001Did somebody record who went into open session? >> Yes, it was Derek and Jordan. Patrick didn't give me [laughter] anything. >> Okay. And we're live, so we're good. Thank you. >> Good. >> Yep. >> Okay. All right. Um so we don't have anything to discuss in uh item A was the action of the executive session that was discussion. Next up is our board financial audit and Ivol in that and I had asked um Deon a couple things. Um I asked what the folate folate invoice was and that's in association to our school library account and um yeah Deb is just like really on the ball thing. She's like oh talk to Angela and we'll do this and we'll do that. Um that was kind of nice. The other thing that caught my eye was um
002that we had uh like 10 cent things and $1.90 and there's a whole bunch of them and I'm like why are these so many of these consecutive type things and that was actually in reference to our top partnership where we have two employees go contribute to that and um considering give it to some farm and then write give a small deposit or check or whatever to these people or however it goes. So that has to do with our um copper partnership program. And then I asked about um the reliant standard life and it's an insurance car uh carry for our life insurance and the numbers were just a little bit different and the ones um that came from 110 and then 127 and so there's all these come from different areas. So that was something
003I I had never seen anything in reference to the copper partnership on our letter before. So that really come up. >> So just a quick comment on that. Our [clears throat] top partnership is this tree that's on the outside here. Um it's on my to-do list, but it's always been pushed down because there's obviously other more pressing items. But we do uh have two individuals and it's actually going to be down to one. Um that still gives money to that. Um there's roughly 190,000 in that fund. Um and that can be found from our uh annual meeting and my job that the board has given is just to determine um it as a grant program back to our staff. And so it's in the works per se, but it's again pushed down on my priority
004list um until I can get some of these other things completed. >> Yeah, I think the only pulled up quick was the do all the floors and some of the uniforms and I guess towels and stuff and the bus. So there's some of interesting differences there where I guess the ones tiny [cough and clears throat] right interesting to see. Um, one thing with some of that [clears throat] and things that we did to see just follow up on kind of maybe are we getting our money's worth out of it, you know, is there do we ever competitively quote some of those recurring cost items or have any notice of complaint? How do we confirm that everything's kind of been done correctly that you know our we don't have any issues with that service. Um it
005might be something kind of point forward be good to maybe challenge on some of those recurring costs. >> The nice thing about the the way that the that accounts payable is is that there's >> the information is more defined. It never was like that. So it was it's nice to know, oh okay, now I get it. Now I know where that went. Now I get it. Um so with that with that spec specificity, it's really really nice. I will say uh to Jordan's point, well number one, it's the supervisor's job to make sure that you know those supplies are what they need to be um and it's handled. [clears throat] But one of the things that uh we are working on is this document. [clears throat] Um it was very frustrating to know uh we
006were actually paying for services that we um no longer needed. And so we compiled this document and Christa's um has done a nice job putting this all together from just one spot that shows all of our contracts dates and so on. We had contracts that weren't even addressed like updated contracts since 2015. The contract was supposed to expire in 2015 and there was no more negotiation. There was no more. we just did it because we did it the previous year. Um, from curriculum, um, this is one thing that Sue, um, Dr. Curtis is working on. Um, unfortunately, we don't even have a, um, I guess an overall folder that contains what is this class doing for curriculum, this class, this class. I can say that when I got here um after um I left New
007Richmond, I had to basically restart all business curriculum because it didn't exist. And so we're putting all of that together. If you look at ourus, if you look at our inspections and permits and so on. So this document is basically what you're talking [clears throat] about other than the part where well if the towels aren't soft enough enough that's the supervisors to come and tell us hey this is not working and then we can address it if we needed to. So um just so the board's aware of some of those steps that we're taking. Well >> it's good to see that's one of my thoughts is if they're coming to replace bins or towels and nobody uses the towels and they replace them anyways they're going to charge us for it. So, how do we
008make sure we're staying on point? [snorts] >> Um, next is the review of policy thousands. >> Is there any questions on the thousands? >> I did have one around the ethics and conflict of interest. that calls out specifically under point A about basically I think the intent is to say hey if someone has an interest in another business or some competitive entity in the amount of $15,000 or more I don't know why it's 15,000 um but I'm assuming do we have uh some type of reoccurring clause that we have the employees review to make sure there's not a conflict of interest that I can see many happening but >> um a lot of that policy is centered on you guys because you're the decision makers and so um that's where you as a elected official
