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Work Session/Budget Work Session #2

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YouTube / East Rockaway School District Events
Date
2025-03-05
Location
Nassau County, NY
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5,003 words · about 28 min
Collected
2026-06-08

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001good evening everyone welcome to this this special meeting and work session of the East Rockaway Board of Education I'd like to call the meeting to order at 6:07 p.m on Tuesday March 4th 2025 at this time can we please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God liy and Justice all right um first item is old business Mr G Tomaso old business old business okay do you want to mention that now yes I'll mention we just want to update the community uh very quickly uh the onepage calendar that we put up on the website there was slight confusion yes and a mistake um we had as a second snow day uh Monday Memorial Day

002which obviously will not be a second snow day it will be the 22nd so I just uh we'll have it updated on the website and it will be on for board approval today the changes will be tomorrow so I apologize uh for that uh confusion but it'll be corrected as of tomorrow morning that's all I have all right um moving on we have a special meeting uh special meeting agenda tonight um has to do with the school calendar at this time can I have a resolution to approve the corrected 2025 2026 School District calendar um can I have a motion to accept resolution I'm sorry wait a minute there one here to uh yeah can I have a motion to accept resolution 2A motion motion by Mrs Salo second second second by Mr lores all

003in favor opposed stain motion approved um uh item three consent agenda uh be hereby resolved that the Board of Education creates and accepts a consent agenda with the following items recommendation of superintendent Personnel schedules item 4 a through d uh at this time can I have a motion to accept resolution 3A motion motion by Mr lores second second second by Mrs Doyle all in favor abstain motion approved that's it 3 a okay items for work discussion session let's see um all right first off are there any questions regarding the minutes of the February 11th meeting no nope no okay uh are there any questions regarding the agenda items for the next board meeting on Tuesday March 11 no no okay um this time I'd like to turn the meeting over to Mr Van Wart for

004the budget work session presentation thank you okay so this is budget work session number two so I'm going to give a quick update on state aid not much has happened to update the board on since our last work session at the end of February uh but I did want to highlight one thing this time last year our second work session was at the end of March we had known at that time that the one what they call the one house um budget adoptions were so we had an inclination as to where the assembly and the state senate was going we don't have that yet in the next work session I should have that information and potentially we may have a pass budget because it's going to be happening in April statutory deadline for the budget

005to pass is April 1 last two years they've been going a lot past that hopefully this year they pass the budget on time um we have our final tax levy cap number I'll talk to the that in a second our recommendations for the use of reserves for the 2526 um budget and then miss mlen will come up here and present an overview on the technology department as well as uh a recap on all the great things we did in technology using the budget that the voters supported this past year and then where we're looking to go with next year I'll cover facilities and transportation and I'll give an update on salaries and benefits and some other budget areas I always like to start with our um our our district strategic plan so when we pass

006a budget we align our expenditures with our district um strategic goals and aligned with the opportunity achievement connection and Innovation pillars so really the one update I wanted to give on state aid from our last budget meeting uh was that what happens is when we get executive uh Bud state aid numbers from the governor proposal it's based on projected enrollment numbers that are submitted by the district right around the time when our financial statements for the previous year are finalized so we anticipate what enrollment will be in February on February 15th the database that support in the governor's proposal Cuts over to an actual number um of of student enrollment and with that cut over there's some adjustments that usually happen um if you project 100% correct there would not be a difference in your

007in your state number that rarely ever happens I'm happy to say that this year our projections that we put into the um what's called the st3 was slightly lower enrollment wise than what actually ended up in the Fe February 15th database so our our projected number for what is called um total aable Foundation pupil units and that's basically enrollment with a lift on top of it of extraordinary needs for students of elves um special needs students if you have a higher percentage of those students your total aable found Foundation pupil units is higher so we projected 1354 um back in September the actual number is 1361 so that translates into an additional seven units times our Aid um per student so we're expecting to see about a $34,000 increase in our foundation aid number assuming

008every item that was in the governor's proposal passes as is so there could be some adjustments again with the foundation a that we actually received based on where the legislature goes when they pass the budget but this is good news so the the the number the unit number being higher even if there are adjustments we're likely to see a higher Foundation aid number for 2526 than we originally were projecting so our final tax cap number for 2526 is 3.04 the last budget session I had anticipated was going to be about 2.6 it actually came in higher than we were expecting uh and the reason for that is that the East Rockway tax grow Spate factor which is the state's measurement of the ability of the community to support a school budget with the tax base

