001e e e we good yes ma' where's angel angel okay okay welcome every everyone to our regular Board of Education meeting for our March session um let the record reflect that all board members are present except Dr batt brette and that's and Mr Palmer yeah please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance a pledge allegiance to the repblic stands Nation God indivisible withy and justice for all before we begin the business portion of the meeting I'd like to take a personal point of privilege to pay tribute to one of our board members that passed away last week Miss Denise Walker Miss Walker served as a trustee on our Board of Education from 20 2008 through 2014 in an interview I found for her for the local newspaper when asked why she was seeking real elction she
002answered and I quote for me it's about the children I know so many of them personally and I've gotten to know so many more and it just makes me light up with when they accomplish what they have you see that smile on their face and knowing that I had just a little tiny part of that makes me feel good end quote so please join me as we send our heartfelt condolences to the Walker family and a moment of silence for Miss Denise Walker thank you uh there will be a memorial service for Miss Walker at the Emanuel Baptist Church next week this week excuse me this Thursday March 13th from 4: to 5:30 p.m. I'll leave the information for anyone that's interested in attending with our district clerk you welcome to come take a picture
003of it if you're interested in attending may I have appro a motion to approve the meeting minutes of the regular meeting of February 11 move thank you miss battle second second thank you Mr Ramos all in favor I I thank you motion carries do we have any correspondence yes the correspondence was given to the board for consideration thank you all Menders received president's report remarks I want to welcome you all again to our March board meeting whether you're here in the room with us or joining us vir virtually we appreciate you attending tonight we have a full agenda ahead of us and as I always say the best part of our agenda is our children so tonight you'll see our robotics Award winners and you'll have an overview of our outstanding Saturday Academy program that
004just recently ended so let's get started may I have the report of the sanica Central High School District okay good evening everyone and happy women's oh sorry and happy women's History Month it's an exciting time in our district and we're thrilled to share some incredible highlights from our high schools Elma Memorial High School is buzzing with success our student artist shined at the plate art showcase and our science research students Dom at competitions earning top honors at the Nassau Community College Science Fair and the UHS research Symposium the medical Marvel's team also secured first place at North Wells Feinstein Institute on the Athletics front our boys varsity basketball team fought hard in the finals while our boys track team showcased their talent at the state championships and don't forget on Friday Cinderella takes the stage
005this weekend at Elmont High School grab your tickets sonan high school has been full of spirit and service a successful Supply Drive supported the town of Hemstead animal shelter and our Key Club brightened the lives of senior residents at pleo our mathly excelled at the district math tournament and students Embrace cultural Pride during the World Language week the stage lit up with the musical Mama Mia bringing energy and excitement to the school this Friday the uh sonan PTSA will be hosting their supermarket uh game night at se not this Friday it's Friday March 28th at 7.m Floral Park Memorial High School continues to soar as the boys varsity basketball team clinch the Nassau County championship and is now heading to the Long Island finals the Science Olympiad team took home multiple Awards and our model
006un team earned top honors at Boston University creativity flourish as our art students showcase their their work and anticipation is high for The Wizard of Oz later this month plus 43 of our Scholars embarked on an unforgettable journey to France and Italy across all high schools our Scholars are excellent in academics Athletics the Arts and community service their work and dedication are truly inspiring today in the New York news day our high schools were mentioned for silver and gold um honors for for AP for being high in AP honors for the state of New York so that's an amazing accomplishment and as we celebrate women's history month we want to take a moment to recognize and honor the women in this room those who lead uplift and Inspire our community every day your strength dedication
007and perseverance pave the way for our future Generations thank you for all that you do let's continue to make history together have a great evening thank you miss battle are there any audience members who would like to speak on agenda items only okay I'll now turn the meeting over to Mrs small for the report of the superintendent thank you Mrs Capers good evening everyone thank you so much for joining us as Mrs Capers said earlier um in the meeting the best part of our meetings are always our students tonight we have the honor of recognizing our star Scholars from Alden terce uh School our Junior robotics team from Alden terce with that said I would like to introduce our principal Mrs Warfield to recognize our students [Applause] [Music] good evening on March 1st 2025 the
008Alden Terrace Minibots participated in the first Lego League Exhibition at minola high school with the guidance of their coaches Mr Yates and Miss Lev the team was able to explore programming using the robotic set to create a motorized submarine Jace gimnez Ian munir Dior abas Leila pervis Harris nasman and Aziz geese met weakly to use creative thinking and Technology to explore the layers of the ocean this year's theme called submerged enabled them to explore the sunlight zone to help reduce pollution a major problem of this Zone at the exhibition they were able to share their findings code their submarine to move and share characteristics of the fish they created throughout the program they focused on core values that set the foundation for teamwork Innovation inclusion impact Discovery and fun so team number 16482 who happen
