001no public comment it is 7 minutes past 7 and we have returned from executive session to our uh continue with our public session if we could please call the role Miss Jordan here Mr sper here Dr Collins here miss Anderson here Mr Ryder present Miss Fitzgerald is excused miss corones here Mr Fitz padrick Mr lamb and stand for theed allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic One Nation God indivisible andice for all we do have two actions coming out of executive session um I will be looking for motions on each of the resolutions first we have Boe 46 a jewel agreement be it resolved that the board hereby authorizes it president along with the superintendent of schools to execute a probation extension agreement with employee number 4225 as
002presented to the board at this meeting second all in favor of accepting Boe 46 any opposed Boe 46 has passed Boe 47 a medical examination directive be it resolve that the superintendent of schools is hereby authorized to direct employee number 4225 to a comprehensive medical examination and evaluation by the school physici including psychiatric and or examinations and evaluations as recommended by the school physician in accordance with the provisions of section 913 of Education law and be it further resolved that the Board of Education hereby directs employee number 4225 submit their medical records from the last two years if any to the designated physicians at or before such examinations or evaluations second all in favor of BOE 47 any oppos b47 is also passed that brings us to our student recognition I believe Dr patalino Who
003are you I believe that um Coach K is going to talk a little bit about our athletes of the month who couldn't be here tonight but he's here to represent them uh good evening Dr parino Miss Anderson board uh administrators uh I'm Coach Johnson Coach K quy Johnson um here at for Varsity Club uh in the athletic Council we do I don't think this is on maybe it is okay I don't think I need it um we do uh athlete of the month so our um coaches vote on our athletic Council and then our um uh Varsity Club U we try and select two athletes each month uh to honor uh unfortunately both of them could not be here tonight uh one of them a track and Phil athlete is at a meet right now
004and the other one um a bowling athlete uh had to work and they could not make it I will however accept these certificates on their behalf um so I'll go first with Varsity bowling um a 10th grade Captain Samantha Schmid uh she's the Triple Crown winner of section nine not too familiar with Bowland but it's a pretty big deal um High average of 200 a High series of 691 um and a high game of 288 so that's in the entire section so uh these are stats and information that we get from their coaches so again I'm not too familiar but sounds pretty good if you added up all my games in my life I might have those schools know um the the the team the girls bowling team qualified for the state meet as a
005team um and then as individual in section n composite team so she uh qualified as a team member and individually for the State uh bowling tournament so congratulations to Samantha and then our next athlete uh male uh athlete um boys indoor track and field Logan Manor Logan has been a part so these are um bies from their coaches uh has been a part major part of the success of the indoor track team this winter he broke the 200 meter School record that was set two years ago uh he also is a member of the school record holding uh 4x200 relay which just qualified for the state need uh in addition to his success in track he achieved a New York state standard in the long jump with a personal best of 21 ft and 7
006in uh he did Miss qualifying for the state meet in the long jump but at section n championships he was second in the long jump 55 meter dash and a member of the winning 4x200 relay he's been a member of the 4x200 relay which has reset the school record three times this season and the team qualified for the New York state championships in March his contributions helped lead the boys team to their first ever section 9 indoor championship and then a little bit after this um the national meet him and the relay team uh qualify for uh allamerican status so congratulations uh to senior Logan Manor so thank you very much do you want him to get the certific can't be here thank you Quinton that brings us to uh public participation is there anyone
007in the public that would like to address the board brings us to the approval of the minutes from the March 5th um meeting so move second any discussion on the minutes from March 5th all in favor any opposed so the minute from March 5th have been approved and we are now at the superintendent report thank you Mr Anderson um okay so first our superintendent we have our assistant superintendent for business and operations M garbage our bud good evening as you all know we are still waiting for the New York state budget to pass but while we've been waiting we have been working diligently to fine-tune our numbers and look at where we are and where we need to be just for the public for anyone not here for the uh rollover presentation our budget development
008process is still continuing we've already rolled over our current year budget expenses we've predicted the revenues to the best of our ability we're still waiting for final state aid numbers but we do have the executive budget which has been quite low we've looked at employee salaries benefits all of our we've looked at all of our costs at this point line out of expenditures looking at programs which we are still doing um adjusting Revenue estimates uh for our what's called EXP best Bates AIDS which are State a categories that the revenue is based on what we spent the previous years so by tuning those estimates from the executive budget and working towards balancing our expenditures and our revenues while we wait for them so major changes in our preliminary Revenue budget for your 2025 26 our
