001Ladies and gentlemen, time to start this workshop for April the 3rd of 2025. um responding. Do you want to have anything discussed before we uh I just gave you an update on the document uh that I had given you previously with all of the um things that we need to include in our budget. First and foremost, maintaining the positions that we currently have. Uh we talked about raising that teacher salary up to 50,000 and we haven't really discuss that third paragraph yet on anything to consider about the uh non-certified yet. Uh I added the mastery connect and already in the ACT search how much that would cost the uh linewise for technology and our online application software. I added the cost of the tutoring needs that we will have to have. We included five tutors
002and took that cost down from 200,000 to around 87,000 and um add it. The other considerations are at the bottom. These are the things that were brought up the last budget meeting. Um moving our school psychologist to that 11 month scale to be able to get the testing done. Um the bus contracts increase. Um their contracts are due or up and we need to renegotiate with that. making Miss Britain a full-time principal at North and then deciding what we need to do with that the other half of what she does. We'll have to have that in that rotation still and um an additional teacher at the middle school. And then I received another request yesterday and I put it in your packet and it would be consideration of adding a um we currently have a
003nurse working at two different schools, Canon South and Canon North. Canon. Um, and the request is to add another nurse so that we would have a nurse at every location. And Miss Joanie Blackburn, who is currently split between the two schools, has written you a day in the life of a nurse, what she deals with. uh we did that you know when we were trying to get counselors and I think the board it really was eye opening to them to see what all that they are doing each day. So, I also put a cost if we hired an LPN. What it's at the very back page of what it would take if it's just an LPN and I don't mean just LPN, but LPN not. And so, um, basically that's what I we have. Douglas
004is here. We played around a little bit with numbers. So I'll let him do most of the talking tonight. It's his stuff. We we I am working on budget. It's a work progress. I have the things that we talked about put into what I have. Don't have anything to give you. It is in there. Been working on the medical insurance that still how much it's going up, but I think I'm going to estimate 6%. That's probably close to what it usually is. U the main thing that I need, of course, I'll need to know what what you want to do about the extra nurse or not the extra nurse, but another nurse. And also, if you're going to do anything for non-certified beyond what the scale is. I think Miss Bonnie may have something she
005wants to talk about later before I calculate those salaries and put them in the just um just like we talked before we have created that scale so they're on a step and they're getting an increase through step u but we do have a few employees that are at 20 years and so they're not receiving that step. We did talk about giving custodians um the snow days the last time and that's really not going to add anything into the budget but I do think we need to do that. And I also need to bring up the fact and I know this is on our board meeting next week but it it impacts your budget for next year. The teacher salary that the governor is sending money for. We still have not received that list. We were
006supposed to receive it by April 11th, but we thought we would get it sooner. So, we don't know how many teachers they're sending money for. So, once we get that list, we're going to have or you you're going to have to decide. First of all, we're going to have to see who it covers. And if there's anyone left out, then the decision would have to be made by the board whether you're just going to use the money the governor sends or are you going to add a little bit or how I'm not going to say a little bit, you're going to add some to it and pay any remaining certified staff because the governor is only sending it for special, you know, categories. is in that um the last time we talked. It's got some
007language there. We'll get the list. They they're pulling it from T and Compass, but it's going to be about 2,300 and school $2,000 plus. And the language is it's teachers. It'll cover, it says it's going to cover counselors, librarians, special teachers. Be mindful, we have couple of part-time teachers that it will not come and some of those teachers are most highly effective teachers. So I think we need I mean at least my thought would be and not 2,000 but at least half of that because they're doing the work what the other classroom teachers are doing. So those are just some um food for thought. I wish the list was here so we could go ahead as a team and look at it and see how much additional cost that would be. But we have to
008have that approved by June so we can send it up through e plan. But the money will come in in July and Douglas can talk about how that's all going to work out of being paid because it's for employees that are employed this year. I think we don't even need to put that in the budget for this next year because we don't know what it's going to be and we'll just amend the budget. We know how much we're going to get. But if you're going to pay some people that aren't included in that, we do need to put that in and not included in what they see. That would be part of the discussion. We'll have to have it for a meeting, but it's on the agenda for next week, but I don't think we're
