last year where our entire School spends a portion of our day connecting and we will be doing that again in this as well our goal to is to establish and maintain um and to look at our safe and orderly school enironment so one of the things that we did right off the bat was we decided that we didn't really have like a threat assessment team and we would only you know we would meet often but it wasn't necessarily regular to monitor to think about to put all of the information at the same room so we do regular safety assessments now to to identify potential potential risks um in areas
030for improvement and then at the um at the team we create action plans for real and potential identified risk areas um that are focused on the recommendations of the entire safety team and then this team I'm sorry this ties into it as well um we have our administrators we have teachers we have our mental health professionals our security personnel and our school resource officer once a week for at least a half hour and more often as necessary as I said we've started to kind of create a database we've been able to pull in lots of different data points and it's really been helping us to just get a bigger deeper understanding of where our needs are and now I'm going to turn it over to Miss J so um when I came on this summer
031I was told that they had um had like some information from teachers and students about this hall pass so I had used it in my previous schools and um it's a really great system so we have been um working on that we've been kind of developing it it's different for every building because every building runs differently so we've had to make lots of tweaks and everything but um as a response to the safety concerns and the instructional concerns we have started this we started in January full force and it's been working really well um what it basically does is the students have like a digital pass they can sign out in several different ways however the teacher decides to do it in their classroom they can do um the student can make their own pass
032on their computer and the teacher can put in a pin or the teacher can make a pin or a pass and they can send them out that way or they can have a kiosk there's lots of options for them and then they get a little pass when it's approved they go out we all can see it on our device if we have a cell phone or an iPad we're walking around with we can all see you know that the student's supposed to be out or not and it's green while they're out and if it turns yellow we know they've been out for like I think we hav't set of 8 minutes or more so then that becomes like a concern because why over out for 8 minutes and are we doing what we're supposed to
033be doing so that's kind of a way to monitor the hallways and make sure the kids are um continuing to do what they're supposed to be doing um it also like um alleviates they being too many kids in the bathrooms at one time because they all have passes to different bathrooms and um it kind of just gives us a I don't know like a running record of the mo the students movements throughout so we can kind of track like how much instructional time they're missing um which is nice because a teacher or like if a parent comes in and is concerned about their students grades and stuff we can always go back and look and see that you know your student just last week missed over an hour of instruction with all their passes out
034to the bathroom maybe that's something that we can start you know addressing and and and do different kind of interventions for that student so it's a really great system and that like I said we're still making little tweaks here and there for our building to make it fit and I think the Middle School wants to start trying so yeah so yeah if I don't know if we have any questions or anything on it you guys and also so this is a response to some of the areas that we were struggling with and I also I know that we had um talked about the having the Safety Committee so I wanted to also talk about like just responding in in real time right so we did have an incident um this year at Pavia high school
035and so we are obviously worried about safety we were already thinking about our safety and procedur So based on the incident we had we held the public forum and we got the board approval we've updated our language and the code of conduct and we did um change our policy just a here to um say that basically we need our book bags and our blets and those kinds of things to go into our lockers so we've actually had an overwhelmingly positive response I would say um if you walk around our hallways I'm proud to say a couple weeks in kids are using their lockers um but it really is just going to show that as we continue to look at safety we have to look large and we have to look at being responsive in the
036same way um and then just the last thing is the cell phone policy so really it's the same as it was last year we know that New York state is going to charge us with maybe something a little bit different but this year we have continued to ask our students to stay off their cell phones in classrooms we have caddies in our classrooms our teachers build in a natural break because they recognize that the kids need to use their phones and still you know they're we want them to grow in Independence so they still use their phones and highways and lunches any questions just want to compliment you in your team the backpack roll out has been a textbook I'm in the hallways and I saw kids in the hallways this morning as have every
037day for the past couple weeks using the lockers and it's been smooth so nice job to you and to our staff and to our students as well so thank you for that thank you and I do want to say to you I have two staff members who just came because they're amazing just because they're amazing and they just wanted to show support for the high school so we that just goes to show how lucky I am to have the St love you guys love you guys all right so now we'll leave I think I talk to you but thank you very much thank you thanks ladies you all right up next 2025 2026 budget overview Mr Lang you're up all right so today uh based on our budget calendar we're going to go over a
