001We welcome everyone to the July 21st 2025 meeting of the course state board of trustees. This is a regular board meeting and all items will be discussed and been duty posted. While this is a meeting in the public, it's not a meeting of the public. The board's role is set goals, approve personal personnel budgets, and make policy and provide oversight. We're not here to manage or solve individual problems. Management is the responsibility of the superintendent. As a board, we believe that we must educate every child, provide every child the greatest opportunity to learn, maintain a safe and secure environment mentally, physically, emotionally, and academically. These are our core value. We appreciate your interest in students at CISD. We have a quorum. Kathy Branch and Chris Miggins are absent. So the pledge of allegiance to the
002flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. I pledge algiance to thee Texas one state one indivisible. >> Absolutely. Let us pray here. First and foremost, God, we ask that you just continue to lead God and direct us in the right ways. We ask that you allow our hearts to be set on the right decisions for our students and our father. We thank you for today. >> Thank you, Melissa. >> Mayor, do we have any officer yet? >> Yes, sir. >> All right. So, our first deal is it uh the 202526 budget update. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Farmer. Miss Hal, board members, uh I've given you an updated uh budget summary for next year. On the
003front page, you have a very similar summary uh page that you've seen in the past. On the far right, you have uh the deficit summary. We are including usually we include two templates. We're going with region 12's for now because they have more accurate information about uh our teachers uh and their years of service. So um as is that deficit is about 3.1 with three federal grants at the moment frozen uh potentially adding another 130,000 just in payroll uh to the budget. So, we're sitting at the moment at about 3.277 uh million dollars in a deficit. The last time I was here and presented that number was closer to four. So, a couple things have changed. So, or we we've we've gone in looked at some things in on the following page. for example, um
004you see some uh rows, contracted services, supplies, and then insurance. So, those are three different groups in our account codes. Uh I've gone in and cut about a half a million uh from those three groups. for payroll. Um, we went in, uh, we were able to do some attrition on some, uh, vacancies that cleared up a bunch of money. Uh, deleted several positions. Yes. That's that's some of the main changes. Um, I think the last time we were asked uh about utilities, so I did want to report on that. Uh utilities are forecasted to go up about 200,000 next year. So that second page, those rows at the top, payroll, contracted services, supplies, insurance, debt payments, capital outly and athletics. These are all separate groups of accounts in our accounting software. Um below that is
005by function. This is how you adopt our budget. So that includes so function 11 for example is instruction. So, anything that touches instruction is in that number, including payroll, including supplies. Um, and we've given you last year's budget and right now this year's preliminary budget, and I'm going to emphasize that word, still preliminary. We get in four days, we get our final uh property values. Uh, we're working closely with region 12. We just reached out to them today to keep looking at the template because the template keeps getting updated. We have some things uh that we we have been very conservative on. For example, there's uh the special education um evaluation reimbursement that right now reimbursement for next year we've kept at zero until we fully understand how they're going to reimburse us. Uh so
006what what could that look like? I mean that that It could look anywhere from $50,000 and if they do the $2,000 uh dollars per per valuation, I mean, we could get up to $200,000 in additional revenue. But right now in the template for us, we have zero until we understand it. So, uh those are a couple things that we're still looking at. Could that def deficit number change? Uh yes, either way. Um, I will say, I mean, I've worked with everyone here at both of these tables, Mr. Linux and Chief, uh, and this how we've been, uh, meeting, talking, looking at accounts, looking at reports, just to be very transparent like this this entire team has done wonderful at at looking at their stuff. So, I appreciate them. But, we're still working hard. We've got
007about another month before we have to adopt it. So, we plan to just continue to make sure we're nice and efficient. Are there any questions? >> So, in looking at our budget last year at 65 million and then we're at 67, uh I guess the biggest part of the increase was due to our payroll increase. Is that correct? >> Yeah, almost two million with that mandated raise, >> right? Um, and then what um I guess as far as the funding, they only funded teacher increases, correct? They did not fund >> any other increases that we gave. >> Yep. Yep. And I have that number. 1.9 of a mandated raise. >> Okay. >> 400,000 of the of our raise. So in in addition to that 1.9, there was $400,000 of a raise that was unfunded, unmandated.
008And then the increase they gave in the student aotment um obviously is not enough to fight inflation u increase in our insurance. >> Correct. And we have forecasted that's another area so cross your fingers but that's another area in the budget. It's forecasted to go up 10%. In May, our guy said, or no, April, he said, if we have a good month of May, we're seeing flat rates. So, it could be the around the same as this year. So, there could be some potential savings with our property insurance. Um, and I from what I understand, Dallas that we get looped into, uh, had did not have much hail if at all in the month of May. We got a lot of rain. Uh but it's the hail. So there could be some real there could
009be some savings there still. Uh so we're we're hopeful. They were already seeing savings. I think I explained this before, but they were already seeing savings in districts that they were talking to on the coast. They were seeing actually decreases in rates uh when they were giving out those back in uh late April, early May. They don't deal with hail because they deal with hurricanes and that has been kind of quiet for the last few years for them. So, there was good news elsewhere. And and Sean, just just to make sure, we're keeping insurance as far as for our employees, keeping what we've done. >> Yes. 3.99. Yes. And what is the state going to help the insurance? >> I they're at 225 and I don't think they uh stated an increase. I'm not aware
010of it. >> That didn't pass >> right >> or they mandate the 225. I'm sorry. They mandate that but they I I haven't heard a mandate that we should go up or the minimum has changed or they're covering anything like that. Yeah. >> Any other questions? >> All right. >> Appreciate. >> All right. Thank you. Appreciate you guys support. >> We will journ in close session permitted by Texas Government Code section 5510-01. Thank y'all.