001the Murray City School District board meeting for June. And we'd like to excuse our president, Kelly Kelly Tuli, because uh she's obser graduate from college. Lucky kid. And so we're going to begin tonight with a budget hearing. We're going to turn some time over to Richard for that. Oh, the pledge. Hello. Let's do the pledge. Everybody stand for the pledge. do the budget. I mean, I already did it. You want to do the budget hearing first? Okay. I was going by my notes, but we'll see. We'll do the budget hearing. Scott, thanks for standing. We're going to do the budget hearing and then we'll do the Okay, that's why it's in that list. Okay. That's what we'll do. Rise, please. Before the budget hearing. Okay. We did the budget hearing first. Sorry. All right. We'll
002go fast. Okay. I'm not going to drag this out. Okay. As required in state code, we have to have a budget hearing each year. Um the legal requirements are as follows. Um and we've gone through this before, but this the budget officer is actually the superintendent of the school district. And the budget officer shall prepare a tenative budget before June one of each year. Tenative budget shall be filed with the district business administrator. 15 days prior by June 30th we shall adopt a budget and then uh to hold a public hearing and at least 10 days prior there should be a public notice of hearing in a newspaper public hearing electronically file a copy um for public inspection and on the website and we have done all of those things. So we have met all
003the legal requirements. Um just some assumptions working with the budget. The taxable rate value as determined by the state tax commission this year is 7.21 billion within the school district. That's an increase. Oh, that's the wrong number. Um it's actually $70 million increase. Um the health insurance premium increase is 13.6. 63%. We are proposing no tax increase and all increased costs are paid with ongoing funds. Um so this is the wrong slide actually. It's um our the new No, this is not it. This is it. I I'm sorry. It is not new growth. This is our increase. 7.2 million, $420 million increase. Um, not all of that is new growth, but it's increase in growth on existing property as well. So, 6.2%, excuse me. Um, we the calculation the state or the the Salt Lake
004County auditor prepares the information. The total assessed value is 7.375. There's a Salt Lake County Board of Equalization that does some adjustments to individual properties, a minor amount, then adjusted by the average collection rate of almost 98% which is pretty high to get to our proposed tax rate value. Um, in our school district, uh, as far as assessed value per student, uh, we have the 11th highest value per student in the state of Utah. The highest being Park City, um, at 8.7 million per student. We're at 1.2 million per student and the lowest is San Juan of $329,000 per student. Our tax rate, the state average is 005641. We are uh these are all last year's numbers because they haven't all been set yet. We're at 004541. So we are the 10th lowest in the
005state. So there is uh uh an typically an inverse uh correlation or relationship. The higher the tax base, the lower the tax rate. So within the tax uh within this the county, excuse me, our tax rate comparisons. So Salt Lake is the lowest at 003775. We are the next lowest followed by Jordan Granite or canyons and then granite. And just for easy math, it's impact on $100,000 home. As you can see at the very bottom line, the average value in Murray is 574,100. That's a 6.6 3% increase over the prior year. Um given the fact that our board is very fiscally conservative and and attempts not to uh raise taxes, uh the this is the total tax increases that we've had over the last 12 years. Um two of which were voted on by the
006the public with the building of Hillrest Junior High and some projects as well as the recent bond election for the Murray High School edition and the Rude Review Junior High Rebuild. So the we have quite a bit of growth in the taxable value that not all of that means new revenue because of a thing called the certified rate which is built into state code. So the uh our the school district unless we do a tax increase cannot generate additional revenue over and above the prior year um over and above the prior year. For example, a business with $100,000 in taxable value, there's a tax rate of 10% generate $10,000 in taxes. If that doubled the taxable value to $200,000 the following year, uh they would that that existing business would still generate the same amount
007of property at $10,000. So the tax rate would reduce to 5%. So we don't get So when your house is valued uh at 500,000, it goes up to 600,000. that does not mean new money to the school district unless we capture that with a tax increase. So for next year's budget in the general fund um some of the highlights we uh because of some declining student enrollment we reduce four teaching staff reduction of 119 WPU as calculated by the state board of education. Um, we had a net increase in unrestricted funding of 16 $618,000. Um, we got listed as negotiations. It technically wasn't at that this year, but the the benefits for benefit packages for all employees is a 2% cola for teachers. legislative leg legislatively they received a 1446 educator salary adjustment. um ESPs