009to be the olden Minibots they were recognized by the judges with the special review award an award where they were the sole recipients due to their teamwork and their personalities all right they presented as a team and supported each other with enthusiasm humor knowledge and most importantly teamwork a big special thank you goes out to miss Leva and Mr Yates for giving the students the opportunity to be a part of this club and for coaching and coordinating this club another special thank you to miss ranzel for helping with the t-shirts and at this time I'd like to present Awards to our students for participating and winning that award and they you will see they have medals around their necks as they have come up you'll see the uh this was created in our steam lab
010the T-shirt so I can't wait for you to see the T-shirt because it was created on the Cricut Machine in our steam Lab at Alden Terrace by Miss uh ranzel okay here we go first I'd like to welcome up our coaches Miss leeva and Mr Yates you to do a picture thank you for your enthusiasm thank you for your job well done and now I'd like to welcome up aise geese come on up congratulations for the first Lego League robotics Excellence award please stand next to your coordinators right over here Jace gimenez come forward Mr Jimenez all right please stand right over here we have Aion munir please come forward Aion to receive your first Lego League robotics Excellence award thank you and please stand next to your teammates we have Miss Leila pervis Miss
011Lila pervis please come forward congratulations and please take your certificate and you'll stand right here I'd also like to thank our assistant principal Miss beldo as well and I have Harris nisman's his award and I will make sure he gets it tomorrow all right please give them a nice big smile excellent members of the board inv oh and absolutely I'm so sorry yes I did not even see excellent we have one more right here we have Miss Dior abas absolutely Dior sorry about that hi beautiful what this right over here can we stand on this side excellent and we'll hold it just like this you the board be up there yeah can we do one first and then we'll have the board members go up and do one also okay I don't want you block
012by the podium I am so sorry about that beautiful hold [Music] on thank you thank you so much just like that okay [Music] okay members of the board would you just um [Music] to col [Music] oh back [Music] smile [Music] smile all thank you you guys going to be doing a lot of getting up and sitting down all right cuz there's going to be a presentation next okay and and now so thank you congratulations to our Al and terce uh robotics team we're very proud of [Applause] you and a thank you to Mrs Warfield and Mrs beldo and the teachers for your hard work with our students we know that uh their accomplishment is a result of the work you've done with them so thank you so much uh we are blessed in this District
013to offer our students a range of opportunities is to enrich them and so we finished our Saturday Enrichment Academy on February 8th and we would like to introduce the principles of the academy to come and give our community and the board an overview of the wonderful programs that our students were able to enjoy and with that said I would like to introduce Mrs beldo and Mrs Pella and they hi we are so [Music] excited all right I'll try that again good evening my name is Mrs Paul Zella this is Miss beldo we are your very proud principles of the Saturday enrichment program and as Miss Keepers had said earlier it is an outstanding program but that is because of the students the Elmont students the Elmont faculty staff and the community that makes it amazing
014so without further this is my first time using a clicker there we go so why enrichment why does Elmont pour into this enrichment program and the research suggests that enrichment programs have significant ific positive effects on students social emotional behavioral and academic achievement and growth especially when paired with seal social emotional learning programs we are very fortunate to have guidance counselors andl members who were able to support our full um Elmont community of students within our program that helped make it what it was research also shows that enrichment programs are associated with higher grades and better test scores and that they help address barriers to success for first generation college students thank you miss posella this year we had 26 courses that were offered to all of our K through Scholars we had students from
015all six buildings from our general education classroom some of our ABA classrooms and it was wonderful to have the scl support to support our Scholars as they were integrated into some of those wonderful courses and have an opportunity to collaborate with the teachers and their peers from all six buildings we had 471 students enrolled from all six buildings from some of our co- te ABA special education classes we had 68 faculty and staff members from across the district that were absolutely vital and making this program a success they absolutely were there from day one with us providing us with support in developing the courses each year um offering suggestions on how we can improve the programs and make the material and different uh programs accessible for all Scholars to Su succeed on February 8th we
016had the wonderful opportunity to showcase the highlights of our program by having all of our families come out and to walk the program and just to get a sense of what our Scholars do over the course of the four weeks some parents had an opportunity to create different science experiments with the scholars as well as just see wonderful videos that high highlighted some of the amazing work that takes place we're going to show you a brief video just to highlight some of the wonderful things that took place um we welcome all of the community and uh parents to please sign up for future years and um this gives you a idea what we do on the Saturday program [Music] yeah yeah yeah [Music] yeah yeah [Music] I think it's important to note that each of
017these courses are proposed to us through a proposal teachers offer their time on Saturday to create uh and offer courses that they're passionate about the courses range from Tea Time Golf fun math magicians to expose uh our youngest Scholars to early math concepts uh jigsaw puzzle scrapbooking and a host of other wonderful steam like activities such as science experiments uh Lego Junior drones the list goes on so without the work of our amazing amazing teaching staff and the things that are near and dear to their heart we wouldn't be able to run this program it's a great way to expose our scholar to things that they might not otherwise have access to um the kids absolutely love golf it's something that started at the alen Tera school and Mr Pettis was kind enough to sign