038revenue update as of the most recent Revenue uh information that we have today um we're going to look at uh budgeted Appropriations for special aded uh instruction and benefits um we're going to go over a draft appropriation status time a current draft and then uh a budget summary and then ask answer any questions if you have any so again today is the prary update um we're going to look specifically at special education instruction and benefits B programs we're still waiting on some finalized uh figures for bosis so that'll be later on in the budget calendar but um mainly those areas of Appropriations um just some important dates obviously coming up May 12th we'll have our budget hearing uh 6 p.m. the superintend CER conference room in the May 20th is the budget vote in Board
039of election um and any additional propositions looking at projected revenue for the 25 26 school year this is the tax cap calculation I like to show this every year um mainly for a few reasons um so uh people usually consider this the 2% tax tax cap but it's really the calculated amount that we can increase the tax levy and that's an annual calculation that has various factors um two of these factors we really have no control over those are factors given us given to us by the comproller a tax based growth factor and then an allowable Levy growth factor which is either 2% or the rate of inflation whichever is less so for this coming school year the rate of inflation is greater than 2% so that factor remains at 2% but the bottom line
040is is this is the an illustration of the C of this coming year's tax cap calculation so we start with the prior year tax levy we apply these factors and then we we get to a total tax levy limit before any exclusions and we can exclude certain things like Capital exclusion any ERS or TRS contributions that we can exclude um so those are then factored and those are shown right here so the bottom line is the district's uh firm tax cap uh maximum allowable tax levy increase as a percentage is 2.22% and this is actually 2.22 478 I think is the actual calculation but so we're going to round it to 2.22% for this budget summary um so the total amount that we can in increase based on the 2.22 478 percentage is $4 52,5
041we can increase the tax levy from last year by that amount and still remain compliant with the tax c um so for the purpose of this summary I I'm I'm just rounding it and you'll see this figure the 41,000 as we go through the whole budget presentation but this is the represents a 2.22% increase in tax levy which is $ 41,5 34 so that brings our total tax levy amount in this draft of the budget to $2,798 70 and again that's an increase of 2.22% to go on here to the Chart we can see our three-year average our 5year average are 8 and 10 and 13 all are below 2% with the most recent being 1.83% if we look back even further a 13-year average of our tax levy increase is 1.06% to the 13-year
042average again looking at our estimated Revenue um more specifically our state aid and we've talked about this um in Prior presentations but um some highlighted areas obviously our foundation Aid this is using the governor's proposal which modif if the foundation Aid formula which that's why you're seeing that 8.9% increase in Foundation Aid this is the best case scenario um uh if we were to go back to the um to the enacted budget which we are in right now and and looked at the foundation Aid formula as it stands currently and applied it to 25 26 school year this number would be much less probably by around $515,000 so that's something to consider as going through the budget process is that um you know if there are changes uh in the legislative budget and then in
043the enacted budget we really need to focus on this Foundation weight amount we may need to adjust this but for the purpose of this current draft of the budget I'm using the governor's proposal which included an increased Foundation Aid uh in in the form of 88.9% from year to year okay um one of the other things that we adjusted um when we're looking at state aid is I decreased the amount of State share Medicaid payments this is a deduct from our total state aid um this is just based on historical factors I'm seeing that we're not we're not reaching the negative $145,000 Mark it's it's less than that so we felt comfortable and bringing that amount down which increased the total state by $45,000 local revenues these are all of our other revenues that don't
044aren't categorized as tax levy or state aid um so one of the um you can look at this these are the highlighted areas are the really um drastic changes from year to year but just to to highlight some of these utility taxs this is a sales tax that's placed in um poav City School District resident areas for the purchase of utilities such as telephones Gas Propane things like that um so the district receives basically a sales tax on all the sale of those items um districtwide so um that has been growing over the past cou couple of years as the price obviously of our utilities have increased so um just looking at the uh previous years we could adjust that accordingly so we're showing $159,000 increase in utility tax um next interest and earnings this
045is a big a big change from prior year um the district had um invested our reserves in some different areas and we're show showing a greater rate of return which is is great because um obviously that's used to to balance the revenue side of the district's budget so and analyzing that we're pretty confident that we could increase the amount of Interest earnings by around $600,000 year to year so that's certainly a great um a great opportunity for the district S Scrap um we are going to replace some equipment um for next school year so we're anticipating the sale of those of that equipment so increase the amount of Revenue on the sale of scrap side so obviously goes against any general fund expenditure appropriation that we'd be spending to purchase the new equipment so it