008that uh interact with students receive a $1,000 bonus. And based upon the board discussion, those ESPs and school and district administrators that don't qualify for the state funding will also receive a $1,000 bonus uh out of local funding. Our health insurance premium increase was significant at 13.63% 63% and steps and lanes are funded. Um, this shows some actual history from 22, three and four with our revised budget for the current year and a proposed budget for next year. Um, I don't know how much detail we need to go into this. However, um we can see where we have budgeted a a negative uh or a decrease in fun in uh uh well, we have an operating decrease of $514,000 and next year $145,000. That's mainly for actually budgeting purposes. We would anticipate that there would
009be an operating surplus. Uh well uh well similar to prior years let's put it that way. Um the general fund uh expenditures as you can see the two largest uh uses of our funds are salaries and benefits at 88 cents out of every dollar is spent on salaries and benefits. So we spend them on people. So to to move the needle on uh budget increases or to to cut costs, that means we're affecting people. Um by function, instruction is at 64%. Um and honestly, I'm not sure where that rates uh with other districts. Um but the more that can be uh focused on instruction obviously the the better. Um student activities funds this simply is uh just captures all the activity the financial activity at our at our schools and we just have amounts budgeted
010uh for a revised budget and our proposed budget of 2.4 4 million um simply because if if we don't budget enough and you approve a budget that is lower than actual then then we we get a notice from the state and have to do some things. So simply we just budget a little higher u than we would anticipate it being non K12. This is our this includes uh kindergarten. It includes community ed. Um not kindergarten. Are you saying preschool? I'm not I said kindergarten. I I was thinking preschool. Thank you. Preschool. Um and which which also includes uh special ed preschool. Um the as you can see the expenditures are higher than revenues uh mostly due to the fact that of the requirements that we have in our special ed programs. Um they require more
011resources than we receive. So we absolutely we we subsidize that um to the tune estimated about 300,000 this year and 350,000 next year roughly. So, our capital outlay budget or fund, the two major uh projects, Murray High School addition and the Riverview High rebuild. Those numbers are are budgeted original budget numbers are not the actuals. Um, as we've shared with the with the uh guaranteed maximum price on both projects that have been the board approved, it's uh about roughly $15 million less than that in total. Um, we approve small capital projects every year through a process that uh, Scott Tagert and superintendent and Rod Pace and I work with the school principles and and get those uh, approved. So, there's some small capital projects that total 1.2 million this year, uh, which is a normal
012uh, which isn't in our normal range. Uh again looking at the a little more detail um as you can see in the revised budget the second from the right column the contracted services uh about $13 million. Um the other local revenue is the bond issue that just occurred uh last Tuesday. Well, we got the bids last Tuesday. they will be funded at the end of the month. And then next year we'll have another uh bond uh issue in June as well. And that's the other 50 million that you see there. Another local revenue and and so of course with the attendant increase in expenditures for the buildings pass through tax fund. um for all the uh most people know them as redevelopment agencies. So this is just simply something required uh to be reported. It
013does it's it's not a thing that comes in to us and goes out. We just have to record the make a in our financial report record what the value of the tax increment is and then the tax increment payment to the redevelopment agency. And again, the budgets are higher just in case um just for to be conservative. It's a it's a neutral. It doesn't impact us financially one way or the other. The revenues always match expenditures. So that's always a net zero net change. Debt service again um property taxes of 4 million and and and 5 million. Of course, the five million is increased because of now the need to service the debt that we just issued or will be issuing. Um redemption of principal has not gone up a lot from current year to
014next year just simply because uh of how the debt service was scheduled. We're able to layer in it started to decline. So we layered in new debt service payments on top of it. So we tried to keep smooth that out as much as possible. However, the interest uh interest costs as you can see we're going from 800,000 to 2.3 million next year. School lunch. Um the current budget is slightly higher than or for the revised budget for the current year slightly higher than last year in revenues and expenditures. As you can see, there's a there's a negative uh change in fund balance. There was a concerted effort to reduce the fund balance and food service because the it was higher than allowed by state code. can only have three months worth of reserve. Um, and
015so working with Gwen, buying some equipment and some other things in schools to to to get that uh to get that fund balance down to where legally we're supposed to be. And then again, budgeting a decrease again next year. We would not anticipate that there would be that much of a negative uh operating or an operating deficit but for budgeting purposes uh just keeping the those expenses uh level lifetime insurance not this is a fund that accounts for those retirees that qualify for lifetime insurance benefits. The activity Um, again, we're we're budgeting higher expenses than we'll likely actually see, and over time, those have gone down as uh, shall we say, our beneficiaries age out. Um, and so that completes that part of my presentation. is are there any questions uh prior to opening it