018on to Saturdays and offer it to the district I can't tell you how many parents have said on Saturdays now their children want to go to the putting range to do golf so it's a wonderful way to expose our Scholars to some of the um activities that you might not be able to regularly give them access to such as ballet and dance and um we're just really honored to work with the staff of Elmont the teachers from all six building their expertise and love for the children and um we couldn't do without [Applause] them okay so just a few proposed enhancements for the future and this is where our community will come in please be on the lookout for a survey before the program next year just to get some of your input more most
019importantly your children's input what courses they would like to see we would love to try to pair some of our wonderful Educators with some of the interests and um we just hope to expand some of the offerings in all the different areas that really show the interest of our children thank you for this privilege thank you very much thank you thank you Mrs beldo and Mrs Pella thank you I want to thank uh Mr cavaleri and Miss Palmore who worked with Mrs beldo and Miss Pella to coordinate and supervise the program each Saturday I want to thank the teachers who gave up their Saturdays um to go and work with our students to offer them this wonderful opportunity so thank you for a job well [Applause] done it it's only fitting that we're doing the
020budget presentation as we recognize our Scholars from Alden Terrace for their hard work and achievement and that we are highlighting uh the Saturday enrichment program which are just an indication of the many opportunities that we present for our students each year that's supported by the budget and so tonight we're going to do the first installation of our budget presentation to show you the wonderful things that your tax dollars enable us to provide to our Scholars and to ask for your support as we move forward we begin the budget development process in October and we start in October with um sending out our budget worksheets to our principles and directors who manages uh who manage their their budgets and then uh they work on it in November through December where they send it back to central
021office to the our Business Consultants and myself and then we start our budget development meetings with each administrator which with each principal to go over uh where their needs and wants are we start that process in in December and we run that process through through January and starting in January we start looking at the numbers and looking at the wish list so to speak that our administrators have have proposed to us and then the bo the board receives the first draft of that budget in in February actually on February 14th and tonight marks the first presentation so that the board and the community could see what the first draft of that budget looks like and so we could have your input and get further directions about where we go next uh legally uh we must
022a budget in April as you know that um a lot of what we do and the funding we receive comes from the state uh while we have received the draft proposal from the governor the state must adopt its budget by April 1st and if any if if past history has been an indication we know that they will not be on time and so we're very dependent on the state hoping that they will adopt their budget sometimes um in April and our voters or members of our community will go to the polls um to vote on the budget in May as we started the budget development process we start thinking about what is it that we wanted to accomplish and so the budget is not just a collection of numbers but it's an expression of our
023values and our aspirations and what are those values what are the those aspirations one of the things that we wanted to do is that we wanted to present a budget to the board and to the community will first and foremost maintain all educational programs and services that we offer to our students that includes uh the robotics programs all the enrichment programs that we offer our students after school all the um other programs that we we we do we wanted to make make sure we um maintain those programs we wanted to make sure that we're maintaining our staffing that we're not cutting Staffing to cut staff is means you're cutting programs as well so we wanted to make sure we continue to maintain the programs and to maintain the excellent uh foundational programs that we have
024in the district now then we also wanted to enhance what we already doing how do we improve so we want to roll over what we have but how do we continue to improve the services that we provide to our students so one of the things that we've included in this budget we have something um a group of teachers I think 10 of them in the district that are called literacy subs and these teachers enable our regular classroom teachers to get their preps each day one of the issues that we've encountered is that we have a constant turnover of teachers because they are not probationary teachers so each year this year we've been hiring a lot of Subs a lot of Subs because they leave to go to other districts to get probationary positions so one
025of the things that we wanted to do is to bring about some stability in the literacy uh in those positions not the teachers but the positions once the board ascends to that and we approve it if that goes forward we want to start looking at how do we use those positions some of the things that we're thinking about for those 10 positions if they become uh if they become probationary positions is for example offering language options to our our our fifth and sixth graders to ensure that by the time they get up to the high school they've been introduced to a second language we do recognize that finding second language teachers such as Spanish teachers might be a tall task but will take us some time but we want to start planning for some of
026the opportunities that we can offer to our Scholars to give them a a stronger Foundation as they move from the elementary building up to the high school so we want to turn some of those L the the literacy uh prep um teachers into probationary positions these positions already are being funded these teachers I think make $50,000 each year so to turn them into a probationary position are not new hirers what we're doing is enhancing the program to make sure we have stability but also to use those positions to offer more enrichment opportunities to our students we want to establish a full-time dedicated administrator to plan coordinate and Lead our English language uh programs for how we service our English language uh population right now our English language Learners make up 16% of our student population
