001you know, who out of this? Well, can we pay the whole thing or maybe can we pay a portion of it? So, we work closely with them and that's how we, you know, get our student in need funding to help with the negative fund balance. Okay. Then I was you mentioned in this uh your one bullet that they may use the collection agency or pursue further legal action. Correct. I was I read the uh the board briefs in the newspaper and another district actually filed a legal action. Do we do that? I I didn't think so. I think we discussed and decided that it's not the way we wanted to treat our residents. And I don't think the majority do. Um but I know there were maybe one or two schools that do that, but
002I know we had talked and I think Adele at the time it was also it would cost us cost us to do that. So yeah. Do we use a debt collector? I'm sorry. Do we use a debt collector? No, we have never. Okay. No, we haven't gone that route. Okay. Thank you. So, you're welcome. Is that something that we could um add to the tax bill? I don't think you can do that then. I I don't think you're allowed to do that. That's what I wonder. Yeah. Okay, next slide then is our um paid lunch price report. I just kind of like to say where CV is compared to the other districts. And again, as you can see, we're not the lowest, but then we're certainly not the highest. And I think it was been
003201617, we had a a 10-cent increase. And then in 2223, we actually had um a 25 cent increase across board. So that was actually the last time we increased at that point. Next slide please, is the uh C, community eligibility provision. Again, this is where um there's certain calculations that you can use for identified student percentage. Um and again, it's just the ones that are up there like anyone that might be direct certified, migrant, homeless, runaway, foster, you have to take that percentage and it was in the previous years it was 40%, now they decreased it to 25% but unfortunately they didn't uh increase the rate number. So, it really doesn't help us too much. Um, now in order to break even though, you would have to have at least a 62 and a half%
004if you would go on that program without losing any money. And the next slide will show you where CV is at currently. So, as you can see, ALOL is highest and Brownstown is the lowest and we're currently at 48.10. So, we're not quite near that. And if you take doing getting on the program at this point in time with the C calculator, we would be losing $53,000 per month if we would try and do that districtwide at this point. So unfortunately, we're not quite there. We're not quite there yet. And the bad news is I believe there is a proposal now to actually increase the percentage up to 60%. Which is going to be detrimental to a lot of other districts. So, okay, next slide is the farm to table. As I stated, beef council,
005we got involved with the beef c beef council and we made the high school students are one of their favorite meals is walking taco with the ground beef. So, um we have that there and it's a 50 as of now. It's a 50/50 share and um they pay 50 naturally. We pay 50. and Nikki Rivera, our 96th legislative district. We were at a red rose meeting the other evening and she said unfortunately anything that the federal is cutting state cannot handle anything that the federal is going to cut for food service unfortunately. She said there is no backfilling at this point in time. We were supposed to still be getting some funds from the state but she said that's an unknown at this time. So we don't know if we're going to be able to
006be getting any state funds at this time or not. So, next slide. Again, we're running with our middle school cooking club. Excuse me. It's a sixth grade and we do a red, gold, and blue teams. That's just some pictures there of making things. We kind of changed the menu up a little bit. Shout out to uh Broo Bray, my assistant. She's kind of taken over since uh we don't no longer have a catering manager. So, she stepped in. It's fantastic. Students had a great time. They really enjoyed it. Next slide. That's the graduation and unfortunately everybody has their own pace that they work at and unfortunately the blue team ran a little longer and unfortunately we didn't have a chance to get their certificate picture. So hopefully we can this coming year and then we're
007also going to try and continue our our summer cooking summer cooking club this summer. And then the ongoing challenges again it's CFCO is probably going to be at least 6% our CFCO bid that we follow with our our staples and our food food supplies. Again trying to get the parents to complete the applications the high lunch charge debt. Um I'm not sure at this point if we're going to do catering manager. Shout out to Tracy Merchant and BB who is the cook at the high school has done a super fantastic job of kind of keeping the catering going and doing all our in-house catering meals and the rest of the SOSL staff. Fantastic. Um and then just availability of food and supplies. We have already received a letter from PepsiCo saying they may have problems
008getting our snacks again. So we're thinking, oh my gosh, we're going back to CO again. And uh same thing with getting the aluminum for our cans, any of our canned goods and then the possibility of loss of funding. Uh then there's updates. There might be going back to the whole milk uh for the for the district. We're not sure if that's going to happen then. I know there's going to be some lower sodium coming into play within a few years. And then now we have to watch with our added sugars. Cannot have 10% or total calories for all grade groups. So that's something new that was never in there before. Oh, let's see what else. Um, okay. And then there is some uh some equipment that we'd like to replace at the high school. Then