009going to have the information back in time. Anything else? You got anything else? No. The main thing I know is what you want to do on those other positions that she mentioned and any non-certified that may go beyond the scale that we have in place. And you know last year or this year you uh gave the I guess you call them hazardous duty pays an extra $1,000 paid out two payments assuming you want to continue that what you wanted to do. I would suggest you continue to do that. It's very difficult to hire assistance for those physicians. Is that is that correct? It is correct. And 500 of that I paid out of my federal budget. So you all just covered 500 of the Yes, ma'am. And always be mindful that if the other budgets
010can't pay any increase that we may or may not do, then GP is going to have to pick it up as we have in other situations. PreK's allocations not in yet, correct? No. And we don't know what that's going to look like for this year. We're going to have a little bit of extra money. Not because we planned wrong, but we planned to have the teachers in place that we had last year. And there was a change and one left that had several years experience and advanced degree and we hired one that did not have all she was BS zero and so that's going to leave some extra money and the plan right now is for prek to reimburse GP whatever we have left from some of the aids. I think it'll probably cover one
011and part of the other except to see that last paper. And also remember we always buy a bus every year. That's how much is contract. Uh the contract with 9% increase. She goes, "I had it there." It's actually It's actually going to come out probably maybe a few dollars less than what's in there now because when we budget it last year, this year was still we have a bus round that we for this year. So what we paid him I think will about cover what increase it was maybe a little more. Now is this 9% for both contractors sir is this 9% for both contractors? And I have the document. Current seat rate is um $2347 requesting an increase of $25.58 per seat. And I can give you a copy of this. Our current mileage
012is a $1.89. The requested increase 2.06. And then she she gave us the last um that would be the totals. Yeah, it would go up. And this is for us. No, but Rick's we're pay but that that's not counting the one that we added. It's three. Oh, yeah. Two and Denise. She thinks she may be able to work out that it's a $26,000 increase. $26,471. She is also paying Ricky to run extra $60. What he does picking up some extra to us and she last time I talked to her she was not sure. She thought she might have somebody that was one of our most decision made. additional miss that will be either a math or an ELA position math or ELA English. We're um changing our schedule and every student will have 90 minutes
013or 88 minutes of math and ELA and need another teacher to accomplish that. We have a person It's It's not It's No, not yet. We'd have to hire it. She's just going to need that person to make her special because Brit's doing it right now, but she wouldn't be able to do it. either, like I said, they've got a part-time or they can make that fulltime or that person fulltime or they could just hire another part-time to make their rotation. Miss Amanda can speak better to it than I can. I'm happy to. Right now, we have two days a week that is uh the library and Miss Britain is doing that right now. Uh we do have three days a week an art teacher that's there. So on the other side of PE, since we
014have two classes that go to their special rotation at a time, one class goes to PE and the other goes to either library or art. Uh right now that art teacher is only there three days a week and she may be interested in going full-time if that's an option. Um or, you know, hiring somebody just for that two days a week library position. I don't know if that makes a difference with offering insurance or things like that if it's a full-time position, whereas if it's part-time, the insurance would be a non-issue maybe. Um, but that's what we're looking at right now. and then Britain could be full-time AP and and covering those duties and doing all of the things with testing and leading those um PLC's and learning walks and all of the things that
015she does to help teachers in that way. Which would be better for you? I mean, I know that you have art and library right now. So, they're actually getting three different rotations like every other school's getting something similar to that. Would that be the best case scenario instead of making someone full-time? Because you're correct, when you make someone full-time, then you have insurance, all those things. I do think that it's important for them to have that library rotation as well. I think our kids enjoy going to the library and I think that it's important for them to learn about the library. Um, so I do think having somebody in that spot would be beneficial for them. Um, are you putting in the 50,000 on the budget you're doing now for the teacher salar? Yes. Did
016you three or four years? I don't know exactly how many Douglas I think it was last year. How many did it affect? They just said not hold across the board. But just make sure they are right because we do need to show that we do appreciate the Well, the problem will be if you do that, if you if you extend the scale, then you're that every year when somebody gets to that point, you would have to continue that. So, um, your scale is just a 2% increase. So, and we do have a 6% insurance increase that's coming to offset and they are your lowest paid earth now and they work very hard and it's hard to find people. Mr. Nichols can speak to that right now. very short. I don't think in all the time
