001e e e spe we e for e e e good evening we're going to call the meeting to order at six o'clock if we can stand for the pledge please I pledge allegiance to the plag of the United States of America to thank you all right item 1.03 approval revision of agenda may I have a motion to approve the agenda as written thank you Cindy in a second Chrissy all in favor or well any discussion all right all in favor great nobody opposed all right so we're going to go into reports um item 2.01 presentation of the proposed 25 26 program Transportation Revenue budget I just just use this that's fine thank you though okay so we're at the third part of the budget budget program transportation and revenue components uh with program you can
002see here we've got uh Athletics benefits regular school special ed and support so they'll be the categories that we'll be talking about so within program we've got an increase of approximately 2.9 Million it's about 3 and a half% uh overall the program budgets the largest part of the budget it's represents about 86 million and the bottom bullet uh being the most important uh there's no Cuts projected to program or Staffing including me mental health Staffing and services so the first item within program would be Athletics some of the areas within Athletics you can see there ad coaches clerical trainer equipment contractual items materials and supplies So within Athletics you can see again again left-and side being the uh categories uh and then in the middle being 2425 current budget then 2526 being projected budget uh
003salaries being the first one you can see there the increase it's really represented by contractual agreements and budget to actual adjustments uh we had a little bit of a shift you can see in athletic equipment and supplies it's really a shift in funding uh represented for some new uniforms and then Cyro services with another increase that is really a budget to actual adjustment it was previously under budgeted it's just something we true back up to what it really is expected to be at this point benefits the next area you can see there you can see some of the categories ERS TRS Social Security workers comp unemployment U then the Big E being the health dental and vision insurance then retirement sent and 403b contributions So within benefits you can see with ERS the first bullet
004on the bottom we had a higher rate this year at 15.23% uh Which is higher than last year at 14.1 so the corresponding increase and TRS had a slightly lesser rate from uh current year so we projected an incre excuse me a decrease of uh from 4.1 down to 3.9 Social Security there was an increase really it's based on the wages higher wages higher increase in Social Security cost uh workers comp there was a slight decrease and that's really due to a lower projected rate and then some budget to actual adjustments and then unemployment disability were relatively flat year-over-year health and envision you can see there on the bottom for the main point uh the increases really at this point we budgeted for is a 7% increase for the premiums so that Dental Envision you
005can see there wasn't uh as Extreme as it would be with the health insurance it's just a much larger number uh but that 19 million does represent a 7% increase overall actual is projected somewhere around 6 point something so there's a little bit of surplus in there but for the most part you don't know what your makeup's going to be based on hirings Etc if somebody switches so that 7% represents a little bit of surplus in there to cover stuff things like that and insurance buyouts projected to be flat 403b retirement payouts uh for the most part you can see here that the second item down being retirement payouts that's really the uh the only thing significant on the page and that's really decreased to a fewer projected staff retirements and the corresponding related payments
006that are tied to contractual agreements special EDS the next one again salaries equipment contractual materials and supplies and bosies being the main categories So within special ed you can see salaries there the first one uh excuse me the second one being instructional being at 2 million then going up to the 2379 uh that really represents some staffing changes there we added one new Staffing position and then we had two other positions that we increased since last year's 24 25 budget uh we've seen an increase in IEP needs psychologist you can see slight decrease and that's really due to retirements and breakage and then ta being the big one where you can see a little bit where it's an increase due to Neo excuse me being a flat relatively or sped increase due to negotiated contractual
007uh increases um this is the one I was getting ready to talk about a little bit so you can see on the bottom Bose is going to be the driver and that's a significant change uh 2475 in the current year and then going down to 1.58 n so a significant shift there from the Bose's needs that's really due to a shift in the services uh basically you had some high need students that are kind of going back into an FM related instruction based 811 1211 Etc so you have some of the students there that were currently at bosis that would be coming back to FM you'll see those corresponding shifts come through when I talk about uh the remaining rest of instruction contractual is the only other thing is really increase in needs and cost
008and it was really related to private placement student needs I'll talk again like I said a little bit about that one a little bit further as we go so regular school is the next thing um first thing being inservice training and then Bose these costs there for development it's really just an increase in professional development needs for the Bose's cost salaries you can see there negotiated contractual salary increases really for the teachers ta they added two ta positions and there were contractual increases that represented that increase uh teacher aids being uh there you can see a little bit of an increase and that's really negotiated uh contractual increases and there was a couple positions that were added that were needed after that 2425 budget equipment contractual materials and supplies equipment we saw an increase and
009that's really uh related to the uh the high school Capital project and increase for uh equipment and Furniture needs for uh for the $52 million project contractually you can see an increase in Cyro and that's really related cost and needs based on the new contract as well as some of the needs we have for uh cyber related then materials and supplies was significant and that was really due to the literacy program Initiative for that there any questions on that one at all okay tuition textbooks and bosis uh tuition had a slight increase and it's really due to Charter School enrollment we had a slight upti there uh textbooks uh had a decrease it's really just a shift in instructional needs increased software so you see a corresponding increase over on that side and then both
010these had a slight increase due to higher prices prek uh relatively small changes here you can see in conferences really that it was recorded within the admin budget so that was what that shf represented uh then the fees and dues materials and supplies relatively flat and outside Services was a slight increase due to additional service needs supports the next area uh occupational ads summer school library audio visual it Department guidance Health Services Family School liaison co-curriculars near fund transfer and then Bose SE Services what we'll talk about here so within support you can see the first thing being CTE uh you had a decrease there you're going from about 407,000 down to 367 that really represented fewer seats needed uh those seats are about almost $10,000 a piece uh summer school there's a decrease there