009at 25 26 the initiatives again it's just you know continuing to get the feedback from the students changing our menus farm to table again uh the cooking club summer cooking camp trying to do other things. is I know I do rebates. I'm getting rebates things in and and uh trying to pick up our alocart. keeping in uh contact with the legislators to see exactly what's going on and then uh keep getting in contact with the renovation for uh Fritz upcoming Fritz Elementary and my and the next slide is at this point since we do have a healthy fund balance there's um I'm requesting no increase for the 2526 school year of any meal in in price increase. All right. So that's Rock stepped in and helped Teresa here come up with the uh budget for
010the 2526 school year. Um we're projecting a deficit there. Um and it's uh coming from a plan deficit for the capital purchases to help spend down the fund balance for the food service there. Um just a couple notes for it for the revenues. You know, there were some slight changes that we made, you know, from years past and prior, you know, our projections, but overall fairly consistent. Um you know as you can kind of see that for the total revenues and for the expenses you know obviously increase for the adjusted food costs that Teresa was mentioning personnel and SOSL uh professional and contracted ser uh staff there. So, so the 51,000 debt is coming out of the reserve fund are being covered by the reserve fund. I'm not sure where it's going to come from,
011but it can't come from any federally funded. I'll have to check and see. Okay. Yes. Is that something that we could try to handle in communications in the school bulletin that comes out or something? I think we do. Yeah, I think there's a lot of communications letters and I'm going to have a letter. It's a prevalent problem everywhere with not that not that not the only district. It's not important, but it's also not it's I don't think it's a unique issue to us at CV. I think all schools are struggling with they said there's there's laws and policy on not not being able to you know deny or or shame a student into not taking a lunch which is there's good reason for that but but then it's certainly unintended consequences as we build up
012this debt because unfortunately when we had the alternative meal we had very little very little meal debt. C can I ask uh is your sense that uh those that that have debt to the food service is that predominantly because they really are struggling to do that as opposed to those that just aren't being cooperative? Well, one is that, but the other thing too is if a a child's on the the program and then maybe midway through the course of the year they come off or maybe go back on or they're off and then come on. Unfortunately, if they were paid before that, they are now on the program, but anything before that, they weren't. So, they're still responsible to pay that debt. And I think a lot of parents, you know, just don't understand that.
013And I think someone came from another state and said, "Oh, well, we didn't know we had to pay. You know, we don't we don't pay in our state." And I think I just read in the school nutrition association that I think New York next year, the whole state is going to be free. So, I mean, that could be another problem. Or if someone comes from a C program and they think, "Oh, okay. Well, I'm free. I don't have to pay." But yet, we send out the emails and we send out the letters and I've even done some courtesy calls in the past. Just the reason I asked if it's mostly because they're struggling to pay that. I'm wondering if any of our community charities could be of help. Okay. Thank you. Wait, I have a
014question. um when people leave the district and there's money in the balance and I know you contact them if they don't respond is there like a statute of limitations like after a year we're going to take the remaining balance and put it towards the debt or in my letter they can either you know if it's a sibling we automatically roll it and we tell them that or you know if they're leaving the district if there's money there there's a form to fill out we'll certainly give you know return their money or they can donate it and we used to say anyone had like $4 or less, it would just automatically be donated if we didn't hear from them. But legally, we can't do that anymore. That's their money. Even if it's a penny, we have
015to get that money back to them somehow or it has to go to the treasury. Okay, that would be a nice way to You're welcome. pay things off, but any other questions? Thank you. We appreciate the great work you folks do. Thanks. This uh this budget will be on the consent agenda next week. This is the first part place of the meeting where we accept professional uh public input if anyone would like to address one of our agenda items. If not, we'll move on to the action discussion agenda. with Mrs. Huninger. So, good evening. So, last month you had asked me to come back to you this uh today uh with a uh proposed budget of 2.5%. uh we are required to have an approval this evening. We can still continue to make changes to
016our budget for revenues, expenditures andor if we get some updated information from the state. So um if you look on uh your attachments, this is the uh PTE form that we have to uh provide to you and to advertise and this is showing a 2.5% increase. Yeah. So, in original budget uh that I had been rolling out to you, we had approximately uh $900,000 in capital expenditures and in order to try to find a way to get this bal the deficit lowered, um I reviewed this all with Ken Johnson. And what's on this page are the capital items that we want to keep in the general fund budget and pay out of the general fund. Um, but on the next slide, $377,000 worth of items that we can pay out of the capital reserve fund.
