001Okay. >> Here she is. Hey, Laura. >> Here. or we are we are online. >> Yeah, we're streaming now. >> The meditation is helping next Friday. He did have this earlier this year too. >> He's a busy man. Yes. Looks like the gang's all here. Hey, Miss Kimmel. >> Hello. How are y'all doing? >> Good. We can hear you. It sounds like you can hear us. Is that right? >> Yes. Yes. >> Excellent. >> We're streaming now. We're going to We'll get started in about two minutes. Okay. >> Dr. Horl, um I have just four slides that I could share. Um, do you know if if I'm able to share my screen? >> Dr. Terrell is saying yes, you can. >> Okay, I will do that. I'll do that when it's time. >> Okay. >>
002Hi, Keith. Close the door. Anybody else to join us? All right, I have 2:30. I will call the meeting to order. Everyone would stand for a moment of silence for the pledge. You face the flag. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mador, if you call the role. Chair Laura Harrison. Vice Chair Jeremy Bernett >> present but not voting. >> Michelle Childs here. Keith Actton >> present but not voting. >> Deborah Thomas present. >> We do have a quorum. Dr. War, will you lead us through our agenda? >> Uh I will. The first item on the agenda is approval of the FY 2627 budget. >> I'll make a motion to get
003this item on the floor. Is there a second? Second. We have a motion and a second, Dr. B. >> All right. uh want to give some context for what we're doing on this item. Uh we initially had this uh item uh and the related items on the agenda on our regular board meeting agenda, but had uh got some information from the city and made the decision to pull that item from the agenda and we're going to take it up today to make sure we get the budget approved in time for the city's approval. Um there's a there is some additional context and we're going to hear from uh Katherryn Kimmel who is our legal counsel with Lewis Thomasson here in a in a few minutes. Uh what I'd like to do first is kind of
004go through the agenda as presented. Uh I'm going to talk about a change to uh a recommended amendment to the budget that I'm recommending that the uh the board take action on. And then uh if if this works, I'd like Miss Kimmel to kind of talk through um the the support for changing that particular line item. So uh I've got just a few brief uh budget uh overview items that I'd like to share with the board and then we'll talk about the amendment that I'm recommending and then we'll hear from Miss Kimmel. That all that work for everybody on board? >> Sounds good. >> I will note for everybody that's streaming at home, um we are doing this from our district office. We have a little bit of a different setup. We uh we have
005two members, Jeremy Bernett and Taken who are joining us remotely but they are not voting. So they are uh they have been actively involved in the budget discussions. They have met with me. They cannot be here. Uh they were they were able to be present for the regular board meeting but couldn't be here for the special calls. Uh they wanted to join us. They uh they're free to uh participate in the conversation but they will not be voting. We do have a physical quorum present which is what's required. We have three of the board members here which is what's required to take action and so that's what we'll be requesting. So uh without further ado I'm going to go through the uh budget presentation. These slides are not going to be visible to those that
006are streaming at home for some technical reasons but they are going to be attached to the agenda almost immediately after the conclusion of the meeting. the board members have them and anyone here present in the room uh can follow along with the uh the slides that are there. So uh basically this is our just to to kind of summarize this is our first budget um following the successful completion of our K12 system. So, uh, every year certainly for the past three years and, uh, at various times over the the six or seven years prior to that, uh, we've had to make significant changes to the budget as we've added grade levels and we as we've added the necessary staffing. Um, and every year's kind of been a big thing, taking these big leaps forward in
007terms of both revenues, expenditures, and the things that we're expected to do as a school system. So, now that we're complete, uh, this will be our second year. This is our second budget with the full K12 system. Um, and that introduces new financial challenges, but also new opportunities for the system, particular particularly related to our per pupil driven funding formulas that we want to keep an eye on. So, we're in more of a kind of maintenance mode as we don't anticipate any massive growth here, which kind of frames the way you look at things differently. As the board and uh maybe the public remembers, last year we did make some significant changes so that we would be ready to be fully built out and that uh that those were changes to district office staffing, school