027and so we believe that we need a dedicated administrator that will coordinate how we provide those Services I want to mention to the board that this is not a while this is a new position the funding for this position is not new what we're doing is rep purposing money um that has already been in the budget from past years I think the board will remember that last year we had a consultant for our facilities director he's no longer here after we've hired the the the current facilities director so that funding is being used and repur being repurposed to add an additional administrator to supervise and coordinate how we will service and provide programs to our English language Learners to ensure that this critical and important member of uh members of our school population get the
028services in a very concerted way and so we would like to do that we are also adopting new science curriculum I think one of the thing resources I think one of the things that the board will remember when we did our data presentation in December we showed you the data about where we are in science and we felt that there's some work to be done and we felt that we needed to have a consistent science program that will give our students Hands-On experiences in learning science we want them to do science and learn science as they're doing it and so one of the things that we've done this year we've created a teaching and learning committee made up of teachers and administrators in the district and we've been looking at many science programs and so
029we would like to purchase new science resources that will enrich the learning experiences of our students and if you look at what our kids are doing with the robotics team where they're actively engaged in the learning process we believe that this will be a step forward to strengthening some of the things that we are doing we would like to um Implement and launch a new theater program across all six schools we have um spoken to a company and one of the reasons why we brought this in through conversations with community members and other our our neighboring districts they have this um theater programs program where students try out and they put on a a production we want to make sure that not only are we attending to the academic needs needs of our students but
030we are attending to the Arts some students will grow up to be artists and we want to make sure that we're enriching that experience so right now what we are thinking if this goes through is to pair we'll have three Productions we'll pair two schools together we will um hire the company comes in and do will do the tryouts select the actors and provide all the support that they need and um train them and put on a a beautiful production and again what this does is again put our students in a position that as they move through our district and they move on when they go up to the high school they've been they've been exposed to all these different things and they give them a strong foundation for what they will do when they
031get up to their High School another uh proposal that's in the budget is to provide additional reading intervention services um um to our teachers um the Spire program is currently being used um by our our um resource um room teachers and we want to make sure that we expand that into the classroom so that teachers have more resources and more interventions in their toolkits to provide learning um to University learning experience of our struggling Learners and the budget also calls for additional support and programs for students with disabilities I think we're adding new programs and and to support our students with with disabilities the budget continues to address our capital u needs uh for building and grounds and maintenance um one of the things that we have to be mindful of uh we have five
032buildings that will be transitioning away from oil and to moving away moving toward having um um electric um air conditioning and so forth in the buildings coming up and so we have to start building in the budget how we will We address those needs when we going to have five buildings with a air conditioning running throughout the year so we will see increase utility cost and so the budget takes those in the um into consideration as well improving uh how we do Transportation uh we are upgrading uh the bus routing system transfinder and so we are we are currently in the process of implement um um um buying that program to implement it so that we will have an improved transportation system come September one of the things we are also doing is to put
033GPS tracking devices on our transportation so we will know where our buses are at all times and so we want to make sure that when our buses are out there with our children we'll be able to track them and know where they are and so the uh the budget uh is making allowances for those as well data data data we did our data presentation Mr Cal Cavalier did the data presentation in December and one of the things that we want to do is to ensure that our teachers will have data at their fingertips about how our students are doing one of the things that is new starting last year our students are being assessed online by the state and we believe that it's important that we give them opportunities to experience that during the regular
034school day so we've uh purchased a new system that will give our students the opportunity to have similar situations of what they will experience and that will give our teachers the data immediately after so that they can make um improvements and Corrections in real time as our students are being assessed and so the budget will um will support that program okay and then we also um acquiring and implementing a software system Frontline management for absences and professional learning for evaluation and so forth so this budget will support the implementation of um of these initiatives uh the state law calls for our budget to be presented into three components administrative program and capital the administrative program deals with the Board of Education district clerk the superintendent's office the business office Human Resources legal printing uh Central