009current state aid increase is 5.3 million but this is inclusive of all of our expense based AIDs that I just spoke about our actual Foundation Aid which is our primary um state aid category from the state itself based on enrollment and other factors that was a minimum of 2% uh which we have not seen in quite some time and that increase was about a little over a million dollars our tax levy increase is $8.2 million it's not the maximum allowable Levy and we will speak to that in a few slides we've had a decrease in interest income not knowing what the economic landscape is going to look like in terms of rates we need to be as conservative as possible so we don't have surprises reduction and pilot income we've had a pilot end unexpectedly
010mid year so that um income is has come off of our uh Revenue estimates for next year and then reduction in other revenues of $1.7 million most of that is um the fact that for 25 26 we don't have a budget um trans uh a transfer a budgeted transfer from the debt Reserve just to refresh everyone's memory in this budget 2425 we transferred $1.4 million which we had budgeted for 2324 we did not need it because of the interest income we received that year so then we carried over that transfer for this budget so our total revenue increase right now is $10.8 million and this is our draft Revenue budget starting with our uh tax Lev of 125 million say $800,000 our Pilots our major categories interest on investments of $1.5 million going down to
011our uh Foundation Aid of $ 68.9 million according to the executive budget we hope that when the final budget is passed and enacted that will increase but we're working with what we have for now our expense expense based state aid revenues that I spoke to are about $36 million so as you see last year that Revenue was $32 million so that's most of our increase there Medicaid reimbursement and uh transfers from other funds our food service fund and our federal funds for a total of $236.8 million so now our tax cap calculation just to refresh the community's memory the five main factors in this long calculation that we use for our maximum allowable Levy it starts with the current year tax levy so wherever we set this year our estimat started with the 2425 Levy
012from there the next important factor is the tax based growth factor which comes from New York State uh real property tax then inflation otherwise known as CPI pilot payments are a factor and then exclusions our capital and retirement exclusions this year we have no retirement exclusion so the exclusions for what we pay for Debt Service our maximum allowable Levy has shifted since my last presentation the R so starting with this year's Levy of 11.6 million the next area our tax-based grow factor that has increased to uh by 96 basis points so 20 over last year that is a factor in the increase then our Pilots the change in Pilots they've been reduced which is a factor and we have our exclusions so our maximum allowable Levy this year is 126 million $147,000 and that is
013a 7.27% increase over this current year and the dollar amount of the increase is $8.6 million going back to going to Foundation a that I just spoke about I took a snapshot of our foundation a history just because uh this year's executive budget number was so surprising starting with the 1920 school year so looking at six years through 24 and as you can see the first uh column was just um in I know some people do look at our uh runs so being able to trace back that First Column is the base that the state used to calculate the next year's Foundation age the important column next is the current year age so you can see how it trended from 1920 at $ 46.8 million steadily increasing a significant increase from 2223 to 2324 and
014that was the first year that the the formula as it was was fully funded and then the very next year it shifted then 2324 to 2425 not as much of an increase last year the formula was shifted the CPI Factor the inflation Factor was shifted which um resulted in just under a million dollars less revenue for Kingston last year but what I was interested in in blue is the dollar change year-over-year and how that trended and as you can see the past four years have been more significant and then the percent changed year-over-year than where we are now excuse me the executive budget in dark blue as I stated before is $ 68.9 million and increase of $1.35 million which is a 2% increase which is the minimum increase in the governor's proposal for foundation
0158 and just some averages um because but just to get an idea of how it trended because it so different so I just wanted to share uh that analysis with you our seven year average even though I'm only showing six was 6.6% increase our 5year average was 7.67 and the past three years that average was 9.73 so we were trending in the right direction I know many of you who watched our well many of you on the board have served for a number of years but a community who've been watching have heard Dr padalino and the team speak about how Kingston has not been fully funded so that full phase in I left there so that you can see our actual Aid compared to what we would have gotten if it had been fully funded