009are on you know you're basically required to make sure that if there is any interest you know it's like compensation you know if your spouse works here you should not be [snorts] um making or voting on that if you have business interests that or friends and that's there's uh in my history there's conversations I've had with board members that from an ethical standpoint because I you know they're my best friend or whatever something that the community could call you on the other parts um you know is there any um others in terms of staff? Yeah, they those could possibly happen. Um, now again, that's where you have to make sure for your bidding process and so forth. So again, I think it's certainly not all-encompassing. >> Um, but I think it's a it's a really
010good start, but most of that policy um centers around, you know, administrators like me making decisions because that's the that's what the thousands are and then the board itself. Those are kind of the bigger ones. And I can tell you I'm not willing to put my career on the line for [snorts] any type of, you know, friendship or business or any of those things. Um, and that's where I've instituted that competitive bidding process, especially with the bigger items. So [clears throat] any others? Well, then the other one, the second point there is the and it's really aroundism more or less. state because any employee that shouldn't directly supervis relative employee by the district and so sometimes that's hard in small communities right I mean you've got to employ a large portion and then relations are
011there but uh hopefully we can find ways to make that uh make that work I'm assuming we don't we've obviously found a way to be successful around that >> yeah and that's typically with the nepotism piece um you know especially with the evaluation so like I don't evaluate Holly right >> um there's no you know whether it was and I won't name previous administrators and so on they could directly evaluate but from other you know portions yeah especially in larger I mean we've had many married individuals so nepotism can come up in in different ways but typically that's the Most common discussion centers around evaluation questions. [clears throat] >> All right. Next is our open forum. Any community comments? All right. Next is the consent agenda. Are there is there anything on the consent agenda
012that anybody would like to have pulled prior to uh approving it or have further questions or discussions on quick? A couple that I just want to point out. Um just I'm going to take one opportunity. I'm going to go down the list here, but uh this boys basketball one, I want to reiterate why we got to this point. And um the biggest thing is um our C team if you look at the fundraiser that we ran um again trying to stay by the book but for me as superintendent also as the boys basketball coach. Unfortunately the previous coach had two opportunities to get a new jersey and never took of that. So the C team jerseys that we had were from the same time period as one of our assistant coaches, Nathan Hoffman. Um so
013we did a fundraiser which is outlined right here and if kids sold 15 cards, they would get a backpack. Um and kids did well. We actually just uh we got these jerseys and then so basically what you're approving tonight is the donation. We have some individuals that gave uh donations directly to the program to be able to purchase these which was around 3,100. Um and then we uh had the student or the players sell these cards to make up some of those other funds. So again, tonight's approval is just not only to recognize those individuals that gave monetary um amounts, but also the fact that these are 3,000 worth of jerseys that are now being donated to the school. And again, that happens with uh wrestling with uh the booster club and um as you
014know, the wrestling mats, there's other other groups that do that, too. last year the pink jerseys for football. The booster club bought them. So, um a lot of generous uh pieces and one thing I think Christa has done um nicely is she recognizes those individuals on social media too and and that's my goal here is if you look at even if they give $10, let's recognize uh because that might be a long or a big amount for them. Uh there's angel fund in here. um things like that. Um I also want to point this one out. Um I met uh directly with uh Skip who some of you know and the former board president and I think most of you know that uh B passed away unexpectedly. And so um if you saw within the
015funeral uh requests that all amounts uh should be passed on um in [clears throat] essence to the school. And so, um, Dr. Rasmmanson was headed down to his sister's home, um, and was passing through and he dropped off basically the 10,000 to start this scholarship. Um, Barb was our first district nurse and then it's a position that Jodie took over after. Um those of you that know Barb, she was a fantastic individual and again lifelong um individual that gave back to the school. Dr. Rasmmanson was board president um and so forth. So it's a a pleasure to be able to uh have this on there too um and giving back to our students from here on out um especially in the health profession. So please uh if you haven't read that letter, please do. Um,