011and that really represents as you can see on that second bullet it's due to the literacy program that we're going to be having construction as you can see on the bottom part of that sentence with the roofing Safety and Security construction going on District buildings that'll be something that we won't have this year uh library and AV it those are relatively flat year-over-year and guidance the same so continued support we got health and medical uh and Mental Health Services Family School liaison co-curriculars and interfund transfer with health Services there were salary breakage uh we do have one additional nurse projected at the high school co-curriculars were primally due to yearbook club uh so in that case we actually had a decrease uh the general fund is no longer involved with the purchase of yearbooks or
012reimbursement revenue and the club handles all that activity so there was a slight shift over into that and then interfund transfer to special Aid was really due to a need to add a special ed summer school class and so that's what that additional cost is for that uh Mental Health Services this is slide I think we talked about in the p p uh I thought we'd put it up and and just get a chance to kind of show what we do currently have and are projected to have for the upcoming year you can see there at the top part uh represent some of the Staffing we've got so Family School liaison there's six of them one at each school counselors we have 13 Elementary School there's one in each building middle schools two at each
013building in the high school we have six psychologists uh one in each building and one District level for the psychologists uh the next step in there we've got us collaborating with contact community services and C mental health um in this case we had a sh excuse me a slight shift with the personnel and you can see there that Dominic malero represents uh the change there from Mr DeSantis and we'll be continu to work with the Student Assistance Program counselors with the drop in clinics continue triing with CNY mental health counseling and then the uh surveys with RMS and then at the bottom you can see there we can you excuse me continuing with tier one uh with the promise Zone FAL Enders Road and M Road and tier two access help line then AR rise
014on-site therapy so again it's just a basically a snapshot it's what we had uh the past year andur and projected to have in the current year as well Transportation next you can see an increase about 149,000 represents about 2.57 overall Transportation budget is about 6 million So within Transportation you have salaries contractual excuse me materials and supplies and transportation equipment so within those you can see the first item being directors and dispatchers slight increase there and it just really represents those negotiated contractual agreements uh sub bus drivers it's really a budget to actual adjustment for the sub uh bus drivers change there then the bus attendance you can see um there was an increase there and that's really a need for additional bus attendance due to additional student needs again that shift from both these
015kind of showing through from that side but that's again another adjustment from budget to actual I would say uh some of the other services you contractual Services uh bosies equipment then materials and supplies equipment uh basically in purchase an item uh service for air conditioning on buses uh for piece of equipment then materials and supplies there's a projected increase uh materials and supplies du the overall Rising prices fuel Parts tires things of that nature for the component standpoint you can kind of see here from the three- part I think we've talked about it a little bit kind of what those represent and some of the thresholds that they are so you can see administrator being the smallest a little under 9% I think the measurable is usually somewhere around 10 Capital uh sitting at 17.3
016or20 Million worth of the budget and program being the largest component sitting at about 74% and that's about 86 million so again the vast majority kind of does meet that three-fold uh criteria where you've got that uh that you know that that 70 give or take and then the 20 and then the 10 from the three part you'll see this as we go out and put that in the newsletter that's something I we've done historically here so that's the program portion you can see it broken out uh and then the corresponding components that are on there overall again in that at the bottom on the right hand side there you can see that roughly $86 million represented into program it's an increase of about 3.24% same for administration and capital uh that breakout you can
017see Administration broken out uh over there on the top part being at 10.4 million Capital being that 20.1 one and the key thing there being 11 a half% uh increase and again that goes back to the last uh budget session we talked about and it's really going to be uh that piece where you're going to see that Capital Bond anticipation notes where you'll see kind of in the middle of that bottom slide that increase from the 715,000 to 2.6 million and that really represents that additional debt that came on with a capital Project without the corresponding Aid yet and we'll talk again about that as I go further to with additional slides so the over rview for expenditures if you took everything and kind of put it in a nutshell and then a summary and
018this is kind of what it would represent so overall at the bottom you can see that 5.2 million increase on the budget and how's it made up from an expenditure standpoint those are really the four components that make it up so salaries negotiated forcasted contracts represents an increase of approximately 2.4 million health insurance and benefits an increase of about 1.4 the capital transfer there is a reduction we went from 1 a. half million down to 1 million so there's a $500,000 reduction then Debt Service is is overall represented by a $1.9 million increase and the vast majority of it is that Bond anticipation note increase where we have that increase uh being somewhere around that 1.4 Mark so that really represents expenditures overall and we'll talk about revenues in a second to how we're going
019to basically pay for everything so Revenue again you got the party chart similar to what we had with expenses you can kind of see what the breakout is uh you kind of got that 2/3 1/3 if you will tax levy being about 64.5% state aid at roughly about 30% and then other Revenue somewhere around 5 five and a half percent that's the makeup of the of the three parts of uh main components of Revenue and those top Parts you can see up there state aid property and other Revenue so state aid if you look in the middle you'll see state aid a prior year budget at 34 million approximately 30.6 current year projected be 34.8 an increase of about 800,000 or 2.4% counts for approximately around 30 % of FM revenue is being state aid
020and this was attributed to as you can see at the bottom Foundation Aid Bose Aid and transportation Aid uh Foundation Aid is a slight increase B's Aid and transportation Aid is what I call the spend based AIDS so the more you spend ideally the more Aid you generate so stated by categories and dollars you can see left hand side again being those components uh middle being current budget and then projected and then the changes so Foundation you saw an increase of about 480,000 uh you can see at the bottom formula excuse me the top uh of the bottom there formula base Aid increas in 480,000 B these Aid next and it was really an increase to added Services of the corresponding Aid and then the high cost Aid uh was being the next one you
021saw the decrease there that decrease is really due to less students again generating that high cost a so that shift in Bose is where you're pulling away the students from the Bose's programs back in FM if the expense goes down then the corresponding ages uh you have that residual effect from that Transportation Aid being the last one you see an increase about 340,000 that's basically spending based again more spending you have generating higher amount of Aid so overall about 830,000 if you take everything and kind of Squish it together that's what you get to for overall with that the next thing is property taxes you see in the middle excuse me in the middle you'll see Levy was at 72.5 last year uh 3.49% or 2.45 increase this year the cap is projected to be