016they eventually got there so that's what that column represents and then just to give a graphic to what I just spoke to it speaks volumes when you see it in in a graph so the green bars represent the dollar increase of our foundation a year over year and then in blue we have the percent increases so you can see the trend both ways we were heading in the right direction we got fully funded 23 24 and then we went the other way now also we do have um shifting demographics in our district that make us look wealthier in terms of our um assessed values but we still have other factors that are significant so now going to the expenses our total expense increase is just under $16 million $15.9 million and the major changes salaries
017and benefits $7.6 million Debt Service of $3.2 million trans ation of approximately $4 million but this estimate I do expect to change we are looking very closely at our transportation um projections but also um we currently have an RFP out for transportation for next year as we speak so we will be receiving those um proposals next week and going over them to see what where our numbers will sit so I expect this $4 million number two change special education a million dollars and then just the N impact of smaller adjustments across all budget categories $15,000 and also just speaking back to transportation and I have a future slide um about that so I'll wait until you see the trend and here we are so what I took two of our largest expense categories that have
018shifted over time are transportation and out of District tuition expenses uh we've had quite a significant shift especially coming out of Co so I'm providing a SN of over the past 5 years and the year that we're sitting in so you can see where we've gone from the 1920 school year the blue column is our our transportation expenses the orange column is our out of District tuition so we started off in 1920 at $5.8 million for transportation following the trend of Transportation in 2021 we've gone up to 8.6 million 2122 we saw a little to $8.1 million during Co but then 22 23 we had a significant increase of $10.9 million that year um we had a lot of changes and changes with our contractors and rate 2324 our transportation expenses Rose to $13 million
019just to recap of that year we had um our transportation director worked very diligently to realign some of our Roots also getting additional service to uh fill in the service gaps that we have because as our contractors some of our contractors were suffering so we had increased expenses we added we added runs to fix some of the service issues that we had um previously and then this year to 2425 we project our transportation expenses to be just under $16 million to $1 15.9 million this year also U we've had significant increases from our contractors because after many years of not um paying drivers what they can make elsewhere and with the shortage the salary issues had to be addressed so when contracts have gone out to RFP now we've had two years of going out
020to RP where in Kingston we went many years without needing to do so we are now seeing that increase in addition to service changes and increases that we have to make in service just to accommodate our students and make sure that we're getting them to school as efficiently and safely as possible so this is our transportation in Orange are out of District tuitions in 1920 we were just under17 million at 16 basically 17 million then in 20 2021 we Rose to $18.2 million 2122 again just slight bum to $18.8 million and then 2223 we saw a significant increase to $9.8 million rates were changing and also our students as you call coming through the pandemic the tail end out of it um more gaps more needs being met and needing to be sent out of
021district and 2324 we sat at $23.9 million for our adage tuitions and this year our projection is 24.2 our we our classification rate is about 22% of our student population so that is another Trend that um we've been watching and and and looking at so in terms of our forecast and making sure our budget are accurate in meeting the needs um these are some of the things that we've been looking at so our draft budget summary the 2425 budget that we're in now 231 m562 our tax levy this year was $17.6 Million which was a 3.2% increase our draft Revenue budget is currently at 246 m872 500 our expense budget is at 251 million basically $500,000 so our current budget Gap that we're working to close is $4.6 million the maximum tax levy sorry yeah
022finish our maximum tax levy is 1226 m147 400 which is a 7.27% increase as we saw in the calculation the proposed tax L this point is $125 million say $800,000 which is a 6.97% increase the difference between the two is $355,500 so for the following budget the 2627 budget we would start off at the $125,800 th000 number our Revenue summary so our preliminary revenues are at $236,600 and to that assigned fund balance of $5.5 million which is the same level that we added this year then a Deb a tax tax reduction Reserve transfer of $750,000 we also made that the same amount um a lesser amount this year $350,000 and retirement reserves to uh make payments against our retirement payments of $4 million so the draft re Revenue budget bringing us to $246.9 million but
023this is where we are in this moment we are still working so our next steps continue to evaluate projections and services across the district and continuing to develop scenarios to implement when the New York state budget is enacted I just also want to share with you some of the steps that um some of just the environment that we're in for those who are listening who may not be aware I know you all are first our postco new normal um we have been like districts AC across the state across the country developing what our new normal is going to be student needs instructions supports and operations and we put in place many supports over the course since we've come out of Co and contined to come out of Co and some supports it takes time to
