001uh operational safe and you know so on and so forth. Um also so an overall financial comparison which I've included a spreadsheet comparing 24 to 25 you could see that our operating revenue increased by about $4.4 million. The biggest part of that was uh $3.8 million was the increase uh in the personal property taxes uh mainly from the 5.9 mil operating levy because this is the first full year of collection. So we passed it in November 23. So fiscal year fiscal year 24, you only saw half of that levy coming in. As taxes are collected January to December, we run July to June. And so fiscal year 25 was the first full year uh of seeing that levy dollars come in. And also we because of the reappraisals in in the city which you know
002came in a lot higher than before that's probably about $500,000 that we picked up on our inside millillage. So the combination of those two show where we have you know increased our our revenues by that $4.4 million. Uh operating expenditures increase about $4.9 million. Uh mainly you know personnel services about 2.4 million and another 1.45 four five million in uh benefits costs. Um purchase services also increase. A big part of that is uh now we're paying for Chromebooks. Esser was used to cover Chromebook costs for the last several years. So now we have a couple of the leases that we're paying for which are going into the general fund. Um so overall the district's expended 760,000 less than received. So we're operating in the black. So that increases our uh endyear cash balance to the
00314.6 million which I mentioned earlier or roughly three and a half months of expenditure. So so obviously we're in a good uh financial position as we end the year. Uh you know we kind of use that 60-day or you know two-month period but now we're you know at three and a half. So financially you know we're in in in solid uh position. Um, and the other spreadsheet, there's a second one just kind of showing a five-year history, uh, comparing from fiscal year 21 through 25. Uh, so you see our revenues are about 18% graded greater, but you can see our expenditures grew by 24%. So, it's kind of always the thing in school finance, you you you get a levy pass, but your expenditures keep increasing. So you go that five six year period which
004we've been able to do then you have to look for new money uh as your expenditures will continue to to grow. Um so that's that's kind of in a nutshell the financial report uh for the month of June and also uh for the fiscal year 25. electricity. >> Oh yeah, that's that was a good while ago. Um I forget the energy for education program. Basically it was uh was kind of more of a watchdog to make sure lights were turned off and and those types of things. I think it's a combination of things. Uh now this year we're going to see hopefully kind of entered into a new electricity contract. Uh um and hopefully we'll kind of see our costs be a little more controlled. Um again it's you know the cost keep increase utilities
005are have just been increasing uh and our usage uh between the air conditioning uh we put LED lights in. So we're working everywhere we can to conserve the energy. uh you know, the air conditioning, that's that's one of the things that's going to just help raise the cost. And they typically do your demand readings in the summer when you're going to be at the highest usage. And so once they do your demand readings, it kind of sets your rate then for the for the year. >> Just one other comment. Um part of that is the high school. quite honestly, we can never close it down or, >> you know, there's it's hard to to not air condition portions of the building because it's used so much. And it's not just uh the schools. A lot
006of that is is city programming. Um and so there's a cost associated with being good partners with community and hosting all those programs. Um and that's that's part of the cost is we do have increases with air conditioning and maintaining all those services. We can do a better job of of sort of closing down some of the other buildings and reducing costs there. It's extremely challenging at the high school. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, they'll be obviously monitoring that as the year goes on. So, we'll see how that works out. >> Uh, Mrs. Mahales. >> Yes. >> Mr. Aim. >> Yes. Mrs. Click. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Schneder. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sabolski. >> Yes. >> Okay. Uh, exhibit D2 is then and now and this is for LLA therapy and this
007is for services which uh were needed for ESY. Um so different special education services that uh they provide and the purchase order was was in you know process before those services were received resolution to >> moved second >> uh Mrs. Schneider >> yes >> Mrs. Mahalis >> Mr. Sabolski. >> Yes. >> Mr. Akum. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Click. >> Yes. >> And finally, uh, D3, this is, uh, advances, and two advances are being made. Uh, one into food service. Um, so obviously we still have to have payroll costs and other costs throughout the summer, you know, as the pays are stretched over to summer. So and and obviously no revenue is coming in in uh July and into August as no lunches are being served. So we need this to kind of start the year
008off then as the lunches um you know students come back and revenue is generated uh then the advance will be will be paid back and the other is uh athletics um and again we we typically have to advance into athletics to cover these costs as uh Dr. Milsatic uh kind of explained on the pay to participate that should uh hopefully help you know offset the amount of the advances that need to to be issued to you know make sure that at least it's in running through in positive throughout the year. >> Uh Mrs. Click. >> Yes. Mr. Sabolski, >> Mrs. Mahalis, Mr. Achim, >> yes, >> Mrs. Schneider, >> yes. >> That concludes my last report and I just again want to thank the board for everything over over the years. Uh, obviously, you know,
