001Good evening everyone. My name is Tara Vilovos and I am humbled and honored to serve here in Hartford Joint 1 as your superintendent. Thank you so much for joining us for this evening's annual meeting. The annual meeting of the school district of Hartford Joint 1 will be called to order. If you could all please rise and state the pledge of allegiance with me. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. >> The annual meeting is a special meeting that allows electors specific powers according to statutory requirements in a common school district. Electors are any individuals who are eligible to vote in a school district election, that is residents of the
002school district of Hartford, Joint One. All electors may participate and vote in this meeting. In order to vote or make motions at this meeting, you must be 18 years old and a current resident for at least 10 days in the school district of Hartford joint number one. Voting shall be done by raising hands and the votes will be counted by the chairperson unless there are too many audience members to handc count in which case we do have paper ballots on hand and we will use those to help us provide a more accurate account of votes or if a motion is passed requiring ballots. The very first order of business is to elect a chairperson. So at this time the floor is open for nominations for chairperson of the meeting. >> Yes. I think we have
003to nominate Mr. Dolan Buie for chairperson. >> Thank you. Mr. Buouie, do you accept the nomination? >> Thank you. Are there any other nominations? Are there any other nominations? Seeing none, then we will uh raise hands at this point in time. All those in favor of Dr. Buoy acting as this year's >> chair. >> Um all those who are in favor of Dr. Buouie um acting as this year's chairperson, please raise your hand. Those against. Okay. Dr. Buouie, at this point I would like to call you up to handle the rest of the school business. All right. Thank you. Um, at this time, I'd like to appoint Amy Hoffman as recording secretary for our meeting. Thank you, Amy. Uh, we'll proceed on to our proceedings. Um, reading of the proceedings of the annual meeting held
004on October 29th, 2024. The reading of the proceedings of the October 29th, 24, 2024 annual meeting may be waved with a motion. Do I have a motion to wave the readings of the proceedings? Doug Carol makes a motion. Do I have a second? >> Luis, thank you, Louise. A second. All in favor, please say I. Against. Motion carried. At this time, I'd like to hand over the state of the district report to Dr. Vop. Thank you, Dr. Buy. Okay. So, whenever we do the state of the district report, this is just a reminder that it is a look back on where we have been and our journey of the last school year. So, if you're sitting in the audience and you know that, hey, we did something this year, you may very well be right,
005but that will be reflected in next year's state of the district report. So, the very first thing that I wanted to share is our schoolboard goals. And so for the last three years, we've had a set of three board goals that this district followed very faithfully. However, last year we went through a process that began in February and resulted in the school board taking action on the four schoolboard goals that you see here. And that action was taken in May. The first one is to invest in people. That really is looking at our team here and it's looking at recruitment, retention, and development of excellent staff. The second board goal is to develop well-rounded future ready students. That came out of the feedback that we received from all of those in attendance at our February
006sessions as well as feedback from rounding and discussions with the school board in terms of making sure that our students are prepared for their future. The third area is prioritizing safety and operational excellence. That will look very familiar to our previous goal of school safety, but we also added the operational side to that which includes a lot of the finance as well. And the last goal because we know that schools are the heart of the community, we wanted to make sure that we were maximizing the work and the connection that we had with the community. So you can see our final goal is to strengthen school, home, community partnerships through communication and engagement opportunities. So when we look at those four goals, we wanted to make sure that we're reflecting on how we've made progress
007in each of those areas. So to do that, we developed key performance indicators. And so just like you saw, the schoolboard goals themselves were approved in May. These key performance indicators, there are 23 of them, were approved by the school board in July. I won't read all of these to you, but this is the foundation of what our new local school report card will be based on. So again, there is an accountability report card that is statewide for both districts and schools. This will help us develop our own key performance metrics for our local report card, telling the story of what our community finds value in for our school district. So then when we reflect on all of the things that transpired last year that helped us make accomplishments and move forward in each of