016third Friday Roman count that we use for the budget is in there. Um, if you haven't seen that, um, I can say, uh, it's been great. I had another check-in meeting with, uh, Tim Corgan. Um, based on our new supervisor, buildings and grounds, we did find a mechanic. So, I can proudly say since July, basically, we are fully staffed. which is a really good feeling. Um I'm sick and tired of being these these positions, but we have some really good people. Um so looking forward to that. Um the rest is uh some other discussions that we've had. I did put in there what the costs were in terms of our mechanic and the bus fleet because that is part of the recommendation um for tonight. Um, in terms of the uh rooftop units, we continue
017to find various ones that are really um um and then um just >> some of those are we kind of keeping track as we kind of have our defined budget what our kind of ongoing budget period is. >> I have all those details that I'll be able to pull for our next meeting. Um, this one, if you're not uh familiar with a tiff district, and a tiff is including the the city, and I actually got the stomach flu. Um, so I asked Depp to go on my behalf. The meeting lasted about eight minutes, and the tiff district um has short up a little bit because the city did uh put quite a few of those parcels up for sale last year. And so, um, I don't know if you're going to see much revenue and
018taxes for those places. Depends on if they want to build. So, we've seen land for sale, but the tax implication really makes a turn when somebody chooses to build. And maybe they will, maybe they won't. I don't know. Um, and then, uh, this is the other one. And again, we'll talk about these especially when we get to curriculum, but um this is all the students that are applying for early college um credits this coming um spring. And so that has actually not taken place in the rich in Glenwood. Um I always did it um just because I want the board to understand how much are we paying for credits. I need you to see, you know, not necessarily who's applying, but look at some of those costs so that students leave here with the number
019of credits, uh, and so forth. So, again, just I wanted to outline a couple different things in terms of consent. >> Any questions anybody has for Patrick or clarifications? If there are none, I'll entertain a motion to approve consent agenda as presented. >> So moved. >> Motion is made by Chuck. Do I have a second? >> Second by Scott. >> Any further discussion? Hearing now. All those in favor say I. >> I. Say no. >> All right. Next up is our business action items. Uh first up is the lease purchase of the bus buses. So, I did send this out um must have been last week, I believe, or the week prior, but um I put I tried to put everything on the docket. Number one, uh we just have a fleet that is aging.
020Uh we haven't done I would say a quality job of looking at replacements in a timely manner. Um, I think the one thing to uh consider, you know, they're basically asking the board um in terms of do you want to lease or do you want to purchase? Um, so I'll I'll put it this way. Right now, we're looking at 190,000 deficit for this current budget, which is easily consumed by the uh fund balance that we have in fund 10. um to purchase a bus, you can see what the cost is, which is 125,000 to 140,000, etc. Um purchase or the leasing. Um I did hear back from some uh board members and I answered those questions. Uh we do have uh bus right now and I was in contact with them. Bus 12 um is
021worth roughly $1,000 right now. So, we're not going to get any the transmission shot and it's not worth putting back on the road. But you can see the ones that we sold and that kind of tells you that we haven't had a proper plan in place of our fleet. Um, my recommendation is to go leasing just because we need um a couple buses. Uh, my example also about Boyceville. I talked to Nick and Boyceville did lease. It went well for them. uh what he pointed out was he had three buses that went down at the same time basically and so he was like we don't have the cash to be able to buy buses. So again I'm never not saying that leasing is the way to go. Some districts do that because they con they
022want a constant warranty. um fiscally I just don't feel like um we have the capital right now um because we have a variety of issues with our facilities. So from a leasing standpoint for buses, it does make sense in my opinion. Um but everything else I put in this document. Uh, in terms of the budget that I'm going to ask you to approve tonight, I did put the leasing numbers in that budget, not a purchase. >> Yeah, I think when I if I calculated right, it was 13,286 bucks more to lease it and then buy it. >> Oh, after three years or five years >> after the uh for the two year or two at five years. Sorry. Five year. >> Yeah. You're not going to come out. I mean, leasing obviously you're you're renting