035data Insurance our Bose administrative um um programs and curriculum development the program component which is the largest portion of the budget uh deals with our teachers uh it deals with um in professional development for our teachers so where it says regular school instruction that is all the teachers in the district for special education instruction all our special education uh programs for uh summer school programs you will be aware that we have summer school in the Summer where we offer um additional services to our students our summer program um is in there our library and instructional technology the psych psychologists and um social workers guidance um our guidance um uh guidance counselors and our transportation services and these are all essential programs that we need for our students and then Capital deal with her building and
036ground staff security building maintenance U purchasing of buses debt Ser um debt servicing and transfer to Capital fund for our administrative component of the budget you will see that for financial year 20 2425 that's this current year that that component of the budget was $1 million $429,000 and for the upcoming school year that will be $11 million $378,000 you will see that that uh that component portion of the budget is going down by $50,000 now the largest section of the budget which is the program component of the budget you will see that it's going from $84 million uh to $89 million which is an increase of $4.5 million which is a 5.3% increase and then for the capital component it's going up from $13 million to $14 million and then you will see that it's
037an 8.9 Mill uh perc increase in that Capital component section there is a million dollars being put in there to service the debt that we've taken out for the bond project which is currently going on in our buildings so the voters approved a $52 million Bond so far we've taken out a loan of $40 million that we have to be paying back and so that component of a million dollars is going towards servicing that debt that we are we have to pay back and then the budget is increasing budget to budget from last year last year's budget of $19 million to this year $115 million is of $5.6 million increase or a 5.1% increase you will notice that from that increase $4 million is in the program component section of the budget which I explained
038is the biggest and most important part of the budget process and here is a pip chart that just shows you how the budget is is divided so program takes up 78% of the budget administrative 10% and capital 12% and again when you look at the budget you want to make sure that the vast majority of your budget is is going towards children and the program component is what service our children how will we uh pay for the budget so we're going to pay for the budget through revenues from state aid local and then property ta tax okay local will be every source of Revenue that comes in that is not tied to the property tax levy and then the state aid is what we get from the state so you will notice for uh the
039state projections um in January governor hok gave the executive proposal for what the budget will be and so you will notice that Foundation aid from last year this current year was $30 million um this current uh for the proposal for next year it's going up to $34 uh million 275 and then if you go down to the bottom you see all the different AIDs that we get we get the Bose's Aid we get high cost Aid those are for special education students we get Transportation Aid we get building Aid so all of that come will come up to approximately $42 million $453,000 and it's an increase of $4 million over the last school year okay so you will notice that in our program part of the budget that part went up $4 million we're getting
040$4 million additional in state aid which is basically covering covering the expenses that we are seeing in the program component section of the budget in the local revenues as I said before that the local revenues deal with everything except the tax levy so you will see for example there's an agreement will with uh Belmont um Park and so uh we are estimating that we will get an additional $961 ,000 um from from from that agreement for the upcoming school year and so you will see all the different Revenue sources that are tied toward um not tied toward the tax levy that comes up to approximately $3.4 million it's a decrease from the last year of $668,000 which you will see that we had a $993,000 decrease in our interest and earnings from monies that we
041have in accounts so those earnings went down by over 900,00 and therefore when you look at what we're coming in with revenues from local from local sources we saw a decrease um of $668,000 and then we look at the the tax levy the tax levy that we asking for is a 2.5% increase over the um over the current tax levy um so this current year the tax levy was 58 million and next year it's going up to 59.4 million which is $1,449 th000 over um the previous year and that would be a 22.5 um% increase of the tax levy and so these are our Revenue sources so our Revenue sources for the upcoming year will be $42 million from state aid $3.4 million for from local um Revenue sources $60 million from the tax levy
042and you will see that it equals the the total of the budget that we are presenting um we presenting to the board of $115 million um $229,000 which is a 5.1% budget to budget increase okay and um and so while the budget is going up 5 um 1% the tax levy increase will be going up 2.5% and this just gives you an indication of how our Levy um our Revenue res Revenue sources are are um divided up so you will see that local taxes account for 57% of the budget state aid uh 40% in local sources um which are non-levy related 3% one of the things that we need to be mindful of is because we have over 40% of our budget that is tied toward state aid it means that we are more vulnerable
043to what goes on in Albany and what goes on at the federal level so therefore if the governor or if the federal government does not give us certain funding that means we are more vulnerable to all the shocks that will happen so as we know we are in very uncertain times and so we have to be very cognizant of that fact that 40% of our of our Revenue stream will come from outside of the school district and those that 40% we have very little control over and so I wanted um the board and the community to community to be mindful of that when we calculate our tax levy the maximum allow allowable tax levy was 5.6% which means that when um our business consultant put in the formula and calculate it we are allowed to
044go to our community and ask for 5.6% increase in the tax levy without piercing the cap we did not do so we believe the budget we are presenting is responsible we asking for 2.5% increase so that 5.6% would be asking our community to Pro to to pay an additional 3.2% 3 $3.2 million in taxes by asking for 2.5% increase in taxes we are asking for $1.4 million and then you will see that there is $1.7 million which is 3.1% that is that being collected that we believe is a give back to our community in the sense that it's a more responsible way to to um um for budgeting we believe that the budget that is being put forward is responsible we're asking for only what we need to continue the programs that we have provided