009Pam and Steve have been and Mike, the two newer members, but everything that you guys have uh done and been, you know, great to work with, Dr. Milsatic. Uh Mary sitting here in the front row. Don't cry. >> You're going to get her crying again, Bill. >> Uh again, like to thank everybody. It's been uh it's been a good 26 years. So, time to move on and uh time for Mr. Shaldi to take over. He'll be uh giving the report next month. So, >> I wonder how many times at least once. Next month for sure. moved. >> Second. >> Uh, Mrs. Click. >> Yes. >> Mr. Aim. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mahales. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Schneider. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sabolski. >> Yes. E1 resolution to acceptance. resolution to approve the introductory appointment. Resolution
010to award teacher contract. Resolution to correct specialist activity contracts to non district. Uh, Mrs. Schneider, >> yes. >> Mrs. Mahalis, Mr. Aim, >> yes. >> Mrs. Click, >> yes. >> And Mr. Sabolski, >> yes. resolution to the plan. >> Second. >> Would you like to? >> Sure. So, we are required to have a uh basically a virtual plan for makeup days on file uh that is agreed upon uh with administration and our teachers union. As you can see, um, I've signed that and also AA president Shelley Dura has signed that and it's essentially the same plan that we've had, uh, for a number of years. Really, the only change is that we did add one more Calamity day. So, that would be six prior to the asynchronous virtual learning days. And then there still would
011be days 10 through 14 before we would make up days in June. Obviously, we know what no uh student, parent, uh, teacher is excited about makeup days in June. want to make sure we have those in place, but we also uh you want to make sure we give ourselves some space for some of those calamity days to happen as they they have. Um actually, I think last year we had five, so we did come close to that six. So, we did make that adjustment and just add one more uh day there. But other than that, it's it's the same plan um that if we needed it, which we have not yet, uh if we needed those asynchronous days, uh that that this is essentially the plan that the lessons would be pushed out and they
012would be asynchronous work throughout the school day. Uh, Mrs. Click. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mahalis. >> Mr. Aim. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Schneider. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sabolski. >> Yes. >> Moved. >> Second. Mrs. Schneider. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sabolski. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Click. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mahalis. Mr. A. >> Yes. >> Moved. Second. Mrs. Mahalis. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Click. >> Yes. >> Mr. Achim. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sabolski. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Schneider. >> Yes. Mrs. Mahales. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Click. >> Yes. >> Mr. Aim. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sabolski. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Schneider. >> Yes. second. >> Yeah, sure. Now, these are obviously you'll see one for each uh particular building. So, these are all the different um whether it be 200 account student activity, some are the
013school support uh public school support, 08, uh Rotary. So these are what they did out of each of these accounts for the last fiscal year. So you could see where the money was spent, how the money came in, and that obviously they all have positive balances in them. Uh one or two of them at the high school level. Uh you know, we sometimes have to make advances into them. Uh but by and large that that's covers all of that. And so this is kind of a recap of all those particular um funds uh how they were how how the revenue and the expenses were incurred for last year. >> Uh Mrs. Click. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sabolski. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mahalis. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Schneider. >> Yes. >> Mr. Akum. >> Yes. resolution
014to approve. >> Yeah. Yeah. Basically, you just approve what happened last year. So this is uh basically setting the budgets for this year and and by and large uh what the budgets are going to match up relatively the same as you know where did the money come from and how the money is going to be spent. Uh again most of them um depending upon what the the thing is you know be various donations may go into them. um you know your public your school support like 08 for instance at the high school that's all the parking passes that's they generate revenue from that and then and again how the money will be spent so this is just last year is what we did this is telling you what we're planning to do or they're planning
015to do >> questions >> uh yes Mrs. Schneider >> yes >> Mr. Sabolski yes >> Mrs. Click yes >> Mrs. Mahalis Mr. move. >> Um I know this is involves a confidential student issue but um just within reason a little explanation of what this is about. >> Yes, absolutely. Happy to do that. So um sometimes uh there are situations in which uh there's a disagreement between the district um and a student's uh family uh pertaining to how they're educated. Um and if uh those disagreements escalate sometimes uh there are attorneys involved and uh agreements that can be mediated or have to go to due process. Uh this one did not go to due process. It was mediated, but in those instances we have to file an insurance claim. uh if the the costs or the
