001It is 7:00 p.m. and we do have a forum present. So we will start our meeting tonight. If you would uh bow with me and we'll open with a word of prayer. >> Holy Father God, we thank you for today and the things that you've richly blessed us with. We thank you so much for Jesus and we thank you for the sacrifice that he made on the cross for us. Dear God, tonight we pray that you be with us as we uh are about the matters of this school. Dear God, help us to keep the students first in everything that we do. God, we pray a special prayer tonight for Blaine and his family at the loss of his brother. Dear God, comfort them. Wrap your arms around them and give them understanding. Dear God,
002be with us. Forgive us because we fall short of your glory with our sins. In Christ's sweet name we pray. >> All right. Do we have anyone for the public forum or Cardinal Spotlight? Uh, Carl Spotlight. We always try to find a student group has been really impactful and um have worked really hard. >> And I know y'all won't see these girls for a couple weeks actually on the sidelines, but we want to recognize them because believe it or not, they've been up here like almost every day this summer doing something, working on posters, working on cheers, working They've just been hard at work. If you go down the halls just about any day over the past month, you'll run into a cheerleader doing something. And we wanted to recognize them for all the work
003that they've done behind the scenes. And we'll let them we'll let them introduce themselves and tell what grade they're in. >> Do a little cheer for us? >> Yeah. >> Hello guys. I'm gonna be a senior. >> Hi, I'm Audrey. I'll be a sophomore. >> I'm Winnie and I'll be a junior. >> I'm Bentley and I'll be a freshman. >> I'm Chesley and I'll be a junior. >> I'm Hazley. I'll be a freshman. >> I'm Jaylen. I'll be a >> I'm Ella. I'll be a sophomore. >> I'm Charlie. I'll be a freshman. I'm a freshman. I'm Summer. I'll be a freshman. >> I'm Jessine. I'll be a freshman. And >> this is just our high school cheer squad. And Miss Anderson is our cheer coach. We got the junior high waiting, but we just wanted
004to bring them in. >> Don't be shy. >> All the way. >> Just tell us your name and what grade you're going into. >> Hi, I'm Josie and I'll be in eighth grade. >> Hi, I'm Cameron. I'll be in seventh grade. Hi, I'm and I'll be in seventh grade. Hi, I'm Addison and I'll be in sixth grade. >> Hi, I'm Autumn and I'll be in sixth grade. >> All right, y'all ready for your cheer? >> Miss Gibson and Miss H both all win a lot of cheers. >> They all work really hard. We wanted to we wanted to recognize them for all that they do. Thank you. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] >> Boom. people. >> Thank you guys. >> We get that a lot. >> All right. Superintendent report. >> We're still closing up
005the books. Budgets budget updates in there. Probably have some amendments next month. >> Yes, we always do the at the very end. We'll save all this other budgetary stuff at the end of the information section August special board meeting date 25th and that'll also be the same uh action for three to approve the public meeting date for the budget discussion. So the 25th of August will be the special meeting and then the 15th of September will be the regular meeting. >> Not a whole lot of activity report until teachers and kids get back. Turn on the TV. >> Okay. Well, that's coming up. I'm going to go ahead and I'll share star scores, >> kind of preliminary scores. >> But so, we had meet the teacher tonight. I think all of the elementary kids came.
006Um I think most of the high school kids came. So projected enrollment is I think. >> It could be about 375. >> Yeah. >> Good. Good. >> Yeah. Now that's if it's all correct, but we'll have five kids not show up the first day and we'll sort from there. So we had a lot of kids move in the district. I've gone around and verified and they are living there. There's a few that weren't and they're going back to Snider. >> How many kids we got in the district? >> I have to look at that number now because it's probably gone up a little bit. >> Last year was almost it was I think it's 126 and 126 right down the middle. So it's probably the probably similar. >> It's not transfer kids that increased us.