0223.5 6 2.6 was the maximum increase we're proposing to go out at 3.56 with that $2.6 million increase so the cap and the actual Levy uh would be the same I think originally I was projecting somewhere around that same ballpark and this we would adjust a little bit with thaton and things of that nature that's where it actually ended up coming out at 3.56 mil so if you see on the bottom this is a piece I hate putting up but at the same time there is some value to it but it's a kind of a crystal ball effect so the tax rate on $100,000 home at this point project to be somewhere around $54 that's really using that's the key part on the bottom using 10% assessment increase so we're talking to the assessor you
023know a little bit ago and kind of going through what expectations are I know it's been something that's kind of happened over the last couple years that's something I would forecast kind of seeing in that ballpark somewhere in that 10% so I did the same for what we have for assessments but I did use prior year Equalization rates and it popped out somewhere around 54 if those equal Equalization rates change the significantly that number would also change significantly as well but for the most part I think that's probably a decent basis to start kind of having discussions for folks at the 54 Mark there any questions for that um I know that we've gotten a lot of questions about this and I think in general this is on people's mind is any how much of
024our budget is based on federal funding how much of our budget is based Revenue how much about revenue is on on federal funding um there's nothing in this one that's that's really Federal funding at all it's but upk is really the only thing that kind of rolls into where you see it from an aid perspective uh there's funding that comes in kind of in one offs where we've had some Fortune lately where we've gotten stuff from assemblyman stury and and Senator Manion with some oneoff is that what we're talking about well like at the you know Federal Department of Education if it's still oh if there changes there yeah is that something because I know that that some districts are going to potentially be more widely impacted now I know where you're going okay so
025I'm just yeah uh so if there's any changes to the federal level what's that going to mean for us um the good news for us is the fact that bad news that you know we're 66 or 65% or whatever that is percent State you know property tax based so for us it's a less amount from an a perspective that being said we have items from upk Title One title 2 611 619 um we would be looking at those to see what it you know what there would be from an impact standpoint um at this point I'm not sure if there's anything significant that I'm aware of that would change that would be dramatic uh the current budget based on from general fund nothing's I've got in there that would change or anything known not sure
026if Dr Ty is anything from his standpoint okay but as far as changes or anything I haven't heard anything or whatever so the big thing for us would be simply I guess looking at that dollar amount and then planning for you know what that would entail uh the good news is is one of the things we have you won't see it here but uh we can certainly talk about it when we do a summary overviews you have reserves we've got you know somewhere in that $17 million Mark if there's something that has to change everything here it I would project to be fully funded for programs and resources with the current budget and everything that we're able to do and uh if there was something changing that from that you know Title One title 2
027611 619 certainly something we would address probably well we're hearing and I'm sure Brad is hearing as well through asbo that in all likelihood this year before they roll up the sidewalks and turn off the lights it'll be the following year and we'll see it coming but for a lot of this it's going to be a pass through to the states anyhow okay thank you uh other one other revenue is the next item represents about six million again smallest part of the revenue budget there you can see some of the items and I'll go through those in in detail on the next slide so you can see there there's the items um again left- hand side being the different ones uh the main ones you can kind of see the increase decrease over to the
028right what's going on interest uh it's basically we had bit conservative in the past year we really kind of Tred up more to actual uh so there's an increase there at at 300,000 and again it's really just a change in budget from budget to actual um next one prior your refunds it's really just you know it's kind of one of those you're looking at a crystal ball but the last couple years we kind of been somewhere in that ballpark so we felt comfortable with that increase is about 100,000 and the the main one the whole driver of basically the budget at this point is that is that bottom one the assigned fund balance so you can see in the prior year you're at about a million you can see the one above it in the
029prior year at 1,99 so when you're putting together your budget you're basically getting to the point of you got all your expenditures and then you have your corresponding revenues how do you balance the budget ideally you got corresponding revenues and expenditures it ties out and it Nets in our case and some you know you're basically going to have two items that are going to be needed to to make that come to fruition so user reserves it's something we've had that we've got from debt Reserve user project Etc that's a million dollars sitting there on that on that one the second lineup and then the assigned fund balance that's really your key one that you want to focus on so your difference between how to balance that budget in this case this scenario you needed $2.3
030million to balance the budget so for our case what does it mean so it's basically you're increasing 1.3 million in the prior year of how you're going to balance it so when we put started putting to get started putting together the budget this year we stared at I think about a $3.9 million deficit with increase in what we're going to pay in debt uh we knew it was coming it was a situation where the capital project isn't done yet the corresponding Aid hasn't flowed so you've got the debt that has started because there has been payments made on it so what we've done is we appropriated some of the money and we've paid it in 2425 using surplus funds and the remaining part is basically sitting here and assigned fund balance with anything else we
031could look at to how we could uh reduce the budget uh to pay for that in the end we were left about that 1.26 eight number that needed to balance the budget we do have surplus built into the budget somewhat to cover that uh but in the end it's kind of one of those where we've talked to everybody uh we really need everybody to you know hold the line with what they've budgeted for and keep actual in line with that now we know there's a certain times where there's unfunded mandates or there's you know issues that pop up so there are some things in there I think at the last meeting uh Dan was kind of enough to bring up the point talking about electric and gas and some of the significant shifts we've seen
032to the point where we've got unknown with tariffs and other nature we also in your case talking about you know anything from federal program to that we're fortunate we got those corresponding reserves but in the end you are left for that 1.3 million so in a utopian world you're basically spending what you said you're going to spend you got the corresponding revenues I don't know what the governor's budget when that comes out you know we'll see what that's at ideally you know we're going to get the aid we received if there's something less or more that's usually the line that I adjust I don't tend to go into program because at this point program has been scrutinized pretty heavily from an admin perspective I think they're pretty comfortable with what they've laid out in their