016cost of attorney's fees would exceed a certain amount uh 10,000 in our case um which uh it actually did not in this situation but um we just need a resolution essentially to make sure we pay costs associated with that mediate mediate agreement and attorney's fees um all that is not covered uh by our insurance. So obviously it's confidential and so it has to be pretty generic. Mr. Achim. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mahalis. Yes. >> Mrs. Schneider. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Click. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sabolski. >> Yes. Thank you. So, um this is kind of ironic uh considering that we just um approved the whole brand new policy manual and we already have a first review change. So, as is typical um in order to change a board policy, typically we have uh one month
017it is a discussion item, you know, for review and then the next item it would be up for a vote. Um and the reason why we wanted to do this tonight, we meaning uh Mr. Shiraldi and I is because we couldn't approve it until August. And one of the things that uh Brian would like to do, and I'll actually if you want to go to the podium, I'll turn it over to you since uh I know that uh you'd like to explain this, is that we feel that we uh it's too restrictive to have our current uh credit card amount at $3,000 per card. Um and it's it's much lower than what mo what most districts have. And so that's why we are proposing um that it be set to $20,000 per card. Not to
018say that they all will be. He will monitor that. We will monitor that. and some will still have the same balances, but some would need more. So, go ahead, Brian. I know you wanted to add a little bit more to that discussion. >> Yeah. So, uh, as I've been doing some work days here, I've had meetings with various people, uh, one of which was the athletics department. Um, and one of the things they brought up was credit cards. So, I started reviewing how we utilize them. Um, and it brought me to the board policy where it states a $3,000 per card limit. Um, so then I just started looking at other districts in our area. I know my current one at Youngstown has an overall limit of like $600,000. Um, other schools have like Yeah.
019Um, I think Solen's had like 800,000 or something crazy. So, uh, there's some wild ones out there, but, uh, common one I found was like a per card limit of, you know, between 10, 15, 20,000. Um, so I think since we have the per card limit established, adjusting that to 20,000 will allow us to do things. 3,000's just not. Um, I talked to Bill about it. That was established pretty early on when you guys started using cards, which is understandable. Um, but in the current day, they're starting to be used more and more, and 3,000 just isn't sufficient to be able to um, you know, you're having to use multiple cards sometimes, and coordinating that could be a mess. So to be more efficient, um raising that per car limit to 20,000 like uh Paul
020said, that doesn't mean every car is going to be 20,000. I still administer them. Only certain ones are going to have a $20,000 limit. Most the majority of them are going to be less than that. Um but it it gives us some more flexibility to be able to make, you know, some of the bigger purchases that we need to via credit card. Um which is just becoming more and more common um in this day and age. So, um, this gives us that flexibility, but like Paul said, we wanted you guys to review it. Um, ask any questions you may have before we actually ask for a vote in an actual change. >> So, common examples could be like your building secretaries doing tons of ordering this times time of year. $3,000 is nothing. You know,
021they'd run up against that limit pretty quickly. If we're paying for a conference or something like that, travel, sometimes we've had issues. Um we're trying to uh use district cards um for athletic purchases related to things uh out of the camp account. So for example, football team is a prime example. Um throughout one month they may use four, five, $6,000 just for meals for team meals. We can't put that on one credit card. So that one during the fall may have to be raised just so that we can buy food for the kids that's coming out of their camp accounts. So I think those are probably like the prime examples. >> Paul all these new teachers this summer. The number of teachers we ask them to do institutes where they have to go out of
022state training multiple days in hotels and things like that and we're asking them to put that on their own cars and have reimburseing another month or two months later. which is a great point because it starts to pull away from reimbursing, you know, for personal expenditures. The goal is for the funds to come directly from the district, whether it be a per uh purchase order check or um you know, the credit cards. So, raising these limits allows us to get away from more of the reimbursements um and it coming directly from the district, which is preferable. >> So, for clarification, this is it doesn't change like the policy and procedure of using the card. simply raises. >> Correct. >> If you look at this, nothing else has changed except for it's going from 3,000 to
