001Tak this um budget meeting we are still in of things of course this is our second budget Year we hope to some information tonight and I think it looks like we might get along lot because there's a lot of be here so thank you for being here um Miss Bonnie do you have um a certain order that you would like to go in tonight I would just like to give you some updates and I've had several requests come in today I've tried to print those off I'll get you copies of this I just didn't have time to to get it ready first of all a Tissa update tomorrow should be our first look at an allocation for next year of course we'll have to look at that we'll have to see if our data is
002pulling correctly if it's not we'll have to go back uh work through those errors but it'll give us a little bit of a view of what we might be uh getting I just want to caution you uh the voucher bill has passed uh there's still time for caption bills to be introduced we just don't know what this will do in the future it may not affect next year's budget uh at all but again with Tisa being fluid um Based on data you just really need to be aware of that your budgeting I do know the governor's um propos base for next year on Tissa is $7,295 that's about a $225 increase per student supposedly that's supposed to make up the difference of the salary increase that we should be at for this next year which
003is at 47 we're already ready at 47 um and I want to remind everyone that we gave everyone the raise not just first year teachers on our salary schedule I hope and I'd like to propose that you go straight to 50 this next year because you'll have to be at 50 and 26 27 and before I leave I would like to see that like to see her her salary increase and I and I hope that you again are able to put that across the board um I did they did send uh that are economically disadvantaged that you know I've sent you some information about that I was worried because our numbers are way down because the way they're calculating it uh they're going to hold us only 75% hold harmless so that's good news it's
004still going to be a loss probably a $100,000 loss from last year but that's better than the what was it half a million we thought it was going to be so um that's that Mr medford's here he did send you some things about um we' already talked about that he's got to have um in his program to keep our um contract renewed for line wise we also went um ahead and went with the online application system we are not getting applicants or positions across the board and we're hoping that this program will help us and it's not a a large cost at all uh we need tutors for next year we we've talked about that Miss Kathy's here she can talk to you about a proposal it's not going to be the program we have
005now uh we are mandated to do tutoring um for students for the entire entirety of fourth grade uh because of the pathway that they're in also for any student K3 that's retained and this would only be to e Ela and so there'll be a proposal sent to you of what that could look like and we're doing bare minimum on this but it's adding we'd like to keep uh Hiring Our retired teachers or retired certified teachers um to do this program so it would be part-time employees and we cannot pay the same rate that um I longer did but I'll send that information to you I think the cost per retired teacher tutor would be about 177,000 per tutor for the year and we'll have to propose a number to you how many we think the
006minimum it would take to pull the tutor off that's also including the RTI tutors we want to keep those because that that would be an additional resource so that's addition to what um we have talked about we have ccea here um we did not open the contract that that contract opens in has to be open by October of next year the full contract and they have sent a request so they can speak to that but they were looking for teacher salary and uh raises and that's something that we've already discuss and they'd like to see a little bit more paid on the Family Medical policy if possible we haven't done any numbers on that I'll let them speak to that um and I I hope I don't leave somebody out I think you've heard from
007some of the principal Miss manda's here um and she can speak uh to anything and anyone else that's here that has not been able to send uh what they need I'd also like for you to consider custodians um they do not get snow days they work off of so many hours a year I think we did the math on it's 230 days a year and we need that because they need to be able to work in the summer and work when kids aren't there to keep the building clean but I would like for you to considered giving custodian snow days um and possibly five days at Christmas which would extend them uh to about a 240-day contract because everyone else is getting something and they work hard and we cannot get custodians we are down
008custodians almost in every building they the only ones that do not get as far as I'm know your girls yeah they're the only ones and um it's just because the way the contract is they can't get paid you know overtime so you have to be careful about their days being staggered but shann and I talked about it today I talked with Douglas U haven't been able to talk to Miss melany because she's uh busy today but we'll get some numbers and figures on that I don't think it's going to cost you much more than what you're already uh paying but I think that's a good a good will gesture to do they work hard and um they deserve that and I'd like to see a percentage increase on all our non-certified how they deserve it
