001last hearing. Good evening everybody. I think everybody who's here heard this presentation before so we won't but I'll just hit a few highlights. Um, it is a budget hearing, so it's an opportunity for anybody in the public to come up and say what they feel about the budget. Our budget is going up about $2.6 million, which is a budget budget increase of about 1.67%. This breaks out that budget um what we're proposing for next year by different categories such as employee compensation which is our largest category that increase overall increase of about 2.6 million 2 almost 2.3 of it is in employee compensation and uh we'll talk a little bit about that on the next slide. Some highlights there is, you know, we are restoring some positions that we eliminated over this past year. We
002were budget crunch. We're preparing the current year's budget. So, we said, let's see what it's like if we don't have a new house mechanic at Long Beach Middle School in Eagle Elementary because someone was retiring. And we realized that with the new machinery, the new systems that we have over there, the work that we're doing to convert steam to hot water and air conditioning that building phase by phase, we really do need somebody who has that specialty and can manage those systems. So that's one position to restored. We also um you know are focusing on wellness, the new wellness center at the high school. So, some of that additional competition because of the new position, a new staff member is going to be assigned to the new wellness center here at the high school. Um,
003another example is we said, let's see what it's like to not have a social studies director over the past year and we realized that it is something that we want to restore, not only restore that director, but expand upon it and have that director take on business and workplace learning as well. So, not only do we have the standard set members moving along the salary schedule and new salary schedule for next year, but you have some additional positions, the AI is Matt Leo, the additional wings at Mindell and some of the other increases and some slight decreases that you see here in the bullet. Another big thing that we wanted to do for next year is to um do what we call a refresh some of our student devices such as Chromebooks, iPad, some new
004smartboards for the classroom, some desktop computers, and an upgrade in our infrastructure support. So, we thought it was a good opportunity to reinvest in some of our instructional technology. Um we also need to keep up with the cost of repair and maintenance in some of our facilities. So, we wanted our next year's budget numbers to really reflect some of our recent expenditures. And then you had some fixed costs such as the increasing cost of some of insurance premiums as well as some both these items. Um, and so we have that in that family services figure as well. Benefits is a bit of a mixed bag. We talked about how our health insurance premiums have been going up over the past several years. That's a January increase. We don't know about it until pretty much December.
005And we got lucky this past January. It was relatively flat. So, we were able to have some savings there, enough to be carry over that savings into next year's budget. And then the TRS and ERS offset each other. Um, we have in the budget four new gasoline buses. So, we have the funding to continue with our vehicle replacement policy. And just as a little side note, I was on a call today with a consultant that's working with us to get some grant funds from NE Starter so we can have an electrification plan put into place. So, you know, we're working on trying to shift over to electric buses and that's some several years down the road, but we already have the structure in place to set up that infrastructure so that we can receive those
006electric buses. Here's our revenue projection. So, the state aid uh numbers, the final state aid numbers came out just last week and pretty much it's the same as what was in the governor's proposal. So, there's no real change there. They came through with a 2% increase in foundation aid. Um just really a believe it or not, a $1,000 difference between what was proposed by the governor and what the final state budget is. Um, in those numbers, right, we do have a projection for what we call placeholder here for the public high cost extra cost aid because there's not a number there if you take a look at the specific state a run as well as 300,000 for additional buildings. So, this figure of 27.8 million includes those placeholders. Other revenue category you see is going
007down. We talked about that at the last meeting. And the big contributor there has to do with a larger outgoing 12th grade versus the incoming ninth grade from M Park. We get tuition money from M Park for the high school students that come to Long Beach High School and a lower projection on interest income because those rates are slowly coming down. We get to our tax levy and that is a 2.4% 4% increase, which is below the cap, below the allowable maximum limit. And I have a slide here that just shows what our history has been over the past 10 years. And if you take a look, especially the past six years, you see it's it's really low. So, um, you know, it's hard to really sustain all those zeros and the 1.5s and also
008to try to keep pace with inflation even though we do a lot to try to find efficiencies and to cut where we can and try to be as lean as we can. But if you take a look at the past 10 years, way under the tax cap, many years and really relatively low increases, especially when you compare our district to other districts in the county. This year we're just about under the average tax levy for the county. Um, and in many years we were way way below that. Want to bring your attention to the last slide where we have a sample ballot. So hopefully people are also watching from home. They can take a look at what they're going to see next week, next Tuesday when we have the budget vote and the trustee election.