024see how effective they are and what is working and what isn't and that's the work that we've been doing over the past two to three years our student needs continue to increase and we have a changing economic environment which everyone knows and the climate So speaking to the foundation Aid um schedule that I showed and smaller class sizes so what are we doing our Focus as we've been doing this work in looking at our both our revenues and our expenses and the services we've been laser focused on enhancing instruction to improve student needs you saw the presentations for CK the new curriculum that will be rolled out uh Ka we have been working to maintain those necessary stud supports that were put in place and looking at them closely to make sure that we are
025getting the results that we intend and we've been working to position the district for financial stability while promoting success for all of our students so that balance and those conversations are what we've been having as we're looking at the numbers we've been doing a districtwide assessment of our resources both instructional and non-instructional we've taken a deeper dive a deeper evaluation of our Support Services I stated before and we've been making data driven decisions um so part of the time that we've taken is because we've been pulling data we've been asking data from our principles from our departments looking through um Trends and our own records and also revisiting them and then putting them together in the landscape of a district Vision instead of just Elementary or just secondary so that work does take time because
026we have been working on a very um very diligently and on a more detailed level that deep dive that we need and identifying and creating IES in operations and programming so doing that work as we go and some changes we have made and have already made but we won't see the fruits of those financially until next year and the following year but that's the work that's been happening and our primary expense changes that we spoke about um Sor in benefits Transportation special education so all of these because they do go hand inand um one of the reasons I laid transportation and special education out together and I should have said this when the slide was up because our students when they placed out of District we have to transport them there um and transportation can
027be expensive and some of our students do travel a distance so this is the work we doing we're continuing to work while we wait for a budget we're not just waiting we're looking again and revisiting to see where else we can find- tune or realign things and then create scenarios since we are not sure what to expect we're hopeful but we have to be prepared as well so this is where we are any questions Mr Ryder you had a question you lost it I was just mistaken but just the Delta between our maximum taxy and what we are looking at is about 355 I think when I first looked it was like in my head it was 6 or S million but I was looking at the 24 25 tax I'm always concerned that we're
028you know we want I get that you balance like we have to be physically responsible for the taxpayers but there's also how much we leave on the table we leave on the table for future years so that's always know look at that and that's a big part of Mrs coron thank you for this great presentation just wanted to reiterate what I thought you heard the increase in District plac is both due to the number of students as well as the cost so it's both in terms of the the increase amount that we've been spending yes there was a significant increase I started in July 2022 so the 2223 school year there was definitely a significant increase in that was unexpected so then we had both going on okay thank you Mr lamb and then Mrs
029Jordan more than anything i' to thank you because number one going through line by line and everything is tedious and it's but it's going to be advantageous at the end for next year in the future so I I I get it I'm worried all right optimistically worried at this point um but thank you for that work and and what You' have done for us and making it plain and simple thank you but I have to say this has been all hands- on Deck so uh the cabinet team of course Dr patalino and Mr Reinhardt and the principles every this has been all hands- on Deck people have been digging up data and pulling out data and digging up things and we've been looking under rocks um as a team and then in the business office
030team it it's really been all hands on De thank you Mrs Jordan I was going to also say I I'm aware that everybody here has been working so hard and I really appreciate uh that hard work as a group as a team for the district but I'm also always trying to understand this myself and I know that there might be people who watch this presentation and going back to Mr Ryder's point about the differential between going to the maximum tax Lev Li and perhaps a little lower because we always try to just can you again so eloquently explain to people why that matters going forward the simple reason why it matters and thank you for asking Mrs Jordan is because where are how much revenue the district has we all stay focused I do it
031too on the percent increase and I will definitely share a slide that I've used in previous presentations to show this at my next presentation but the percent difference year over year will be the same but what's different is the money so if we leave $355,000 on the table for the 2526 budget when we're creating the 2627 budget we will be from before we even start the calculation we will have $355,000 less Revenue to work with for our students and our district for that budget year and that's why it matters there's a a carryover and a compound effect and I think people have to understand that because have tried so hard to balance the needs of the taxpayers with the needs of the district and that's I think really key until they change the point which