009increased year-over-year from 1.01 08 to one from 1.07 um because of that it increased our tax cap number a little bit we don't anticipate coming anywhere near the tax cap for 25 26 at this point um but it is a little bit higher our our tax levy increase last year was about 1.90 to give you some perspective um and again it's not something that we anticipate we're going to need to go to 3.04 based on our Revenue projections for this year um but that is the number for for 2526 I'll just talk a little bit about what we expect to use for Capital reserves and we're planning for for 25 26 um and I talked about this in previous work sessions but in 23 24 sorry 20 yeah 2324 the voters authorized the use of

010up $313,000 of capital reserve money for the restoration of the high school KOA we submitted plans to the state at that point um to to refurbish the Koopa it took about a year for the pl to be approved we did a bid immediately after bid specs came back and the submissions came back significantly higher than we were anticipating a lot of that was inflation um also just the nature of the project it's not that common so our architect did the best that they could to forecast what was going to cost but things like restoring a bell um adding to the side of the coua which is currently wood the cost came back a lot higher than we were expecting so at that point we had a decision do we do this project and fit under

011the budget that was authorized by the voters which would require us to use cheaper materials so mostly wood or do we wait we have S approval already and seek additional Authority from the voters to expend more money on the project but put in and use materials that are going to withstand the test of time so we're not constantly doing maintenance to the koua in the future so fix it basically um and not have to worry about ongoing maintenance costs associated with it we landed on option two um and working with our architect we're recommending another authorization from the community of an amount not to exceed $250,000 the reason why we are recommending $250,000 because we already have some data on what the bids came back at Falls kind of in the middle of the five

012bids we received it should give us the ability to do this project the way we want to do it um now if the bids come in lower we would not use obviously the the uh the amount that's authorized by the community it's called it not to exceed it just means we can't go higher than that amount so that would would be a um that would be a separate line item on the ballot for 2526 some of the other work that we are planning on doing and recommending to do for 25 26 that's incorporated as part of the overall budget using a line in the budget called transfer capital is enhancements districtwide for our sidewalks and parking lots um we're looking at some light enhancements at the high school and a major project that's on the

013top of everybody's mind that we want to work on moving forward is repainting the high school it's a little outdated um we've been discussing with our building admin uh refurbishing the lockers and painting the corridors to be more aligned with the district's colors and branding Etc um so the recommendation for 24 526 is $100,000 transfer to Capital um amount which is about $10,000 increase budget to budget and I'm just going to pause right there and and Miss MCL will come up and just talk about technology and then I will come back and speak about facilities and transportation okay I'm Bonnie Mullin director of Technology learning analytics here so uh technology I like to say is the heartbeat of the district connecting keeping everyone connected right don't we all agree with that and I feel that

014it's best when it brings people together helping students learn helping teachers teach and just keeping everyone connected and keeping families in touch with the school you know as I was putting this together um I thought when I was a young girl in school there was no such thing is a technology department and now here I am presenting calling it the heartbeat of this history so that's a br thing I divided the department into four components infrastructure and devices software and applications support and training and innovation the future plan so infrastructure and devic is the hardware that keeps the heart beating in the district encompasses over our district we have 1,200 student devices um we have 3 to 12 third grade through 12th grade one to one Chromebooks although K1 and two we don't really call

015them Ono one because they don't take the devices home each child in those grades do have their own device to work on in the classroom so that gives us about 1,200 student devices we have 140 instructional workstations that we just refreshed this this school year that I will talk about um instructional workstations are teacher desktops in all the classrooms we have 110 teams phones that were just rolled out in the last month upgraded our entire phone system the teams uh we have 150 brand new access points that were just updated this SCH year and we have interactive boards in each classroom and that's just the highlights of the hardware we have among so many other things software and applications is really my favorite part of the job I love working with the software and the

016instructional programs uh for teachers class link is the main platform that we use for teachers and staff to for their single sign on for all of our applications and it's not only instructional it's also workflow apps too Infinite Campus is in there an app for our email as well just some of the highlights this year we uh introduce Book Creator par and square of course the district communication app canva everyone's favorite design Tool uh classwise which is a teacher management tool for managing fil books and student usage in the classroom and new turn it in for teachers checking student originality for their writing support and training because technology changes so often from day I want to say year to year but really it is dayto day and hour to hour it's so important to have