045to our students to enrich those programs and strengthen them so they could better meet the needs of our students and another thing that we wanted to do is to say where are we in relation to our surrounding districts and to Long Island or Nosa County and you will see that while Elmont could ask for uh 2 point um could ask for 5.6% we're doing 2.5 right around the island the average range that is being asked for um by other districts is 2.6 so we looked at um what other districts are are are proposing March 1st was the date that all school districts in the state had to submit to the controller's office what their tax level will be and once they did that we could go on to the website and see what everybody's asking
046for and so you will see we asking for 2.5 and the average across Long Island is 2.6% and we believe we're right where uh we should be we believe it's an irresponsible uh budget to put forward and therefore that's reason why we're putting that forward to the board what are our next steps as I said before that the board will need to adopt a budget um in April uh the state will adopt its budget should adopt its budget by April 1st we know that will not happen and therefore we will need to adopt a budget in April and then the public will have its say at the public voting um in May on May 20th okay um this is an overview um between now and April I'm sure we'll have discussions and we will ask
047for your input um as we go forward okay and thank you any questions I have a question yes ma'am can you go back to the educational enhancement that's what you talk about theer program the pater program and adding staff and support students with disabili oh yes tell me about the telephone transl translation services telephone translation services so I'm sorry can you repeat the question so the people at home here yes I just I wanted some information on the second bullet funding for telephone and trans fing for telephone translation services so we are we have a district that have we have a lot of second language Learners we want our teachers to be able to communicate with our parents so this phone services allow our teachers to call the phone and that conversation with parents will
048be translated um when they having conversation with our parents and that allows for more access and equity in terms of dealing with our second language parents is it live translation or is it live translation very thank you okay any other questions yes ma'am um going back to I'm going to be like over thank you going back to the $1.4 uh million uh tax that the residents or the tax L that the residents will have um that will be passed on to the residents approximately how much would that be and maybe um Tom can help help us out approximately how much would that be per taxpayer I knew was going to ask a question I think that at a certain point what we can do is Mr galante will be able to give us um what
049an estimated would be based on the assess value of each home but what I want to caution the board because I've had this in previous experience April 1 yes that data is not the school's data that data is from the the county so I've had experiences in the past where you said you told me that my tax was going to go up $500 but it's 600 we I so the the the county will give you an estimate of what they believe that the assess value for each home will be and how much it will be for the year and how much it will be per month okay and so that that information comes from the county and we could get that information for you I'm looking quick because it's right I could be in the
050fall Park exact I know it's not going to be exact estimate it's not a lot you know um let me see here I'm getting close while he's looking ma' I do have a question I I'm I'm just curious in this budget are we even considering uh transform trans transitioning into electric school buses and things of that nature is that part of the consideration this budget doesn't allow for that um and we've been going to different um legislative uh uh meeting with legislators we did this on on Saturday I had one with refit on Friday from what we're hearing most of our legislators are pushing for that time frame to be extended or relaxed because they believe that it's not reasonable that we're not ready for that yet that the infrastructure is not there there and
051based on what we've heard from the legislators also they believe that if the state is mandating that schools um buy um electric buses and put up um electric charge charging stations and all the things that it went until they believe the state should pay for it and so while we still have the the um 2027 deadline that which is fast approaching based on conversations with legislators they're saying they don't believe it's a it's a reasonable time frame and they're pushing to ensure that it's relaxed or extended or do away with so there's more to come from that I can give you a little number on that piece too call it a 100 bucks a year roughly for the k6 district roughly okay within 20 bucks either way depending on how the assessment numbers come in
052April on the electric buses don't underestimate how expensive this will be I did some rough estimates 20 to $30 million okay so it's like a one of the big buses for electric on state contract right now for one bus $475,000 the diesel we buy now are like $160 and then you got the same thing basically triple the cost for each van out there then you got all the infrastructure right but in the planning for this cuz the they will come it's just a matter of when and who pays for it right you know you need to look at your whole use of facilities and operations here is part of that planning so the timing of it's good along with your overall Capital program yes you know okay any other questions uh can we talk about
053UBS Arena um I was just looking online and it looks like their revenues have doubled but the money that that was on the slide it shows that it's flat in terms of what they gave us last period and what's coming up for the next period um I can add a little color to that um I'm glad I emailed the guy yesterday I wasn't even going to email him I emailed the people at the state that run that at least for the revenues that they send to us um and because they're supposed to in the contract we have they're supposed to I think it's the end of January send us estimate for the coming the forward year I didn't get it last year they gave it to me after pestering a couple times so I'm sure