032I I have a question and I'm not sure Dr patalino it's for you it's about the outed District when the new bosis um converts that Port youan site into special ed do we anticipate that we will have fewer out of District so out of District so those students include Bose students out of District but there will be will be a level of savings sending them there and that's one of the reasons bosis is doing what they're doing because Dr Shanker and his team at bosis recognize the demand for these placements for students who are who are exhibiting needs well beyond what we've experienced you know prior to 2020 um so that was part that was really one of the motivating factors behind Bose's looking to go to I park 87 and changing for heing into
033basically entirely um special ed programming for other District students so yes okay Mr Ryder and then Dr Collins and I know this isn't something that can happen overnight but when you start to see that growth I know we' had conversations about looking to any of these services that we can bring in house and that doesn't help the 25 26 budget but like it continues to grow exp and I think one of the things that are that you know at least one of our new assistant or director special ed that you know this long was been looking at is what can we bring back in inhouse and is that it may sound crazy thing to say but is that economically feasible so about 10 years ago we did this we had the same exercise and came
034out with it wasn't we we didn't we actually would lose money and again looking at things like Legacy costs looking at things like retirement looking at things like Personnel um and a lot of the um individualized services that many of these students need and the cost around those so yeah but we are still we're going to continue to look at that you're right that $24 million is a huge number to then turn around say would cost us more but um we're we're looking at it for sure Dr Collins I I was actually thinking along the same lines as both of you and and wondering too because it's those students we paid the out of District tuition costs and the transportation and so keeping those House St po yes if I understand seems like yes there
035would be a lot of STS do we space to bring them back I mean we have off options and opportunities that we would look at and again I think looking at it know after you after you factor in Aid and everything else looking at it holistically would be will be eye opening for everyone to realize it's probably not the kind of savings that we think it would be um and again we've looked at this multiple times we brought we we've actually done it with some smaller programs and ended up having to go back to sending them to osees or to other programming other districts in our County having the same problem is it something that we can work hand in hand with the other districts and and each District offers some of that's exactly what
036we do with bosis that's exactly what bosis does you know so our students who go to specialized class at bosis whether it's port youan or at Ana Divine um are with students from you know new students from students from antora so that's exactly what we're doing we're trying to take a program that we couldn't offer ourselves because it's one student and bosies can put together seven students 10 students from the seven school districts and do it you know in a reasonable fashion so that's uh that's kind of exactly what we've been doing posies and around the table um at ouri superintendent meetings every month this is a conversation every superintendent is having has these issues any other questions or comments I think just a comment talking about this particular population my greatest um concern as
037we look through this is you know the replication of an effective program for the student because these are students that have very very specific needs needs and um you know we want to be certain we're providing I I recognize it's a do need to meet their needs and they're very they may be very specialized it may not be something that we're able to have the expertise to provide either and and with the small numbers I saying that that's where that's where it becomes not really cost effective to do it especially with the number of other services that many of these students need and I and I think I said this the other day I mean some of these students have transportations that cost us $1,000 a day so that's $180,000 that's before they walk into
038a classroom before they receive any instruction before they receive any special services OT PT speech anything things they need that's $180,000 that's students right off that that's one kid um so these are these are expensive situation for sure thank you very much I do understand that this will be in our library yes because I think many of us would like to take a closer look thank you you I'm not for the def just for the presentation I just have two two very small things I know we have board reports so I CH of those commes to those reports um just another announcement spring break is coming up um it's April 14th through the 23rd right so just everyone knows that's through the Tuesday we'll return to or through the Wednesday we'll return to school on
039April 24th for the 24th and 25th which for Thursday Friday and we've added we've taken those other two ex days and we've added them to Memorial Day Break which is 22nd through the 26th with a return to school on the 27th so it's a just the change in the in the calendar and Miss Jordan I've heard uh people waiting for their preschoolers to come out there's a lot of confusion still about this is there a way of doing another E blast or something just to help parents yeah and I think some of the I think we can do that and also I think maybe will talk with our principles sometimes the message gets comes much more clearly from their building principle than it does when they look at our our text confusion any other right