007It's they had more industry kids move into houses. >> Yeah. I mean, it was several that I was driving around Saturday and this morning just double checking and verifying and making phone calls. I'm like, "Yeah, y'all are living there." So, now there was one that was not back to Sign, but it >> Yeah, it's a good problem to have, but we're I'm hoping we're less than that, but it's a good problem to have. >> Are you going to overload them teachers and >> they're spread out more? >> Yeah, >> he's very selective about splitting up the freshman in >> freshman are split up. Yes. Just because they have so many star tests and there's 29 in there now. So, we went ahead and split them which they've been that big for several. >> Yeah, they
008were 29 last year. >> Mr. R had to turn some away just because the classes we didn't have enough, >> but there's 25 in first grade, >> kindergarten. >> Yes. And I that's like five of those are move in that that's what I was checking on. Now what we're going to do though and we've kind of always done this but those there's those transfer kids and they mess up twice something small we're sending them back. So >> and they all have aids right >> the ones with the huge classes. >> Pre yes >> okay because that's important. >> Yes. groups. Yeah. And it's like me and Miss Rand sat down and looked at it. She goes, "I don't want to kick any of these kids out because they're good kids and good families." So, it's
009just a bunch of kids. Not the TV. So, this is what this is the yonder pouch that kids are going to get the first day of school. Um, I put it out. It's in our handbook and we'll have to vote on our code of conduct again because after our audit, they said we need to put our consequences in there, too. It's the same wording. We just have to reapprove it. Um, but it's they'll get it. We'll talk about it Wednesday morning when they're in here. Um, >> is there a code? >> Oh, you know what? It's on the Roku. And I bet the Roku is not on the new uh >> Wi-Fi. Yeah, but you can check the TV. >> Oh, can I screen? >> You can screen here to the TV. You can you
010can play to this TV and it just won't show back there. But that'll be fine. >> So, they'll get this. They'll put their phone in it, their Apple Watch, AirPods, and then they'll close this and then they'll carry that around all day. So, if they get caught with it out, they're going to go to ISS for three days and the parents have to come pick it up. >> How many of them you got to get? >> I've already got them all. I've got 60 170. >> That's for all the kids or whatever. >> Yes. So secondary, every kid has one and then I have enough that if there's any elementary kids that have it, I've got plenty of extra. So every kid will have one. So it'll be it'll be good to uh have because
011I think it's going to make kids where they don't just accidentally pull their phone out and accidentally get on it just because it's out of habit. So it'll be like it's all there. They can lay it out on their desk, but they can't use it. So I think that's the best way to implement what the state has told us to do. We could have said put it in your backpack, but then I think it leaves up too much. So, every teacher's been told that if a kid has it out, they come to the front. So, th Wednesday morning, they'll get their warning from me. So, at the end of the day, they'll have this magnet. It's back there by Coach Gibson's door. It's in a lock box. They'll unlock it. They'll be able to pop
012this open, take the phone out, and then they'll put it in a package. So may not know everything that could go wrong with it, but we kind of work through it and if there's anything that comes up, we will sort through that when we get there. But I think it's from the people that have have done it, they said that's the easiest way to implement the policy. Okay, so this is our star data. Now, this is rough numbers as far as the state's numbers will vary a little bit um because this is with retest in it. Um this is some kids that if they weren't here in the fall, but they're here in the spring, the state doesn't count them, but they're counted in this. And this is kids that have passed. That's approach meets
013and masters. So if you look mouse so this is 2015 >> 25 >> what >> 2025 >> so >> English one >> um so in those four years they've gone up to 96% is the amount of kids she has that pass >> okay um English 85% algebra 85%. Um, and then biology 100% and US history 100%. So biology, Miss Allison, Miss Allison was here for part of it and then Miss Anderson kind of helped finish that. Um, US history, that is Coach Thompson. So that's a first year teacher. He worked his butt off. Like you went in there, he was drilling them every day. Um, and he figured it out and did a great job. And plus on top of that, like half of his kids mastered it, >> which that's awesome. >> It's one
014thing to pass that star, but then to master it is a a whole another deal. >> And he was doing homework the whole time for his >> Yeah, he's working on his degree and his certification. So, he's done very good. >> Um, math, Coach Brown had 93%. So, if you go back, >> this this was the year Miss Stewart was in uh 8th grade. >> She came back. >> When she came back. >> Yeah. >> And then this was the year before we all got here at 23%. >> So, we've gone from 23% to 93%. um reading is early 83% science um 72% and if you look at that from 43 and it's just gone up every year and then social studies 62%. But coach winners went from 33% to 62%. >> And the good
015thing about that eighth grade class is it's so big. They're actually worth more than one of those small classes when they all pass. Just the way the formula all feeds in, it's just more value there. So that's been um it's been a good to see that for eighth grade, seventh grade and sixth grade. So seventh grade math was 93%, reading was 79%. I did orange because that's just as far as numbers, same amount of kids passed. Um math 73% and reading 60%. Now the next numbers I want to show you. What Bridget? I thought you had a question. >> No, I'm trained. >> Okay. >> So, third, fourth, and fifth were not as good as what we thought they were going to be, but we have talked with those teachers and we've got a different