017We do have a balance in the capital reserve fund. Uh, PTE is very strict about what can and cannot be paid out of that fund. So, these are items that qualify. So, it helps to reduce our deficit to some degree. Refresh my memory. Is it unusual for us to be taking that much money out of the general fund for capital projects? No. Typically, we do have about a million dollars uh in capital improvements in the budget for general fund. That's fair. So, this was just a way to try to reduce that. Um these items are one-time expenditures. You know, we won't be uh I mean the the water pumps, the hot water system, HVAC, that's nothing that's going to be needed to be replaced uh anytime soon. Some of them have quite a life on
018them. So more comfortable taking out of the capital reserve any uh one-time costs. So on this slide, what I'm showing you is the revenue and expenditure changes that we've made since I reviewed the budget with you last month. Um this includes your 2 and a half% uh millage rate increase. There is just some natural growth in um property values. Uh this includes 50% of the ready tolearn adequacy supplement uh that's been proposed and I felt like it was necessary to adjust interest income downwards. Uh sounds like the Federal Reserve is going to be reducing rates here in um pro twice by the end of 2025. under the expenditures uh is reflected the $377,000 that we're taking out of uh the capital reserve fund for those capital items. And uh this these expenditures do already include
019uh the proposed new debt service of $381,000. Uh next week we will have Raymond James, Scott Kramer, and uh bond council come out to review with you and to approve a resolution to borrow up to $25 million that'll continue um for the uh towards the Fritz renovations, but this does leave us with a $1.4 million deficit. So Anthony and I uh read numbers. So I thought what might be helpful is to give you the the graphics and to to see our makeup here of our revenues. Uh we have 82% of our total revenues come from our local sources. You know 37 38% of which is real estate taxes and only about 15 16% is from state revenue and then our federal revenues is uh only about 1%. And then categorizing the uh expenditures for you.
020Uh you can see here quite clearly salaries and benefits takes up an absolute you know majority of our total budgeted expenditures. And the one piece of that pie that I have kind of pulled out that represents non-contracted costs costs that we are either contracted or not contracted or not obligated to pay. So, when we're trying to look at um how we can shrink the deficit, what areas can we cut? Uh this pie chart here represents all of those uh variable costs that we could look at. So, in making that decision, uh we've got maintenance costs. Um that's always very difficult to determine. Um, you as some of the uh HVAC systems, sewer systems, everything else can uh uh fail without much notice, we always have to budget for those contingencies. And Ken Johnson is really
021pretty pretty good at uh predicting what those amounts are going to be. Uh we have our building budget, CVVA, secondary and elementary curriculum, pupil services, technology. So in looking at how do we uh try to reduce our deficit it becomes very complicated too and try looking at where can we try to pull from. Could you could you explain HRPR safety and superintendent? We're not getting rid of the superintendent. No talking about right now. That's the um human resources public relations safety budget as well as uh superintendent's office. uh budget for. But no, we're not getting rid of him. He must stay. So, I'm still even though we are approving a 2.5% military increase, I still want to keep a 2.75% increase on your radar for you. And so, these numbers are all here, what I've
022shown you before, what the the millage rate would be with whatever percentage increase. And then we have our scenarios again. Um, for a 2.5% increase, there's your 1.4 million deficit. Uh, going up to 2.75 uh generates an additional $139,000. So that brings our deficit down to 1.3. But what gives me um concern uh when I'm working on the budget and looking ahead and projecting is on the next slide we have what our increases in our salaries and benefits are. So these amounts just represent the increase from one year to the next. And you can see it's typically about a $2 million increase that we have to uh cover for our salaries and benefits. And that can accumulate uh over these four years. and I just took it up to the end of our current teachers
023contract. Uh the accumulated effect is about $9.8 million. On the flip side too, then by increasing our millage rate, um we would generate $139,000 additional for the current for the 2526 years. But if we don't go up to 2.75%, you can see the accumulated effect uh over the next um 5 years of 7 that would be $736,000 that we are not generating that could help offset some of those other costs. So that's what I'm looking at. Um the projections going forward. These are some of the hurdles that we have to look at. And then you've had these other last two slides here before just showing you what um the act one index has been, what our percentage increase has been, and then how our millage rate uh ranks amongst other school districts in the county.