008level staffing. And our hope was at the year of at the end of this year, the 25 26 year, we would look back and find that the changes we'd made and the staffing we'd uh put in place was working. and and that's basically what we found with the exception of splitting the middle and the high school um which has some implications for the most part. We're going to keep cruising with what we have. So, uh we're continuing to invest heavily in the classrooms. We're leveraging existing resources as much as we can and we're anticipating uh an estimated enrollment of 2660 students for the next school year. So, what does that mean? Uh in terms of revenues, we're anticipating an increase of $1.1 million from the FY26 budget. That's a 3.25% increase. Uh $18.5 million of
009that roughly comes from the TISA Tennessee Investment and Student Achievement Act. And this is a balanced budget that uh let me acknowledge Mr. Gabby Sweat, the finance director, uh and I are presenting here. The proposed budget is uh the exact same amount, $1.1 million higher um with the requisite increase there of 3.25%. So it's structurally balanced. It does not plan to spend any money from the uh existing uh school fund balance. Uh what does that look like? You'll see all these numbers match. Uh basically the total for all funds. We spent a lot more time generally talking about the general purpose budget of uh almost $34 million, but when you put federal programs, school nutrition, our LEAP fund, which is our before and after school care, and our capital projects in there, uh we're looking
010at a total budget closer to $ 37.8 million. Uh we like to kind of keep track of, and we know the uh the board likes to keep track of where do those dollars go. uh the vast majority of the dollars like most organizations but especially school systems our main resource is our personnel. Uh so you can see that just over 67% of our budget dollars go to personnel. In fact more than that if you factor in benefits which also applied to personnel that's almost 19% and basically 14.3% is what's left and that's what we spend on the rest of the stuff that it takes to run the school system. So, our main investment and I know the board's priority continues to be investing in our people and making sure that they have what they need.
011So, again to repeat, we've estimating uh 2660 students, that's a 909 and K4. That does not include our preschool classes as that number tends to to not include uh and 5 through 8 which will be Lakeland Middle Preparatory School next year. That's 889 students and anticipating 862 students at Lakeland Preparatory School which will be its own high school next year. Uh the TISA funding formula did uh did move up a little bit to 7530 at the base plus we have the weights applied uh for various areas. Uh we are very pleased that uh we're only looking at a 2% increase in health insurance premiums. Last year we had zero. It's hard to have a zero for for more than one year, particularly in this uh this health insurance environment that we're in now. And uh
012this child's in fact is invited me to kind of do a more extensive presentation at some point in the future to make sure the board understands the work that the interlocal health trust committee is doing. We're really overperforming um the market averages in terms of keeping premiums at a minimum. So again, even though it does inch up um compared to average, you know, plan premium increases, which can be between seven and nine or even higher, we feel very good about two coming off a year where we didn't increase them at all. Uh and then we want to continue to allocate most of the available resources towards that direct classroom instruction as we mentioned. Um so where the revenues come from? Um the uh in this proposed budget uh it's mostly from the state of Tennessee.
013That's uh from the TISA funding formula. That's about 50% 18.9 million almost from Shelby County. Um that's considered our local match at nearly 15 million uh from the Shelby County taxpayers overall. Um the city of Lakeland throws in 2.8% 8% of our budget through that uh 15 cent property tax equivalent that we're going to discuss uh a little more in detail in a minute. Uh and the number that we have in the budget and I'll I'll expand on this a little bit from the city of Lakeland is $1,53,180. Uh that number was uh was determined uh in cooperation with the city of Lakeland finance director. That is the exact number of the 15 cent property tax equivalent. We have received the equivalent of 15 uh cents on the property. If I said percent, it's 15
014cents on the property tax every year for the last 12 years. That is what we're including in the budget again this year. And that's the primary difference between the draft budget that is published and that the board has uh and what I'm recommending as an amendment because we do not want a penny more than that 15 cent property tax equivalent. Uh we want to make sure that we're only asking for uh what we believe is is due from the city of Lakeland. Um so from the federal government we get about $1.3 million. Um LSS's own sources uh generate about $99,000. Nutrition's in there, $720,000. Um and that adds to a grand total of the grand total budget of that 37 almost $8 million. All right. So, what are we keeping uh and what's new? So,
015we're going to maintain our hard to staff position stipens. Uh we're going to continue to do our device upgrades for students and employee use. Um, we're kind of after we got some additional bonus funds from the state last year, we're going back to basically where the board was two years ago. We are recommending a $1,000 certified bonus and for our 12-month classified u employees and a $750 non2month classified employee bonus. So, that's the bonus that we've been paying out uh around the Christmas holidays and we have kept that in the budget and uh are very excited to be able to continue to do that assuming that this board passes. Uh in addition, and I want to say this is in addition to step increases that are already built into salary schedules. We are recommending an