033plans for what they're going to need for instruction or co-curriculars or Sports things of that nature that's usually the number in my last you know 12 years of doing this that that I've kind of played with a little bit the appropriated fund balance so if there is additional Aid given that's probably the area where I'd reduce that appropriated fund balance if it was something significant that comes out in the governor's budget that's really going to affect that wildly then we probably take a second look and say is there something else we need to do do we need to use reserves towards it there's something from an ebl perspective ERS TRS things that we currently have in the budget it's just those Reserve ones could help with so I know that was a lot I know
034that was an item that's probably going to be kind of driving it but that's the one you've seen probably from that first slide back one when I started or first area of slides I started talking about with debt that's kind of where it pops out back at the bottom are questions about that because that was a lot well Brad I'd just like to say thanks I know that this is not easy and this is a long process so you know again just to highlight the the good news for the community is because we are fortunate and that uh you know we're not making any Cuts uh so I think that's just a key to highlight um you know there are some other districts that are not in the same position that we are so feel
035very fortunate and really appreciate you and all the administrative staff for really um digging in and being able to hold the line uh because this year it'll be tough and next year it probably won't be any easier so again thank you thanks for the good news after too no pressure so that's the gist there and again to that slide and and that's that that third uh the third one that's down from there so again that similar concept where we took expenditures and put it on to one slide uh this is the one I tend to use you know for for folks when I go out and do the budget Road shows or for staff Etc I usually try to take the expense when I take the revenue one so the revenue one state aid again
036$800,000 increase projected again driven by that Foundation trans Aid and Bose's Aid tax levy 3.56% overall 2.6 million and then that other revenue and that's kind of the one I was just driving home with that $1.3 million fund balance you can see there so the other Revenue increase at 1.8 property tax ly 26 State a 800,000 there's your total so if you took the two slides 5.2 with expenditures going up there's your 5.2 of Revenue uh included in that Revenue though is that 1.3 appropriating a fund balance so next steps overall April 21st will be the budget uh board adoption will be the same date April 21st budget hearing May 12th and budget vote May 20th so that overall I'll talk a little bit more there we'll get into uh some of the different items
037but I don't anticipate at this point um anything that I haven't seen or heard the only thing might be the fact of kind of see with the governor's budget Dr T and uh Mr catalino uh and keeping on the praise also could have mention there's a few districts going out at Super majorities this year that I think the public will note uh imp part credit to you and your business office team because you navigated a high school Construction project that might have made us one of those districts needing to go out for a super majority but it's all been crafted to save positions but to stay within the tax levy limit so thank you thank you I am fortunate I do believe we have the best business office in the state um I'm not afraid
038to tell everybody because I think I have um so we've worked real hard on it and you know we're hopeful that everything uh comes to fruition next year is going to be a challenge we've started already looking out at it sadly so um I don't know if it's a good thing bad thing but we are going to be aware and we'll have to figure out what that looks like so at this point there is good news you know there are no projected Cuts you will hear about it you'll see it uh there are folks that are district-wise they're going to be going out with super majority it's not us so the big thing is you know just trying to figure out how do we maintain program resources and keep it going so doing a good
039thing are there any other questions yeah can we just translate that for some people who might not understand the lingo of what you're using of going out for a super majority is is that's those are budgets that in order to raise enough tax revenue on the tax levy to meet their budget they have to go beyond the tax cap which requires a super majority vote of the voters as opposed to a simple majority when you stay at or below the tax cap which is where you've been able to keep us correct just why not yep no you did a good job with that that there'll be a slide in the next one theing a little bit of Thunder but it you know it talks about kind of where we've been at and it's been somewhere
040around that three and a half percent that ballpark you'll see some I think is high maybe I don't know what Dr tyon has heard but I've heard maybe somewhere seven um and these are some of these districts that I don't what's the right word they probably can't afford to not get the money at the same time for some of the stuff they've already faced with cuts and reductions and things of that nature so we're not in that ballpark and that's I'm happy about that I you know I don't know how they're going to navigate it but I'm you know for us we've gotten to the point where I'm I'm pretty comfortable with this but as I'm sorry but as the facilities committee knows uh dealing with the bands and the bonds as we get into
041and we're past the midpoint on the high school Capital Improvement project yeah it requires some choreography and some navigation uh just inms terms of the long-term financing uh the saying that we use in the facilities committee is that a community votes twice on a capital project the first to authorize it which they did back a few Decembers ago and the second does it impact the operating budget and I think as Mr seberg pointed out your business office and you have worked it so it stays within the tax cap and doesn't really uh influence you know a super majority vote going forward and navigating all that comes with a capital Improvement project it's it's probably been the hardest budget like I said last time that that we've had to put together and it's and you know
042we knew it backwards and forwards I think there's probably about every code we could tell you in our sleep which is scary but the the big thing was was more of that debt piece it was real interesting kind of going through and peeling it apart and trying to figure out you know what's you know what the right time to go one's the right time not to from that aspect so everything from paying down early and doing that what's the corresponding long term um I think we saved probably about 200,000 a year for the next 15 years doing what we did so we're proud of that um I don't know how much you'll see it come through with you know end product but in the end I I think it was the right thing where this
043is tight and and I just got done telling Sarah a little bit about it uh preliminary wise is just kind of that's where we got to so I believe we can get there I think everybody's got to have to follow that budget budget but I think for the long run you know over that time period it's a better thing for the district I think it's a better thing you know for taxpayers ETC so um it it is a sign you know things to come a little bit to Jason's point where you're seeing it in these other districts it's not us yet but we're fortunate enough we had some opportunity to be able to you know have the excess funds and surplus with the current year that we're able to pay down but we're just putting
044it back into the product so that's the big thing around here where that's the goal minimize taxes keep money going into the capital know transfers as well as the capital reserves and that's minimize taxpayer impact and keep everything going and maintaining program so that's where I think we got to don't know fora if you I'm sorry go ahead forca yeah I I just want to just kind of just double down on what you just said Brett because I I think this budgeting in a private business is not the same as a school district in many respects where we're depending on spending money before we get Aid on the money and so debt comes before Revenue often in different years wildly and and it's just I just you know I appreciate the work that you've been