016up for public comment? Nope. Okay. Do we have any public comments, Mr. Perry? Okay. So then before you there is a sheet that has a highlighted section. We will need a motion to approve the resolution in highlighted in yellow. Somebody would need to read that as part of the motion that we would need a second. And then to approve the certified rate, which we still don't know yet because we haven't got it from the county or the state. Um but uh the language is sufficient to to uh fund the budget. Does this quote satisfy all three of these? Yes. Yep. Any other questions before we put it for a motion? Do we have a motion to approve the resolution? And if you make that motion, would you read the resolution? I move that we approve
017the resolution approving the bud revised budget for the fiscal year 20 24 through 2025 as it has been presented to the board of education during this meeting on June 12th, 2025. Also approving the budget for the fiscal year 2025 through 2026 as it has been presented to the board on this date. Also approving the certified tax rate necessary to fund the fiscal year 2025 through 2026 budget. The certified tax rate will be set by the Salt Lake County auditor. Do we have a second? A second. And um any discussion? Sorry. Nope. I thought we had already asked for that. So any discussion and then um let's vote for that. Well, all in favor say I. I. I. To me I Okay. Thank you. Appreciate your patience with me today. Um as we work through this
018um that will then close the budget the budget meeting portion of this gathering and we'll begin our uh board our June board meeting. We're going to and we want to welcome any guests who are here with us. Uh we appreciate your interest in Murray City Schools and the people that work here and we are grateful that you would take time out of your day to be here with us as well. So we're going to begin by asking Superintendent Cington to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. And now I'll ask you to stand and mean it. Yes. If the audience would please rise. Please repeat after me. 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
019justice for all. Thank you. Superintendent Cington, would you like to tell us your favorite class when you were a student? It's been a long time, has it? Okay, we're going to let Superintendent Cington now do one of the uh exciting parts for us as a board. Uh an administrative um appointment. Great. Thank you, Vice President Wait. I would like to ask Tyler Horn if he would please join me up here. So, board members, it's my pleasure to introduce you to Mr. Tyler Horn. Um Mr. Horn has been selected as the principal of Long View Elementary beginning July 1st and he will be following um Dr. Gillette who has left our district. Mr. Horn brings over a decade of experience in education along with a strong commitment to fostering a positive collaborative school culture that celebrates
020the unique strengths and talents of every student. Mr. Horn began his career at Horizon Elementary as a classroom teacher and then he's expanded his leadership experience um through opportunities in administration in the Tilla and Salt Lake City School Districts. Um we are excited. It's kind of nice. Mr. Horn is actually a beneficiary of the Murray City Schools. He went through the Murray City School District elementary and his secondary years. So, we're very excited to have one of Murray's own join our Murray administrative family. And so, uh, Vice President Wait, I would ask for a motion of support from the board for Tyler Horn as the principal of Long View Elementary. Do we have a motion for support? I move that we uh support the appointment of Tyler Horn as the Long View Elementary School principal.
021Do we have a second? I'll second. Any discussion? Okay. Um, all in favor? I I Thank you very much. Fantastic. Now, I did let Tyler know he would have a few minutes if he like I said about 10, but no, just kidding. I said a couple or less. So, I'm going to let uh Mr. Horn speak to the board and then we'll kind of we'll clap for you after that because it's great. So, come on over to There you go. All right. Well, yeah, I really appreciate this opportunity and I'm super excited to be back in the district. This makes I was thinking about it actually just on my way over. This makes five of 10 schools in Murray that I've associated with in some form. So maybe in the next 20 years I complete
022the district. Who knows? But but yeah, really I'm super excited to be at Long View and uh I mean I just want you guys to know that my commitment is always going to be there. This is where I want to be. I want to be in Murray. I want I have a vested interest in this community growing and uh I mean I'm part of the Long View community. I'm right there. So, uh um yeah, it's in my best interest for this school to thrive as well. Um, I think another thing I'd like to express to the board is just I mean obviously we're going to get in there and get the structures in place needed for to promote growth and you know performance as well. But the main thing I want to accomplish in my
023in my first year especially is and to sincerely make Long View a place that, you know, students, teachers, and parents feel comfortable being in that they can enter the building and they know that we're legitimately happy and excited for them to be there. There's going to be hard days. There's going to be easier days. But I hope that in this first year I can establish with the community. Uh the fact that they know that I'm going to want what's best for them. Even if they don't like something I'm deciding or doing, I'm going to collaborate. And you know, I'm working I want to establish that benefit of the doubt that I'm working in the best interest of them and their children. So again, I'm super excited. This is where I want to be. I feel