016acrosstheboard 2% cost of living adjustment. Uh again, plus those step increases for Lakeland school system employees. And I I want to note uh I have individual conversations with the board members. Both of these things were very important um to the board members that uh our employees get the opportunity to maintain these bonuses and that we basically get as much of a cost of living increase as we could reasonably do and felt like we could maintain in the budget. So the nice thing about cola increase is it's permanent. It goes into the salary schedule uh and will be there no matter what happens next year. Uh we are increasing funding for ACT prep and professional development. That was also something that came out of board conversations as a high priority to make sure that our students
017could uh have access to those opportunities without paying out of their own pockets. Um enhancements to substitute teacher pay. Something else that came out of board retreat conversations as a priority. Uh and then something new program based annual budget funding for areas like fine arts, CTE, and science labs. We basically over the course of the last five or six years basically said tell us what you need and we'll see if we can find them in the budget. We're trying to be more proactive and say this is what we're allocating for your area. Let's let these areas make some specific u you know decisions based on how they'd like to use those funds. All right. In terms of positions, this is very different from the last several years and that it's very limited and several of
018these we've already discussed. basically uh the LPS principal position that's already been uh filled by uh as principal elect by Blake Wadell um at LPS. We are adding another assistant principal at Lakeland Middle Preparatory School that we believe will give both schools the administrative support that they need for not only the daytoday but also the night to at those schools. Um there is one additional teacher that we'll be adding at LNPS. Uh we are actually cutting one teacher position at lees through attrition. This is uh through our retirees. Uh we won't be backfilling one of those positions and that has to do with the kind of shrinking size of the kindergarten class over the last couple of years. Uh and then we are adding a second uh district office psychologist position uh to kind of
019keep up with the demand for assessments and follow-ups that are so critical to our special ed program. So uh just in terms of the historical look back uh we look back all the way back to 2223 and this year again we've uh our enrollments gone up about 30% our total staff have gone up about 33% our managed technology devices have gone up 52% and the general fund budgeted revenues have gone up about 55% from 21.9 to 33.9 uh over the course of the last several years. uh our teacher starting salary I think this is really important to note from 22 23 uh our for the last several years we've gone up 3% 7% 3% and 2% for a total of 15.6% 6% uh enrichment of the uh teacher salary schedule. So very excited about that.
020Again, that's a priority of the board. When uh when we talk to board members individually tell me that that they want to make sure we're competitive and the teachers and staff are being uh compensated appropriately and competitively. Uh this is just an update that'll be uh posted to this on the website in terms of our federal and state awards grants comparison. You can see uh a couple of these the changes here between the five six original the IDA actually goes up a little bit but you can see that the title one um goes down. Um most of them are somewhat similar. If you look at title four it's gone down fairly significantly relative to the numbers. So that's something we're keeping an eye on that shifting landscape of federal programs. uh we're very uh consistent
021in that when we get federal funds, we try to be thoughtful and make sure we're not building a bridge to nowhere in terms of staffing or personnel. We don't ever want to be in a position where um someone's job is based on a grant that may or may not be there next year. So, I really appreciate Mr. Kay Sweat's uh conscientious uh efforts to to make sure that's the case. >> All right. And in terms of uh capital, we are uh we're going to approve and bring to the board a separate kind of five-year capital plan um this summer, but we did want to note what is included uh at least in our initial um basically estimate here um for 27 especially. So, we're anticipating a and this is included in the budget, a $
0221.5 million capital investment. Most of this comes from uh the Shelby County Schools, I'm sorry, the Shelby County Commission capital money that we get that's based on the uh Memphis Shelby County Schools ask, but we are starting to project that out and we'll be requesting some more feedback from the board on that as an official five-year capital plan. U couple other things to note on meal prices. Uh we are proposing a quarter um meal price increase for the six seven school year. Unfortunately, as we know in this environment, things cost more than they did and food is not exempt from that. So, we try to keep these as reasonable as possible. Um, but we are asking that uh everything go up a quarter on the meal prices and we're going to continue to maintain our