045doing on this because what what some but not all in this community know is that we have tremendous needs across our buildings and a lot of work that's remaining and this is a very choreographed process of what can be done and paid for and staying with within the budget with debt coming before Aid on many of these that you know the the priority remains our educational spaces in all of these facility projects and and secondly obviously the Safety and Security of all of our staff and students and I don't know sec secondarily I mean those go hand inand obviously but choreographing that to stay within the tax cap on a budget increase I'll I'll just ask you perhaps the same question sure without preparing we didn't rehearse this that I ask you every year on
046the budget because I think it's important to hear this is $116 million budget the discretionary part the non-contractual non-obligated part of that budget is like 3% in that range am I correct on that well the question I think it goes back to I think it originated from this slide was where it became in the past and we talked a little bit about those items and what those are so the dance Point discretionary non-discretionary Etc salaries it's just exactly what it says it's negotiated forecasted contract it's a fixed number essentially you have a little bit of you know variation with when you're negotiating but not really health insurance it's locked in you're going usually six s% seems to be the kind of where we've been for the last few years cap transfer that's discretionary but in
047the end you know and I know there's aund roughly $90 million worth of work so you can do whatever you can from a maximum cost allowance to what voter fatigue could offer but in the end you're still trying to come up with some kind of cap excuse me cap transfer piece where you can cover some portion and Debt Service that's locked in so right there is 5.2 million out of that 116 and it's really at that point it's not you know it's not discretionary it's a basically a fixed number it's just to what extent programs resources some of the other stuff you could say it it is to some extent but to be here it's a non-negotiable so questionary maybe is the the wrong word because these are things that our community wants needs and
048we can provide in the district it's it's my my point being that as with all prior years yeah virtually all of the budget is driven by contractual obligations that are set long before the current budget year agree thanks BR yep Rebeca know if you this is kind of going back into the weeds but you were you were cruising on the presentation and I didn't want to interrupt you so I apologize but I was just wondering with respect to special education we talked about almost a million dollar reduction um due to a shift in Bosey services for internal District based instruction I just wanted to clarify is that kind of a universal decision that's being made or is it based on more seeing needs of the students that we want to address in The District in
049a more customized approach we have that game show where you can phone a friend right is that kind of that because I I have the one picked out that I wanted that I would ask to talk to if she was here available in the audience if I could just see her somewhere but uh I think that was one of the shifts I'm going to let her talk a little bit more about it we've talked about it last year kind of what that was going to mean so as we go through the budgeting process uh we go through and start in the beginning roughly around November and look at Bose SE and identify students with corresponding needs and you know what we think for project Ed costs and then we talk a little bit about internal
050program so I don't know if you wanted to take from that a little bit I thought I gave her enough time to get up here how we basically are taking like some of the high need Services bringing them back to FM talking 811 1211 things of that nature so you had it right um so we've been fortunate enough to be able to open some special classes right here in District and um it wasn't it was planned for our incoming students year we had a large kindergarten population that required special programming all of those kids would have ended up likely in Bose's program so we started that this year which actually saved ahead of the game the money we would have spent at bosies throughout the last two years we've offered other special classes in District
051and enhanced just specialed time with teachers which has allowed us to keep students home in our district and not send them at Bose so over the course of the four years that I've been here our Bose's um kids in special education programs has gone from 32 to I think there's 14 or 15 currently this year so half reduction and everyone back here in their with their neighborhood friends was that what you were looking it was thank you for clarifying so that was really that shift that kind of we talked about and kind of you know and what there is corresponding increases there as we talked about from instructional to you know monitoring to buses Etc but in the end you know it's right there so there anything else thank you very much Brad okay thank
052you all right item 2.02 president's report um have a couple of things um so if you remember several meetings ago Sandy and Sarah did a a very um theatrical presentation about the migration from Borex to diligent and they needed some support for people who would be willing to help with that transition and looking at which things to move over and how or versus archiving so they're at the point where they would love some volunteers it's they thought no more than maybe two hours of time um to do that so we're if anyone from the board is willing to do that you may volunteer now or you can get a hold of Sarah whichever you prefer can you explain I'm sorry Jason oh no I just wanted to volunteer Marissa she she said she wanted to
053do it I I'm pretty sure she said that is I'm looking around the table what does this entail um Sandy can you give a little I'm sorry you when you need some of the board members to help with determining which things to Archive right yes correct so we would we're looking for just your feedback on what you feel is valuable in the library to keep and things that you you know there might be maybe most frequently used right because nothing we're not getting rid of anything so it's really just our most frequently accessed documents or items that we want to make sure we keep that our fingertips versus being archived for you can still find them it's just they're not right there on the platform correct correct that way it condenses everything down down it
054makes it easier to use because you're not scrolling through 5,000 things um so if anybody feels compelled to I'm happy to help with oh okay an gold star the you guy has to do this stuff Sarah I'm happy to help too so anybody else if you change your mind yeah if you change your mind that's an opportunity um secondly um Mr Dr Cook gave sent around a scheduling worksheet to try to lack in some dates for interviews I know it's like predicting the future but um if you guys could try to at least put your if you know of any vacations or definitely days that you're not available if you could put those in there so we could try to as far in advance put some dates in place for interviews for the superintendent search
055um um and additionally I wanted to congratulate um the all the students and staff and advisors who worked so hard on the Wellwood production of James and the Giant Peach I heard it was fantastic so congratulations to everybody who did that and then um also the uh all the folks who participated in the dance Marathon over the weekend over $145,000 raised by our students which is phenomenal so congratulations to everyone who participated in that very humbled and and that's all I have unless anybody has any other things oh I know it was happening this week so yeah our brochure is out for the super intendent search so we're live collecting uh applicants through middle of June J this year so um that's and then we'll see where we go from there so exciting thank you
