001so I didn't get I'd like to welcome everybody to the Wednesday March 12 2025 committee meeting rise stes and the for it stands one nation under God with liy and justice for all thank you very much please okay Mr Minar Mr Jeff pres Mr bany here Mr vanas there Mrs Bush Mrs bny Shaw Mr wood here m lamb thank you okay we had executive session tonight 6:15 for personnel and student issues going to be going back into executive session for negotiations commit meeting over okay there will be a motion on a regular voting agenda to approve the February 26 2025 voting meeting minutes as presented there will be a motion on the your voting agenda to approve the March 12th 2025 Comm meeting minutes present yep we have a couple items under administrative reports tonight
002first off we have Mr Martin who has a presentation and he's going to lay out sort of what the next uh several months of meetings till we get into May June is going to look like for our budget process for the 2025 2026 uh fiscal year and so with that Mr Martin how about yeah so I'm going to start off with u just do a review of the state revenue um Governor did his proposal on on February 5th and uh the next slide here these were some of the key highlights from the um the 25- 26 proposed Governor's budget basic education funding is showing us right now initial $75 million increase over the 2425 adopted budget special education $40 million increase school facility Improvement Grant which we were able to get last year an additional
00325 million ad adequacy adjustment um which would fli to the school block grant $526 million Cyber Charter transition um they funded $100 million last year to give subsidy for Cyber Charter Schools to the school districts and it was $100 million they don't have that in the budget this year and then under p and Social Security subsidy $172 million to fund the sub subsy for uh retirees and for social security for what the pensions of the district has to fund now the basic education funding just to give you some perspective last year was about $225 million increase so it's only a $75 million increase there special education last year was about 9394 million so that's at 40 million so I expect some movement probably from here till then but this is the initial numbers at this
004point next slide this um again we get uh in 2324 we got $22.5 million of state revenue we budgeted 23.3 million for 2425 projecting to get about 23.7 difference mainly due to Again State budgets don't get approved a lot of times before we pass our budget so we're going based on what we have at that particular point in time the initial 2526 state budget for school district right now 24.1 million next slide this again just a rundown of you know State sources of revenue just showing the actual and the increases um 2223 was about a 6% increase for us 5.6 23 24 5.2 2526 initial number 1.7% next slide again just a summary of where all the state revenues coming from the majority of it um again comes from basic de funding at 14.2 million
005uh next largest amount is the retirement subsidy for serves $3.2 million uh special education is the next SI I said at 2li is transportation subsidy the property tax relief payment um The Proposal in there to increase that that would increase the home the homestead Farmstead again which would help our residents um would be an increase in that amount so they increased that uh the last couple years so um we don't have the dollar amounts yet that should come out around May next slide this is a rundown of again budgeted proection in initial amounts for 25 26 and then the changes and then kind of highlighting where those changes are so again uh minimal increase right now in the basic get funding of about 113,000 that's tied back to that 75 million that we were talking
006about special education 1.9 million uh total initial $72,000 um increase there the majority of the increase would be in the regular learn block brand again the adequacy funding States putting $500 million there not every school getsy funding and certain schools get a lot more than others so um that's something that'll be kind of debated again we're getting $278,000 if you look again back in 2425 we we get 349 for that ready Lear block grant that increased by 278 to 627 and 2425 and so on and so forth to 95 there in 2526 so again we'll have to stay tuned and see what happens there next slide this is just a real quick overview just showing how our local effort that we do as far as when we have uh run in more local Revenue through
007real estate taxes through interest income all these different things multiplied by the medium household income income index which is basically looking at what the mean income here is in fburg compared to the state and they multiply that times the average daily membership that we get and it helps our state funding so if you can flip to the next slide again a lot of this stuff is technical kind of going down through but again these adms that you see on here average daily membership are reported through our pin system each year and it's important that that information is accurate so we work with Chad and the IT department pulling all that information over so as you can see obviously our enrollments and our adms have dropped down over the years from 2015 2016 down to 25