024I I had the ridiculous idea that I could work out the cumulative effect of the cost to our taxpayers, which grows just just as quickly. Uh, as I always remind people, once you add $10 to their bill, they'll pay that $10 again next year. You know, it also has a cumulative effect. And uh I real I haven't changed my position on the 2.5%. But I do appreciate the challenge that it gave you and I want to thank you for your work. Well, thank you. Any questions on the budget? Question under general funds $33,000 and 10 is here. Yeah. Is that one mower? That's a mower with a few attachments with it. So like actual tractor. It It is a wide area. So it will mow like 12 feet wide. Has three decks, one in the
025front, one on each side. Um, it also has a a snowblower attachment and a a broom for snow. Don't we have multiple brooms and stuff? We have smaller brooms at each building like a 5 foot wide one. Um, with the amount of sidewalks we've added here at the campus. It's we're kind of behind the eightball on that. Um the this is to replace a John Deere wide area mower that we've had um well beyond its life span. Okay. And it's been costing us money every year just to maintain it. Is there a slightly cheaper option? Maybe slightly. I mean, what we could do is surprising me that you got a plow truck for less money than I know about the average price for a wide area is about 100 grand. Is it really? Yeah. So,
026I could look to drop off the accessories for it and we can look to do those at a later date. I would be fine with that. But, yeah, I've I've priced it out with multiple companies and they're they're all in that $100,000 range. Okay. Unfortunately, and Those attachments you're saying are like the sweeper. The sweeper, the snow bar. Yeah. Are they giving you a big discount if you buy that as a package? No, not really. Okay. So, we could Yes. buy them at a later time if we correct want to at not an extra cost. Y and I' I'd be glad to look at doing that. I mean, if the important thing is the mower, right? Okay. I mean me personally how however everybody else feels but me personally I mean I know it's an
027expensive bar I wish so well okay thank you yes I have question on budgeted revenues can you remind me what other local revenues are I understand real estate tax but right so also included in the other local is um Believe it or not, our IDEIDA money is federal money, but it passes through the IU, so we have to record it as local revenue. And that I'm going to say is about 7 $800,000. Uh our uh reality transfer taxes, which is just under a million dollar, is also included in the other local revenue interest income. Um just trying to go through the list. um amusement tax. Okay. Um sometimes we have uh technology items that are sold that we gen that after they've been their useful life is over generate some revenue there. I mean I
028can get you a whole list if you want. No, that's okay. I just wanted a general idea to get started in my mind. Also on the budgeted revenues Uhhuh. you showed the 15.8% 8% of the overall, but dollar-wise, is that flat from last year, up from last year? It's I mean, we don't have a state budget yet, but right, it's it's up from last year because of the ready tolearn adequacy that we are definitely getting in 25 26 and then 50% of what's being proposed. So, that is uh it's pretty much other than that everything else is pretty level. Um, our basic ed funding is not increasing as as much because they're putting more of that money into the ready tolearn bucket. Uh, our piece we do get uh 50% subsidy um off the cost
029of our uh pasers retirement, our social security. Uh we do get uh special education uh funding that has is increasing slightly but not a lot. One area that has decreased has been our transportation subsidy. uh it's based on a formula and the more that um district's transportation costs are increasing and if they're not increasing the amount they're funding into that line item then our share uh depletes good questions anyone else questions she can't answer I just I just have a comment thank you for the rejection of millage rates and the expenses of salaries and piecers and all that. It's good to see like our military is not covering just a basic increase every So, thank you for doing that. I mean, we had um it's a good perspective for the public, too. Yeah, it's and
030again, like we read numbers, so when we flipped it and put it into a pie chart, it it really kind of stood out to us. Um, you know, we have a very good educational uh system here. Uh we have excellent teachers and you know that was part of uh why we settled on the contract that we did with the teachers. As much as we'd like to keep this down I think 2.75 looks good. Are you comfortable with that? That's a lot of deficient. So 2.75 I would be what I would recommend and when and we'll have more information for you next month. I can even come back next week if there's anything you want to see differently or obviously in case anything um changes between now and next Monday which I probably won't know anything.