040okay that brings us to um the Board of Education committee reping beginning with policy Mrs Jordan okay um I want to thank the board for being flexible enough to look at the policies that were in their Library one of them is um the education of homeless or temporarily house Children and Youth policy 5151 the old policy that we've had had and I think was reviewed on um in 23 has been updated by Dr pisello thank you so much um and recommendations from n were um I'm sorry nispa were considered and what it does is it includes all of the latest legislation requirements and so rather than plug that into our old policy it's just cleaner to use the policy that has everything so that's what you have before you and the only thing that is
041not included in that policy are the cross references which will be the same as the ones in our old policy and that is also in your library so the cross references are 5150 school admissions 5420 student health services 5500 student records and then a lengthy list of references so if we are able to pass that tonight it would be very helpful because we have students that require these services and we want to make them as up to date as possible any discussion all in favor of 5151 education of homeless and temporary house youth any oppos thank you and the next thing we have is is um we don't currently have a 504 policy that covers everything up to date and so um that was also in your library and um it's quite extensive I I
042would recommend that we we were supplied that by our attorneys and I recommend that we adopt that tonight but I also would like to recommend that the policy committee view it because my instinct is that we should separate out the students from the Personnel so for tonight I would like to move that policy as it is because again it it um does have legal references that are up to dat which are very important for us to include but I think we're going to put it on our we might not be able to put on this Friday's agenda but we can put it on for May and make sure that we look more closely at what we think we should do and we'll come back to you with that so I would move that 504 policy
043be um adopted second any discussion all in favor of um adopting 52.3 students with disabilities any oppose so 502 0.3 is approved that brings us to audit and oh Mrs Jordan did you have anything else no I didn't we're we're meeting siding sorry Mr Ryder what in finance sure so we met um on March 25th I attended virtually so I'd like to thank Mr lamb for taking over as chair for that meeting um meeting was called to order at 9:00 amm we approved the minutes we discussed the treasures claim fund reports and voted to accept these there was a discussion around a new club Charter um which I believe is in the library uh to vote on tonight for future Business Leaders um M coron asked about the number of clubs at the district and
044the high school and middle school levels and Mr quell was going to get that breakdown to us at the next the qar internal audit report so the area chosen for this audit was Ed law Tod Mr bod wrapped up the field work last week and the draft a is being put together um we had decided there was a question about when we would have him presents the AIT report and we decided that that would happen in August um you know this coming here as opposed to trying to rush it and do it we had discussions of the 2526 budget um I'll just say like I think there was robust presentation about that tonight so I'm not going to go in too much of what the discussion was it was very similar um there was talk
045about um how our debt service schedule affects the tax levy and the calculations the only piece of old business was Miss coron asked about um when uh Bartel the housing director from the city of Kingston was going to come back and do a presentation around some formulas and scenarios that we had requested um and I'm going to set it up so that not Thursday April 10th probably um for our next meeting but the mayting and that was Dan Baker that taxes Dan Baker came in last time because bartab was not available it will be bartab that comes in and presents in May I would last name any questions or comments from Mr Ryder thank you that brings us to the facilities um committee the facilities committee met on March 25th um we had a combination
046of remote and imperson attendance um and it was well represented um we approved the minutes from February 25th after amending um our update this was probably the one of the fastest meetings I think we were done in 22 minutes um so there're not a lot of updates the smart Schools project is still um in the change order phase that work continues uh during Spring Break um the lockdown system here at Mahar will be tested um and the energy performance the annual verification reviews will be conducted as required our Capital project phase one demolition um at Edson and Bailey will begin during spring break removal of ceiling tiles and bestest abatement the staff has been informed and the major work at those two sites will begin in June um phase two still waiting for approval from
047S phase 2A comments were sent to S and or comments were received from s and responses have been submitted the design documents for GW and Chambers in phase three have been completed so that's kind of an overview of where we're at in our Capital project um Dr patalino reported to the committee that he has recommended to the board that the project for the Athletic Field Master Plan be pushed to a later date this recommendation was made due to budget concerns and the impact that this project would have on taxpayers the scope of the project will continue to be investigated so there will be no vote in May deed stadium is underway for spring the spring season um the side field for practice will not be usable until the grass fills in and the ground dries