023leave which is our before and after sc excuse me it's not scary our before and after school care uh program that we run ourselves. And that concludes my presentation. Um I we can either have some questions and comments now or we can go ahead and talk about the uh proposed amendment and hear from Captain Kimmel if the board would like to do that. So >> um I just had a couple minor questions. >> Yeah. um for the the school lunch that you just um mentioned, will with LPS and LPS being a different price, like is it a different quantity for the high schoolers or will it be the same amount of food? >> The high school meals are bigger is my larger. >> That's what I meant. >> Okay. And then the teacher for LMPS,
024is it just like a general teacher or what what type of teacher is that? So what we do is we all lot a number of teachers to the schools and the principles basically get discretion on what to fill. Um I'm afraid if I think I know but I'm afraid if I said what it was it would I think it it tended it had something to do with covering the electives more effectively with the split. >> Great question. Any other questions? >> Any other questions? >> Okay. So I kind of set up the uh the question of the amendment. So, what what I'm requesting that the board do is amend the budget. And I'm going to use the specific language and then uh if she will, I'm going to ask Miss Kimmel to speak about this
025approach. Uh we are requesting a decrease in what is currently uh 141R4980 ending in 660 to 1 1,53,180 to match the exact amount provided by the city of Lakeland for the 15 cent equivalent payment for 2627. Um and then we are going to uh so we decrease in that line item and then increase by the same amount our 141R line item um by 46,820. That's the change uh to reflect some anticipated payments in other areas. So uh we believe that that income is still going to be there for us, but we want the 15 cent equivalent line item uh to be there specifically. So, I'm going to provide a little bit of additional context. We had originally budgeted a little bit higher. We we had uh we didn't know that the uh essentially or didn't
026have access to the Shelby County um property tax roles um that the city of Lakeland receives. So, we had over budgeted in that amount a little bit. And then uh there was a conversation that was passed on to us and it was uh I have to say it was not official because the board of commissioners not acted on it but there was a suggestion that the budget approved by the board of commissioners might freeze last year's 15 cent equivalent and carry that forward. Um the and historically we have always received the exact amount of the 15 cent equivalent and that's what we've put in our budget and um We we have felt like that that is the amount that the city of Lakeland was obligated to provide to the school system based on a number
027of reasons that I'll let Miss Kimmel discuss. Um so once we found out what the so there was a suggestion that that might be frozen. What I'm proposing to the board um with council's um advice is that we go ahead and continue to put in the 15 cent equivalent into our budget. Ironically, it's actually less than our original estimate. and uh request that the uh Lakeland Board of Commissioners approve the same. So uh yes, can we can we first make a motion for amendment so that this is right for discussion to make sure we're discussing or talking about something that is amendment >> I see no issue with that. Yep. >> Okay. So I'll make a motion to get an amendment to the budget and I'm going to say this wrong to a decrease in
028141R. Do I need to call out the whole >> I'll do it for you if that's okay. 41 R4980 ending in 660. >> Um decrease it to 1,53,180 to match the exact amount provided by the city of Lakeland for the 15 cent payment in 2627 and also increase 141R. Can you say the rest? >> 44170 >> by the same amount to reflect anticip anticipated payments. Yep. >> So, this would then make the B budget balanced. Is there a second to this motion? I'll second. We have a motion and a second. No, go ahead. >> All right. I want to introduce Katherine Kimmel. Uh she is one of of uh the attorneys that we work with with the law firm of Lewis Thomasson. And I I just have to say you will know that better is
029Chuck Hegel's firm because we've been working on and off with Chuck for for many years since before we were even fully a school system. So, uh, but Katherine has been extremely helpful to us. And what basically what we asked, Miss Kimmel to do is, uh, provide any, uh, justification, uh, for continuing to request and include in the budget the 15 cent equivalent, um, as as a contribution from the city of Lakeland. So, Miss Kimmel, are you ready to to speak on that and and present? >> Yes. Uh, can everyone hear me? Okay. >> Very well. >> Okay. Great. Um, thank you for asking me to come address you all today. Um, I as Dr. Horl said, he gave me a call last week and said, you know, there's a bit of a question about this