023and um based on mileage and this the system itself. But again, based on where we are financially, that's that's the part that I would have you consider >> spreading that 13,000 over five years. >> Yeah. Yeah. negligible cost. I think it makes sense as long as we're using the buy and not >> if there's exactly >> say what the price would be to buy it after. >> Yep. >> Yeah. >> It's down there. So, we would get to [clears throat] the payment of right here. If we bought it outright, it's >> and you know, you can make a decision based on it. And that the when the lease expires, we like this one. We don't like this one. We only we should buy one and let's lease another one, you know, or buy. Yeah, >>
024I know we've got a mixed fleet between gas and diesel and cav over and not and I think with maybe some of the challenges of bus driver retention and >> I did clarify that choice when you >> Yeah, I did clarify that with Christie. I put that in my nose too. But um towards the bottom here, one of the things in terms of the short nose versus the long nose, long nose is less expensive. The short nose or lack of is more expensive. Um Ryan from a mechanical standpoint said that the gas versus diesel is definitely how he would recommend we go. Um the one thing in terms of drivers, we have some individuals that have some height um issues or however you want to say it. So what they've actually done is they've added
025[clears throat] a camera um so you can see in front of the nose and then they've also um adjust have adjustable pedals. Um, [clears throat] I hate to say before I heard that somebody would put like a block of wood and just things. So, we we are in a situation where um kind of a succession to where our drivers some of the concerns they had were of a short nose versus a long nose. Um, we can make the the long nose work. Well, I asked that question at some point years ago and they said that the longer one, the long nose bus will not fit in the bus garage. >> the 76 passenger that's correct. >> Okay. >> The 71 and the one that's quoted does. >> Okay. Just wanted to that is Ryan confirmed
026that with me because I'm like why wouldn't we go 76 >> um you know five students it makes a big difference and he said we can't fit it. So the 71 now this the short nose I mean you could see the cost difference between the short and long nose. So um again I think we found the sweet spot in terms of driver retention what bus drivers are looking for what fits in our garage and what financially we can handle at this point. >> Any questions everybody okay? All right. So, if they move uh an approval for the uh buses, this is two buses, correct? >> Two buses. And if you can outline that you are in I didn't put a recommendation on there. Um but if you're in terms of the lease, correct? >> Okay.
027So, there'd be a motion for the approval of leasing two buses [laughter] for five years. >> For five years. Yep. I'll make a second. >> Second by Derek. Any further questions? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Say no. Next up is our student eligibility during the federal government shutdown. >> I just wanted to bring to the attention because I think it leads to um some other information about our community and I had uh crystal pulsome numbers. So, if you're not aware, um the SNAP program has been halted and we actually have 114 students that are affected by this. Now, it's not going to affect them here at school, but I think you take that number into account when knowing we have roughly 100 or excuse me, 680 students in our
028district where 114 students are um affected by this program. We often talk about socioeconomic status. We talk about free and reduced and so on. We'll talk about those numbers especially budget-wise but especially again just to understand what our community makeup is about. So nothing you have to do that was simply just information uh for your um knowing that sometimes I get comments well shutdown doesn't affect schools or the budget freezes and the federal government doesn't affect schools. Yes it does and it does in some big ways. the shutdown of the uh Department of Education and how that affects special education and grants and so on, all that is going to hit our district. So, I will always point those things out just because there is some false narratives out there in terms of how does
029it really affect a school district? I can't remember this. Does the food uh budget come out of fund 10? >> No. >> Fun 50 is all right. And I did my recommendation this year was to keep the the uh um prices the same. Um financially that was not I didn't want to because we're in the red. Um but for the sake of what's going on with inflation and so on, we kept it. Now again, understanding that there's definitely a lot there is more opportunity and room uh to make up some of those amounts because they're much smaller. Um but yeah, fund 50 is is the fun. >> And so then when if assuming this goes like past government shutdowns, when it comes back, do we get reimbursed for any amounts that we paid that would
030have been >> So that was where I was confused and Chris had clarified. This has nothing to do with um school reimbursement. This has everything to do with families outside of school. So um I was under the same impression. I'm thinking reimbursement here at school. >> No, if they're part of that program, they get some um alternate benefits for outside. >> Okay. Um, but I think it's the reason I put it on here is to note that 114 of our students are affected by these outside just again just an awareness of what our district makeup is. Any questions on that? >> Do we know when Wisconsin SNAP benefits end? I know like each state has govern. >> Oh, >> yes. >> Y it's it's I don't know the exact date, but it's it's very close.