016plan for this year moving forward. Um, I don't want y'all to be shocked by them. >> So, fifth grade math went down a little bit, fourth grade math went down, and third grade math went down. And the thing about that is every time we went into Miss Steven's class, she was teaching. It wasn't like they were in there doing coloring. She they were teaching. Um so we're kind of revamping what we're doing in there and she's revamping it. She's seen that. Okay, what I did didn't work. We're going to change it and do something else. Um third grade went down a little bit. Fourth grade held on reading and then fifth grade reading went down a little bit. And we've got Miss Guzman in there and I think she's going to do fabulous. She has
017several years of experience in it. So I think she'll do good. Uh and then science was about the same. And even Tiffany, she's looked at it and she goes, "We're going to she's changing what she's doing." So that was kind of her first year in that role. So we got some changes to do. We got some work to do. Um good thing is our top half secondary looks good. So, we got some work to do and but teachers see that they've got to make some changes and we're working on that. Any questions on that? If you look at this side, it's this is comparing student to student. So, like this is students that took English one Last year they took eighth grade, seventh grade, sixth grade. So that's comparing that kid to what they're doing
018on the STAR test. >> Wow. >> So that's sometimes a little easier to look at because you're looking at kids to kids. NT is not tested. So some of those they never take a test um until they get up. But it's it the numbers. You can get bogged down in the numbers real quick. But main thing is we're improving and if we're not, we're changing and we're doing something different. So any questions on that? Okay. Um, I believe that is all I have for the principal report. School starts Wednesday and our accountability for the next two years or the last two years will come out Friday. >> Thank you. >> We should know Wednesday, but it'll it'll get it'll become public on Friday. All right, athletic report. >> Things are going well. Obviously, 30 cheerleaders.
019Uh, they're getting after proud of those guys. Um, cross country will start this week as far as kids coming in and running. That's hit or miss on how many total. Um, and then, uh, football's going good. First scrimmage is this weekend here, Friday at 6. And then next week's at Blackwell. Um, and they get going. We got 26 kids out playing. Bunch of bunch of kids that aren't playing being part of it, helping out. So that's what we want when our kids are involved. >> Operations report. So we're just finally getting some some breathing area. time, but we've just finished up all of pretty much the bigger stuff that we had planned for the summertime. Um, with putting out some other fires has kind of come up while we while we've done that. But, um,
020we just completed the restrooms um out at the at the concession stand out at the at the football field. So, um, we'll have a hopefully the public will have a little bit cleaner facilities to use and Looks really good. >> Hopefully they'll take care of it. But that'll help with the security and things now that we're able to kind of secure those when we're not when we're not using that. So, um, but yeah, so hopefully we'll kind of get rolling Wednesday and just start rolling with the day-to-day operations side of things. All right. Review board policy. CDA local investments. Not reading all of those pages. policy. Similar report, the administrative consideration kind of kind of sums it up right there as far as what where where our money stays and where it goes and and
021how it's how it's managed. No actions needed. Just just reviewing any any thoughts or questions. Anybody have any questions for Mr. E investments? We'll move along to reviewing the certified appraisal roles for the 2025 tax year. >> Just one note, you'll notice in here there's two sets of values for each county. Um the state made the appraisal districts do this again because they weren't done making laws. And so we have the first one for county. The second one is what I used to build the budget on. That is with the new loss >> with $140,000. >> And then in the Fisher County, >> all they do is provide us this one little sheet. They give us a letter on the front. So it is the second sheet there. You can see the differences between the
022two on what those extra exemptions values. >> They did go down this year. >> 20%. >> Yeah. Any questions on the certified appraisal roles? We'll move to the budget workshop. This kind of preliminary numbers. >> I gave them a template in here, but the one that's printed is the one with the We changed that late on Friday and I just forgot to change it on by the to use the limit separate. So proposed tax rates on there. Let me talk about the INS while we're at it. Um, you know, the board kept the highness tax rate higher the previous year to defease the the bond essentially pay it off early and even though it's got two years left of payments um we've essentially got enough already collected to not have to set an IS tax
023rate even with a little bit of a little bit of cushion potentially should you know should the bond payment fluctuate. Um so that ins tax rate for the bond it could be zero the next two years. So when when she changed when she added that to the template the template to show our revenues uh it changed a little bit. U so this template basically um you plug in all our student numbers and and all our u all our property data and it you know tells you how much money you're you're eligible for from from the state because we're a recapture district. Most of our money just comes from local property values. Uh if you look at line 57 I know it's really small down there but a lot of a lot of districts get 100%