030uh local funding obligation, this 15 cent equivalent that um the city of Lakeland has always contributed to your school budget. So could you look into it for me and you know give a little bit of the history or the legal justification behind this um 15 cent contribution from the city government. Um so I reviewed state statute state board of education regulations. Um Dr. Horl sent me the local ordinance and referendum language that was passed by the city in 2013 I believe. Um, so and I also spoke with um the council for a few o of of the other municipal school districts in y'all's area to see kind of the common understanding of this requirement. So I am going to try to share my screen because I'm going to go through some legislative text briefly. I
031won't bore you. I promise I'll try not to. But I find it helpful when we're talking in legal ease to have the language up in front of you. So, let's >> Okay. Can y'all see my screen? >> Yes. >> All right. And is it does it look like a PowerPoint presentation? >> Yes. >> Very good. I'll put it in slideshow mode. Okay, >> nailed it. That's great. >> Okay, so this is a section of the Tennessee code. It's uh title 492106. And this is the statute that authorizes a local government, a local city or municipality to create or expand a city or special school district like Lakeland school systems. Um and the statute says that no city school system shall be created or reactivated unless the school system is and then there's all these criteria
032for what has to be in place before a new city school system can be created. It has to be large enough to offer adequate opport educational opportunities for pupils grades 1 through 12 um and meet standards established by the state board of education. The state board of education under statute was authorized to establish standards in the following areas. The basically the educational population of the school system. It has to be a certain size. You have to be have a critical mass of eligible students before a new district can be created. Uh section B2 says the financial ability per pupil of scholastic population. So that subsection B2 speaks to the state board of education had the authority to look at a proposed new special city school district and say not only does it have enough students
033in the proposed area to justify a new district but is there the financial ability in within that community to support the educational needs of those students. And then the third subsection is the state board can consider the expressed willingness of the people of the city. Um as indicated by a majority of its legal voters in a referendum to raise local funds um which combined with school funds received from state and other source sources shall be sufficient to provide adequate educational opportunities for their children. So in the statute we see to create a new city school district um there are several considerations that the state board has to con has to make before authorizing a new system. One of which is the financial ability of the city to support the new school system and the voters's
034willingness to raise those funds raise local funds in addition to state and other funds that would be due to the school system. So after that law was passed, the state board of education uh drafted and adopted a rule, a regulation implementing that statute. You can see on the screen um state board of education rule 0520 0108-01. They're terrible, terrible nomenclature. Um this is the requirement that the state board set for any new city system to be created. And you can see on the right hand side of the screen there's section one that's a uh floor for the number of students potential students in the area. Um, the school system has to employ a full-time director of schools who meets all of the legal and regulatory requirements of other school systems in the state. You have
035that with Dr. Horl. And I want to note as you as we go through these requirements, the Lakeland school system meets these requirements every year. You did not have to meet this requirement on a one-time basis. You know, you did not hire Dr. Horal for the first year of operation and then once you were approved by the state board of education, you know, you got rid of your qualified director of schools. You have a qualified director of schools year after year to meet your ongoing obligations under state law. Um, subsection three, Lakeland school system had to be able to employ teachers who meet all legal requirements for public school teachers. And you do that, you still do that today. you had to provide school facilities to meet all of the legal requirements of Tennessee. And
036then number five, that's the most important one, the one we're going to talk about today is the state board of education had to the local government had to assure the state board of education that it would spend each fiscal year for the current operation of its public schools an amount of money in addition to the amount required to be raised by the county. That amount would be at least equal to a 15 cent tax levy on each $100 of taxable property for the current year in said city school district if that amount were to be collected. That's that's a mouthful. That is a um a difficult sentence. But what I read in that and what I think the common understanding um of that provision is is that the city that would like that was petitioning