008these four categories, we see the following. So when we look at investing in people, one of the things that we've done now, this will be year four. So last year was year three of giving the Gallup survey. The Gallup survey nationwide staff engagement is at 31% of your staff population. for Hartford Joint One 49%. 49% engagement. So that is it doesn't sound like a lot when you just say 49% but when you look at that compared to the national average it's a huge step up. So that's fantastic. Rounding goes off of Gallup. So, every year since uh two years ago, we started doing rounding. And what that is is we meet with all of our team members as administrators to ask them specific questions about how things are going here at Hartford Joint One. We're
009also asking them specifically to help us understand how we can do better in the two lowest areas on our Gallup survey. And one of the questions that we ask during rounding is, is Hartford Joint One a great place to be? are you glad you work here? Is Hartford Joint One a great place to be? 99.5% of our staff members, that's over 200 staff members said yes. We only had one that said no. So, out of all of those individuals that participated in the rounding, 99.5% said this was a great place to be. So, that's something to celebrate. The next four areas that I wanted to address all revolve around collaboration. It's collaboration here in the district, collaboration with our neighboring school districts, and collaboration with agencies around the community. So, the very first thing last
010year we added three new positions. Those were our instructional coaches. That has been to help us roll out Act 20. That has been to help us ensure consistency in learning and teaching across the school district for all three buildings. And that has been a huge success, something that we've gotten great feedback from our teachers and staff from as well as our administrators and our directors. We also started learning walks at Central Middle School. That's something that has gotten a resounding set of positive feedback and has been supporting the teaching and learning that occurs at Central Middle School and it's really been a model that we've used in the Hartford area schools, but we're doing it here within Hartford Joint One. That leads into the next one, peerreview mentor grant visits. That is an opportunity for
011not only teachers from around the Hartford area community. So that's Holy Hill area, Aaron, Hermanosha, Rubicon, and the high school to come and visit us and us to in turn go and visit their teacher their schools and see what practices their teachers have in place. So that has been a huge success. And then last year we started youth apprenticeship. And so we had a partnership with the high school that helped bring two high school students to us, one at Rossman Elementary and one at Lincoln Elementary. And this year, you'll have to wait how we did, but it's good news um in in next year's report, but we are growing our youth apprenticeship program. The next thing is all of those things listed above lead to strong positive relationships between students and staff. And that's something
012that has been uh not only felt in the buildings but also something that when we talk to our middle school students they have noticed as well. Um something that is very popular at the elementary level but it's really nice to hear at the middle school level too when people feel that staff are really there and have that positive connection with students. And then professional learning. One of the things that I shared during my interview here was that I have extremely high expectations for our team and I have high expectations for myself, but I don't set those expectations and then just say good luck getting there. I want to make sure that everyone is prepared. And so I think that our director of curriculum and our administration has done a really nice job making sure that
013we've laid a foundation of support for our teaching staff as well as our support staff. Two of the things that we listed here are CISA. We're involved in several networks. We also have several instructional coaches, our speech therapists, counselors, librarian. Um they all have opportunities to network with other people up at CIS 6, which is our cooperative educational service agency. And then Danielle Dicki, we know at the elementary level, we've been focused a lot on ACT 20. Danielle Dicki has really been an answer for us at the middle school level in terms of literacy. And we also started unveiling differentiation through Danielle Dicki's teaching last year and into this year when we look at developing well-rounded future ready students. Ames web was introduced last year along with ACT 20. And so we were very proud
014that not only did we introduce that, but we also held our data meetings. I will say that that's one of the things I was very proud to talk about is that even though Ames Webb is something that is required of all school districts in the state of Wisconsin, I felt very proud to be from Hartford Joint One because our team seemed very ahead of the game and ahead of the curve in terms of setting things up and moving things forward with Ames Webb. Ames is fully implemented like we talked about. The transition to sixth grade at Central Middle School was something that we had heard from parents on our very first family survey could be improved. And so the team of administrators at the middle school and then also at the elementary worked really hard
015together to make sure that there were valuable meaningful opportunities for our students and their families to get connected to Central Middle School. for the first day of school at Central Middle School. We brought sports back and clubs back again because we're looking at last year specifically referring to cross country and track. And so while we did have or we do have some community agencies or clubs that utilize our facility spaces, these are the first two athletic teams that we've brought back in approximately 20 years. So very exciting. And that was one of the school board's priorities. When I came on board here, it was 4K. It was sixth grade camp and it was extracurriculars or co-curriculars. Student- centered decision-making is occurring and that's something that used to be a standalone board goal. However, we felt