054I'll get it um the last receipt we got from them just a few weeks ago it was a small one it was like 25,000 but it was different it had different language on it than the prior ones where it did get into the count of events events at the arena and in the past our number has been I think it's 900 in the neighborhood 900,000 which is in the contract it's called base rent it's like a minimum right then based on events and other activities over there with all the sales of retail then it can grow so I'm hoping next year we as of right now I'm assuming the base rent you know the base amount and that's what we were looking at the B yeah yeah but by the time we get to budget
055adoption in April we'll know from them what their estimate is and then I'll be updating that so everything you see there you know these are best estimates as of now on the revenue side but those won't be approved by the board until roughly July 1 is when we usually do it because the later you wait to get more info the more accurate it's going to be once it's adopted and the tax levy doesn't have to be officially adopted until August so so so this is a hard draft basically so yeah it's a firm it's a firm draft yeah it's a firm draft rarely do things change too much from here um till April and then may referendum um but then the board can change it you know throughout the year as revenues might change you
056know any other questions thank you I just wanted to know if we can have uh show can we show proposals with other con contingencies contingencies in terms of of what without the additions of programs of it's like you going to have a lot of different contingency not getting the federal funding mhm state aid being way lower than what it is okay so I think one of the things as I said that the board we have to have discussions about right because this is a proposal a draft to the board what are the increases that we have in the budget we have increases for turning um the positions of the literacy Subs into probationary positions now one of the things that we've seen since um in my eight months that I've been here is the constant
057turnover of staff and what happens when you have a revolving door of teachers and I think what has happened and I think our administrators will tell you this we hire young teachers we train them we we get them ready and they're plucked from us to other districts because they want probationary positions that impacts the level of service our children gets because we keep we keep getting new people in have to retrain them we build up their capacity and just when they're getting their footing they they leave us to go someplace else we want to start retaining the staff members we're having so that could be one item on The Chopping Block which will means that we will continue to have have a revolving door of people coming in and leaving I also believe that enhancement
058of wanting to provide our students don't know if we'll be able to find Spanish language teachers but we'd like to offer a language um program to our our Scholars because we believe that that will give them a stronger Foundation at the high school when they start taking a second language when they get up to the high school um another um increase in the budget is for a science program that could be something that could be taken out right so I want as we're presenting for us to be mindful of what it is that we be taken out um what we will also also have to take out is we're buying additional resources for our teachers to be able to meet our struggling Learners okay offering the Spanish um the the the theater program well that
059might not be a lot of money but it's also going to enrich so we are open to having those discussion I'm looking for guidance from the board about what you want to keep in and what you want to take out but we believe that the programs and the budget we presenting at 2.5% is responsible I think it's fiscally responsible and I believe that it will enrich the experiences of our students and it will strengthen the programs that we already um offer to our students to give them better learning experiences so I'm looking for guidance from the board what stays in what stays out because um um this is a first draft of what we will do as we go forward yes right as far as us targeting what we are trying to establish yes um
060money is not not used this year can that be uh also put towards the budget for instance how we had the facility person right now we have money on our table so we could do more looking that's all being used at least based on current projection monthly fund Bal okay so for example let me go ahead and then security doors right we got funding from that last year budget y well it's a capital project that's been funded so the capital project for the security doors I will tell you we got an email today from the architect that the state has just approved them so the state has just the playground Mr Smith um the playground has been has been approved so we will start having shoveling the ground to start getting those things done by
061spring so the security doors have been approved so they're in the capital fund waiting right um to be implemented we just we're waiting for stated to approve um the um the plans that were sent up and so now we're going to see a lot of those implementation start taking place so um you know we can have discussions obviously at a certain point the board will have to adopt a budget but I think what we want to be careful and mindful of this budget is basically rolling over everything that was in the budget last year but strengthening it because the teachers that we have were already being paid what we're doing is adding more to their salaries to keep them as probationary people and that has been happening over the course of many years there were
062$40,000 before then they became $50,000 and now if you look at the budget for hiring a brand new teacher we're looking at65 $70,000 and what we want to do is to retain more staff and keep them um and so those are some of the things that we have in there health care and all the additional what is that because they're already getting Healthcare as as as a as a yes as a sub yet help yes and those increases have been added on over the course of the year so I think was a smart move where we started paying um the subs $40,000 to retain them with Healthcare but obviously just paying them $50,000 in healthcare is not enough because most teachers want a probationary position and so if we are paying them year to year