037to create a new city school system had to reassure provide assurances to the state board of education that it would provide the equivalent of 15 cents on every $100 of taxable property in inside the each school year to the school systems budget. And you can see throughout the sentence in number five, there are multiple references to um each for the current operation of schools for each fiscal year and the taxable property for the current year in said city school district. All of those references keep that obligation in my opinion ongoing and to whatever fiscal year uh we were talking about. There's a good bit of background noise. I don't know if yall have trouble hearing me or not. >> It's very smooth here. We can hear you. >> Okay, perfect. And this is my last
038slide. Um, so in 2013, the city of Lakeland decided to create a school a city school district. Um, and according to the statute and the state board rag that we just read, um, they held a special referendum election on July 16th of 2020 of 2013. You can see on the right hand side of the slide, this is the language that voters read and voted on in 2013. The ordinance was approved by 87% of the voters in Lakeland. Um, and the new LEA application was submitted to the Department of Education on April 29th of 2014. So if we look to the right hand side of this screen, you can see what the voters of Lakeland approved uh about 13 years ago. So it said, "Shall the city of Lakeland be authorized to create a municipal school
039system that shall meet the standards of adequacy established by applicable state law and regulation?" And here's the important part. Which standards include raising and spending each year the required amount of local funds for the operation of the municipal school system that for calculation purposes only would at least be equal to the amount that would be raised through a 15 cents tax levy on each $100 of taxable property for each year if all such taxes were collected. So the voters read this in 2013 and 87% of them said yes that we are willing to commit this amount of money each school year for the obligate for the operation of our municipal school system that we want to create. Um and as you all are well aware the state board of education approved the application for the
040Lakeland school systems and you've been operating ever since. Um, it's my understanding that the city of Lakeland has contributed the 15 cent tax levy to the school system budget year after year. Um, based on my reading of the law, the regs, this ordinance that is was adopted by this the residents of Lakeland, the voters of Lakeland, um, number one, the school system is entitled to that 15 cent tax levy on the taxable property. Um, and number two, the residents of your city agreed to provide that funding year after year. So I I think it is appropriate for the board to factor in that amount of revenue into its budget proposal every year. Um I think the city is required to provide that that funding. Um assuming that you know your estimates on the 15 cent
041tax levy are correct. That's the amount that the city owes the school district every year. Um, so I I would encourage any school district to always request the amount of money that it is owed under whatever funding formula exists. And I think this 15 cent tax levy is no exception. And I think your students deserve the full benefit of the funding that your system is owed. So, I'd be happy to answer any questions y'all have about uh the history of this levy, how it applies to Lakeland school systems or how it differs from your TISA funding, your federal appropriations. >> I think if I if I may, Chair Harrison, just just one question. Thank you so much for the background and and your your insight into that and your legal opinion. Um, all that being
042said, is it reasonable in your opinion for the board to include that 15 cent amount in the budget that's being presented to the uh uh the Lakeland Board of Commissioners? >> Yes, it is reasonable. And I think as board members, you know, you have a fiduciary duty to the school system. Um, I wouldn't advise you to propose any less than that 15 cent tax levy. >> Thank you. Any questions? >> Yes. >> So, every year when we've had our budget presentation, we always have taken great pride in saying we've never requested additional operational funds from the city. And that's because we have always relied on the 15 cent tax levy. Correct. >> That is accurate. And and I do want to say we're very fortunate every year um we have received those funds. We we've
043requested them. we've even worked collaboratively um to receive those funds. So, uh we have uh we we this is we've gotten them every single year and that's and it's based on that amount. >> Any more questions? >> So, go ahead. >> Just so I understand. So, um if we pass this budget then it would go on to the board commissioner and then they would vote this up or down. Is that the next step after our >> uh Yes. And I want to be careful with my legal opinion. My understanding is that the uh the board of commissioners doesn't have a line item um veto or ability to amend the budget that they would either accept the budget or or not accept the budget as a as part of their budget. >> Yes, that's correct. >>