056uh right item 2.03 superintendent's report thank you president F Gerald item one Capital project update as mentioned before the recently approved 15.4 million Roofing Safety and Security project is beginning to ramp up in anticipation of a busy summer on our campus in fact the regional summer school in the town of man ass the summer theater program have been moved to the Jamesville dwit Central School District for this summer only the major High School construction project continues in the temporary passageway in the courtyard to provide some cover for students during the winter months will be removed going into the spring break so that the work on the cafeteria expansion and Courtyard will be able to continue throughout the spring and summer school start time committee as mentioned before our school start time committee continues to meet
057in order to recommend potential new alignments in accordance with the proposed bills that are in front of the Senate and the assembly uh the committee has added faculty members and will soon add other staff members such as the transportation department as well as students and their family members in the months ahead the committee is uh not only looking at adjusting start times as a possibility but exploring revisions to the existing Bell schedules in order to take full advantage of these new facilities such as is the expanded High School cafeteria the committee has added questions to the upcoming RMS School culture and climate survey that's being dispatched to families I believe at 5:00 pm tonight I encourage All Families to respond to this most important survey to share their thoughts about potential changes to school start
058times speaking of that the RMS climate survey uh is being released uh so on behalf of the entire governance team I incre like to encourage all family members to fill that out it's the parent version and it will include questions about the uh school start times just mentioned and the impending gubernatorial student cell phone policy which is to be in place by August 1st 2025 as a reminder the family uh School climate and culture survey is both Anonymous and confidential as it's managed by research and marketing strategies um which is a neutral thirdparty vendor out of Baldwinsville New York and you may recall that we won our Lighthouse award for Community alignment and engagement and the banner our district clerk brought here that is accompanied by the uh a ward that we're going to display
059at the district office item next parent councel next edition of parent councel at 9:00 a.m. Tuesday April 1 that's no April Fool's joke will be held in person and virtually this iteration will feature discussion about our academic program the final installment will be on Thursday May 1st and will include an overview of the proposed budget that will go before the taxpayers later in May upcoming special events as a reminder the district will be holding two special events in the weeks ahead the FM diversity Coalition will be hosting a cultural Festival on Saturday April 5th from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the high school cafeteria in addition our FM Zen Group which sponsored this year's big Reed will host the rescheduled Community event and mental health panel session on Monday May 5th from 6:30 to 8:30
060p.m. in the FM high school auditorium congratulations to our winter scholar athletes I take great pleasure extending our congratulations to our scholar athlete teams for the winter sports season all 11 of FM's winter varsity teams earned scholar athlete designation and 208 student athletes earned a GPA of 90 or higher and then like uh President Fitzgerald congratulations to all the students who participated in the high school and Wellwood musicals so with Hornet Pride we'd like to congratulate our student thespians student musicians and student technicians at both the high school and Wellwood Middle School for presenting wonderful M school musicals over the course of the past month the High School Musical highlighted members of our talented senior class both on the stage in the orchestra pit and behind the scenes and the Wellwood musical much like the
061eagle Hill musical from this past Autumn showcase the talents of the student performing artists who will soon Grace the stage the pit and the backstage at the high school well done to all and then once again echoing congratulations for the dance Marathon extend my sincere appreciation to the dance Marathon students who raised a record $145,000 Plus for Camp good days and special times it's one of FM's longest standing traditions and brings together students for a wonderful and worthwhile charity that is dedicated to Children throughout Upstate New York that concludes my report thank you sorry if I stole your thunder sorry not sorry you can have my questions if anybody asks uh item 2.04 well oh sorry oh you guys have questions there you go moving on no I was just going to say Dr Tyson
062or maybe darl maybe you know um the bills that are sitting in the uh Senate and the assembly for New York State um what are I believe I read somewhere isn't there a minimum time they're stock they're talking about in those bills I was just wondering what that is and just for the benefit of the community just so know out there great great question Mr catalino uh no Elementary School to start before 8:00 and no Secondary School to start before 8:30 so we just as we go through this whole exercise we want to make sure that we don't have to repeat ourselves or have a mulligan or a doover so you just want to make sure we're congruent with that if New York ends up being like California and making a Statewide switch good question
063oh I I just have a question on the start time committee so for multiple meetings now and months now we get the update that the committee's been meeting and we'll eventually add more people to it but we also said at the beginning that student voice in this was very important and family voice was very important and that and I my my concern as we keep getting these updates that well they'll be added later they'll be added later are they going to be added at a point where this committee has already gone so far through the process that things are pretty well cast stone or are they going to be brought in at a time where they actually will be able to provide meaningful input into what is work time great question I equate it much
064like as we all remember from our biology or living environment the course adjustment on a microscope and the fine adjustment as this committee moves forward as you know we've been exploring whether we can accommodate and change bus schedules and routing in order to pull this off then as we add each group whether it's the instructional component worried about not only instructional day uh but also conforming to the requirements from New York state in terms of the 990 hours and 900 hours per year but also inter Scholastic Athletics and you know off-campus jobs and internships and then we want to certainly involve uh our staffing units whether it's transportations or buildings and grounds but yes the intent is to bring on the students the reason doing it in a peace meal fashion and this is a
065great question is each group takes ownership I mean it's almost like handing a baton off it's great to have everybody together but sometimes voices get silenced and we kind of saw that in the Wellwood conversation I think we ended up where we wanted to be but some groups took you know more of a lead than others this one here because it's so precarious I mean it could be scuttled by any group as we go along I think the administration wanted to prove yes it can be done and now the questions become should it be done and then for the sake of adding the parents and students at the end will it impact child care what are the needs so we're keeping to answer your question as many different options open as possible so as we