00826 and then we get it a student weighted um ADM add-on which is for student services for special needs that we have everything so that gets added on so again our ADM right now is down to about 1682 with those add-ons about 440 wor about 21 20 2,122 adms in 2526 next slide this is again is showing these ratios and if you look here you see this medium household income index and the local effort capacity index one is average you don't want to be lower than one if the higher the number is the more your adms will multiply by if you look here the median household income index in 1516 was 1.26 25 it's now up to 13365 so again Pennsylvania's income median income is growing greater than adsb is the local effort capacity index
009if you look back in 1516 1.06 1.06 the some of the increases that we've had taxwise from a local standpoint has in increase that so you can see now our multipliers down to 1.23 when you add them two together 1.64 is the multiplier compared to 1.33 in 2015 2016 so again that helps their state funding next slide again this is just showing what happens with that multiplier times the adms and one of the like I said if you look where we had larger enrollment 2015 2016 our our stent weighted ADM was 2967 in 2016 it's up to 3489 and it's because that multiplier has increased from 1.3 to 1.64 next slide again kind of complicated with all this but basically we had a base State at amount that we got for a basic get back
010in 2015 2016 it was about $11 million for the school district each year money would get added to that and it got to about 13.8 Million by 2324 and they reset that base again but these add-ons get added on every year when that 75 million gets added or 200 million gets added to that to that base amount this is those numbers are get multiplied by those adms so why it's really important that we report that information correctly and that's why those multipliers are important so next slide you can see base the base again basic get funding was about 11.2 million um the whole way down through till they switched it here to about 13.8 million in 2425 but you can see the student weight student weighted distribution each year it would increase 15 154,000 1516
011we got to the point where like I said by the time we got to 2324 it was $2.6 Million that was getting added onto the base to get us up to 13.8 so they reset That Base um and again we got student weed add- on last year 287,000 this year the projections 400,000 next slide this is just to show you real quick and again this is the last slide but these are all the other school districts in Clearfield County and this is their share of that projected $75 million increase for all the school districts and if you look fburg is the highest percent increase and again it's minimal right now at 83% it's 113,000 8% um Which is higher than all the other school districts so again because of that local effort because when if
012we don't like when our taxes remain good but we didn't increase them it was basically saying to the state we're good we don't need more funding and again if your meeting out income keeps raising up too they think that you're wealthier and again you don't need that funding so just some perspective on all that just to kind of show you kind of how all that works together so um next meeting we'll look at the local revenue and look at federal revenue questions thank yeah and and again we put um put out um for you again we'll have a timeline of again these next couple meetings we'll go over Revenue start going into individual expenditures over the next couple meetings um we'll be sending information out to the Departments to be getting stuff back from them
013um we have to have a an adopted budget by our first board meeting in May um final budget and the final millage rat don't need to be set until the last meeting in June so um we're on we're on Pace right now but again we'll be waiting for a lot of information all right um under your administrative reports on board docs you're going to see our admin uh from our administrators what they have entered what we are be going to begin to do this month and going forward is uh half the administrators is going to go during the first meeting the other half during the second but bottom line is just in talking in general uh with our admin team there's a lot of good things going on in the district and even though those
014reports are placed on board dos uh we want to be able to share just a couple points uh with the public who may be online listening and also with the board from there so tonight I believe is secondary correct y bocky have at I'm up okay so some good news from the high school tonight I want to tell you about our blood drive that's coming up so our second blood drive of the year is coming up on March 21st again it's we've already had one in the fall this will be our spring one it is run by our mounty Nation service organization and the kids do 100% of the work so I'm really proud of the job that they do and they have been super successful so I wanted to share just a little bit