044And I am hearing I think we are getting a little bit of background noise maybe through the owl. So I apologize to everybody listening at home. Uh Mr. racted. Mr. Mr. Bernette, can you hear us generally? Okay. And is the content coming through? >> Yes, sir. Um, I would ask though, could Miss Kimmel stop her presentation so I can see everyone else in the room? >> Oh, excuse me. Yes. >> Thank Thank you for that though. It was very helpful. >> Yes. >> Great. Any other questions? Well, thank you. That that did it. That did the trick. Any other questions for Miss Kimmel or or conversation before uh the board act on the amendment that is before the board? I I just want to make one comment. Um obviously not being present can't vote today,
045but um I would like to speak in favor of supporting uh the the amendment that Chair Harrison has proposed. >> Any more discussion? Any more questions? All right. Hearing none. All in favor of approving the amendment say I. >> I. Any opposed? The amendment passes. We are now back on the main motion of the approval of the 2627 budget as amended. Is there any discussion on that item? >> May I just say one thing? Let me let me say again how much I appreciate uh the input of the individual board members through the budget development. I think as you know it starts with the executive committee which is the board chair and me uh working in collaboration obviously with uh Mr. Gay Sweat and his team. He has done a tremendous job u crunching the
046numbers um making sure that there's a tremendous amount of clarity in terms of what to expect and Mr. K you're definitely to be commended for that. So thank you but uh the board members individually are extremely engaged uh in this process is one of their major responsibilities. So I just thank you before you even take the vote. So >> So I just want to make a general comment about the budget. The thing that always every year that I appreciate is the focus of the board um individually and even in our um what do you want to call it our retreats on investing in our people. We always say and you hear Dr. Bal say it's the people it's the people it's the people and so to see so much of our budget going towards the
047people the people the people that is so important and that speaks so highly to what this board concentrates on and what it feels like the greatest asset is. So, I thank this board for its vision and it it's um forethought in investing in our people, making sure our people are taken care of because they're out there doing um great things with our students and our community for our community and with our families. So, thank you board members for your continued work and vision on this. I appreciate that. So, there any more discussion? All right, hearing none. All in favor of approving the amended 262.7 budget say I. I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Next item. >> Uh, and before we go to the next item, uh, Miss Kimmel, I want to thank you again. Is Is
048everybody okay if Miss Kimmel exit the call? I know she's got some other responsibilities she's taken care of. >> Thank you, Miss Kimmel. >> All right. >> Thank you all. I appreciate it. >> Thank you so much. >> Bye. All right. The video looks to be frozen, but the audio is working, so we're gonna keep going. Uh, the next item is the approval of LSS job descriptions. >> I'll make a motion to get the item on the floor. Is there a second? >> That's not the next item. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. >> Next item. Next item is approval of 2627 salary schedules and stipen schedules. >> All right. I'm trying to get to it on my computer. Yes. So, I'll make a motion to get the 2627 salary schedules and stipen schedules on the
049floor. Is there a second? >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Dr. Will this one? >> Yes. Uh, the board, you've been presented with these. These were available at the last meeting. Uh this is just the update. I will note that our uh the salary schedules for the teachers um go up to 2% uh that was proposed in the budget and stipen schedules uh follow the uh bachelor um level one step step zero essentially. So they would also go up 2%. So just noting that. >> Any discussion on this item? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Next item. >> Next item is approval of LSS job descriptions. >> I'll make a motion to get this item on the floor. Is there a second? >> I'll second.
050We have a motion and a second. Dr. >> Uh there are there are seven job descriptions here. Most of these are updates uh that are just being made uh in terms of uh kind of housekeeping uh to clean up job descriptions. uh in a couple of cases or in several cases there are some additional responsibilities uh that are being distributed amongst a number of people uh in their job descriptions. Some of those do have uh correspond with some uh a change basically in the um uh the lane essentially uh including the um I guess specifically the technology systems facilitator has quite a few additional responsibilities and that is a move from a manager to facilitator. >> Any discussion on this? I'm sorry. Any discussion on this item? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I.
051Any opposed? Motion passes. Next item. >> Uh there's no further business and there's this is a special call meeting so no further business is permitted. >> I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Is there a second? >> I'll second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? We are. >> Thank you. Thank you for joining us, gentlemen. >> Thank y'all. >> Thank you all. Bye, guys. Bye.