031Um I think that um it's it's possible we might get the full amount of our ready tolearn adequate supplement but again it's if we count on it and we don't get it then we're hurting again. So you are comfortable with 2.75. Just curious, what would our percentage increase be to cover that deficit like the increase every year? Do you is it above the 4% recommended, I'm assuming? So, um, let me m the numbers over. Uh, one a quarter of a percent is $139,000. So, that would be, um, probably take us up to close to 4%. That's what I was thinking. I was like, okay. Not over. Yes. Yeah. So, I was just curious. Yes. It looks like we are the third lowest in the county and I think that's pretty good. Mhm. We're fortunate with
032the um diverse real estate uh that we have in the district. We've got Route 30 corridor. We have Greenfield. We have a lot of uh good um um growth potential in the district. But a a lot of those properties, you know, green fields, Route 30 has been what's been enabling us to keep a lower tax rate. Any other questions? I have one before we start voting on these. Uh I may be wrong, but I get a sense there are some board members that are still mulling over the 2.75, and I understand that. My question is if we pass the resolutions and the budget notice and the posting and then the board would end up settling on the 2.75, do we have to repost? So, we've we can ma make changes to the budget between now
033and June 16th, I think is that date. uh what we would do is come back to you at the um either next week or the first board meeting in June with the updates and as long as we're being uh as long as we're posting this document here, we're in compliance. Okay. So, so we're fine. Okay. I just want to make sure that the board understands that it hands aren't tied depending on what it does. Yeah. Okay. Now, I'm going to need a little bit of guidance to make sure I get this right. Uh, if I'm correct, the first thing we have to do is accept the proposed budget. We can't uh post it until we've accepted it. So, I need a motion to accept the proposed budget as presented currently. Motion to accept budget as
034presented. I second. Well, could we have a roll call for this, please? Dr. Martin. Hi, Mrs. Fiser. Hi, Mr. Hurst. Hi, Mrs. Capka. Hi, Mr. Gensel. Hi, Mr. Eie. Hi, Ms. Trobridge. Hi, Mrs. Grath. I now to make sure I understand this budget notice. Is that the one that goes to the state? Uh what you're looking at the um resolution authorizing proposed final budget or no the final budget notice. No, we just have to um post this publicly on our website. What it technically already is. Uh we do a submitt to uh the state um electronically letting them confirming to them that we are advertising our budget and that we're meeting and that we um advertise for at least 10 days which we're going to do at starting tomorrow and certifying that we've made the
035p uh the budget publicly available. Can we make authorizing the display and the final budget notice as one vote since they're connected? I think so. I think you can put those two together. So, I will again need a motion to authorize the um displaying and advertising as well as uh filing the final budget notice. And I'd like to confirm. So, with the proposed budget, we have not determined the millage rate. Well, we we've still allowed that door to be reopened. Mhm. So what did we we current we currently have it set at 2.5 but we are not okay uh stuck with that. We still have the option to revisit that and I had you in mind when I asked that question. Okay. Could I have the motion please for the other two uh issues? If
036we if we are set on 2.5 like if I feel 2 point I'm sorry 2.75 is the way to go we will have an opportunity to revisit that. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. That that that's why I specifically asked that if we would have to redo all of this or not. I got the sense that there were some second thoughts on it. I'm still looking for a motion to approve the uh display and advertising as well as filing the budget notice. Make a motion to approve display and advertising and budget. Second. Roll call, please. Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Hurst, Mrs. Capka. Hi, Mr. Gensel. Hi, Mr. Eie. Hi, Miss Trobridge. Hi, Mrs. Gra. I Dr. Martin, hi. I think that's it. Uh, our next issue is the Breitbill Transportation Contract. Yes. So, we've been uh working with Breitbill
037Transportation now for 30 years. We're in the final year of our third 10-year agreement. And um we started discussions with Breitbill back in October discussing our needs. Um I going in looking at other school local school districts uh what companies they're using, what their rates are with their contractor uh comparing um Breitbill's proposed rates to us um adjusted of course because we got locked in 10 years ago. uh their daily rates will increase each year uh by uh a transportation cost index that is provided by PTE um that will cost index will increase it'll decrease we have agreed in this uh contract that they will that their cost the cost index will not go below 2.75%. So we put a a base on that. Um what is a little different with this contract is that