016like that really is encompassed within this developing well-rounded future ready students that were always keeping students at the forefront of our our decisions that we're making. Student gallery walk at Central Middle School occurred. That was an opportunity for middle school students to display their work and their academic work and be recognized for their achievement. Districtwide implementation of character education. So that was purposeful people at the elementary level. It was character strong and another character program at the middle school level. And we also started introducing the intervention curriculum as well. And then we've updated our AGR, which is our achievement gap reduction uh grant. We updated those goals. So, it was the first time in five years that those have been updated. And Katie will actually be talking about those later this evening in the regular
017board meeting. When we look at prioritizing safety and operational excellence, not to forget all of the things that occur to make our staff and our students comfortable along with visitors being comfortable. there are a lot of things that happen behind the scenes and so we wanted to make sure that we gave credit to all of those people and all of the systems uh that are in place that make it possible for us to keep our doors open. So the very first one is the HBAC systems being fully operational in all three buildings. We have our live or our streaming um being taped right now so that way people can watch this tomorrow. And so our tech department is also involved heavily and they replaced Wi-Fi districtwide last year. As you know, we passed a referendum
018with a 66% passage rate which is incredibly high and we're very grateful to the community for their support. Our construction I really you have to know I word of this going well went well complete who knows. Um but because it's a look back I did end up staying with going well. Construction is going well. It went well. Um, we're really excited. We have more information about our final ribbon cutting coming up in the next meeting. Last December, Gaggle Therapy was approved by our school board. And so, again, when we talk about kids being able to learn on the previous slide, when we look at this slide, prioritizing safety and well-being, we know that kids can't be at their best to learn if they are not mentally well. And so having an opportunity to talk to
019someone anonymously and get support 24 hours a day, seven days a week was a really nice find for the district and something that was utiliate utilized immediately. I already talked about the development and approval of the new board goals. And then every year, Mr. Majeras runs a safety meeting. Mr. Hanlin is also heavily involved in our safety operations. And so last year some of the recommendations that came out of that were to move to the SRP and SRM um uh safety mechanisms. So it's a part of ALIS which is something that we already do. And then when we look at strengthening home school community partnerships we have a lot of things listed and this is not comprehensive. I made sure that we narrowed it down to what fit on one slide that you could still
020read while it was up here. So, we had ReadAcross America Day which brought in a lot of diverse community readers, Veterans Day programs with coffee with the veterans and reading with the veterans. We had our multicultural fair for the second year in a row. We had all three of our family nights last year as scavenger hunts. We held a community fair which brought in agencies around the community. We had for the first time ever a Hartford area schools tailgate party for team members and their families that was hosted at Lincoln Elementary and I'm very thankful it was last year because this year that would not have worked out so well. Um but it was a huge success and just you could see all of the community pride with everyone there. We had our art show
021and my first year here our art show moved over to the library and you know we weren't sure how that was going to go and it was such a huge success that we intentionally requested that the art uh the art show be at the library last year and it will also be there again this year. We had a combined concert for our middle school and high school students. So we're talking about getting our students ready for that next level of learning and involvement. This was a fantastic way for families to see it in action. Rossman held a magic night, uh, magic and comedy. Dr. Buoie was tied up, uh, at one point of it. Uh, it was great for everyone who was there to watch and see and laugh together. Uh, the senior lunchon was
022hosted at Central Middle School and that's always a wonderful event. Conversations for our future was held in February. We had 4K family meet and greet events. We had our groundbreaking in May over at Lincoln School, but for all three buildings. And then we also participated in several job fairs, some of them nearby, some of them a lot further away. And we were able to really let people know about our school district and why they would want to work here for Hartford Joint One, what the perks are of that. So, you can see that there were a lot of things that we did in the past and we are very excited to continue our work together. And with that, I'll turn it back over to Dr. Buouie. Thank you, Dr. Vobos. This time, I'm going to