063and they could go next door and get a probationary tenure track position they're going to take it and that is what we've been seeing what about a per DM per DM you will remember that I came to the board um for per DM rate this year of $160 and we've had no takers um perm as in healthare that's my question they do not get health correct no no no no but we don't have any perdm um staff members though and I think the move to offer our subs Healthcare was was um an attempt to retain teachers um you know by offering Healthcare to substitute you retain them but at the end of the day and we have had many substitute who have stayed but others get offer positions where they get in probationary positions and
064they leave to take those any other questions yes sir I see the new programs that you're adding can we add another program Cur of writing um ask you for this yes I will talk to the building principles and we'll put cursive writing in there sir yes Saturday all right uh we will talk we will talk to the Billy uh principles about what is the programmatic things that they want I think one of the things is you know um that's a conversation we can have yes all right thank you ladies and gentlemen we're going to go to the action portion of the board meeting thank you thought you did a good job with it overall you did a good job with it yes she just came the key thing was scenario planning right of like what
065if this and that you guys stop you got me start saying things in the mic um Michael says we should always get positive um reinforce oh people do a good job are we all set we good put my glasses on all right are you ready are we ready to we're doing well we're doing your stuff okay I'm sorry all right I seek a motion to approve items 4.1 and 4 we didn't see the legal and we have a couple resolutions oh oh I'm so sorry legal have oh legal's here oh no you see legal we have on you do presentations and now legal yeah but I have them in if you go to Legal is after 4 point yeah you want to do legal separate I'll do it whenever you like you could go ahead
066okay now we'll hear from our school attorney good evening everyone thank you president Capers thank you superintendent small I have two resolutions for the board's consideration this evening the first resolution is the approval of District Treasurer contract be it resolved that the board hereby approves the appointment of Donna sque arino as District Treasurer in accordance with the terms of a written WR contract effective April 22nd 2025 is there a motion move moved by Mr haime is there a second second second by President Capers all in favor I oppos extensions exstension motion carries thank you the second resolution is the approval of employee agreement be it resolved that the district hereby ratifies and approves an agreement with employee a is there a motion moved moved by President Capers is there a second second second by trusty
067battle all in favor I I opposed extensions motion carries thank you very much that concludes the legal report thank you thank you Mrs Gomez I seek a motion to approve item 5.1 professional personal items a through C 4.1 no those those are what you did already oh okay that was that was okay uh who is that Mr Hae may I have a motion to approve item 5.1 professional Personnel items a through C and I heard Mr highe second uh thank you Miss SW all in favor I I motion carries I seek a motion to approve item 5.2 Civil Service Personnel item a through b may I have a motion to approve item 5.2 Civil Service Personnel items a through b move okay I heard Miss Wong as the first and Miss batt as the second
068thank you all in favor I thank you motion carries I seek a motion to receive agenda item 7 .1 the committee on special education the committee on preschool special education and Section 504 committee recommendations may I have a motion to approve committee on special education committee on preschool special education Section 504 committee recommendations move thank you Mr haime second thank you miss battle all in favor I thank you motion carries I seek a motion to uh approve item 7.2 may I have a motion to approve item 7.2 move thank you miss battle second second thank you Miss Wong all in favor I I motion carries I seek a motion to approve item 8.1 the schedule of dispersements and warrants I have a motion to approve 8.1 schedule of dispersements and warrants thank you miss battle
069no that was Miss W Miss Wong thank you second thank you miss battle all in favor I I motion carries I seek a motion to receive item 8.2 the treasurer's report I have a motion to receive the 8.2 item 8.2 treasurers report move thank you miss battle second second thank you Miss Wong all in favor I I motion carries I seek a motion to approve item 8.3 budget transfers over $5,000 may I have a motion to approve item 8.3 budget transfers over 5,000 thank you miss battle second second thank you Miss Wong all in favor I motion carries seek a motion to approve um item 8.4 the scope Educational Services contract I I have a motion to approve item 8.4 scope educ Educational Services contract move thank you Miss Wong second second thank you miss
070battle all in favor I I motion carries items 8.5 a through M are noted for the board minutes so noted for the minutes 8.5 a through m m president this ends the superintendent report thank you Mr small does anyone have any committee reports or informational items does anyone have any old business yes new yes old bus old business yes sure I'd just like to publicly thank all the mystery readers out there uh that participated in all the schools the kids love it the kids love when they seen their own parent up there I was I had time to actually participate uh but that's a big deal for your kids and that's a great thing that your schools are doing you know so thank you to all the teachers and the princip that actually do that
071that's a thank you thank you Mr Amos does anyone have any new business is there anyone in the audience who would like to speak we ask that you limit your comments to three minutes and remember if it's praise or problem please refrain from using any employees name and your first CA of action should be to contact your building Administration or your superint endent our superintendent Mrs small all right may I have a motion to adjourn the public session and reconvene an executive session to discuss Personnel matters and contract negotiations thank you miss battle second Mr Ramos all in favor I I thank you motion carries 918 motion do we need we don't need to adjourn then right that's the adjourn that's the adjourn thank you everyone and we'll see you next month next month's meeting
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