009um I mean I'd love to pay everybody for what they work but y'all know we have limited funds we've got to meet our maintenance efforts and we are going to have to be careful about what we do but those are just things that have been sent to me and then we have uh bus drivers U our contracted bus drivers contract is up August one and y'all will have to meet with them and get a new contract and Miss Lisa has some preliminary um information from our contractor drivers and that's all I have right now that's this was their proposal they got the breakdown and there are only two contracted drivers three rails m h you said oh he has two Mr rcky has two RS okay yes I put that on there he gets that
010extra that that one driver but he would like for that to increase next year but I have some possibilities of we just need to we get into that look at numbers we a little bit more are these buses pretty much full every day every seat here um I'm not sure about Mr Larry you guys can probably speak to when they leave the middle school I think they're really full when they leave the middle um far as their routes their individual rout I have not ridden them in a few years Miss Denise I have and yes she has two loads and they this has to be precontracted by August so what we're saying right cuz there are three year whatever we gave them that there was one other thing U we need to move our school
011psychologist to 11 month to of 10 month just because of the number of referrals that we're having um and to get all of our data and then Miss Amanda is here with her request I sent Miss Bonnie an extensive list of things but at the top of that list and my number one request is to have Miss Brittain fulltime as assistant principal and I know you discussed this a little bit last time but we weren't here to advocate for that um so in order for her to be in the classroom working with teachers and to be an educational leader um we need her her to be full-time AP right now in she's in the library one entire day of the week and a lot of times students are missing out on those things because like
012today there was a meeting here at central office that she had to be at um not to mention the book fair got unloaded today and so somebody else had to do those things anyway because she was in another meeting and that happens often um so it messes with the student specials rotations because we don't have a second rotation because our art teach is only there Wednesday through Friday so it would really help to have someone else to be able to fill that position and for Miss Brittain to be able to be a full-time AP and focus on those things so miss Brittain needs to be a full-time AP and you need a full-time librarian if not full-time part-time would be okay if it was just Monday and Tuesday um or to look at another position
013in the building possibly splitting um and doing that two days a week in the library if you had if you're art teacher became full-time would that that would U make the difference however I'm not sure she's gone back and forth on if she's interested in being full-time or not because we have had that conversation you just have to be careful with your comparability uh for federal um when you start playing with the number of teaching positions so that would be something Kathy has to report every year if that is not a possibility my other thought has been could our guidance counselor possibly split and do half because it would be easier for us to cover her in that Library spot or she could do the library one day a week and the lessons a second
014day and then have her time to work with kids the other three days that would be another just part time or part- time L would be the best bet but I've been trying to think of other things just in case that was not a possibility so the choice the the ultimate Choice should be Britton full-time and a librar a part-time Library yes now if they were part-time that might also save us money on insurance and things like that too I'm not sure about that side of things Britt are you in on this thank you for what you do I'm your what other things so that is my number one thing I do have some other projects in mind um that I would like to do but I think that we can raise money to do
015those things so I'm just going to stick with that one big ass looking at all the things that Miss Bond kind of laid out for us Mr did you want to talk about anything tonight not really I mean we have to have L there is other companies that do filtering some of them are more expensive but um we've had several in the past line wise has been the most stable the best support we've had so still Contin line we have to speed on system security security your mind yeah uh we do the best we can uh you would probably have to give me a probably a million dollar budget to do really good which not feasible you're do [Laughter] good we're trying to do best again with the allocated money that we have we are
016using S uh monitors our Network 247 there's actually a company that monitor and they will Ex leared us today student doing something U but if something is major they'll actually call us um we're looking into purchasing the license for every computer to where if they see something they shut the computer down themselves uh it's a little bit more money but I think it's going to be worth it asking more money to do that I'm just thinking that's more priority overself uh so we're we're doing the best we can you know there there's higher end firewalls on you know higher end stuff there but I'm going to take all if I so I think we're in a good spot um I know some schools got hit last year I was there's always possib you can you