023hand it over to Adam Majaras for the treasures report and the audit summary. >> Thank you, Dr. Buoie. Um to start with um according to the agenda just wanted to give a brief summary of um our financial statement audit our financial year runs from July 1st to June 30th and um so our audit most recent audit that's completed was as of 6:30 2024. happy to report that um the district and I'll use some language directly from our audit report from Vesta which is one of the 20 accounting firms in the state that are approved by DPI to do school district audits. In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly in all material respects the respective financial p position of the governmental agent uh activities each major fund and the aggregate remaining fund information of the
024school district of Hartford joint one as of June 30th, 2024 and the respective changes in financial position for the year then ended in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. They went on to say that in accordance with relevant ethical requirements relating to our audit, we believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinions. So that's deemed an unqualified opinion, the best opinion that we can get presented uh for our information. Uh we work well with Vesta in uh getting their information and having them complete their information so that they can file our financial statements by the December 15th deadline. And again, happy to report that that all went very well for this upcoming year. We are on pace
025to do that again. We're just wrapping up some final um field work and some uh open items that they need to finish and then they'll be able to um wrap up their audit for this year and we can present that to the school board in December or January. In terms of our annual meeting, uh, proposed budget and other additional financial information. So, briefly, um, just wanted to show you kind of a calendar. Again, I I present this every year. It's really an annual process that we go through. Um if we look at October of last year and how we got to this point this year and even into the future, the next couple months, um you know, last year we certified the tax levy and the budget at this time. Then we started working on
026things already for the next year. So we go through and walk around our buildings to try to see um what things need to be updated in the following summer. We get different pieces of financial information that we need. Second Friday counts in January, CPI measures that um are finalized as of the end of the year so that we use that for salary negotiations. We take all kinds of um actions in terms of facility packages and setting do deadlines for expenditures for the year. Um taking action on property and casualty insurance. Um a big one is we set our preliminary budget in June. So based on the information that we know, we formulate a budget for the current school year, the school year that we are in right now. And then the state of Wisconsin has
027their budget process and they'll finalize a two-year budget, which they did in July of 2025. Um we'll talk a little bit about that as we go through this information. Then we get in July some information regarding equalization aid estimates. We have our audit staff here in July in the first part of August to do their work. We continue to get information. We had a board workshop in late August to talk about what we were finding for kind of some of the preliminary information leading up to this meeting tonight and setting our final budget. In September, we get third Friday counts. So that is a very key number for us because a lot a lot of financial um calculations uh hinge upon what our uh current enrollment is and what our three-year average information is. Then
028the state sets their final um property valuation and then in October on the 15th for example we get the fi final kind of revenue limit calculations including the final state equalization aid that the district will get and then it's a mad rush to get things ready for tonight and then we'll set a final budget and tax levy here tonight. Then we will send that information to the municipal units uh that the district covers. So there's I think seven of them or eight of them. Um the city of Hartford and then the neighboring towns around the city of Hartford. We'll send them that information so they can uh finish their property tax bills. And then like I said in December, we we'll present uh our financial statement audit for the year ending June 30th, 2025. So
029again, it really is a year-long kind of process. Certainly we work on parts of that more than others in certain times but um very comprehensive process that we go through. When we talk about our budget I want to talk a little bit about our revenue sources and how they've changed. So these are two graphs that show the revenue and then what's projected for 2526. Um what you'll see here is two large pieces again very similar to most districts in the state. Uh the lion share of revenue that we get uh is either state aid in one shape or form which is designated uh in the purple on those graphs and then in red is the local sources which is mainly made up of property tax um levy. So the key point to point out here