046kind of offsets um and the refund of Prior year expenses bosis is required to refund any dist districts any surplus annually and we're seeing that continually increase from year to year so we're confident in increasing that by $90,000 from year to year on the revenue side of the budet so overall we're looking at a pretty drastic increase little over a million dollar $3.4 million in total from year to year appropriated fund balance uh this is again the amount of savings the district is utilizing to balance the following Year's budget and as we talked about during the long range financial plan in previous budget presentations the goal was to reduce that amount of appropriated fund balance and so you can see from the chart that we have consistently about right around 4% of the general fund
047budget of appropriated fund balance that we're utilizing to balance the budget and last year we did have an increase um so this year we we wanted to make sure to get that down into a level that's more appropriate more financially responsible and so we decided to take it down to right around 4% of the total budgeted Appropriations so again um that's a a decrease of a little over a million dollars so we're only appropriating $2.5 million um which is really good especially if we're not relying on that to balance our budget every year we don't want to rely on our savings account to balance the budget as as we as we move through subsequent years it's there as a as a precautionary measure so again we're we're really doing well with that as well so
048that chart shows it but again that's what what's included in the current draft of the budget and then overall this is just a summary of of total revenue uh estimated revenue for the 25 26 school year again we're showing an increase of 4.76% or little over $2.8 million year to year so on the expenditure side of the budget there's just some budgetary considerations as we are going through the budget process and developing the general fund budget for the next school year one of the areas health insurance uh the J area healthcare plan set rates uh at its last meeting to increase 12% year toe so a significant amount um in year to year which you'll see you'll see in in subsequent slides um but that's certainly any double digit with our health insurance obviously the
049employe um as the employer we pay employer contribution for all of our employees to participate in the health insurance program and uh that's an that's a large increase in year to year um uh we have been seeing an increase in in students receiving special education out placements so tuition for special education students who are being outplaced who have a um who require placements that we can't provide here in District um so we are seeing that um we have some Replacements of retirees we have an administrator a secretary we're engaging class right now you know for example we have U two fiz teachers who are retiring so we're engaging in the proc right now not saying they're not going to be replaceable we just going through our due diligence checking every every um you know you
050know um all the spots we have open okay um we do have a outplacement special education Transportation contract um that we believe will need to go out to bid for so we'll see an increase in in cost potentially for that as well so that's again budged for this in this draft of the budget one of the areas that I know we've talked about um before is the potential loss of Federal grant funding so that's something that's certainly concerning with um a lot of the programs that we have um utilizing Grant funds uh title Grant idea Grant funds um so as a result of that um and in consultation with the superintendent uh We've started to try and do what we can to build in those Federal um salaries and mostly employees those are employee salaries
051um into the general fund budget um just to to protect the district and protect those programs in the event that we might lose that Federal funding so as much as possible um this budget includes the inclusion of some of those salaries um especially for those teachers um in the in the general fund as well instead of having them solely budgeted in the special Aid fund which that's where we account for those federal grants okay Employee Retirement System contributions this is the district's employer contribution for ERS so the New York State local retirement system we're seeing that increase this year um TRS is actually looking at potentially decrease or is it decreasing for next year um or remaining relatively flat so really ERS is is the only one so we have to pay um a portion
052of um all the ERS salaries all Civil Service employee salaries to ERS annually and as that rate increases our obviously our employer contribution rate increases as well uh just some quick statistics we have 18 1 12 administrators 268 teachers 102 teacher aids custodial staff 38 clerical 27 or grand total of of 453 12 um total employees right now these are reg these are regular employees uh 10 and 12 month employees does not include nutritional services staff because those are not budgeted for in the general fund we pay those directly out of the cafeteria fund it's completely separate fund um just some quick statistics $ 28.9 million is salaries um3 13.6 almost $ 13.7 million is our benefits to a total of $42.6 million so that represents 67.4% of the district's budget is salary and benefits