017can throw you can throw a thousand things at it Poss uh we do backups we have offline backups so if we do get hit so we take precaution to make sure that we are safe in case an event that something does happen Mr West is here too because I think Mr Mur he has a little information might hear yeah um I know you I guess a question come up about the metal detectors that kind of stuff found a few things out there um the um there's a couple of systems GE metal detector been around forever you know these handheld things which you see the most uh $200 a piece um they have the walkr metal detectors that are it's a good um good piece of equipment about $4,500 but you start looking at um the
018uh infrastructure there to you know how you going to manage it the people to manage those things all the way up to this evolved metal detector uh that is really popular now around the country Metro just bought them or is buying out high school they you go from Garrett which is a nice really visible uh metal detector where it lets people know that there it's there and they're going through that system to evolve which is a lot more subdued a lot more higher end and you're talking for one lane metal detector to walk through it's $10,000 it's 30 grand a year they want foure payment plan on those things so just looking at some things out there but you know this District does there's so many pieces to the safety part and one standing by
019itself was never going to be enough to keep something that ever has to happen so it takes this whole robust program and the district's been doing this stuff way longer than I've ever come around and worked here but so much prevention and mitigation um a lot of things that coordinated school of health um you know works with um like I said just being able to to kind of staying on top of those to keeping teachers trained and in in some of those programs as well but you know there there's just some things there that you know we uh these guys over here and girls have taught me a lot in the past year about we do what we can with the with the funding um so to speak safety Grant it's not really Grant but
020we we've been able to accomplish quite a bit in a year with it but you get into some of these products here and you know it's um it's it's an amazing world there what what's out there but but like I said this District does a tremendous job on on mitigating the behavior threat assessment things out there that really is not much of any cost to the district at all um we we these principles take this training seriously uh tabletop exercises safety drills we have a really good guidance from the state department and so we we do a lot of really good things here you know just kind of throwing that out there for you things that you might be interested in looking that down the line but uh but a lot of things are already
021in place that would help keep children U you know your schools this positive School culture and climate is uh is so important but um there's always something you can add to it but it's not metal detectors they're there it's a P of a program then you just have to start thinking about what what grade levels kind of yeah I know rol I really lik it because you could it's portable you can move it over to basketball door you can take it down to football field football games it's just very very Man actually with this newer model of Garrett metal detectors it's the same thing you can put them on on on a stand and move it anywhere you want to as well the technology has gotten a lot better even with that but it's the
022Evolve is just more like I said my wife and I went to Dollywood in October and I got flagged uh after she went through I didn't even notice that we were walking through one and I got flagged uh to go over to another table where they had a a tablet there and it was telling me exactly what part of uh my pockets were alerted and it was my retired officer badge and a wallet Ki and so it's it's good technology but my gosh you know $120,000 for one lane walk through is just it's crazy go through two at the Predators game Metro budget Metro Nashville with just their high schools are going to be 1.1 million a year for the next four years those Mach I appreciate you checking in that yes sir you guys
023ever want to talk about this stuff just please I've always sit in the bed at night thinking just pray nothing ever happens here I pray that almost every night and I would hate something happen and be with that we can do all we could do course didn't even really mention but you know we we don't think about it but this year First full year with SRO at every school these principles have I mean these SRO they've come in they've got a lot of experience and they've jumped right in been very impressed for your say something of their request p said uh our mou will be opening up next year so I don't know how many you have been through that process but it's kind of a little ordeal but I do want to know I've
024worked on M through several contracts and I've been part of that and U we have a good contract with you and you've always been our school boards have always been willing to work with of what we do and make our jobs better for us here and you know our tea rep shant she has always said you have a good here in Canyon County and we know that and we want to keep that going with our board and just improve on it so we can attract teachers to come to us in our County and I think that's what's going to help us in the future is we have a good mou that we might have some perks in it to help us attract teachers to comeb to our County you know the teaching population is slimmer