030is that um the amount of aid that we're getting from the state is slowly decreasing. Um back when revenue limits were put in place, it was customary for the state to fund schools at a 2/3 one-third kind of scenario where they were providing 2/3 of uh the monies for school districts from the state level and local municipalities were taxing for the other third. As you can see in the projection for this year's graph, we're almost 50/50 now. And so just something to keep in mind from the standpoint of um when we get a total revenue limit authority, more and more of the money uh that we need to operate is coming from local sources, not the state. Here are the different kinds of fundings that we get in some pieces. Again, lion share being state
031equalization aid, but there's other pieces that we get from the state. Local funding, again, property taxes mainly making that up. And then some federal dollars in terms of um general fund grants that we book into fund 10. Some assumptions that we need to make as we put forth a budget. Um, again, largely dependent on our student counts. Our student counts are decreasing. We'll show you a graph and a table on that a couple pages from now. But we are um getting smaller in terms of student count. So the key to that is we need to make sure that um in terms of staffing and uh benefits and the people cost side of things, we have to make sure that we're um very protective and really proactive when it comes to uh right sizing the district,
032making sure the staff we have is uh makes sense compared to the students that we have. equalized value in the district uh increased which is a positive. Um last year the increase in all of the taxable property in the district was 8.2%. This year the increase was 8.3% and the total equalized value in the district is now at $3 billion. um when the figures don't ch when our when our increase in equalized value doesn't necessarily match the state's overall increase in equalized value, you could see problems as it relates to aid, but our changes have been almost in lock step with the way the state has been moving in its entirety. So that is a good thing. Number three here, the state sets the low revenue ceiling. Uh this year it's 11,650. We're slightly above
033that low revenue ceiling. As you can see in this little table here, we're at $11,765. So, if you take all of our students and multiply by that $11,765, that's the total amount of revenue that we can bring in to the district. $742 of categorical aid per pupil is still in effect and has been unchanged um through the budget process. So, our budget here reflects that. One of the major factors that we have going into this budget is that our general equalization aid from the state is set to decrease by 1.3 million this year, 11.4%. Just so you're aware, 71% of the school districts in the state will receive less aid this year than last year. Uh somewhat uncommon situation for this bianual budget. Uh this year the aid was for all school districts was unchanged.
034Uh we believe certainly that the rationale that the law m makers are expressing is that um if we need school districts need additional revenue. um the revenue limit ceiling, the low revenue ceiling was increased and is scheduled to increase every year because of uh the authority granted by the governor in the last bianial budget. And so since we have that authority, they're they're essentially saying that they want us to take advantage of that additional revenue limit authority. aid figures are finalized on October 15th like I said earlier and uh again this budget packet shows the effects of that. Just wanted to show you kind of where the revenue limit authority per student is in the other uh Washington County schools. So you can see where we are and you can see where the other K8s
035are and where the other K12 systems are as well. This graph shows us um the average student membership over the last 11 years. And you can see here that we have um gotten smaller in terms of overall student membership. This year in the revenue uh limit calculations, we're using a number that's just under 1,600595. Um, so there are some mechanisms in the revenue limit formula that help um offset or kind of decrease the impacts of that. But just to keep in mind that if we get to a situation where we kind of trough out here and it stays equal, there is a mechanis that that u declining enrollment exemption that we get will get smaller and smaller and eventually go away if we start to increase in students. So just something that we have to
036keep track of as we're projecting out the next 2 3 5 years. This is a breakdown of our expenses. Um again pretty similar to prior year graphs. What you'll see in um purple and gray is salaries and benefits. Again, um since we are essentially a service business and our service is providing education to students, that's done by people. And so when you take into account purple and gray, that's the salary and benefits for the district employees. Then you also need to take into account the blue section. Blue is purchase services. again services that we get from other organizations such as um our uh second shift cleaning um CISA when they provide consulting to us um if we have uh purchase services for um any of the the special edet type services that we get heart
037of hearing or things like that I mean any of the services that we have that are peoplebased um that's what's showing up in blue so when you take purple and gray and blue into account. Again, that's the lion share of uh what our budget is and what schools budgets are. The other sections um are uh non- capital expenditures. Um capital expenses are pink. Um green is debt, retirement, insurance, and other which those are small categories. Um a couple key points here. We talked about salaries. um salary increases um follow the CPI measure. This last year uh CPI was set at 2.95. So the district offered 2.95% salary increases for all employees. Um health insurance premiums are recommended to increase 5.54% which we'll talk about in our regular meeting tonight. Transportation costs, we just started a