009Proposition one is the school district budget. There's our number 158 158.5 million is what we're asking the community to approve. Um the next proposition two has to do with asking permission to spend money we already have on hand in our capital reserve fund. Again, no additional funds required, no impact on the tax levy. It's money we have already and we're asking permission as we're required to do from the community to spend that money. And what we're going to use it is to renovate our pool here at the high school which really needs some renovation. It's installing a new pool membrane and retile the pool deck. placing the bleachers, making it much much safer for everybody who's using the pool and walking on the pool deck, as well as to replace the bleachers in the high
010school gymnasium itself. Again, very important for safety um to have those really in good working order. That's proposition two. Proposition three is the library budget, and you see that the candidates are on the right there. This is the budget hearing. So, if anybody wants to say something, now's the time to do it. Next Tuesday is the budget vote and trustee election. Seems like this cycle in particular went very fast. Next week is already the vote. If anybody has any comments or questions to answer. Thank you. I just wanted to ask Mr. Association concerning the budget. I met with the Chamber of Commerce. I reached out to the civics and um didn't see much interest in having come. We reached out to him PTA. Is that right? PTA is here. PTA and the chamber. Any other
011questions for members of the board? I have a question. Just thank you, Michael, for all the hard work putting this together. And um yeah, I hope that everybody goes out next week and I I can I can bet with a high degree of certainty that no one in the crowd right now is against this question. I I just have a quick question. Thank you. You've always explained everything so well in pretty detail. Um just just for the record what is the maximum lending? So for this year it's 2.96%. So just under 3%. Yeah. So we really did well after that. Thank you. You're welcome. Any other comments from board of education members? Okay. Thank you once again for the presentation. Uh thank you for both presentations. They were great. Um All right. Uh, moving on.
012Student organization announcement. Moving on from questions and comments for tonight's for the public. I apologize for the public on tonight's agenda only. Okay. Uh, treasurer report for March 2025. No action needed. I'm going to pass it off now to Dr. Gallagher. Presentation to the superintendent. Thank you, Mr. board to consider item one person. Motion made. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? Miss Kelsey? Yes. M Conway? Yes. Dr. Ryan? Yes. Miss Pace? Yes. I vote. Yes. Item two is non certificated personnel. Motion. Second. Any discussion? Steli? Yes. Conway? Yes. Dr. Ryan? Yes, Miss Pace. Yes. And I vote yes. Item three is acceptance of donation. This is the last of the donations supporting the hot feature. Hold on. Is there a motion? Motion seconded by Miss Conway. Any discussion? I I just wanted to say
013thank you for this very generous donation for our high school team. It's just truly generous and in a town like Long Beach when we have such we have such a tight community. We really appreciate it. So, thank you. Miss Belling, yes. Miss Conway, yes. Dr. Ryan, yes. Miss Pace, yes. I vote yes. Uh four, five, and six are policy reads. Two first and one second. No action necessary on those. any questions or anything? No, but I just really would like to thank you and Dr. and Dr. Ryan for all your guidance on the policies always work. So, thank you. And I ask the board to consider items 7 through 12. Motion second. Any discussion? Yes. I just have a question concerning the use of schools. I see that free port is using and what Washington
014are using the fields. Yeah, I think both um districts uh requested that because they're doing construction on their own fields and um Mr. Abstein felt it would have any negative impact on us. So in terms is there any reimbursement for cleaning up a field? Yes. Yes. Yes. Is that contractual or is that Well, it's according to our use of schools policy. I don't know what the number is on off the top of my head, but I can Thank you. I appreciate that. I got to tell you, I haven't seen that in 20 years. I know we let the pool out. I understand that. I'm just sort of concerned about that. I guess they like our new curve, right? I think they like the beach. All right. Any other discussion? Missy? Yes. Miss Conway? Yes. Ryan?