038um we they had been providing um the fuel and they are not providing the fuel. Now fortunately some of the fuel prices are coming down a little. Let's keep our fingers crossed on that. Um and also what is um unique with this because we um because this contract has definitely has a jump in pricing and we did trust me we did our due diligence and this proposal is very much in line with other districts other contractors. Uh we are seeing um a rather large increase in the cost to provide the transportation for 2526. Uh what Brit Bill did is worked with us and they are providing us with a $725,000 credit that we can use to offset and try to phase in that that increase. So by looking at that, our actual cost, the expenditure
039side is going to be about $400,000 higher uh when we include the fact that they are not um uh take and they're not paying for the the fuel anymore. our just to give you an idea uh what our adjusted cost is for next year is going to be $3 million and it increases uh obviously over the next 10 years. The 400,000 is over how many years? That's an increase from one year to the next from this year to next year. Any other questions? I'm going to need a motion to approve this uh contract. Motion to approve the transportation contract. That's consent agenda. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Then we'll withdraw that motion, I hope. Thank you. I just wanted to get all this out of the way. Thank you. Oh, I'm not done yet. You're
040not done yet? Yeah. The uh Lancaster Lebanon uh the next item that Yeah, you can do that if if you want. No, go right ahead. Okay. Um Lancaster Lebanon um joint authority had an original um term um life, if you want to call it that, of of 50 years, which is soon to be expiring. Uh the IU would like to go ahead and extend the life of the joint authority by another 50 years expiring in 2075. Um the purpose of the joint authority is because and I did not know this intermediate units cannot own uh property, buildings, land they cannot. So about 20 plus years ago or more um the uh a joint authority was created so that the authority could borrow money from the IU or from a bank and then the authority could
041purchase uh properties several of their properties that they have in the area and then the IU is or then the joint authority repays the loan back towards uh back to the IU. So, we currently have an outstanding um uh loan that is owed back to the IU of about $8.5 million and it's over a span of 20 years. So, they would like to ex just go ahead right now and extend the life of the authority. I I would add to that the joint authority has done an excellent job in managing these funds. The IU has bought its last two buildings without mortgages. Mhm. I wish we could all say that. Yes. So, if you're okay with this, we can put this on the consent agenda for next week. Yes. Yes. That that I have right.
042And uh the amusement tax. Are you going to do that or Mrs. Spit? Anony's going to do amusement tax. I'll sit here because I your this could have been on the consent agenda, but I wasn't sure if all of our board members were aware of of the uh the history of of this tax. I thought it wouldn't hurt to review that. Yeah, sure. Um hello again. Um so the amusement tax um for Konosoga Valley School District the maximum we can collect each year for the tax is at uh $348,000 800 $348,867. And so we use this document to kind of track it each year uh for the tax that we collect um versus that cap that we're eligible to collect and then any difference uh any overages we have to give back. So um and
043what Adele mentioned to me is that uh you know when act 50 was put in place that locked us in to the rate um that's listed on this document. So, and it hasn't updated no release until Can I just ask over the last three years, have we ever we've held it at that for a while? Yes. Have we ever overshot or undersshot the total? Um during um 20 might have been 1920, 2021 during COVID. Yeah. Uh we were uh our collections were actually lower. Uh but if we try to keep that rate at 2% so that we can as close as we can get to that mark. Yeah. And could you explain what you do if we're under or over? I'm sorry, what was Could you explain what we do if we if we're over
044or under? Uh if we're over um then we refund the monies pro rata. Uh but if we're below, we cannot increase the rate arbitrarily. And this amusement tax rate is also tied to the act one index. So we could not increase it. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Any questions? If not, that too will be on the consent agenda. Cool. And now you have the tax collector. Yes. So since 2017, uh, Lancaster County Tax Collection Bureau has been collecting our real estate taxes for us, and this resolution is, uh, uh, appointing them again to collect our real estate taxes for them. It's a very, very smooth process. Works out very well. And we need to approve this, but believe this. Yes. And this could go to the consent agenda as well. I have a motion to approve
045the resolution for tax factor. Motion to approve the res. All those in favor say I. I. Are there any notes or extensions? If not, that is approved. Okay. I think you're finished with me. I'm finished. I think I'm finished now. I think so too. Good. Cool. Thank you all very very much. Thank you. Our next two items uh are to reappoint the board treasurer for one year and the board secretary for four years. This is part of the Pennsylvania school code and we have to do it every year. Uh we uh are not allowed to use a board member. Uh we have been using our uh chief financial officer as treasurer and our uh administrative uh assistant to the superintendent is the board secretary. Is there anyone that feels we need to make a change