024like I have a lot of great experience uh to help me along my way, but I'm also excited to kind of get my start as a head administrator of a building here in Murray and work with all of you guys and uh everyone here at the district office and in the building at Long View to make it the best place possible and just improve the district. So, yeah, I really appreciate your time and uh and appreciate you guys having me here. Congratulations, Tyler. Congratulations. Thank you, Tyler. We're looking forward to all the great things you'll do there, and we're anxious to help you in any way that we that would be appropriate for us to help you. So, that's exciting to have a new some new opportunities here. All right. The next thing we'd like
025to do is consider our consent agenda. Um, all of the board members have reviewed the consent agenda and so do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda? I move that we approve the consent agenda. Thank you. Do we have a second? I second. Thanks. Any discussion on any item? Okay. Um, all in favor? I Okay. Thank you. Now, we would like to hear from our delegations. I think we only have MEF. So, okay. We're always glad to hear from Mr. Perry. Always glad. I shouldn't say we only have I should say we get to have Mr. Perry. So, the only thing I have is that our annual golf tournament is coming up. So, I thought I would impart with you some information about that. August 22 will be our 27th annual golf tournament
026for the foundation and we are very excited about this year. We have already quite a number of people signed up as sponsors. Um, it looks to be a very successful year and we're actually working uh a little bit more closely or we're trying to work a little bit more closely with the city to try to build a strong relationship there so that we can continue to get their support uh for the golf tournament and other things as well. So, there is some some efforts to to work with them a little bit more closely as well. So, that's all I have. Any questions? We just want you to know u those of us who read the Murray magazine and saw the article that you had put together about the golf tournament. What a great what a
027great bit of work and they that comes courtesy of our partnership with VCBO. There's a architecture firm um that they are locally in Murray and they purchased ad space throughout the year in that magazine and they basically have give given that to the foundation to publicize some of the things we do along with theirs. So it was very awesome of them to do that and we certainly appreciate that extra we we know all that MEF does to benefit the district and the and the people and children that work are here. So thank you. Thank you. Yep. Great. Any other delegations? So, no, we do not. We'll do a report of the board. And I've wanted to say this for a while. Jarren, we'll start with you. Way back. Way back. Exactly. I'd like to say
028first of all, thanks to Elizabeth for being our delegate at the delegate meeting this last uh last week actually. And um I was able to attend a portion of it on Saturday morning. Um, they had a lot of debate on very specific wording in different scenarios that can sometimes take a very long time to get through, but I think they got through them. Um, other than that, the Salt Lake County Advisory meeting was canceled this last month, so we haven't had anything to update on that at this point. Thanks, Elizabeth. Uh, okay. So, I had the pleasure of attending two musical productions over the last month. one for Hillrest Junior High, which I excused myself early last time to go to. Um, and they had a really great um, uh, setup where they, the kids
029also played with the Murray Orchestra, and I thought that was amazing. And they got, I really liked that they had that interaction with a more professional setting that they can look forward to and as they go out through their career. So, I wanted to give a thank you to the Murray Orchestra for doing that with the concert with Hillrest. And then also Liberty Elementary had their choir, their final choir concert. Um, and I also want to give a shout out to uh the choir teacher. Forgot his name off the top of my head, but uh my son goes to the choir at Liberty and he absolutely loves that program and I know all the kids do too. And it was really really great experience to see um their end of year choir. It was very
030well attended. Uh and then the USBA assembly I was a delegate for. Um and in addition to all the word smithing, we actually got out an hour early. And I know Jiren left a little bit early because it was a lot of back and forth about how we're going to word things, but uh we add it we made sure that our list of priorities for this year for USBA included extra funding for atrisisk students and I really think that was a good place to put some of our focus for this year. Thanks Cammy. I don't have a whole lot to report. Um just another great year, graduation. Um another good graduation, looking forward to different venue come moving forward. And um I bring this up every year because it's a big concern of mine of
031the last few weeks of school. We just I just saw kids everywhere coming and going and I wish we could find a way to want them make them want to be in school, our secondary ones, so that that we don't have any unintended accidents. So that would be a challenge to to our administrators because I mean I my daughter was checking in, checking out, checking in, checking out and so I'm assuming other kids were as well and it's just coming and going and and our secondary our ele or our junior highs, they don't drive. So those kids are just running around everywhere. So that's a big challenge that I wish we could solve. So that's it is a big challenge. We got to keep thinking about that. Thank you. Um I also enjoyed graduation and