015Yes. this case. Yes, I vote. Yes. Um, board education, you have any new or old businesses? Yes. Um, Dr. Yeah. I heard from a number of people at home who are watching these meetings that they can't hear a thing. They don't know whether it's people aren't speaking into microphones who making a deliberate effort now to speak into the microphone, but they say that it's just almost gut to listen to the meetings at home because they cannot hear a thing. So, could we possibly check that out? You know, I don't ever watch videos of the meetings, but I hate to think that we're encouraging people to participate somewhere at home and they can see, but they cannot hear. Well, Dr. You're right. I can say I mean that I have spoke to some people about it.
016That's one of the reasons why I always focus and use the mic that they said they hear me clearly, but that we all need to really pay attention to talking to the mic like this and that if you're away from the mic like this, it's not picking it up. But if you speak into the mic that they can't hear us. So I have checked that out because I have, you know, spoken to people to say, "Can you hear we see?" So that's the feedback that obviously that if you speak to them but also Dr. Ran we can certainly investigate with our tech department if there are any other solutions. Um part of the problem is that the speaker is really on that iPad. There may be a way that we can arrange the sound to
017pick up a little closer to the source. Just just so you know Dr. I brought this up in the beginning of the year because I also heard about the complaints spoken to our technician too. you saying that there's different types of technology to use um to help with with everybody hearing us, but they had to look into it. I remember um Mia, you were also looking into it as well, just because especially at the middle school when people are on the stage, they they wouldn't be able to hear it. So, I know that you were when you are in the process of continuing to look into the new text so they can hear us better from home. Well, like I said, I I did check into it and what I heard is people have said
018they always hear me just because I make a point to talk either this one, you know, because I speak really close. I think you're I don't know or anybody else if you want to, you know, try and miss, but that's the feedback that I speak to the mic. You have to speak straight in front of it and very close to it. If you're off to the side or more than three or four inches away, they're not. What about that little mic? Those little mics that everyone wears when they're doing their Yeah, it's not. I think the problem though even with them is if you're not speaking clearly enough captions at the bottom and clear. Well, YouTube does a trans Yeah. Maybe put captions on the TV at all. Just maybe. Thank you. Thank you, D.
019Oh, no. Thank you. Anything else? Well, I I just wanted to say Well, here we go. Make sure I'm talking right into um I was able to go to some sports events at our high school and concerts at the middle school. And wow, first of all, the middle school, the concerts are amazing, right? C and and Mr. Pinto. Um it they were just fantastic. The talent and how our teachers help all of the students bring out all of their gifts is just wonderful to watch. So please give our thanks to them. Um and watching our kids play out also. This is something I love to do. It's just great to watch the camaraderie and listen to our parents talk and you know on our kids. So, it's it's wonderful that we offer so much to
020our kids after school. Thank you. I would like to echo Miss Conway's statements. We're we're coming into celebration season. It's like every other day we have another uh scholarship awards meeting dinner, sorry, or a sports awards or a concert or other recognition for all the talents of our students. And so I look forward to seeing everyone at these events and let's let's enjoy a lot more celebrations because our kids definitely deserve it. Any um other comments, new world business for the board. Any questions or comments for the public? Any items? Announcements? Classroom teachers association. I think I'm good. Thank you. Uh PPS speak the mic. What's up? We couldn't hear you. Keep thanks Mr. Von and his team for presenting the budget and going through the process. We really appreciate it. Also, thank you to
021Mers for presentation and working with all the scient. Thank you. Group C. We're all good. Thank you. Thank you. Parent Teacher Association. Okay. With that, can I get a motion to adjourn? Motion. All in favor say I. I. Thank You need to fix your equipment.