015of information about the success that they have had um mention when I say 100% of the work just some examples they advertise they set up they tear down they provide snacks for the people who are giving blood they donate themselves and they also recruit other students and staff to give blood so glasses are in my hand so some evidence of their hard work since bringing the blood drives back to the high school after covid we have exceeded our collection goal every drive for the past two years we've collected over 70 pints of blood per year and have been able to award two $250 scholarships to active members of the mounty Nation service organization over the past 2 years we've collected a total of 154 pints of blood and our collection goal was 127 pints we
016were current are recently recognized as being an American Red Cross Premier blood partner program and our blood drives are closed to the public so all donations are made by our students and staff so good stuff thank you who's next good evening uh on uh my board report was tonight uh this Friday's P day 3.14 and fici at middle school we will have an assembly and it looks like uh we're going to be in the gymnasium or bleachers are fixed they ready to go and we have staff that will be getting pied and we raise money for the SPCA and I'd like to recognize Miss Mills because she is instrumental it's it's kind of her baby and she does a a lot of the leg work we just show up and have fun uh it's been
017going on since I started back here in 2014 and it's going strong and it's a good cause and the kids seem to have a great time uh the kids and the teachers do reate races and compete against each other so um also we're going to have our PBIS reward day this Friday we're kind of packing it all in uh so we're not disrupting schedules every week we're just going to try to have a big day on Friday some other things that are going on uh induction wise I'm in charge of the induction program and in may we have seven first year teachers and they are going to be here in the boardroom presenting their first year portfolio which is a requirement so we'll have administrators and mentors in here for our seven uh year one
018indues so we're looking forward to that and um so we have Pi Day we have induction and then at the end of the year we are looking at going back down to Coldstream and slap town for PBIS end of year celebration we did this last year we rented some buses and we figured you know we have a beautiful Community we should go out and enjoy it kids go fishing at Cold Stream they go play ball in slap Town Mr Rell Mr grola take the kids up to hail Hurst toward the some of the kids not all the kids some kids choose to stay back but we just try to make it a fun day we're looking at May 27th or 29th I actually took a little poll today at our faculty meeting and our teachers
019they want to continue it so that's why we raise the money and and uh so we can reinforce positive behavior at the middle school but and everything else is in my board report very good Dr Reese uh so with Athletics we had a pretty exciting winner um we had our first individual swimmer representing fgo sa Nicholas MAA qualified for districts in his first year uh the backstroke in butterfly 100 y 100 meter um with wrestling we had uh Caleb qualify for PIAA state championship um he finished his sophomore year with a record of 40 and 12 we also had Charlie hunt in her sophomore year uh medal as a seven Place medalist at the pi state championship so that's was pretty exciting for our athletic department um last night we just had meet the mounties
020for spring um so we have baseball softball and tracking field coming up and uh start with the scrimmages tomorrow softball scrimmage and uh tomorrow and baseball scrimmage Friday so we are up for spring Sports thank you thanks um so mine's not as exciting but it's exciting to me um so we have we have cyclical special ed monitoring this year which is a process that happens every 5 to six years where PD actually comes in and they look at all of our special education programs and they make recommendations and they look to see if we're compliant um we are in part three of the process and the first two parts are a whole lot of paperwork um but I will say that like your special education teachers have really done their due diligence and they've gone
021above and beyond to get those first two pieces done and completed um and submitted to the state so next week is when the state actually comes in and visits our programs and they get to see all of the great things that are going on in the buildings um so they'll be here on Tuesday as long as the weather's nice they'll only be here on Tuesday if the weather's bad they'll be here an extra day um but they'll talk with they select 10 students from all of our special education students they look back through their files they look at all of their paperwork compliance and then they also interview teachers they'll interview parents and then for the student stud who are 14 and up they'll talk to the students too so um I've talked with all