048out um Ada Hardware has been installed on doors and a distance I think we were this was reported to us a district maintenance worker has been assigned at the site from 2: to 10: p.m. daily and Security will be present for contests um the senior class at Kingston High School has inquired about the possibility of an Electronic Lawn sign to be installed on the Broadway lawn the student organizations at the high school have been raising money to cover the cost of the sign our maintenance department has investigated the installation details um so the the committee agreed that we should give the students at Green Light to continue um to work towards that project we do we still have some playgrounds in Old business that are still waiting on punch list parts and in new business
049um Mr Bogard is investigating options for vehicle replacements for electric or hybrid Alternatives five district vehicles are to be replaced within the next year we adjourned at 3:53 and our next meeting is April 29th questions comments Anthony and then Mr Ryan um I was hoping to know how many of these our total number of vehicles yeah we had that 35 I think we I have that I think we have 30 we include our maintenance trucks our food service trucks I mean most of our vehicles are those kind of things food service trucks or maintenance trucks we do have well we have six car five five vehicles two of them one of them we've taken off the road I believe um but the majority of them are either our maintenance our maintenance trucks or our service
050I think there's 35 okay so I mean the Food Service I know that's a lot different from you know our operating budget like but many the food food service trucks yeah probably probably a quarter actually most of our most of our vehicles really are out of our maintenance I know those are the ones significantly right the bigger they we plows on them or those kind of things Mr rer I don't know if this is something in my head so at where the throws the vehicle got hit two years ago um with an disc and there's not a there's not enough the the fence isn't high enough right so and and we don't block off the road or anything so the coaches dealt with it but I think we should if de somebody to take a
051look at yeah they might have to put up netting yeah we have the netting around the around the field itself so we used to have Nets on on the fence itself so I mean Coach K wasn't there that day but like I think somebody dealt with it but it was just somebody was pared there could as they spin through the air any other questions or [Music] comments discus and you get hit with a discus you know you've been hit uh all right that brings us to our consent agenda are there any any items that trustees would like to have pulled from the consent agenda hearing none if we could have a motion to accept the consent agenda any discussion all in favor of accepting the consent agenda any opposed so our consent agenda is approved
052we do have a few donations I think the Board of Education of the kingon city school district hereby accepts with grateful appreciation the following generous donation to Ernest Meer Elementary School from the Meer PTA 2 NO2 donations totaling $1,162 199 to robbert Graves Elementary School from the Stewart Foundation a donation of $400 to JFK Elementary School from Stewart Foundation a donation of $250 and to Harry L Edson Elementary School from the school store a Walmart card and the amount of $25 and from L Lake North a picnic table valued at $50 so thank you for all the donations thank you old business Mrs coron I just um at the last board meeting I said that at this board meeting I'd give a brief update on a meeting that Mr Dr patalino Miss Anderson and I
053had with the ster County Ida we met with them on March 19th and it was with the executive director and two of their board members Mr Pam and Mr Kerwin I may be butchering his last name so I apologize um and thanks to M carpon we had a list of the 19 projects that are current Pilots that would be impacting our district next school year um I'll let the two of them chime in I think it was an informative meeting um I think um what we realize obviously as the school board our purpose as very different than what the Ida's purpose is for the county um but they did encourage us that um we when there's a pilot that does come up that's going to impact the district that we really should uh provide testimony
054to that effect because they would consider taking those comments into account so um I'll work with Dr patalo and administration as to how or what that might look like and I encourage the two of them because they probably um have additional things or thoughts to L I just thought it was a really um good meeting in the sense that it just opened the lines of communication between our organization and that organization and that and several of the pilots were not Ida Pilots they were from other um municipalities yeah right so um and and we were encouraged to participate in the process of voice is only going to be heard if we're there when we need to be there so it was good yeah I I agree with I think they they got to hear how