066hand the Baton off each time it isn't like this is the final decision you know decision take it or leave it I think it's going from that course adjustment of the microscope to the Fine adjustment and bringing everything into Focus but our intent and this is where I thought you were going with your question was to give the community like Webster did like Fairport did a year advance notice so we want to be prepared this isn't this kind of report won't be going on forever by September we want to be able to share with everybody we can do it or for these reasons it can't be done or got scuttled the one thing I did tell the group is that we are going to have to rework and make sure we're in compliance with the
067990 hours as that goes through K12 I mean that's the one thing I should leave for the new superintendent with all the construction that's been going on it's been great as the facilities committee knows we've improved our infrastructure but now we want to make sure that we're in compliance with the requisite number of hours so at the very minimum even if we don't adjust start times we're going to come out with a modified bell schedule we just have to great question thank you um so Dr Ty related to that I know I believe that both the middle schools and at the high school level they do um on Tuesdays we vote for variety of topics to get feedback from the students is that data collected and I know they I believe one of the topics
068at one point was about the scheduling of the classes at the high school I'm just curious if that's rolled up and given into that committee or yeah I I can check with the principles I know they save it and I maybe we can plant a few questions there at that level just to gauge interest yeah yeah I just I you know I would hate to have for asking students for feedback and then you know we making sure that we're putting it to use where there seems to be great I me good point there seems to be a general excitement a lot of you do social media more than I do um I'm to which is not at all I'm running a school district but I just but I think there's a general excitement is what
069I'm being told on social media in terms of the switch that even Transportation I think if you were to ask some folks in transportation they're worried that it's going to mean fewer bus runs less time hours I don't see that I see a lot of parents taking advantage of the elementary early and then the secondary students hopping on the bus to come in I think a lot of our families transport the students to the high school so they're not you know getting here too early in the morning and so again from what I'm being told on social media there seems to be a general excitement that more families will Avail themselves of the transportation especially for the secondary students okay does anybody else have any questions there's just this rumor that high school students like
070to sleep in so I I hear that they want to start later so I don't think you're going to get push back from the high school kids well all I mean all kidding aside I mean tongue and cheek as we saw when Dr Daniel Leen was here and I know it was preco if you look at the data and the surveys and focus groups we all agreed as a community to exactly that point that adolescent students like to sleep in and so the question is we couldn't decide how best to solve it was it a flipping slide was it a slide in in many ways that you mention the Senate and assembly Bill and it may take forever to get them through and or it'll happen quickly like it did in California I think what's
071before us is the solution you know getting in line with the solution we don't have to argue is it flip and slide is it slide I think using the Senate and the assembly bills as bumpers as guides I think Will Keep Us on the straight and narrow and just become congruent with that anything else okay thank you uh item 2.04 committee and representation updates um Daryl do you have anything I hope you all had a chance to complete your survey the survey is closed out on March 21st we should be getting our resolution kits around April 9th of course we hope that the budget will be finished by April 1st in the state so the budget priorities have been set by nisba and um stay tuned for that otherwise I think um I think I
072would encourage everybody to join indivisible or surge or something to save our democracy a little PS um is any of the Committees have anything that they really want to make sure shared okay and unfortunately is not available tonight um okay moving along to item 3.01 public comment I believe we have two students who want to talk to us I don't if you guys want to do it together or separate um Surin and Sadie thanks for coming do you want to yeah you can come over here you'd like to are you okay with your father or whomever taking a photo of you he's he's a photographer so oh he's a phot he's he's a professional well that's great light everyone will okay perfect um Hello thank you very much for your time my name is s
073gner and this is serin bong we are Juniors at fat mle's high school and the current President and Vice president of American Sign Language Club um we are here tonight to present our case for the creation of an American sign language course for students at fville Main Lees High School um the club was originally created by a heart of hearing student named Kayla Houston in 2018 her goal was to create an environment in which people can learn American Sign Language and educate themselves on Deaf culture ASL club members our adviser Miss Brennan and both of us here tonight strongly believe that it is important to for our school Community to be more knowledge I about ASL we believe that it would open up a world of possibilities for our students and allow them to achieve
074a greater understanding of the world around them around 250,000 Americans use ASL as their main form of communication this includes not only deaf and heart of hearing individuals but also people with other disabilities and those who have ASL users in their lives today ASL Club is thriving with an active membership of around 27 and an Instagram community of 87 we learn from YouTube videos online and play classic games like telephone and hangman during club every month we aim to hold meetings that students are excited to attend and that are educational one of the club's most awesome accomplishments was filming the Pledge of Allegiance in ASL for the 2025 school year the video uh is shown every morning in classrooms across FM high school this is one way that we have already begun to spread awareness
075an ASL course would allow students to incorporate ASL into their everyday schedule compared to just bonly club meetings they would have the option to learn from an experienced educator of whom they can ask questions and Converse with students would also be able to earn credits towards their High School diplomas and potentially college credit as well offering an ASL class would educate not only the students enrolled in the course but the whole FM community in the importance of learning ASL and being able to communicate with those with disabilities we believe that knowing ASL would be a huge asset to our high schoolers when applying to jobs and thinking about future careers ASL is also super fun to learn and can be very engaging and Interactive and an otherwise monotonous school day in December of last year
076students completed a survey on their thoughts of an ASL course and we were able to collect data from 200 of students from the high school which we assessed to discover that 65.5% favorably views an ASL course being offered to them and this demonstrates a schoolwide interest in a future course and is promising for future class enrollment as well there are hundreds of thousands of deaf individuals in the US and as aler mentioned around half of them utilize ASL to communicate despite this formal in ASL were not established until the 1970s and there's also always been a negative social attitude towards people who used ASL by introducing high school students to ASL the school district could Foster greater awareness of the different ways people communicate and allow all types of people to coexist with empathy and