038new threeyear contract with Brightway. We signed a three-year deal with them so that we could get in congruence with the end date of the high school's contract so that we can negotiate our contracts together, whether it's with rightway or with a new provider. But because we are under a new contract and coming off of a legacy contract, um the scheduled increases for their services have gone up quite a bit. As you can see here, um, this year we we are going to pay 28% more in terms of transportation services, which is a significant dollar amount. It comes out to a couple hundred thousand that open enrollment. Um, again, students that come in, students go out. There is a transfer of money either to us for students that come in or to the other districts as
039one of our joint one students goes to a different district. Um the reason why this is a significant point to to share with you is that there was a large increase in terms of what needs to transfer with those type of students. As you can see, the amount went from 8,900 to over $10,000 and that's a 13% increase. Um that came out of the bianial budget process this year. um the the amount is always supposed to go up a little bit and then um legislators bumped that amount another $500 on top of that. So those kind of things um again when they come out in July not necessarily as easy for us to deal with and plan for. Um so it is going to cost us another 287,000 because we are a net open enrollment
040out district. Levies for fund 38 and 39 are slightly higher this year than prior year. That was a planned effort in coordination with our 2024 bond defeasants, the new refere the referendum debt that we approved um last November and the existing schedule of our previously issued debt. If there is a general fund surplus, which currently there is a small surplus um SK budgeted, those dollars would be contributed to the long-term capital improvement trust fund 46. We make contributions to that because it maximizes the state aid that we get the following year. So, um it is a smaller surplus than we've planned the last few years because of these revenue reductions and other things that are happening, but um happy to report that we are still planning for a small surplus in the overall fund 10
041budget. So, the these are going to be the proposed tax levies for the different funds. This is the 202425 column and this is the current year column. So, um the general fund fund 10 um is scheduled to go up about $1.3 million in terms of the tax levy and that number should sound familiar to you. Again, it's mainly to offset the loss in aid from the state that we're getting. Non-referendum debt that that payment is generally the same. This is the last year of non-referendum debt that we'll have. So that um amount will be zero unless the district would do something which we are not planning to do. referendum debt. Again, that those are planned amounts from both last year and this year with our new um kind of debt profile. And then the community
042service fund, which pays for our community services like um the school resource officer and the portion of the salary that's um from the uh assistant principles and dean of students in which they're doing um community outreach kind of activities. The highlight here then the district mill rate will increase from 3.75 [snorts] per thousand last year to 3.98 uh per thousand this year and again mainly due to the loss in aid. If you want to see that graphically or in a table, you can see what our mill rate has done the last 10 years. And if actually you go back a few more years before that, that graph would continue like this. So we've been on a decline the last 12 years. This is the first time in 13 years that we're projecting a tax uh
043mill rate increase. Again, not that we are necessarily happy with that. We understand that people want lower taxes. Um but with the conditions that we're facing, the fixed costs that we have, um this is the outcome that we are recommending to the community and to the school board. Some other notes that we've included you uh for you in prior years. Um I won't go through all of these necessarily, but certainly um some things to consider. Uh we do have a 3 to 5year budget projection and we uh watch that very closely. One thing that impacts that is um again students that don't go to school here either through the voucher program or in private schools. um we end up not only uh budgeting for some of the dollars that get funneled to those districts, but
044we're also as the public school in this area responsible for covering the costs of some of their activities. Transportation is the biggest most expensive one, but there's other things as well that we cover for um private schools in our area. So, just something to keep in mind that some of those dollars annually go through our budget. So here is a copy of uh the budget in terms of the funds. Um again this was published in newspaper a couple weeks ago provided to school board members. Um what I'm can tell you is first of all we're budgeting um we're we're presenting a balance budget to you. So, no increase or decrease in our general fund balance. Uh, we we will have, if everything goes to plan here, $24.7 million in revenues. Here's the listing of expenses.