017I've been here that the custodian budget is all used because it's such a revolving door. You'll have you'll be without one for weeks or months or you'll lose one that been here a while and take one that started over. You went halftime with one or you hired two halftime. It's just it's just a it's a revolving door with custodians. what we can do to stop it. Give them more money. Everybody wants that. One thing that they do get, they have an insurance plan. They will retirement plan. this curriculum and assessments from mastery connect and already is that how many years that it's a year it's a yearly so we're already got that in budget well Ezra paid it we got to add it and we've got to add it because it's more it's going to
018be more not just assessment but curriculum as Well, as we go forward we're going to tried to include basically on that first sheet those things we have I feel like we have to maintain especially salary because we've done better with putting qualified people in our classrooms this past year. I think the principles can speak to that was easier to hire with your salary scale the way it is. And I think the salary skills has been helpful because people are able to go on this website and and see across the board. I didn't want to get to $200,000. Well, we're not paying as much. and and I do I do really want to keep that pay where it's at because I want to recruit retired teachers or people with certifications because what we need in this
019and this is mandated by the state. You get a little bit of funding from Tissson, but not enough to even scratch the surface. And as we slowly raise our scores, we'll be able to pull in more outcomebased money like Wind County. Were you factoring in school by college? Yes. The next time the [Music] nurse is we had things um to occur. I mean, our our staff is trained and and we can handle situations, but we've had some things do occur where it's, you know, be great to have a nurse there, you know, to take care of those things. And as she stated in there, all it takes is one diabetic patient. then you're going to have to change schedules from I mean we've gone with two nurses countywide with seven schools before but times have
020changed and health care needs are different with students have a lot of medications that have to be given during school day that's not a nurse teachers or staff more liability as well for your staff as well. I mean, we had staff to have medical issues during the day. Did y'all cover prek at the last budget meeting? Now, what is your question? So, currently with prek, we are allotted a certain amount per classroom. So, even we've talked about even reducing classrooms, that's going to give us this be reduced by that classroom. uh in the past the past the current year I should say is there's four EA educational assistance um that is required that the GP is currently paying for however as Douglas has spoken to then we have saved this year in order to reimburse
021um GP as much as that what will be remaining for next year we've not received our budget yet it likely will not come until June but all things being the same all things being equal it will be the same as what we've received this current school year. So more than likely the EAS from the GP side of things will need to stay. It' be same difference if we can reimburse or realign. We can do that anytime throughout the year as well. Do you have that GP? Yes. Because the future salary of priest will be $9,000 plus same amount they give us come back to you and say you have to pay features [Music] one says Kathy Can I address? Yes, I saw that. Kathy Mullins has already addressed. So what will happen? We currently we
022are reducing our um title one interventions by one. We are going to um just have one less teacher in essence next year. It's a game. That way title one will currently will continue paying for what um for all for what we paid for. Um, we currently have two at the middle school, uh, two at Canon South, one at Canon North, and one at Kenny or one at Kenny County Elementary. So, we will actually be moving one from the middle school and adding it to um, another school. So, that we'll have in essence one at all the schools except for the two at Ken South will remain. So, we're just rearranging and reducing by one. I think miss I think it's in there. I mean obviously we would love to keep as many as we have
023but in order to stay within our title one budget that's the plan and remember your and this isn't her program isn't tutoring although we t with your tutors we're just be meeting the minimum we are only doing ELA as a we have been doing math for the nice longer grant where we're doing math and ELA if we at $200,000. We do both, but we can't. So, we are doing what the law says is the pathway to promotion. And I think I've given you the law in the past. Um, pathway to promotion for third and fourth grade. And then any child in K3 that has been retained or that just for the equipment need is this only for technology. Is that all that you know of? He he gave that's all he he gave his budget.
024He just added a lot of pretty much what it's been except the things in that online application. which should bring in more uh employees followed by any new vehicles for technology or right now we know that we have we need a truck or vehicle for either one of them you know of maintenance or maintenance is number one I think I make another year. Oh, we do have just because You got anything? Watch the other two videos. Great. We plug numbers in and he's keeping me calling me back. He keeps reassuring. So all the EAS like they are except for step increase. Is that right? You're going to give them snow days plus right now and we can discuss it with other adjourn. Thank you. Yeah, thank you.