017support and training for teachers and staff so we do that in a couple of different ways um help tickets is one for the technology department last year 2324 the technology team resolved 3,000 help ticket help tickets I asked them for that number and they were able to give us that 3,000 help tickets are very proud of that were resolved in 2 24 and so far 1,900 this year alone and we're only in well not only but we're in March almost 2000 already for professional development we utilize model schools um working on model school it's are um both he consultant that will be in house coming up soon for a new app to talk to you aboutou slides U to teacher professional periods and Conference days we use for training for support and any any questions

018any new initiatives we have in the district and Bose's has come on site for various things the team's phones for one when we rolled those out we had a full Bose team that came in and spoke to each district walked into the offices and worked with administrators and staff clarify and worked on those FS with that and just in 2425 some of the learning apps uh talked about with canva that we did uh turn it in parents Square I came into each district U sorry each district each building and I worked with the teachers um I also visited each of the faculty me so work with them there and the phones we discussed that uh innovation of future planning is another favorite of mine like I said it changes so much everyone's talking about AI

019now ai is is not only the future it's present right now we've adopted magic school which is a comprehensive platform designed to integrate AI into the daily workflows of Educators and it is the number one artificial intelligence tool right now for educators and students because it is built primarily for schools teachers and students um we're having a model schools representative come in for at least two days per building to work with teachers to show them how to use it to work with them answer questions and support them we're starting uh this month with a pilot of magic school and then we're excited we're going to roll into a full license next year uh beginning with U I started with uh I wrote daily work fors for educators because we're going to beginning with how teachers

020are going to lose it first and then moving on to students after the teachers are comfortable with that uh so pretty much all of that was my budget and program highlight took 2425 the instructional workstation refreshed each of the classrooms that we did the Wi-Fi access points the phones this was all part of the 2425 budget that we have accomplished so far there new apps I talked about and wh okay and uh parents Square we rolled out this year and in a couple of weeks actually is the new website that's going to be onail so very excited about that okay and here's the proposed budget so looking by the numbers uh many of the numbers from 24 to 25 from 2425 to 2526 did remain the same there's a couple of changes let me you

021know I'm actually GNA stand on this side that's okay see just little explanation we have state AED hardware and state AED Hardware repair that we've reusing for some new line boards and for some repairs and that those two lines get back we get 100% of that fact from the state another thing I want to to explain the tech bosis leases went down a little bit from last year to this year the techos leases leases are all of our computers each year we refresh third grade and eighth grade with new Chromebooks so annually we have those two grades get new Chromebooks and the older ones get pushed down to use for loners or for the K12 kits also in there we're going to spread out over the next two to three years to refresh admin workstations

022and by admin workstations that's everyone in an office not uh technically an admin although some of them are admin it's anyone that's in an office the main offices those are admin workstations that's how we distinguish between those and instructional so admin workstations and admin laptops will be phasing over the next two to three years line and then the last one the techy Services you'll see an increase there that increase is due to these two items right here that came as a result of the recommendation of our internal Auditors the first one is Cy cber Security Services based upon our District's needs that are powered by Microsoft Sentinel and we'll also uh we proposing incident IQ which has two modules that we're looking to get the help ticket management and asset management I just want to

023explain those two uh the cyber security services partnership with bosies is a full setup and maintenance of Microsoft Sentinel how that differs from Microsoft Defender where Microsoft Defender protects the individual device Microsoft send protects the entire it infrastructure of the district with this service we'll have monitoring of our network from 7:00 a.m. to 500m by a human I like saying this by a human it's it's not a computer that's monitoring a human sitting there and then if it's overnight if it's past five o'clock the account gets locked until the next day if God forbid I would say God forbid it was malware or fishing or Ransom or anything like that um protection so by locking it down in the evening nothing will get affected it's kind of like putting it in like a jail almost

024until it can be worked on we'll have initial and periodic assessments of the district Network a review of firewall rules for Best Practices full handling of responding to incidents both proactively and reactively and review and maintain the maintenance of all email policies they will be working hand in hand as a main partnership with the dropway on the cyber security initia and as you know this is so super important today and this I'm very excited about so like I told you about uh the 3,000 help tickets and this year so far in 1900 what incident IQ does the ticketing system gives full control to the district the current system we have if someone teacher or supports thata puts in a help ticket something needs to be fixed something needs to be looked on it goes to