053which certainly makes sense as we're a service provider education um just something to consider as we're going through especially the instructional portions of the budget that's where the lion share of the funds and the general fund go towards a salary and benefits for our employees so this is just a summary of all of what I would consider the instructional functional areas of the budget uh it includes uh curriculum development supervision research teacher um a regular school students with disabilities special education occupational ad all of the various areas of instruction um I'm going to point out some of the areas U board members you have detailed more detailed summaries in your packets that you can certainly review and ask if you let us know if you have any questions but just to highlight some of these
054areas um uh social work you're seeing an increase there um we've been additionally with federal funds we've been trying to build in more of these Grant funded positions in the general fund so that's why you're seeing an increase there um we're taking a long range approach and trying to add maybe one of those positions in the general fund annually so um that's why you're seeing a drastic increase there um the majority of increases especially up here with um with teaching regular school those are just our contractual increases for our teacher salaries um that's the line share of those increases um attendance regular school I mean it's a it's a negative percentage it's not a large amount a lot of that is just breakage as we have Personnel changing in those areas um same with school
055Psychology Services we had some breakage in there we had um a a school a longing School psych psychologist leave and some breakage there as well so um but overall in the instructional functional areas of the budget we're looking at a 4.69% increase so it really kind of keeps par with the remainder of the district's budget around 4.6% the majority of this is related to again um salaries and and contractual increase resulting from Collective party agreements um another big portion of the district's budget like we talked about is um employee benefits so this is um this this this is the section looks at rep uh retirement benefits Social Security workers compensation unemployment and medical insurance so you can see um you know pretty large increases in some of these really large areas of the budget right
056um uh 9% with with medical insurance again that is compounded by the 12% increase in in health insurance rates um we have some changes in in the amount of plans Etc so um that's in alignment with that 12% increase in health insurance um Again State retirement and teachers retirement system again those are all linked to the total salaries that we have um so again as the salaries increase and employer contribution rates increased those areas will also increase as well throughout the budget I'm not anticipating any uh increase in cost for workers compensation that's been pretty steady and then uh as well as unemployment we've been relatively steady in those two those two areas the benefits um from year to year so overall just to take a look at a budget at the budget summary of
057the current graph of the budget overall again 4.7% uh 76% increase in um in total estimated expenditures for 2526 and a 4.76% increase in estimated Revenue uh again this draft of the budget is presenting as as balanced so revenues are are matching our expenditures at this point in the budget process and again uh the balance includes a $451,000 increase in the tax levy which represents exactly 2.22% increase from prior year over the tax levy and uh which which will increase the tax levy to a total of 20,7 19,8 70 any questions so had um the district not done as well as it did with the interest that it received which obviously would be offset would be less in the revenues part of this budget where would to be able to balance the budget where would
058that money have come from to be able to balance the budget on the revenue side you would have to probably appropriate more fund balance of reserves yep so it certainly was beneficial in balance of the budget for this year Abol to we made that move last year right to a different financial institution or yeah yeah and balances yeah so so interest obviously you know your your investment strategy um also overall interest earnings in the market uh for last year the market has been fairly doing fairly well so obviously um that combined with our balances in those investment accounts some those you know very purposeful moves on our part um when do you when do you anticipate hearing about the federal funding that's kind of a day-by-day it is um update so just keeping our our
059eyes you know kind of peeled and open on um new Communications as of as of right now at this time it appears to be safe but as and he said has been changing literally so as of right now we've been assured that the federal funds just you justly where they are um it did create some chaos a couple weeks ago for us across the whole country actually uh but now I think some of that has been pulled back so we're still kind of U riding and out but as of right now at this moment um we're less worried about it but just in case the said we did essentially double budget some of those funds to make sure we're covered so they don't have an issue down the road just kind of like kind of
060like we do through the social work concept yeah mechanism of trying to preserve these programs in the event that you do lose those federal funds so so if we pass this budget in May and something comes down from the federal government about cutting funds where will we get that money so we're balancing the budget right now um including some of those a lot of those Federal funded um salary positions so if we pass a budget in May um that's similar to the one that I'm presenting you today um you'll have a lot of those positions built into the general fund budget we'd be able to pay for those um out of the general fund budget okay um but um only a portion as many as as could fit um you know without creating a deficit