025now but I just talked to Bonnie because of that going to be coming up next year we decided not to go under negotiation but some items that you know we'd like for you to consider for us is always salary increase and we would like that and I like she said to go ahead and increase the starting teacher salary to go ahead and if you can go ahead and bucket if ,000 because it's got a bump the year after is that correct go ahead and make that your amendments here to do and because a lot of other counties around us have already bumped their starting teachers to that and when you have new teachers looking at that they're looking at that and these young teachers they are going for the move I mean they're not going
026to S it out here a lot of us is done they're going where the money is and I hope you that and always uh our insurance our single policies is a pretty good price you know we would like everybody would like it free or something but we're not going to be greedy but you know we have a lot of young teachers here they're raising families to just maybe if we could give them another portion of their insurance pay and that's the things that we want to look at and then maybe later on when our comes comes back we'll talk about our uh pay scale schedule and those kind of things changing that so I would just hope that you would consider those things to try to improve our teaching for contract thank I think on
027that last document I gave you gave the comparisons of what the other districts such as far um and it really helped us this last year kind shocked by Wilson that one shot me I didn't expect be that long I would can I say this I have do have a student teacher right now and that student teacher she wants to be in Canon County and when she said that it just my heart just pounded and her and I we've got on the computer we've looked at the scales helped her look at them we've looked at the scales in other counties and you know we are kind we're comparable to a lot of them but if you could you know increase it I think that will maybe draw some more to us it's got to be done
028in another year anyway so I think it looks kind of good to do that before before you have to do it like to be proactive about it instead of waiting till the last just a little bit each year like just give a little bit this year a little bit till you finally get it there just bite the bullet and do it well the other count is probably going to increase for next year exactly they are it's like I told you it's like the dra looking down through here about things we talked about Miss Cathy do you want to you have anything to add about that proposal do you want to add anything Shar out but she was kind of talk through a couple things um we will not be receiving the that you have this
029year I hav't gotten full notice of that past couple of weeks uh currently we have nine part-time retired teachers that are tutors and um and a fund of about 223,000 right so that's what we're looking at that wise now we know that's unrealistic um so we had kind of think what can we do so um I've done a proposal at the top is our is the law we must follow so that's kind of where that's driven from um we must do every third grade student that is not expectations or proficient on teap and is the pathway to promotion they must receive tutoring the entirety of their fourth grade year and then any student that is in grade K3 that has been retained must receive tutor so um looking at that again we would much prefer
030to do retired teachers um and I've got it broken down kind of like what first school and then how many students that can actually serve and then a proposed pay scale and then the number of weeks um because it wouldn't necessarily have to be the entire school year um but based on the number we that we would need them and then from there now obviously that is kind of like what we would like but then we do have it broken down for retired teacher tutor what that would be if we need to look at that route and the packet that is behind that is the um is just a documentation from the state department where it highlights what we are required to do um and this is again it's Miss Bon reference this is only
031looking at Ela currently we are serving both Ela and math that that's not part of this in this deal just be Ela but we could required by state you're looking over 200,000 do keep what we're doing now and we can't there's I mean you've heard all the requests we just can't do that and it's very frustrating very frustr that we are given mandates and no funding so retired teachers are they still drawing their full retirement and doing this or they get affected by being Tut we would need to do the math on that and I think we paid them this and it did not affect correct before we actually would pay $35 an hour with exra funds but again we don't have exra funds so we went to $30 an hour to make sure that
032we would not mess with their soci security or so they're already retired why are we putting money into the retirement because they're part-time once they take their retirement they take their full retirement they can only work 120 full days so we we couldn't put anymore because it would affect their retirement they would have to start paying back into retirement and lose their retirement we don't want that for them and I just feel like it's better to have a certified teacher as a teer I'm not knocking any non-certified person we've got amazing non-certified Personnel working with our kids but this is another pert for our teachers that have been here for a long time and they've given their heart to the school system a lot of them are coming back and they're doing great things with
033our teachers I mean with our students and our teachers because they work with them um we we've done all the math to make sure that we're not affecting their retirement or so secure F right I think to answer your question though if we had a non-retired teacher then we wouldn't pay that in I went ahead and blanket he come up the 12% or whatever blanket it um but that that may not be a part that is retired teacher okay answer your question yeah Sor long day you check their mental status and wanted to come back kind question well believe it or not teachers are T people believe it or not they love being with kids they just did that's why they've done it as long as they Happ that's the ones you truly have a