025bosies and then it comes back to us so with this it's eliminating that middleman we will be in better control of this tickets better able to organize them and better able to address them immediately um and then with the asset management there's it's a realtime inventory of all of our purchase assets such as Chromebooks the boards workstations printers copiers any the way it was explained to me anything that has a serial number will be inventory into this and again it was our internal order that suggests we get this to keep everything better organized and better managed we do have a system now it's not perfect this will help it to be close to perfect and it will give us a more effective tracking of device repairs where if a student has I'm looking at Dr

026I know we talk about this a lot if a student has a Chromebook that needs to be repaired and needs to get sent out that students issued a loner with this system it's it better it's easier to track when the student brought it in when it left when it's coming back and who has what so it's it's it's a great great system so we're looking forward to there any questions on any of that thank you I'll just add to thank you Mr that's great um an internal control perspective there's a framework called um basically the uh the framework that almost every organization builds their control environment around to ensure um internal controls are there to either prevent or detect a cyber security event um some of these recommend ations that m m has built into

027her budget uh these are things that the nist framework would would uh if we had somebody to come in and look at our at our District's compliance with this framework these are the types of things that uh would address some of the standards inside of that I mean Sentinel one Sentinel as an example if you've ever heard of the the the software crowd strike it's effectively the Microsoft equivalent of that and and what it does is it it has a huge data set of um uh suspicious events and if it detects on that on any any computer in our Network at any point it basically Auto quarantines that computer and stops the spread of any potential malware Etc something we don't currently have that is is something that would make our District's Network a lot

028more secure in the future um so I appreciate that Mr mclen brought that um in her budget pres uh budget meetings with me and and we were able to add it to the budget for this year I think it will um significantly improve our security for for 25 26 so I'll just um I'll just talk quickly about facilities and transportation and what's in the budget for this year just to give a quick overview our facilities department they oversee all of our building operations our maintenance of physical plant um and handles the crown the grounds keeping for all of our properties uh our staff is 18 FTE across all of our three buildings um that includes custodial our maintenance crew as well as our grounds Keepers our transportation department is a bit of a hybrid we

029do some in District transportation and then we also contract out for our Island District routes so we have two IND District bus drivers we have four in District vehicles um our in District bus drivers handle a lot of our overflow routes as well as our special needs students um field trips and also provides transportation for our after school athletic programs um our out of District routes for the most part are contracted out we currently use uh four vendors independent coach Guardian bus new transport and first student we also have a number of Bose's routs where we contract directly with Bose's with then subsequently subcontracts out with other vendors or provides Transportation using their existing staff just give you a perspective on what our outof district transport looks like we transport for 2425 to 13 nonpublic

030schools two Charter Schools we have two Bose Career Technical education schools and seven Bose special Edge schools that we contract out transportation for as well as we also uh transport out to NASA Community College for some of our seniors so this is the facilities budget so facility these budget is built into two sections the 1620 function code and 1621 this is like your ongoing operation of plant um section of the budget so what you'll see here the highlights are pretty much everything is flat except for utilities so we're anticipating that utilities are going to go up by about 11.7% in 25 26 I'm anticipating that number should start going down as we get the EPC going and the lighting gets replaced and we do some more weatherization of our buildings but for now a conservative

031estimate we have for 5 26 is that increase right there one other thing to highlight previously in the facilities budget for operation of plant we had a $226,000 budget in 2425 for Security Services that's because we used to contract out for our security guards out for the external portions of our building with making those employee those contracted employees are employes that line item has dropped down to about $20,000 which is there in the event that we need to use a a contracted security company to provide substitutes for our security guards that are on staff um outside of that everything else is pretty flat uh year-over-year so the overall impact for the facility budget is $138,000 decrease this $26,000 decrease though is a little bit misleading because you will see an increase in the salary side

032with with the new um security guards coming onto our payroll so reduction in contractual costs slight incre uh not slight increase a little a little bit of an increase on the salaries and benefits but the salaries and benefits were paying to these employees as ours is less than the amount that we would have paid if they were contracted on the maintenance side so this is the 1621 function area of the budget um very flat year-over-year we're only expecting a $110,000 increase and the only reason why we have a $10,000 increase in this space is because public health law requires us to do every three years testing over our water or drinking water for life um that's coming due for the East Rock School District in 2025 the deadline is December 31st we built into the