045Again, they're big categories, so I get that there's not a ton of detail here, but um to not only look across the columns here, but to go down um some of the points again, this business administration, for example, that's going to pick up things like um transportation of students. So, that's going to be the lion share of why this amount is changing the way it is. um salary increases um up in the differentiated uh curriculum. Again, that's largely people. There are some um materials of course and things that we buy, but most of this amount is um teachers and staff. Um the other administrative staff tend to fall in these support sources depending on which area that we're talking about. again pupil services um or general administration which uh covers Tara and some of other
046people in there. School building administration is the principles uh assistant principles etc. um and their administration costs. Not only salaries but um everything that would fall under school b actual building administration, businesses administration is basically everything else besides the the uh instructional staff and those things insuranceances etc. Um, when we talk about inter fund transfers here, this $2.5 million number, um, $2.5 million is what's scheduled to be transferred to special ed fund 27 fund. Um, again, that fund by law has to equal and anything um, in terms of uh, revenue shortages in that fund have to be covered by fund 10. So, we are planning to transfer $2.5 million to make that fund equal. The remaining $84,000 is what um is planned to go to fund 46 at this time. Instructional service payments. Uh the
047large majority of this is the payment for open enrollment students out special ed fund like we talked about again it's a balanced it's a balanced equation. So total revenues for special ed equal the total expenditures for special ed. Um even though our student counts are dropping, um what we found is is certainly the numbers of special ed students and their needs haven't necessarily decreased. So these are all the um revenues and costs to uh manage those programs and service those children. funds 38 and 39. If you see here again, indebtedness at the end of the year, that jumps because that is uh the effect of our new bonds that are in place. Again, we closed those bonds in July of 2025. So, that's why you don't see it in previous um periods. It's actually um
048in this year's the only fund that we you funds that we use in here are funds uh 46 and while we're during construction fund 49 once we get done with construction fund 49 will close out and we'll transfer the money um that we need to uh to make that um get to zero and then the legacy balance in there will be fund 46. So you can see what our proposed ending fund 46 number is going to be even after we spend out what we agreed to spend out for our project um that we've been undertaking since May. Food service uh we're projecting a small um deficit uh that's been common the last couple years. Fortunately, we have a large um food service fund balance. Again, we've been hesitant to um raise costs in terms of
049lunch prices too much. Uh Miss Flitter and I are working on staffing and some of the other things um going into future years. Um but we are projecting a small uh fund deficit in fund 50. And then fund 80 again is our community service fund uh dealing with those items that we talked about the school resource officer and the um expenses for the community outreach because we have a large fund balance there relative to the amount of expenses we have. You can see that I'm actually not levying that much for uh the community service fund because I want to eat into that fund balance a little bit. It's starting to get a little high. So we we want to eat into that treasury report. This will show you the assets, liability and fund balances for
050the different funds that we maintain. This is happening again because of our construction project. So um that's why this was zero uh before some minor spending and then um there'll be some more spending this year. So this is the change number yeartoyear. We have to provide the community information from our energy efficiency exemption and the bonds that we issued um eight years ago. And so this provides information as to what the resolution was at that time, what the anticipated savings were going to be, what the actual savings are, and where those projects are happening. So this gets reported every year in this book, and then a short little summary of fund 80. Ken, overall um we're happy that we're presenting a balanced budget. Again, while we not aren't necessarily thrilled with the mill rate situation