022of the parents whose students got selected um I have contact information for all of them and those were great conversations and they're just waiting for their phone calls next week to be interviewed um and principles have done a fantastic job of like giving me time with their people to make sure that everybody is feeling a little bit more comfortable about it um and we're just excited to have them be here in our buildings they'll go to all four buildings and see like the great things that are happening with kids thank you doing that the last one for tonight good there okay start then Budget Finance and transportation there will be a motion on a regular voting agenda to approve the financial report for February 2025 as presented on a regular voting agenda to approve the
023Diss and credit card statements for January 225 2025 in amount of 1.1 million for the dispersements and pay rule of 1.15 million there be motion to Reg roting agenda set the mail ballot method for approving the CIU number 10 general fund budget for the 25 26 school year and there will be a motion on the regular gring agend approve the CIU 10 general fund budget and resolution for the 2526 school year and the amount of uh 2.1 okay corre instruction and [Music] assessment there will be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve fi trip requests as presented thank you Personnel committee there will be a motion on the regular voting agenda to accept the resignation of Brenda lingle at the 4.5 hour cafeteria kitchen helper at P medal School effect of February 26
0242025 post there will be a motion on the regular voting agenda to post a 4 and a half hour cafeteria kitchen helper position at bville midle school posting effective February 82 transfer no motion on the regular voting agenda to transfer Trudy eer from a 4 and 1 half hour cashier kitchen helper mle school to a 5 and a half hour kitchen helper at school post there be a motion on the regular voting agenda to post a 4 and a half hour cashier kitchen hel position at for high school closing effect of March 3rd motion on the regular vo agenda to accept the resignation of Trudy eberg as a 5 and a half hour kitchen helper at fsbo School effective March 21st 2025 motion on the regular voting agenda to post a 5 and a half
025hour position at pburg post Middle School posting effective March 14th 2025 resignation there will be a motion on the regular voting agenda to accept the resignation of Don Mater as a 5H hour District white custodian at pburg high school March 12.5 post there a motion on the regular voting agenda to post a 5our districtwide custodian position at H scho High School posting effective March 2025 student teacher field experience there will be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve Linda passor student teacher from Drex University to conduct field experience during the Spring of 2025 motion on regular voting agenda to PR the motion for February 26 205 voting me to transfer Barber woods from a 5our district w codian at fburg at OA Mills Elementary School to a 8 Hour districtwide custodian at OA
026Mills Elementary School effective March 3rd 2025 there will be a motion on the regular voting agenda to accept the resignation for retirement purpose of Michelle bamett as a school nurse at fburg o Middle School effec at the end of the 2425 school year a motion on the regular voting agenda to accept the brungart for retirement purposes is a special education teacher at fburg elementary effective at the end of 24 by school year retirement there will be a motion on the regular voting agenda to accept the resignation of Deborah Dale for the purpose of retirement and the special education teacher ATS Elementary School June 30th 2025 retirement there will be a motion on the regular voting agenda to accept the resignation of Donald Henry for the purpose of retirement as Elementary music Coral teacher ATA Area
027School District 245 school year retirement there will be a motion on the regular voting agenda to accept donation for retirement purposes oferta housez as a reading specialist at pburg elementary school at the end of the 24 25 scho there will be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve a request from employee for half an unpay day on January 7th 2025 due to exhausting all personal days six days can not be used for reason requested motion on the regular voting agenda request from employee for having unpaid day March 3rd 2025 due to exhausting all sick and person days a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve request from employee for unpaid days on February 24th 2025 and February 25th 2025 through exhausting all sick and personal a motion on the regular voting agenda
028to approve a request from an employee for one unpaid day on March 4th 2025 and half an unpaid day on March 5th 202 on the regular request from employee for an un day on January 8th 2025 March 4th 2025 and March 5th 2025 due to exhausting all sick personal days motion on the regular cring agenda to approve request from employee for an unpaid day on March 5th all sick and person days okay thanks for doing that I we go right to you again on stud and Affairs extra gular drug and alcohol prevention student discipline there be a motion on the regular voting agenda to hire the following extracurricular positions for 2024 2025 school year as listed volunteers the24 okay anybody have anything else okay and I have a motion to adjourn second meeting and J
029thanks for coming hey Justin the sneakers come with