02320,000. That's it. >> Yes. Yeah. We would not vote on this until August. >> Do you mind if Yeah, I would I would love to start. So, uh, we added this as a discussion item. Um, obviously just quick recap, not going all the way back through the entire recap, but going back to last month and in June, TDA did, uh, present on the four different, uh, potential options moving forward. Um, then I know after that meeting, uh, they provided folders, uh, with more in-depth information, you know, prices, what was involved in those plans. And so um I was hoping to have a discussion this evening and try to understand the board's individual perspectives and you know group consensus uh because in order for me to move forward for us to move forward I kind of
024need to know where the board stands and what they think is you know the best path in terms of addressing our facility issues. Obviously, we have some some very aging facilities that are, you know, quite frankly, some of them are crumbling and we have do have capacity issues, especially um at the K through five buildings as we've documented. So, these these four plans uh are potentials uh you know, whether it's the old master plan, whether it's sort of the elementary bus garage plan, we'll call it the addition plan, or just addressing the what we're calling, you know, the triage list. But um as you can see from this information, the triage list, we have millions of dollars simply in in paving uh and driveways and roofing and HVAC. Um just projects that that really just
025must be done in terms of an investment in our future uh the buildings in the district. So, I um looking for the board's uh perspective, consensus, and direction so that we can take this and move forward in the in the next year or so. And and uh we'll open it up to um you to to to talk about the pros and cons of of each um and what your thoughts are on uh direction moving forward. >> Well, I'll start feedback to focus on the essentials. >> I agree. >> Say that to me the essentials are not only the obvious. It's also dealing with plethora of capital improvements upgrades. >> Those are the things you look at those things that are on the triage list. And not only does that impact comfort but it impacts air
026quality necessary. So I think we have to find my we got to find a way to address There are things that are non-essential high school that's make an argument for essential boil down essential. I'm let remorum are exorbitant, for lack of a better term, ridiculous >> and you have experience with that and so on. >> I have lots of experience with that. You build an auditorium, you're usually not anybody experiences usually not built well. It usually sets you up for maintenance issues along the way. Um by by bringing that sort of ensure that future generations are going to have to pay what will be millions of dollars maintain feasible That said, talking with folks in the community, I think there's also some confusion increase that type of opportunity. I think I think that's likely not
027the case. I think community access to a pool during the school day, depending on how things are designed, I don't know. A better solution to the problem is let the city continue to wrestle with the ide on the shelf right now because the city understands they need to wait for us to determine what direction we're going to go. We have the property tax problem and the city understands that they can't put a community center in front of schools as much as they would like to provide that think about asking consider which is better served with the city because you can do things like swimming lessons for all kids who is better served as a fish city. That's my opinion based on my experience based on again I think essentials to be essential what we option.
028It addresses some of the capacity issues. Yeah. Um I I definitely think option one of a new high school it it would just I it's not what the community wants. that that was clear from um the way that the vote went the last um election and what the district needs and what are is on that triage list and what the community can see. Um I would be concerned of just simply adding on to the current buildings. I know there's a lot of issues I I shouldn't say a lot but concern and some issues that have happened with Harmon and to just add on there like what would be the potential hidden costs with with that building based on the history of repairs and so forth over the last um multiple years. Um, so I I
029do think option two addresses I think what the community is saying. It it it it hits a lot of the needs of our district. Um, and and really what I would want to make sure we see is a very articulate master plan so that the the community can see what are those issues that are on that triage list and kind of like a timeline or like a trajectory of how they're going to be addressed and fixed so that if this issue does go up on the ballot, it's very clear to the voters in the community that this is how the district intends to um address those issues with with the money that's going to come in for this project. Um I I I agree with the whole pool thing. I I know people have compelling
030and convincing arguments for the reason of why they want it and they that makes sense, but but pragmatically too that is just it that would be a really tough cell. Um, and I would be concerned of adding that on to another plan and that be the reason why people would vote against it. Um, unless it could go on as two different issues, but I would be really concerned about that for what it would cost. >> I think that is a concern with, you know, with the pool. Sure. Sure. It would be nice um, you know, to have that and I know a lot of people um, would like that. Uh but we can almost do our entire triage list of $17 million for the cost of a pool. So it's just weighing out the costs