032I enjoyed the field days and the the elementary barbecues I went to and the end of the end of the year performances. Just good good stuff in all throughout the district. Um so want to just thank everybody who was involved in any of that. Um, and now we have um our I just want to make sure I don't miss anything. Um, we're going to do our report of the staff. So, we're going to hear first of all from Sierra Marsh. Hello. It's good to see all of you this evening. I am here to chat with you and see if there are any additional questions or conversation we'd like to have regarding the proposed elementary wellness curriculum wayfinder as we head into the 2025 2026 school year. Any questions, thoughts, input, feedback? No, I looked through
033it. I thought thought it looked great. Yeah, I thought it was what I saw. I I really appreciate it and took a lot of appreciate that you found that program for us to use. Wonderful. So I Yes. So we would So this is a second reading. So we do need a motion um to approve this the elementary wellness curriculum. Okay. So do we have a motion to approve this curriculum? I will move that we approve the elementary wellness curriculum. Thank you. Uh would we have a second? I second. Okay. Any discussion? Any further discussion? Okay. Um, all in favor? I. Okay. And that will stand approved. Ready to We'll get it ready to use. Fantastic. I look forward to You'll get it ready to use. I sure will. And I look forward to reporting out
034on how it's going. Thank you. Thank you, Sarah. All right. And now, Mr. Tagert, and the thrill of food service. Yes. The thrill of food service. Anyway, um with the Sedexo Food Service Management Contract, it's um it's fiveyear five-year contract renewable each year. Uh we would be going into year three of five starting July 1st. Um what uh we're requesting from the board is to to approve an amended contract of an increase of 9 cents per meal to the the current contract. The current rate right now is $2 and like it's like $25. It's it's they add that add that extra decimal out there, but it's $25. Uh the the request is to add 9 cents to that. So it would be $2.14. So um my request to the board is uh to approve that
035amendment so we can approve the contract and move forward for the new school year. Do we have a motion to approve? Are there any questions about what Mr. Tagert's proposing? I move that we approve the Sedexo Food Service Management Contract amendment for this year. Do we have a second? I'll second. Thank you. Um any any further any any questions on the food services at all? And with no questions, we'll go ahead and uh all in favor I I thank you. Thank you. Okay. You bet. Mr. Tiger, as you're walking back to your seat, I just want to tell you that um the PTA appreciated all that they were presented with when we had the food service people come. That was so please pass that on to your staff. That was very helpful to them. Okay.
036And now we'll give some time to superintendent. Great. Thank you, Vice President Wait. So the first item I have is we have approved our calendar for the next school year for our board meetings. Our board meetings are typically set for the second and fourth Thursday of each month with the second being the regular board meeting, the fourth being our study session. Since we approved that calendar, um there was a slight change to the NSBA conference dates. We hadn't had those yet and that was published and the NS the 2026 NSBA conference will be on April uh 10th through the the 12th. So our travel day will needs to be April 9th because we will be going that conference is in San Antonio. So we had originally scheduled a board meeting on April 9th. So we
037do need to look at moving that meeting. I would propose that we move that to April 2nd. Um, but oh, or and apparently I just stopped thinking at that point because I just put the word or or whatever you want. Uh, but but I did want to make sure we got that so that we could adjust that. So, um, my proposal would be we'd move it to April 2nd, which is a week earlier. That is not during spring break. It's the week after we come back from spring break. Um, but or or we could move it to the 16th. Um, but then that would bump right up for the next week with our study session. So, whichever you would prefer, I'm I'm good either way. Either April 2nd or April 16th for our regular study
038session or our regular meeting in lie of the April 9th. And our spring break is the March 2nd through the 28th. Correct. Yes. March March 20 Yes. March 23rd through 27th are the school days of spring break. So, yes. Then I go April 2nd. Yeah, I think April. So, I would like then um vice president wait to ask for a motion because we need to vote on this because we vote on it to approve changing our April 9th board meeting to April 2nd, 2026. Okay. So, do we have a motion to move that date? I move that we approve the or move the April board meeting to April 2nd um 2026. Okay. Uh may we have a second? A second. Sorry. Thanks. Okay. Uh any more any further discussion? Okay. Um all in favor? I
039I Okay, great. We I will get that updated on our website and I will also update your calendars. So, thank you. And then, Vice President, wait, I would request that uh you pull the board to go into a close session where we do need to discuss personnel and legal. Okay. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. With that, we will move into a close session. We'll excuse all of you um and we will do that. We'll meet for