055we think and we got to hear how they think and and it just opened up that that opportunity for conversation was productive Dr Collins um first I just want to say thank you for holding that meeting I think that is a couple of years over too and I really think it's important that we're building bridges and open those lines of communication so um I think that's great and I I just wanted to follow up a little bit on the being part of the process and providing testimony so in what capacity and in what part of the process are they asking for that does that mean if we learn of a pilot that we then submit a statement which may maybe about the impact on the district to them during their decision making time or I
056I think so whenever a pilot comes up for the for the um Industrial Development um thank you agency we do get notification so so we get notification here at the the board clerk gets it um and one of the things that's that's that's important re not there has not been a pilot for what oh yeah awarded through through Ida in two years so it's been two years so we haven't seen anything like that before but they but I think they encourage us to come and speak to them and speak with them instead of kind of just talking over here or talking to Mr Kimble or whoever we're going to talk to about it know to go you know actually address them they in the past they they they've taken a lot of that into account
057I I felt they were very genuine in their in their offer for us to participate in that way and that they they did value our input and they value what we do I mean I think all three of them were parents at one point parents of the students in this district and they live here so I um I think they're very genuine about being considerate of our concerns can I just ask one follow question along those lines were they unaware of the impact on the district in general and I don't individual so much but I just it I'm trying to understand sort of how the the trajectory of this is played out over the last few years and where the miscommunication lies and I I wonder how much of it is miscommunication or awareness of
058knowledge I think no I don't think they were unaware but I do think that they their their um view of it is different than our view of it you know kind we' had many conv but I don't think they were unaware but I will say that you know again our as most of the time we're having pilate conversations our conversation did shift to talk about housing um and again they the Ida is not necessarily who we need to be talking to about that because I think they have they have two that are old that have been there for AES they've been there for so they've been on the books for ages and we actually we as a board many years ago agreed to what's that yeah we we moved forward in support of that at
059one point so um but it did shift to housing um and you know I think as those housing projects come up with the idea that's when we need to have those conversations but they don't have they have nothing on the books right now they no nothing that's been they have they haden't had pilot in two years and they really don't even have you said they don't even have one in front of the pipeline so don't they have the one up on Golden Hill no that's not yet it's by right affordable housing is by right and it's a state all I can say is it's going ahead and it looks nice it's it's going to be it's moving quickly but that's not through the idea okay I think in um like November changed their housing policy
060um they sent USS and and they have a whole new they have a whole new manual basically I a whole new handbook that that is on their website that I started looking through after after that meeting so there's a lot of different things they have changed many of the rules that they they put in place I think they have a pretty new board definitely they do have the board has turned over fairly significantly and I think think they are I think they are in a different they they're looking through different eyes let's put it that way and I think that is the new executive director is right on point right so Mr Ryder did you have a question okay okay I just Dr CS I I really do appreciate that you had this meeting I
061think it's really important that we continue to check in with them so that you kind of stay ahead of it because again it's a negotiation and so I just think that we have to remind them that we they don't have to treat us the same way they treat the other tax well they have a public hearing on it before they approve anything and that's what they encouraged us to to participate because our voice will be heard in that public hearing and we did bring up that that exact thing of why does every tax and jur position have to be dealt with in the same way and they they did not they weren't opposed to that they understood they just don't have anything in front of them right now to right that's great but it's very
062encouraging that it is a different kind of view thank you Mrs gone any other old business any new business um I'd like to make a motion to create we have a motion do we have a second so without a second we will not move forward on that motion any other new business public comment no one to address the board and board member announcements I have one announcement no else and I'll get more information on to but May 3rd which is a Saturday the city will be holding the overall ribbon cutting for deep Stadium okay so um what date is that May 3rd it's a Saturday I'll send you the time the date and everything else with that um Miss Pondville is saying something to 1:00 what it's 1 to 3 p.m. oh it's 1: to
0633 m okay so 1: to 3 p.m. at Deep Stadium there'll be a ribbon cutting tours of The Stadium tours of the locker rooms all those kind of things going on so um the please what time again 1 3 p.m. and the actual ribbon cutting is at 1:30 there's a thing from a thing my guess is there'll be food trucks but yeah that okay no good to know any other announcements I will all in favor of a journey thank you very much may Saturday