031and benefits and what we really what truly are needs. What are the essential needs of our district moving forward? Um just so that we don't have crumbling facilities or you know uh buildings where we have to have trailers. um there are uh folks that have do work out sometimes uh in the weight room, but it's it's mostly uh you know for our athletes. So not I would not say that that's a true like community facility. It's not like a a rec center you know where you can open you know access any of the time. I it's it's used throughout the day for PE classes. it's used, you know, to train our athletes. So, it it really is for the most part a, you know, a school resource for the student athletes. >> I'm just going
032to echo what previously said. I agree with option two. I think that addressing the essential needs, the overcrowding um and the access to trailers, I think, is ultimately going to be our essentials. I don't like the idea of adding on to every single building. I know there are always issues with you trying to be setting up setting us up for further issues down the line by doing that more than necessary and I agree with that operational and I believe that facilities know one thing I'm curious about is as a at the time. >> Yeah, we looked into that. None of it is available or large enough to really do um any type of major construction yet. when I wish we really are kind of landlocked and we have no valid options which is why we
033ended up uh trying that that campus approach in the first bond issue behind the high school which you know there were a lot of concerns about um putting it in the middle there uh and concerns about losing practice fields. So in option two, essentially we would just keep the existing property sort of flip spots for the bus garage and the uh grade one through three building um you know and and maintain that property uh to to essentially remove those two crumbling structures and replace them. But yeah, unfortunately we just don't have many options. Wish we did. true. >> Less and less green, less space. >> Yeah, that would be an advantage. We would maintain all that that field space because we would have to add on the board office would have to well go here
034out back here, but this is just concrete already and then we just add a little bit on the backside of Miller, but it really doesn't impact much of the green space, field space or practice space. That'd be an advantage option, too. There is >> if I'm remembering correctly stay while construction of the new building occurs. building rest. >> Yeah, correct. So, that that is an advantage. Um, obviously we'd have to to um add on to Miller, which that's that's not a problem for kindergarten uh and pre-K to remain there. We would have to add on here so we could the board office could essentially be abandoned to get over here. Um, and then we would be able to build that new school. we'd have to temporarily, you know, move the bus bus garage potentially, uh,
035or just, you know, figure out a spot for, uh, the personnel there and the buses. But yes, we would build that school, move them directly into it, grades one through three, which is obviously advantageous. You don't want to have to temporarily displace students or or rent out, you know, facilities for a couple years. >> Transportation. >> That that is something that we've talked about. Could we do we have enough space? I think that's something we'd have to confirm, but I think we actually could build that on the other side of Kratic first, take that down, then build the structure, and then move the board and and the students. Correct. Those are all the details we'd have to move out, but I believe that that would be the the phasing of it. And then also to
036uh Miss Schneider's point about um you know, all these other projects as we're collecting the money and working those, can we address the parking lots, HVAC, you know, what's the timeline over the next 3 to 5 years? um as we're going through all this and building those. So, it's not just the phasing of um the building, it's the phasing of the triage list and really the infrastructure of the district to make sure we're on solid ground, which you know, we're we're not really right now with some of our buildings and our driveways and and Greenman Way. >> Okay. >> Yes. Thank you. That's exactly what I'd hope for for us to have this discussion and see how the board feels. And um for what it's worth, I happen to agree and I know you know
037Mike Hayes and I and and Brian Sheraldy, I feel like um going back to Mr. Aken's point, we heard from the community, we had what was the master plan and building the high school and sort of excuse me phasing and and and bringing those buildings up and essentially to me plan two with the triage list is our essential plan. So, we tried the master plan, that didn't work, and now we're going to come back with what is the essential plan to move the district forward um and address all of our true needs uh for our students in the learning environment. So, thank you for the discussion and thank you for the direction and um I'll be in uh touch with TDA tomorrow to start planning out the next semester of sort of internal design. Um
038spring would probably be sort of community engagement. Um obviously with that that target date of we'd have to look at potentially next November is one of our only um windows uh for a bond issue. So we have a lot of work to do between now and then. But I I needed that direction and appreciate the discussion. >> Your many years of service to the district in various roles in addition to your excellent skills with everything you've done. We appreciate your kindness and patience and I hope you'll stay in touch with Mary. >> Oh yeah, >> all of us. All of us. >> Thank you. >> Moved. >> I