034problem that's who we want we want yep that's what we want all of them to be true have a true calling to teach hopefully I know money is important but you know one time this profession they didn't look at money and unfortunately we have to now I guess family we do two people working and at one time a teacher was a caller I wish I it is I still believe it is I hope hope it is I don't want to miss anybody is there any you all have my request right okay but anybody want to talk a little bit about this schol not College I can speak you um currently U Miss Lisa is on a 10 month a teacher schedule looked at a lot of districts around us and several of them have 11
035month School psychologists this year our referrals have more than doubled um what they have been in the past and it's due to the SEC a lot of second grade a lot of third grade with the retention um and so having someone that extra month would give us a little bit longer in that school year to get those evaluations done also it would enable us in Su time if we had to do evaluations in the summer which we're supposed to do by law um if if we need to that would enable us to have some time in the summer also would enable right before school starts we have reevaluations that come due in August so that would give her time right before school starts to get prepared to um kind of hit the ground running in
036August but again the main component is the increase in referrals that we've had um and when typically only have about 15 14 to 16 a year and we're sitting right now by the end of this year U just what we have on the books right now looking at about 34 and that's not including all the referrals three I'm sorry the re outs that she had to do as well are we talking about the school psychologist it's in your in downstairs yes currently just to give you a little more information I've had to contract with um another school psychologist to come in to provide some assistance get some evaluations but she's the only psychologist we have yes but we have the on I you're Contracting somebody somebody in addition to miss is it a face tof
037face person yes somebody because I I looked at different agencies and all they wanted to offer me was someone virtual and I said that doesn't help because I still have person there with I think we're very blessed virtual is is the way so many are going for what they're dealing with that's not and if you look at other salary schedules of school psychologist we're very blessed very blessed this is a person that I've worked with in the cab and Leon so I was really excited to that she was able to give us one day a week or two days um over the next few weeks to help us get it's valuations oh and one other thing Crystal Crystal Crystal's done an amazing job since she has become a full-time CTE director and we were fortunate
038that the grant has been able to sustain that but that Grant is dwindling down and this year uh we will have to pay more for our part of her salary and I just want to put out there that after that Grant's gone and I'm not going to be here and I'm G to advocate for that needs to be a full-time position because what she brought in to this County for our students at high school there's not a number you can put next to it and I want y'all to um I know this is for the next cycle but I just want to make sure that you know that and I know you know how valuable she is but our um programs are just increasing and it's only you know it's what's good for kids there
039you go she didn't pay me anything the new car you you just received do we have anybody that's qualified to teach mechanics we going to so they do small engine shop they do all the old changes for the Suburbans and tire rotations and things like that so they can take it apart and put it back together can't drive any okay anybody else in the room want to speak tonight little bit more Cas do you have any more questions or any more information good I want to thank everybody for being here and I let Miss Bonnie know that I was need to touch BB today because I would kind of be feeling in for dere ton um sometimes it's um we get we get anxious we get nervous about money um I do even personally not
040just I in our homes we do and so when we start looking at things like this um we all kind of get anxious we just ask that you guys be patient with us we're going to try our best I think that we always want to encourage you uh not only to talk to us but to talk to our commissioners because they need to hear how important education is take education away from Community is I've talked about then take away it's slood for the future and we all know that because we're all an education G so thank you guys for being here um please know that um send us emails reach out and call us we're all available and we love to hear from people um and please let us know who you are and what
041you want us to know question yeah do do you want me to start calculating teacher salary based on a $50,000 base yes sir mhm but that takes me a while to do that yes sir please do okay have for next year we don't have another meeting schedule we'll have to do March but there will be another one schedule later in March but that'll give you plenty of time it'll at least be another month beforee I yes sir y'all keep uh D's wife's family in prayer and that's a they're going through quite a bit right now just thought i' mention it I probably already knew that but I thought I mention all right than thank