061okay so that that's kind of been the goal also over time we F some those so you we have M have all the different title grants Rec call so we have like our reading teachers in their Sumer School those p the title one so in time we want to phase those back into our general fund we've done some of that now but if we do it all at once it's a lot to like kind of take down sort to phase it in over time just like we don't the social workers y any other questions all good thank you all right thank you thanks Andy thanks all right next up superintendent report Mr Smith so thank you um couple of things come positive to sh I want to recognize um our boys and girls track team
062they W sectionals this past Thursday night uh both boys and girls so congratulations to them and their coaches and to the students of course we have sectional this week basketball is happening and hockey in the second round of course this week we have the musical Newsies Friday Saturday 7:00 p.m. Sunday at 2 um that's where Pam is tonight he's in the show uh looks like to be a great show I'm honored to be playing the students in the pit so that's exciting on March 3rd we're partnering with our local Key Club in Kanas to celebrate re Across America we have several colians coming into our schools we all the Key Club members under the advis Alison cha to read to students at JK Jackson Rober Morris on March 3rd I again I want to recognize
063Mr raser the BHS team the admin team staff and students and thanks also to the board and for our safety Community for your support and your support of the CH of the backpack policy I said students are at the offers every day I mentioned this in some of my written some of my recent reports but I working with the BTA on updating our teacher evaluation system we're finally allowed to make some positive changes so we've had a couple meetings already and looking forward to working with Antonio and Mark and Dr Cory and also members of her admin unit as well making some changes to the um to the system uh also recogniz our Winter Guard I at the home show the first Saturday in February was a fantastic show I today very well they just
064TR traveled I think to Massachusetts this past weekend and finally congratulations to our Su come out as students they were recognized in this room a couple weeks ago for class of 2025 those are our top graduates so want to recognize them um they're also shared on Facebook so any questions thank you okay then next up would be our student ex officio report cam you're up nope Cam's not here because he's at rehearsal so I get to do it and uh thanks to Mr Smith he took a lot of my stuff away as cam would say um the Tav Varsity Cheer took first place at both the Ana Winter Wonderland competition and the Mercy Mercy Paws Up competition they went to sectionals on February 15th but did not place in a very challenging division however they
065did give a great performance their season wrapped up on February 19th at senior night um but t n hockey won their first round of sectionals 8 to one and have moved on as Mr Smith said to the semi-finals and uh Newsies is on this weekend tickets are on sale and of course the Tavia track obviously won sectionals again um as always uh both boys and girls won and um that's all there is for that let's see here all right next up consent grouping I need a motion to approve the grouping of consent items so more Miss Lind can I have a second second Miss Anderson all in favor I all right now we're on a new business um resolution to create a civil service position Human Resources Director any questions on that no all right
066could I have a motion please miss L could I have a second Mr R all in favor I any oppos did you say it no I did he did too no he did too he did he just hear him at all he gave me a look like a Dearing headlight sorry um two approval of annual district election voter registration as listed any questions all right can I have a motion so Mo let SP can I have a second second Miss L all in favor I anyos three 2025 election nominations to the board of janese Valley bosies any questions can I have a motion so miss benedi could I have a second second Mr R all in favor I any oppos number four policy updates from irie1 Bose's policy audit recommended by board policy committee with
067request to wave second reading any questions could I have a motion m l can I have a second second yeah number five approval of Board of Education meeting schedule for 2025 2026 Mr R could I have a second second Miss Anderson all in favor I any oppos number six approval of the 2025 2026 bcsd school calendar any questions none can I have a motion more Miss Benedict could I have a second second Miss Anderson all in favor I any oppos number seven approve resolution to reopen Robert Morris Elementary School 8 Union Street to serve pre kindergarten students beginning in the 2025 2026 school year any questions has it always we have we have to do this so no we had to do this for the upcoming Capital project so the state needs like a resolution
068from even it's already open as I explained so the state needs us Andy's been working that and U this is the final step to have that ready to go the Project's done so yeah can I have a motion so Mo Miss Benedict can I have a second Mr R all in favor all right discussion and or other reports uh the curriculum and operations and the business office uh reports are all online uh please take a look at those at your leisure um board goals how we doing on have board goals I appreciate the reminder I think we've been doing pretty good on um is there any uh board member comments or any news to share anybody nothing anything no no okay all right going to have a call for executive session the board will not
069return to public session um this call for executive session um will be to discuss matters relating to the medical financial credit or employment history of a particular person or Corporation or matters leading to the appointment employment promotion demotion discipline suspension dismissal or removal of a part particular person or Corporation could I have a motion Mr R could I have a second Miss Anderson all in favor I any call