024of their budget from the state. We talk about millions and we get 159,000. So the rest the rest comes from property value and this and this template changes almost every week. >> We've already got seven versions started making them for this year. >> So they they change the the calculations but mo a lot mostly what changes is our student data. I mean, if you run if you run this every month, it's going to change because of your attendance rates, how many students you have. So, right now, this is projecting like if you look at line one, it's using 228 students as our ADA, which is our enrollment and our attendance. Um, so if our enrollment increases and our attendance increases, that number increases. So if you kept it like 250 kids most of the time
025like we use 250 22 then you pretty well 275 and then 240 or whatever you know you're changing it. >> Yeah. Less kids is less money. >> Yeah. Well that's what I mean. But we always like 250 252. >> This isn't enrollment though. This is actually kids coming to class and so that >> we need it to be higher and if we have like a bunch of illness or something it can drop that. >> Yeah. So if you get say you have a 100% attendance rate then that number is how many kids you have. So when kids don't show up to school we don't get any money but our our attendance has been improving. So if you look at line 66 3,529,979 that is basically how much money um the state lets us have you
026know so we're we're limited to that amount of money and that is with the you know projected $200,000 recapture payment. Right now we're projecting 1.4 million this year for recapture. So this number we we like this number right now but a lot of what what caused this number is a decrease in property values. So essentially anything we spend over that anything we spend more than what's allotted to us um you know it comes out comes out of pocket essentially. So this sheet, this sheet that Marcy made kind of is a yearby-year comparison. Just breaks it down into simpler terms. Um on the other financing sources, a lot of times the those smaller like 75, 80, 55, a good chunk of that is what we transfer to the child nutrition fund to make it solvent. Now
027in 2122 there was a um a loan and that is why that is so high. So the that bottom line is actually, you know, your your deficit every year in parenthesis. That's how much we're we're taking out of fund balance to cover. And it's if if everything stays the same, you know, we're going to have to really really tighten the belt on spending. And it and it can come with some pretty uh significant changes. Um even this year uh looking at next year um you know if if you take the 1.8 million right now fund balance uh you know we're fixing to spend I mean not 1.4 million is not going to come from that but that fund balance is going to decrease by about 762,000. So we're what what do you say Mark say
028about a million in fund balance after this year. So, just going to be some just going to be some decisions to be made. You know, there's going to be a lot of stuff that we're not going to be able to to buy just because of the recap. Recapture doesn't help. But >> yeah, this year it's steep. It's the most we've ever paid in recapture. Was it this year that they changed it from three months to six months operating? >> It was last year. >> So you per state law you have to keep six months of operating expend expenses in your um fund balance so you have enough and like we just we're going to end up barely having enough. Um so just going to be some hard hard things to consider over the next over
029the next year. >> So 2023 2024 >> those are deficits. So that's how much that bottom line is how much you're taking out of fund balance and that 2324 we spend a lot on roof maintenance barn buses um so that's 700 I think we we spend about 1 2 million that >> so that that 762,000 is is a deficit after you pay the 1.2 million. You know that's the air conditioning. Any questions on that? >> Did you show them what so far? >> Yeah. >> So, next turn over turn over the second page. It's got the red writing on it. >> Oh, I didn't give them the red. I thought that after >> I got the Sorry. Sorry, I know you're >> um so up there up there top is our um budget by function.
030Um just shows how much is appropriated per So, we're projecting a, you know, 4.8 >> 4.8 million budget at the bottom. What I have that nobody else has is a that's built in. Um, but it's just recurring expenses. our lighting um when when the lighting was redone is 18 almost $19,000 a year. Um and Marc said our our last payment will be this year >> in September. >> Our football field turfs $80,000 a year. Route bus is $33,000. Activity bus $37,000. Our maintenance note is 113,000. Um foundation's covering that but it has to be uh reported. Um then our phone system is 10,000. Um so everything but the maintenance note that's covered by the foundation. I mean it's $150,000 just just recurring recurring expenses. bus >> uh 37,000 >> but on that one what I
031think it's active bus at the end of that lease that's a different payment this is just the payment we're making this year >> that that's a lease return >> lease return >> so that one will go back in two years >> and then the other one will be a purchase a lease purchase four year lease purchase How long did they kind of estimate that turf would be last? >> You know, it's it's got about 10 year life cycle. I mean, >> yeah. So I mean football field what last 10 years >> typically and it's what three years old now is it three years old now? >> Yes. >> I think this is the fourth season 22 don't >> supposed to do it every season. >> Yeah. >> Ours is good enough you could probably get
032away with it but I mean still to test it probably you really start watching that about year seven. That's what they said. >> So I mean football field, turf, million bucks. Baseball, softball, >> 2 million bucks. >> Playground probably 500,000. So I mean just just in turf every 10 years, two $4 million just in turf every 10 years. So, if you're not putting back $400,000 a year for 10 years, >> which we can't, we're not putting back $400,000 because we got a deficit. >> Yeah. >> What's that? >> The state won't let us put that back in. Pebbles. I play dirt. >> Anybody questions? Any Other than it just looks really grim.