033budget um additional costs associated to have Euros signs come in and do that on testing for us on our behalf on the transportation side so when we projected out the contractual cost for transportation for 25 26 um at this point we know 90% of what the cost is going to be what we don't know is there going to be any new schools that parents in the community are going to be requesting for their kids for transportation so April 1st is the deadline for our non-public Transportation requests to come in the projections we have here assume that there are no changes in routes for 25 26 from the status quo um for contracts that under New York State Ed pil Transportation regulations uh Transportation vendors are allowed to continue to extend contracts for up to 10

034years at no more than a CPI increase so for the vent so every year we send out basic basically letters to ask our vendors do you intend to extend with the district with um at no cost higher than CPI um and if they say yes we generally will extend with them because it's in the benefit of the district financially to do so if they say no we have to do a full bid when you do a full bid you're running the risk of getting a significant cost increase so when we built the budget for this year for that line item there we took the existing routes we layer it on a 10% rate increase for the vendors that have not notified us to date that they are willing to extend and we raised uh the

035other routes by 4% for the ones that we know that they're going to extend anticipating that CPI is going to come in around 3% but just giving us that extra 1% allowance in the event that it comes in a little bit higher than we're expecting and I mentioned this in my previous budget presentation but the Bose's routes for this year we've already been told by B Bose that those routes we should expect 30% increase and they charge us by student enrollment so we we factored in that 30% increase times the number of students that are currently enrolled at bosies between our special ed programs as well as our CTE programs and that all added up to about 1.26 million which is about a $443,000 reduction year-over-year even with the increases and the reason for that

036is because we combined quite a few routes this past year after we settled the budget we look to optimize the routes and combine and reduce cost um as we get closer to the budget adoption date as I get more information from the Transportation vendors from bosis on what we're expecting we would adjust this number as an example I just got a notification from first student earlier probably about a half hour before this meeting that said they were willing to extend so we will be adjusting that number a little bit lower because I was factoring in that they were not extending um budget adoption date we should have all that information already known but this gives you a sense of where we're going to end up in terms of Transportation our athletic Transportation contractual code is

037going up just a little bit because we've added quite a few new sports teams over the course of last year or so so the transport for that is adjusted to account for those new teams field trip pretty flat supplies and gine not expecting much of an increase there and the maintenance we think is pretty good in terms of what the budget is year year real quickly on so on the salaries and fringe benefits side of the house I like this pie chart because it really it really emphasizes that um despite all the other stuff that we're talking about really most of the cost of running a school dist is in salaries and benefits because our product is our teachers and our support staff um this is what our budget looks like in terms of our

038projections today for salaries and fr benefits year-over-year last year our employee salaries were about $24.3 million of budget for 2526 we're expecting it's going to be about 25.5 million now what's going into that number this factors in the security guards that we brought in onto our payroll this includes all the contracts that we've settled or anticipate we're going to settle before the end of 20 2425 school year this includes any staffing additions that we've had since the budget was last settled in 2425 so for example we've added a number of special education aids to meet IEP requirements um we've hired an occupational therapist and brought that in District instead of Contracting out for it and we've added increased the number of FTE on our speech um teachers as well um and this also factors 10%

039increase in health insurance premiums for the 6 months of starting January 1st 2026 we don't know the N Ship premium rate increases until usually November uh just based off of the last year couple of activ last year of rate increases 10% is a conservative number we were fortunate last year where the rate increase is only about 1% for family plans 3% for individual plans um but that was just a one-ear event the previous three years before that ranged between 10 and 15% so we feel comfortable with a 10% um projection for 2526 even with that 10% increase we're not looking at a huge budget to- budget increase in health insurance it's only $77,000 and that's because we budgeted for a much bigger increase in 2425 then action came to fruition so that money was already

040budgeted for when we do the same projection for 2526 using the 10% lift it only results in $77,000 budget to- budget impact so all in when you factor in the new salaries and then the benefits associated with it FICA ERS TRS it's about a $ 1.5 million increase year-over-year budget to budget um I mentioned in my previous presentation the TRS contribution rate is going down for 2526 which is why you see a much smaller number here and we've grown accustomed to $21,000 increase ERS won up quite a bit this year $95,000 increase of what're projecting BAS softare Staffing today all right and then on the Bose side of the house so this is what we're projecting for 2526 for BOS expenses 2425 we projected 3.3 million 2526 we're projecting 3.65 million so about $282,000 difference