031Okay. Um you want me to keep going? >> Yep. >> All right. So, um I'm going to go through this slideshow. Um hopefully you've been able. Um I sent it separately too but it's in uh board docs but I wanted to just go through and uh make some comments um of what you're seeing. So from a budget standpoint um probably the biggest thing is um again we're looking at the deficit. Uh this is from a state understanding and I'm just going to highlight some things that I've actually received questions on and again I could care less what political affiliation you have. Um my job is to make sure that we do everything we can with the funds that we have here at the school. But I can tell you it's very frustrating with this administration.
032Um, what I will tell you in terms of this and these numbers, I think the the one that I've received most comments about um or we talked about is the privatization of education. And so the questions that I've received are that 350, you know, does Clwood City have private school? No, we do not. Well, can students go to a private school? Yes. Well, how does that work? they get a tax reimbursement um or tax benefit from that and so forth. But if you look at that, that number continues to grow year after year. And in the budget, you'll see that we are paying roughly I think this year it's 13,000. You're pay we're paying in Glen City where I can say now I'm a taxpayer in my presentation. We're paying 13,000. And again, you know,
033is that a lot of money? [clears throat] But we're paying for a student to go to a school in Milwaukee or wherever. Um some of these things again when you look at uh we were on the lucky side and so um sometimes we've been talking about can we can we just get a break we got a break um in terms of our overall formula. So again that's just a synopsis of where we're at especially this part you know we're one of 26% that actually went up 71% went down so that's a good thing. Um, strategic wise, uh, this is just my thoughts on the entire thing. And just, and again, I'm not going to beat a dead horse, but in the same regard, you have to understand where I'm coming from as the superintendent. Um,
034this was that term I actually stole from the bear representative. He's like, Patrick, you just you have to ride the storm out. And I'm like, that's good because I'm going to use that. you know my first year here we the uh the investigation we had three audits you know the understanding of current processes procedures second there was still I didn't make any changes because this was Tim Johnson's budget this was my first budget but it was working with Ron Johnson and Ron is no longer here for obvious reasons so I don't put a lot of stock into how that looked based on my note notes in terms of I want this changed, I want this changed, I want this changed to make sure that there's not gaps that existed. I know for a fact some
035of those did not take place this year or the summer here in devising this. So, right after this is when Deb was hired and again I feel very confident in what we have done in terms of budget process, procedures, etc. However, we are looking at a deficit. Please note that last year we were um in a deficit at the end of the year and probably one of the bigger components that you'll see in the slide here was the compensation owed to staff members and that was just the right thing to do and I applaud the district for doing that. Um this is not great. You never want to see this, but in the same regard, when you have 29% fund balance and your policy is right around 20 to 22%. It's an easy thing to
036do. Now, in your approval tonight, you're giving me the thumbs up. Um, if you agree, um, 3% raise for this current year for professional staff, which is a nice, um, increase. Certainly, we're not going to reach inflation. um but it is and then 4% and the reason for support set that I'm recommending 4% is we are not the that low but in the same regard if I look back and some of the issues that I've had is you know staffing and also understanding that these people that make this type of wage I often think how do you do it [snorts] how do you put all these things together um and it's a lifestyle It's a lot of different things in that but we certainly are not towards the top. So my plan is in terms
037of compensation if you approve tonight the budget as it is is to take those numbers. Uh Deb puts a very comprehensive um spreadsheet together. I add tabs based on where the the uh um the district is, based on where the conference is and comparables and then it comes to you for approval. Okay. Other items to consider. Um again, we're looking at a deficit in 2728. So the good part is is we can still push that down the road. uh based on the bar model we talked and we fully know about the audit for our facility our fund balance is right here at 29%. Again uh 20% is our policy and then uh to your point before you know again depending on what number any restitution that is received would actually be additional revenue that is