046in that? If not, I will take a motion to approve both of these uh appointments motion to approve the school board treasurer for one year term and go huninger and the secretary Martin for second. All those in favor say I. Are any nays or abstensions? If not, congratulations on your election. It was a close close call. Uh, Mrs. Henry, are you prepared to explain the overnight athletic trips? I didn't know if Adele wanted to come to present this. She's calling everybody's attention tonight. Thank you, Adele, for everything that you do. Sure. I actually have a couple of updates. So, I we have nine um student athletes that have qualified for districts. Um the they are planning to depart from the high school at 8 a.m. on Friday, May 16th. They will be taking a bus
047after all. Um the bus will drop them off on Friday and pick them back up on Saturday. Um we learned that the cost for staying at Shippensburg um includes meals, so they won't have to worry about driving to get meals um and you know all of that inconvenience. So that's going to be great. Um they have RAS that will be staying on in the dorm with them. Um it's I mean it's all of the it's all of the teams from the district. So they have RAS, they have front desk workers, they have security people. Um so we feel secure with them not having a vehicle there. So, a bus will drop them off and then go back up on Saturday around 11:00 when they have to um exit the dorms so that they can put
048their things on the bus and then they should be on their way back around 3:30 on Saturday. So, those are some of the updates that I have. Um but after looking at um the schedules that I sent, um does anybody have any questions? Do do you have any idea what the cost is going to be to uh rent transportation for uh the states to rent the Didn't you talk about didn't your presentation talk about renting? So, right. We were planning to rent vans, but we're not. So, we're just taking our the normal buses even for states. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. How many students are coming? Nine. Mhm. But we have no idea how many will go on to states, right? Correct. Okay. So, it will be um at most nine. It' be great if
049they all qualify. So, hopefully, but if not, then it'll be less than nine. Okay. Any questions? If not, I need a a motion to approve the overnight athletic trips. Motion to approve the overnight athletic trips. Second. All those in favor say I. I. Any nays or abstensions? If not, they are approved and we wish them luck. Thank you. Dr. Hartman, would you like to go over our new vision and mission statements? I can go over. Sure, I can go over it uh briefly. uh it'll be on the action discussion item in June or uh agenda in in June to take a deeper dive in. But we did make some policy adjustments based on our ongoing efforts that came out of comprehensive planning uh just to revise and update uh our our district mission, vision, and
050value statements based on some uh feedback I've shared with the board previously about the process we went through this year with different stakeholder committees uh to do that. Uh, and so this policy reflects those updates and I said I I'll go into more detail with it when it's on for action discussion unless anybody has any specific questions this evening. Uh, but uh, we wanted to put it on tonight for your review uh, to get it to get this policy on with some of our other 100 policies and 200 policies that will be on for review in June. Is that going to be a discussion item or a consent agenda item? Next month for first reading, it'll be action discussion. Okay. Any questions on that? Uh I I was really impressed with how they picked up
051everything that we had as well as everything from the profile. I I thought they did an excellent job with that. Our last issue and part of the agenda is ma mandate advocacy. We had talked about this before if we wanted to participate. Uh PSBA had sort of uh switched gears. The original um advocacy they were requesting was for cyber charter and uh but even with that they did not provide a resolution as they originally I think early on they had a resolution but then they wanted letters. Now they've changed that to mandate. Uh if any of you have been listening to any of the um education committee hearings. Uh let's go back for a moment to uh to cyber charter. Uh it it's heartening to hear them talk seriously about not just the money about
052achievement and financial responsibility of the charter schools. I think that's really important uh in order to give parents uh the information they need when they're talking about switching their students from any school or any type of education to another to know what the reputation of that is. Uh, as as far as mandates, again, uh, they originally said, "Please send a a u a resolution, but now they have letters." Uh, they get they sent a couple of samples. Uh, they're rather long. They can be restricted. If you would like, and I wasn't going to go through all this unless you told me you wanted to. If it's something you'd like to do, they are individual letters. So, if you want me to give you some of the sample individual letters, there's a a longer and shorter
