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Aberdeen Public School Board Meeting 7/28

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YouTube / Aberdeen Public School District
Date
2025-07-29
Location
Brown County, SD
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Extent
1,232 words · about 7 min
Collected
2026-05-18

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001meeting to order. Begin with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Mr. President, >> Mr. Brian, >> Mr. Buckus, >> Dr. Gail Bortn, >> here. >> Mr. Mer Murphy >> here. >> Mr. Kevin Bard. >> All right. Uh that asks for so no good news items correct. >> Okay. >> I'd ask for approval of tonight's agenda. >> So moved >> by Sharp. >> Second by Olsen. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Same sign. >> Persons wishing to address the board. >> None. Order >> marks. Thank you. We have a consent agenda in front of us tonight. Would

002we like anything pulled from the consent agenda for further discussion? >> Seeing none, I'd ask for a motion. So moved by Olsson. >> Second by Dr. Borton. All those in favor of tonight's consent agenda signify by saying I. I. >> Oppos. Same sign. >> Thank you. Report to the superintendent, Dr. Guffin. >> Thank you. The first item on the agenda this evening is the 2526 proposed. This is our pre hearing and Miss. Rogers is here to present that information. >> Yes. >> First, I'll just briefly review last year's results. Um, I'd still need to acrew a few federal receivables and estimating those to total about 417,000. We'll also have an adjustment to move TA revenues into the general fund, which was 853,000. Actual revenues will be 102% of budget. On the expense side, we'll have

003an adjustment to move TNA expenditures into the general fund, which total will be 116,000. And there will be some additional payables, but I don't anticipate those to be significant, maybe 30,000. Um, actual expenditures will be 98.5% of budget due to conservative spending. So, our surplus should be about 605,000. And this is with a transfer into the general fund of 621,000. This year's budget includes a total of 62 million in expenditures for all funds combined. The decrease in general fund expenditures is somewhat misleading. Prior budget takes into account the budget supplement required to get TNA expenses into the general fund which was 690,000 last year. The remaining is 617,000. Um part of that is title 2 expenses which I did not include in this year's budget due to the uncertainty of that. Um we are expected

004to receive that now based on the news release from the DOE that was released today. First spend there's a increase of 5.13%. On the revenue side we're expecting an increase to revenue of 6.7%. This slide shows advalorum or local property tax revenue for all funds combined. There's an increase of about 2%. This slide just shows taxable valuations and mil mill levies. So when valuations go up, the state lowers the levies slightly. And following that is just slides showing breakdown of revenues by source. This year the state increased the target teacher salary part of the stated formula by 1.25%. We're expecting to see a decrease of 1.4% based on decline in enrollment. I used a decrease of 165 students in this projection. Capital outlay revenues. Most of our revenue comes from local property taxes. Bred 56%

005of revenue comes from the state followed by 33% from local food service. 51% of revenue comes from collections for meals sold. 46% from federal re federal reimbursement. I'm estimating a 63025 net position of 535,000. And with this deficit, our 63026 net position would be 439,000, which is approximately 15% of our annual expenditures in this fund. And these are budgeted revenues for other funds. We're going to use 10% of our ticket sales, other enterprises, driver's ed fees. And this slide just shows a breakdown of revenue revenue by source for all funds combined. So local makes up 46% then state 44%. This ratio is pretty similar year to year. Moving on to expenditures, 88% of our general fund budget is made up of salary and benefits. We gave a 1% raise to all staff and made a

0066% increase to our health insurance contribution. Capital outlay buildings and grounds has the largest share at 54% followed by technology at 13% and library at 11%. Special education 79% made up of salary benefits 20% purchase services. Food service um purchase services are our payments to our food service management company. That makes up 71% of this fund's expenditures. Then salaries make up 29% since we still have some district employees in the food service department. And lastly, this is the breakdown of expenditure by category for the other funds. Other enterprise is salaries for drivers and instructors with the remaining being other expenses such as fuel. So pending any questions, I would ask for the board. >> Okay. As for looking for approval, >> question food, has federal government continued with their their support for free and reduced

007lunch? They haven't fiddled with that yet. >> No. >> Okay. >> My question is more I mean, who knows? But, you know, they keep talking about eliminating the Department of Education, putting the funding to the states. I mean, do we who knows what's going to happen, but do we have to revisit this down the road if something dramatic changes with funding from Washington? I mean, I I don't know. I'm just it's >> nothing would change for this fiscal year. That was the an under the federal funds that were frozen is that the money had already been allocated. They just weren't releasing that which was >> So this year would be fine is yes whatever transitions during the year. >> Correct. >> Change things dramatically next year. >> Yes. Absolutely. >> That's nice to know. >>

008Yeah. We're not we don't really know. We don't know >> what's a plan for. >> Yeah. >> I I appreciate the information. I also um appreciate that this looks a lot better than I thought it was going to look like tonight. Um so I would move first reading of the proposed budget for 4526. Have a motion on the floor by Olsson. >> Second by Sher. Any further discussions or comments regarding the uh proposed budget? Seeing none, all those in favor of the 2526 proposed budget signify by saying I. >> I oppose. Same sign. >> Thank you. >> The next item on the agenda is the second reading of policy DGD-R. Michaela did a good job explaining this last time regarding our credit card use. >> Move approval for the second reading. >> By Olsson, second

009by Dr. Bornham. Further discussion related to DG-R. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I oppose. Same sign. Thank you. >> Okay. The next two items kind of go together. This is policy E A. Uh, as you know, there are a few occasions where we do have students who do transport themselves. So, for example, dual credit, maybe they drive over to NSU for a course. Um, there may be some kind of career and technical education opportunities that's off-campus or an internship would probably be the most common reason that students would have to drive. Um it's nothing that we require students to do. These would all be optional things, but we do allow um high school students to drive themselves in between. In the past, we had a form that parents signed and of

010course all of our forms have transitioned to online forms. So what we've done is we've combined our policy statement and EA E a G along with the form into just one policy. And then my next request is going to be to delete the form itself. So really I've combined E A and E A-E uh into one policy statement and again while my next motion I would ask you to delete the form. >> I move first reading of revision of E A motion on the floor. Is there a second? >> Second by Murphy. Any further discussion related to policy E A? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I same sign. And we already spoke to the um deletion of E A-E. Would there be a motion on the floor for that? >> I

011would move approval of the deletion E. >> Second by Olsen. No further discussion to be had. >> Seeing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Same thing. >> Okay. The next one is policy JGB. This is restraint and seclusion. And it's amazing how many eyes look at something. But we read through this one more time and there were two terms that are used pretty frequently throughout the policy which is a behavior intervention plan and a functional behavior assessment. Those terms were used in the plan. They just simply weren't included in the definition. So we used the federal definition for those two just to clarify um the understanding throughout the policy. >> I move to approve that. >> Move on the floor by Bortnham. >> Second. Second by Olsen. Any further discussion

012related to policy JGB? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Oppose. Same sign. >> Okay. And the next one is uh first reading of policy JLD AAA. This is confidentiality of information or our flipper policy. Do you want to talk to what you changed on that one? >> It was just clarification of Yeah. So for the policy uh essentially what we're going to do um what we're going to do is add a clarification on how the process is how parents can access the process or how that gets started. So we just added in there contact or written permission given to the building u principal this would align with the requirements that we have to have for accreditation. It's the only change we made. >> Move approval. First reading JLD AAA on the

013floor for JLD AAA. Is there a second? >> Second by Beckus. Any further discussion related to policy JLDA? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Same sign. Seeing no further business in front of this board, I'd ask for a motion for adjournment. >> I so moved by second. All those in favor.

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