038not in the budget. questions on this slide. Okay, end of the year, uh, this is where we talked. We were 101,000 over last year's budget. And here's why. And again, I think when you think, yep, lower revenue. Uh, the past compensation. Uh, we certainly invested into the CTE area, which has been a great return investment. Um, Jared Keen has done an amazing job with those kids. uh open enrollment has increased um and then there's some other smaller items but still um they add up very quickly terms of this year major changes I just talked about the compensation the back payment process would basically start for with your approval in November then we'll be around the holiday season which is kind of a bonus um in terms of for families that Dan can understand. Uh basically
039the back pay um they you know if you're year round calendar individuals you will go all the way back to July. Um for teaching staff it's back to September. Um these are all things that you've seen before. Um but we did have an increase. Um probably the biggest part there is a loss ratio of 294. just it's a really difficult number to not have an increase in health insurance and we have roughly about 41 staff members out of 110 that take now 41 that doesn't include their spouses and so on 41 staff members take insurance we did have zero% in dental doc talked about the uh reliance insurance and so forth. Uh we do have a fun uh balance fun to your point there in terms of [snorts] the in terms of uh food service.
040The good part about that is is we have um made up some of that probably about 15,000 um and again that's great but you think of how many students uh received proper meals this summer. I think that's the the more positive factor fund 80 levy. Um I really feel good about this. There was a lot of time and a lot of discussions with Beth Davis who supervises that program. Um prior to us she has never really she's never been presented with a budget. She's never had those discussions. And the purpose of funding is truly looking at what goes in needs to come out. And we [clears throat] feel really good about that 315 uh in terms of what it costs. Now, could that change? Absolutely. You know, between staffing, between things that go up, but
041um in terms of narrowing down what fund 80 looks like, which feeds our overall levy, we feel really good about that number. the thing that you just approved was the busing that was taken into account. Um the other thing that I want to outline here is and I'll show you on the cap sheet, but this budget keeping the mill rate where it is because that's typically how people talk. Um but the increase in valuation has really and I know you've seen that slide but I put it in here again. um the valuation has doubled. And so with that um 139 we should have paid off. And unfortunately what we were doing was we were taking this 180 number and it was in the 700s 600s but we weren't getting aided on that. So we weren't
042benefiting from it. Plus we were building up the reserve which you are only uh can do so many things with. So, in this uh recommendation for the levy, it does take a double payment for fund 39 to try and get that down. And the reason that I'm recommending that we do that is number one, it keeps the no rate so it doesn't go down and then later on we have to bring it back up. The other part of that is is we 139 is where we can go and actually um borrow up to a million dollars without going to a referendum. And right now with what we are facing with our facility could be a huge help. Unfortunately, we owe 650,000 yet. So, we don't have that available. Again, my job um is to make
043decisions for the next person. That's how I've always approach my job. Not what benefits necessarily me, but making sure that when I make these recommendations, we're looking at the better of the district for 5, 10, 20 years. Any questions on any of these major changes? Okay. So, here's what we're looking at. Um and again you have to be careful because some of the bigger things in this includes um these valuations or where the total money um but also equalized value. You know what is the land that you live on in here worth? And you can see where they have gone from 227 in 2011 to 527. I mean, and just you take that into account. Now, does that mean everybody thinks, "Hey, I can turn around and sell my property for more." Maybe, maybe not.