077understanding towards each other as officers of ASL Club STI and I have been discussing this idea since last school year and then in November of 2024 we began to initiate real progress through meetings with Mr magnam Mrs wood Jones and most recently Dr Ty over the past few months we've been able to collect Insight on the various logistical aspects of what it would be like to create an ASL course we have closely considered things such as finding a teacher and also how asl's a language could decrease enrollment in other world languages as a solution to this latter component we hope to create Asel as an elective rather than Another World Language this would mutually benefit students and language teachers um allowing for more flexibility and opportunity many schools across the state are already offering ASL
078courses and with FM's reputation for having a diverse array of electives we believe that ASL should be next ASL Club believes that offering a class to students would encourage creativity and improve our schools social environment to be more open and empathetic after all ASL isn't from another country it's right here in the US in central New York in our grocery stores doctor's offices and restaurants teaching students ASL would allow those who do use ASL in their daily lives as their main form of communication to feel seen and understood by others thank you all for your time and we hope that you will give some consideration to our proposal we are committed to making this idea into reality and look forward to your support in future communications thank you thank you thank you both thank you
079so much for your advocacy and for coming to speak with us so determining um programming is not part of the responsibility per se of the of the board but that's great that you're in contact with Dr Tyson um I don't know if you can they keep no they've been delightful to work with we've had a few meetings uh Miss Wade would you be willing to share what you discovered from the regional certification officer so recently uh we reached out to ocm bosis there our regional certification office and ask them about the certification for our current teachers and what would it take for them to add on an additional certificate right now they would have to get 30 additional credit hours um as well as take two additional exams to add this on as an additional
080certificate but what they shared with me is next month it's going to the Board of Regents and it's open right now for public comment so I'm working on um doing a public comment to say that we do support the change and what they've put on for a proposal is 18 credit hours instead of the 30 and potentially having one exam so we're going to strongly encourage that the board of regions considers making that change and then we'll start to talk to our teachers and see if we can get some excitement and um interest in that so wanted to share that the timing was great we just found it out it might be worth lobbying our own honorable Patrick Manion yes right great thank you great just curious there if um s your soon helped the
081I think some of the play of the prom was done with ASL correct I had no idea oh you didn't see it okay I didn't know if it was ASL or what it was but they were using sign well that's great wonderful thank you thank you Lisa that's great news as well so we'll just keep keep the club updated as to progress and decisions on that front okay thank you all right and there's is there anybody else for public comment okay great uh right moving into new business um item 4.01 we have a secra resolution um be it resolved that the Board of Education of the fville manliest school district approve the secr resolution type two action bus proposition as presented may I have a motion thank you Dan Second Jason any discussion all in
082favor anybody opposed or abstained thank you 4.02 the annual budget notice be it resolved that the Board of Education of the fville Manley of Central School District approve the annual budget notice as presented may I have a motion please thank you Cindy and Chrissy and any discussion all in favor anybody opposed or abstaining thank you okay item 4.03 policy approval be it resolved that the Board of Education of the fville manlia Central School District acknowledges the recent Federal changes to the title 9 regulations and hereby waves first reading and approves of the following revised policies 0100 0.2 0115 and 0111 in second reading in order to comply with the recent Federal amendments and resins policy 011 0.1 in accordance with advice from legal councel may I have a motion you certain you may any and
083Dan second anybody have a thing a conversation any discussion about that okay y yes thank you okay all in favor of tbling this item anybody opposed or abstaining okay thank you 4.0 four so do we table we table do we have to motion to table motion same to table Daryl and Dan also any discussion with this one all in favor anybody opposed okay um item 4.05 be it resolved that the Board of Education of the fville manland Central School District hereby authorizes the superintendent to execute the actions necessary for the district to join the class action suit versus Cintas Corporation in accordance with the guidance from legal counsel may I have a motion please thank you Daryl and second thank you Cindy any discussion all in favor anybody opposed or abstaining okay all right ongoing
084business item 5.01 um board petition packets are available from the district clerk and due at 5:00 pm on April 21st item 5.02 potential considerations for future meetings any discussion questions with regards to that items I guess the only thing I would ask related to our previous conversation is when the school start time committee is planning to kind of have a recommendation if it's by the end of this Cal this Academic Year or later we could maybe pencil in a some sort of targeted date just keep us on track anything else okay um item 6.01 future meeting calendars so our next meeting is April 21st um keep in mind that through the month of April is when we're going to be doing a superintendent year-end review so be on the lookout um for those emails to
085come through um from Super eval and we're also going to be working on developing next year's District goals with Dr Ty so um plan your your schedules accordingly to make sure you give it the time and attention it deserves um then boy we only have four more meetings in this Academic Year crazy uh item 6.02 dates to remember um lots of activities in the spring gearing up concerts and so on and so forth um anything that anybody saw in there that was missing or wanted to highlight okay and consent agenda item 7.01 be it resolved that the Board of Education of the fville manlia Central School District hereby approves the consent agenda as presented and may I have a motion thank you Daryl Jason second all in favor anybody opposed or abstaining thank you and
086item 8.01 so be it resolved that the Board of Education of the fville manliest Central School District hereby enters into executive session to discuss the appointment of a particular person as well as a student disciplinary action may I have a motion please Chrissy thank you and Dan all in favor anybody opposed or abstaining great thank you and we will be coming back from executive session to to vote on um one last item so it's your decision if you want to stay or go thank you welcome back so nice of you all to stick around thank you uh all right so item 9.01 Personnel actions be it result that the Board of Education of the fville manlia Central School District hereby entered oh no sorry I didn't click I was like what uh all right I'll
087start over um be it resolved that the Board of Education of fville manle school district approve the following Personnel actions as recommended by the superintendent may have a motion thank you Dan and Daryl any discussion all in favor anybody opposed or obain thank you and then item 10.01 adjournment be it resolved that the Board of Education fville Mania School District adjourn the meeting at 88:18 p.m thank you Jason and christe all in favor thank you thank you all for coming and sticking around have a wonderful evening for