053firm for form. I can do that, but I'm not going to do it if you're not going to send letters. So, uh what what what would you like to direct me to do or provide you? Or do you want to wait until it's farther into the legislative process? Basically what they're asking is uh that they no longer pass mandates without checking the cost and also without giving it a sunset that a mandate just doesn't stay there for decades on on the books. They also would like a review of current mandates to see which ones really should be expired and which ones should require a sunset. Some of them actually cost outright money. They certainly take up a lot of time and assets in our staff to fulfill all the mandates and all the reporting that
054goes with it. So you tell me what you want me to provide you and that's what I'll do or we can put it off till we're farther into the legislative process. I don't think I understand it enough to make I don't I don't understand what it's all about about the mandates, right? I could Yeah. Could you explain what what sort of mandates we're talking about here? Sure. So, um and I know we've we've shared we've talked about all the unfunded and funded mandates that that we're the pressure that we're under. Uh, and I think I've shared the book that the IU produces every year, 80ome pages of of of mandates. Um, and this, correct me if I'm wrong, Adette, my understanding is is there is a push with PSBA right now. Obviously, u some of
055the ongoing advocacy issues like uh cyber charter uh reform and adequacy funding. uh those are still important but there's also now a newer push uh whereas minor in almost any other area other than education when when a law is written or there's new legislation there's all types of tests and checks that go through to to say what there's costing out studies of what what it's going to cost taxpayers to implement this uh and education seems to be a little niche or a pocket where uh somebody gets an idea for something because it might be happening back in their local district or their their legislative district and and things get attached to bills and mandates and and that same process that holds true in a lot of other areas doesn't always hold true for education. There
056seems to be not a lot of concern or questions for okay, if we pass this law, yeah, it sounds great. Everybody wants, you know, more background checks for teachers or everybody wants this or that or whatever, but what's that costing districts? What's that costing taxpayers and individuals? And so I think there's just a newer push to tie some of those same requirements to education related legislation that there is in other areas. Is that your understanding? Many of these mandates they they they pass them based on they sound good and nobody bothers to do a financial check and nobody puts a sunset where they have to revisit it to make sure it's still, you know, useful. If you would like, I can provide you with the shorter version of this letter which might make it clearer.
057So for one, what is sunset that you're talking about? Oh, that means it expires. Okay. Okay. And they would have to revisit it and renew it, but they have to check to make sure that the costs and the rewards of that mandate are worthwhile. There are some that I think a lot of administrators consider to be trivial. Okay. And PSBA wants to advocate absolutely done and we need to send a letter individual letter. I think I've mentioned this before. What what uh what legislative uh offices do is they keep track of phone calls and letters that they get supporting or against a given bill. If a board writes a resolution that goes in the pile counts as one letter, right? But if each individual board member sends a letter, it goes in and they can
058count as nine. Okay. I'll send I'll send some letters. Okay. I I I will provide you this week with a copy of the uh the body of the shorter version. Okay. The long version is perhaps uh burdensome and I'll once I do it I'll send it to all of you and uh you can send it you you'll have to look up uh the mailing the email but that's easy to find on the web for uh for those u committee members. Okay, then I will take care of that. Then we will move on to uh the tenative agenda for next week. Are there any questions or concerns? Do I understand that we're adding Raymond James next week? Okay. Then this is the point in the meeting where we're open to addressing uh comments from the public
059on any issue they'd wish to address. If not, uh, board initiatives and announcements. I will remind the board that you have beside you a ballot from the IU where half of the board gets reelected. I'd appreciate you filling that out before you leave tonight. If not, uh, we will, um, adjourn. I need a motion to adjourn to executive session for consideration of a student discipline issue. And I will also mention that the board will be discussing preparations for the superintendent's evaluation. That's okay. I'll take it this time. No, I I I'll take it. All those in favor say I. Any oppose? We are ajourned.