044We'll see. [snorts] So, again, some of these slides you have seen, but I wanted to go through. So, I am recommending a mill rate of seven. And your your goal as a district is try and keep this as equal um or steady. I shouldn't say equal, but steady as possible. you take this down, what's going to happen is is if we have to go back up, now their taxes are really going to see an increase. Now, I'm not saying that some people aren't going to see an increase in their taxes, but it's going to be minimal um based on this year. Any questions on Nobody? >> For some reason, there was another PowerPoint. So, that the last three years are different. Is that because >> I had to go back and um I Yes, I
045had to do some cleanup. >> Okay. >> Part of it is the some of the numbers um were based on what the annual meeting was approved at and not budget. [clears throat] >> So I went back and actually corrected and made sure it was all. So I looked at the historical data and went back and recreated these slides. >> It's not drastic. >> Yeah. No, I uh I saw the same thing and it's like well wait and again um I was building off of a different sound deck u that existed around here instead of going back and that's my my fault like I'm just I'm going to create it from scratch. Here is the revenue cap sheet. Um and again I will be more than happy to explain anything on this item uh or on
046this document but um this is basically right here is where you know they've been determined. Uh your autoc calculate is right here. DBI data is right here. But these are based on data points that we submit with reports. And then we entered these amounts based on what's in Skyward. So right here, this is the max that we can levy. You take this 67,000 away from that number and you get right here. And this is the maximum amount of revenue that we can go to the taxpayers and say this is what we want to tax you at. This right here is the double payment in 139. And again, I just want to make sure that the board is comfortable with that. That is a double payment but again we still owe 6 roughly 50,000 on that
047and then this is the true number of fund 80 which is always it's a separate levy but it takes in the whole picture. So we are at 7%. Or $7. I put this in there uh for the end of meeting too but this is very this is from 2024. A lot of people just go right to here, but it talks about TIFF. It also talks about form 38, what districts have, referendum debt that people have. Um, you know, again, you can look at where we're at and so forth. Okay. Um, I put this in there just if you have questions about how is, again, we were part of the 26% that actually increase, 70% did increase. How do they get to that number? It's still very confusing, but if you're interested, read that. >> One
048of my questions for next year, but is there anything we can do to make sure we have stay in that, you know, increased benefit area? >> Yeah. Uh, yeah. don't lose kids. Um, and yeah, there's a there's a variety that goes into that, but read through this and it's we're a positively aided district and there's certain things that put us in that position, but also the economic component is in that total levy per year. So, you can see what we have levied that number that I showed you. Um, as we go, we have equalized value, which we talked about. Here is our fund balance. And again, just for the especially the new board members, um, I took over um, right between these two and just changes I underspent by a million. [snorts] And the reason
049I did that is as I stopped things just based on the investigation, based on things that seemed it just didn't make sense. Um, so we underspent. Plus, we had three audits going at the same time and that that is unheard of. Um, so there was a lot that went into that. But the good part is there's quite a few districts that according to their down here or here. So that does work in our favor in terms of fund balance. Here is the most upto-date uh enrollment. So to your point, Jordan, how do we stay away from that 71? Uh we've got to continue to try and build. We got to flip a couple things. Number one, our open enrollment. Um flip it in the positive or we at least work towards it. And I would
050say that our decision to do ecampus has helped because every student helps in that regard. Um the other part is is again we can't uh push people to have babies. Uh but in the same regard you know if you look at where our classes are um you can see how you know just even in the last 10 years going from classes of possibly 60. I don't know what you guys graduated with those of you that went here to where we are right now. But you can see, you know, from the standpoint of I don't know why this didn't populate. I will fix that. But you can see, you know, where these classes are where our middle school is pretty um balanced in terms of 40 to 45 and then we have a couple big classes,