041year-over-year so that's attributable mostly to our special ed program placements so we've had an increase in that over the course of the last year but there's also some of the things that Bonnie was talking about before some of those cyber security services that we're looking to bring into the district this year we would purchase them through Bose because we get Aid back on it in a f in a future year um we've also put into the budget this year an increase in the number of days that our on-site security consultant would be onsite um we've added into the budget the expansion of our scholarship program which is the visitor management system that we currently have the high schools so that the elementary schools also have that and then for our recurring Services year-over-year we projected

042out a 4% increase in each of those line items that we don't know actually what they're going to charge us next year because the Bose's uh prices for next year for a lot of items don't come until May so we put a conservative estimate of a 4% increase for those line items I would be remiss if I didn't mention when we spend when we buy things through bosis it's in the benefit of the district although we pay a 15% Bose's admin fee on top of the cost of the service we get back about 59.8% on aable services that comes back to the district and supports next year's budget so if there's a prod if there's a a service or a product we can buy through a Bose contract it's always in our best interest to

043do so so looking ahead to 2526 and again this is as of today we anticipate the tax levy increase for 25 26 should be 1.95% um now this like I said as mentioned just for today this is as of today there's a couple of things that we still don't know yet namely the big ticket items or the non-public transport routes um if there's any new staffing needs that pop up between now and the budget adoption date we are working right now on converting our bond anticipation note into long-term debt so I don't anticipate at this point that it's going to have a budget impact uh but we are working with our financial adviser to find out the final number on what that's going to cost uh and it's going to be added to the books

044for the district uh and then any new or reduced education special education placements so that could either increase decrease um the special education costs as uh csse are completed over the course of the spring so if we were to go out and propose a 1.95% tax levy increase this is what it looks like from a dollar's perspective so in 2425 our budget was 45.2 Million for 25 26 we're we're proposing a $ 46.9 million budget or $1.6 million increase 3.72% budget to- budget increase now with that 3.72% um budget to budget increase not all of that would be paid for by the taxpayers with the state aid increasing it absorbs most of that increase the tax levy in 2425 was 33.4 Million we're proposing for as of today again caveat is we still have some

045things that we need to flush out before we move forward with adopting this number 34.0 55 million tax levy which is a $651,000 increase or 1.95% increase if you base if you take that percentage increase and you apply it to the tax Ro and the assess values for class one Residential Properties in East Rockaway that equates to about $166 a year in increasing your taxes or $30 $13.85 a month the budget adoption date is in the middle of April so we will refine these numbers as to get more information um but as of today this is what we're expecting and that concludes my presentation for work session number two on April 8th we have work session number three uh Mr Gregory from our athletics department will be presenting the Athletics PE and health budget um

046Mr Murray will cover curriculum and instruction and Mr Healey will cover special education I'll give the final proposals for uh the the expense side and the revenue side of the budget and the proposed tax levy increase at that time um and just a reminder all work sessions are here um in the library Center Avenue at 6m so we hope to see you there I'll pause right there anybody on the board bed have a question answer sure um so the 206 for the security service that came off because we're not Contracting but we hired them and there's a same what is what are we paying them roughly so what's the trade it it depends on it depends on how long they worked in the district so when we brought them on as full-time employees right we

047considered how many years they had been working right for westtech for the district so some came in at step six or step seven some came in at step one right so ranges between 20 I don't want to speak out a term but somewhere around 21 to $26 an hour so in in tax pay terms we were paying $226,000 a year to contract these guys and now it's going to be 150 and we're going to around there I don't know the exact number top my head that's all I was looking for and then because when we break when we make them excuse me when we make them employees is we take on FICA we take on Social Security I got it now there're now most of them are retired police officers so they don't pay into

048the ERS pension system that does save the district some money but the F and if they take benefits I was gonna say health benefits they mostly don't but okay and then just on the um TRS you had mentioned that it was lower than anticipated I thought we would be lower not higher it's because the total salary amount is higher oh okay yeah all right y okay that's I have one question what is a Class one residential home basically a residential property so there's four classes okay class one two three and four class one is residential two three and four is utilities commercial okay thank you yeah no problem any other questions thanks Mike yeah all right um okay so uh we're going to make a motion to adjourn today's Board of Education special meeting work

049session and budget work session and enter into executive session to discuss contract negotiations uh can I have a motion to adjourn this meeting at 6:46 p.m. motion motion by Mrs Doyle second second second by Mrs salupo all in favor opposed abstain motion approved good night everyone thank you

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