051small classes. So I don't know why they did that but I will get that fixed >> total FT for revenue limit. Um this is the other one that uh in the calculation that I re I basically started from scratch. So I wanted you to know you know in terms of butts in the seat but there's a formula behind it. It's talking about 40% of summer school. It's talking about kindergarten and 4K percentages and so on. And again, if you have any questions, I can be happy to explain these slides to you in detail. Open enrollment. Uh you can see um we're on the wrong side of that. And so um we that's uh definitely something that we're we're working on to try and change. We want this trend to continue to go down. And basically
052that's doing things like making sure our building is uh respectable, making sure our programming is there. I think we have some we have some of the best teachers that I've been around in our science department and so on math with Miss Black and Dr. We just have some really talented individuals and so making those um putting those out there Mr. Lamb who's you know again teacher of the year last year. So, we have to celebrate those and make sure that those are known, but also take care of our facilities and get past this black eye that we talked about at the start of the year or to start with the next open enrollment loss revenue. And again, I'm not going to go through that part. Um here's the part where uh last for me that
053we had in terms of a work session I did ask the question can you take an operating and bond referendum and combine them. So often times that's the only options you have to increase your revenue for a school district. We will talk more about this at our work session on November 10th I believe 10th or 11th 10th. Um, but I would encourage you to read this. This is an email from U. Marquez. Um, and it talks about the question of does it have to be just a bond or can it be both and so forth. So, I encourage you to read that. These just are some stats uh from B. And again, I what I'll say about the bare piece is I I really don't you guys have have kind of been at a disadvantage
054as a board because we didn't have a bare model for or you didn't have a model for a number of years. And so this will show you what type of data to make informed decisions. Um it talks about referendum. There's just some really good data to look at. There's also comparative data here in terms of where we are with fund balance compared to other districts in our conference. So again, some good information there just to compare and see how are we doing? Are we doing similar things? Um certainly circumstances change in every district. Talk about strategic plan our goals of course the audit that we talked about um the rest of these slides are things that we have already discussed. So with that said I'm going to go back to uh if you look at
055in your board docs I've already put a recommendation in there for the motion. You certainly can deviate from that if you don't agree. Um but basically the motion to approve the budget is there and then second question below that is the levy as seven and then this is what we would certify with the statement. >> All right. Um does [snorts] anybody want to make a motion to the 2025 26 school district city budget exempted? titled [clears throat] 202526 final budget adoption for the recommended DPI format. >> I'll make a motion. >> Motion is made right there. Is there a second? >> Jordan. Second by Jordan. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> I. Oppose say no. Motion carried. Then we have the 2025 26 levy. I'll entertain a motion to
056approve the 2025 all fund tax levy for the school district of Le in the total amount of 3,694 [snorts and clears throat] to be appropioned as certified in the GCS revenue limit worksheet for 202526 with a levy rate of $7 as and to authorize this district administrator and accountant to submit the official PI 401 levy certification to the Department of Public Construction. >> So move. >> Motion made by Chuck. Do I have a second? >> Second by Scott. Any further discussion? Just point clarifying on that number. Does that get us then to the max number with the or are we still below the max or pretty much >> no that yeah that basically is uh in terms of the total and I took that from the revenue cash sheet. So >> it includes the additional
057325 that >> Yes. Yep. It puts everything into account because if you look at uh this document, you know, again the yellow is already what data is put in by the DPI. >> Any other questions? Hearing none. All those in favor say I. >> Post say no. Motion car there. No communications. We do have our next scheduled meeting November 10th and I'll entertain a motion to adjourn so people can go to motion to adjourn. >> Motion by Scott. >> Scott Jordan. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> We are. >> All right. I will see you on the 10th and go. Did you ever send me the the working file list of the maintenance? >> Yeah. Yeah, I sent >> because I had them I didn't have access to it and then
058I sent it