051that we are in, I do think it's a manageable number um for community members. Uh the increase is scheduled to be 6.1%. And if you consider again the fact that we've gone down several dollars in terms of mill rate over the last 13 years, um the fact that we now find ourselves having to um levy another 24 cents in mill rate from higher than last year, um we find that it's a reasonable and necessary situation. Any questions? Thank you, Dr. >> All right. At this time, as Mr. Jarus had stated, thank you, Mr. Majaras. The floor is now open for questions or discussions in part of the budget hearing. Any questions for Mr. Maduras? No questions. Thank you, Adam. Um, next order of business is the adoption of resolutions. Uh, I will call out a
052motion to approve resolutions one at a time. Any resident making a motion or seconding should state their name for the recording secretary. These vote these are voted on the voice vote unless the elector requests a division of a house vote on ballots and then the chairperson should order it. Okay. Resolution number one adoption of the tax levy. Motion to adopt resolution number one. Be it resolved by the electors of the school district of Hartford joint one pursuant to section subsection 10 paragraph 8 of the Wisconsin statutes that the tax levy for 2025 2026 school year shall be set at 10,610,672 for the general fund 10 $257,550 for the non-referendum debt service fund 38 1,70,000 for the referendum debt service fund 39 and 100,000 for the community service fund 80 for a combined fund total levy
053of 12 million 38,222 do I have a motion >> I have a motion from Mr. Stevens. Do I have a second? >> Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Against? Nay. Eyes have it. Moving on to resolution number two, authorization for short-term borrowing. Motion to adopt resolution number two. Be it resolved by the electors of the school district of Hartford, Joint One, that the school board of said district B and is hereby authorized to borrow money for inter immediate expenses of maintaining the schools of the district under section 67 subsection 12 paragraph 8 and 8A of the statutes. Do I have a motion for resolution number two? >> Please motion to adopt resolution number two. Mr. Ron has a motion. Do I have a second? The car second. Any discussion? No
054discussion. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Against. Nay. All in favor. So resolution number three, authorizations for salaries of board members. Motion to adopt resolution number three. Be it resolved by the lectors of the school district of Hartford, Joint One, pursuant to section 120, subsection 10, paragraph 14 of the Wisconsin statute, that the school board and is hereby authorized to set the annual salaries for the members of the board of education at $3,315 for the president, $2,535 for other officers and directors. Do I have a motion for resolution number three? Adam and Gi make that motion. >> Thank you, Adam. Do I have a second? >> Thank you, Joe. Any discussion? No discussion? All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Against? Nay. >> Or nay. Was that you borrow? >>
055Okay. Thank you. Eyes have it. Resolution number four, authorization for prosecution or defense of any legal action action motion to adopt resolution number four. Be it resolved by the lectors of the school district of Hartford joint one that the school board be and is hereby authorized to provide for the prosecution or defense of any legal action for proceeding or proceeding in which the district is or may be interested. Do I have a motion for resolution number four? >> Second or motion to adopt resolution. >> Thank you, Ian. Uh, do I have a second? Thank you, Jamie. Any discussion? No discussion. All in favor, please say I. >> I. Against. Nay. >> Eyes have it. Resolution number five, authoriz authorization to allow the school board to set the date and time for the for the next
056annual meeting. Motion to adopt resolution number five be it resolved by the electors of the school district of Harford Joint 1 pursuant to section 120 subsection 8 paragraph 1A of the Wisconsin statutes that the school board of said district B and is hereby authorized to set the date and time of the next annual meeting. Do I have a motion? without a resolution file. >> Thank you, Mr. Grbeck. Do they have a second? Thank you, Miss Wil. Any discussion? Since there's no discussion, all in favor, please say I. >> I. Again, nay. Eyes have it. There be there being no other business, the chairperson, I call for the motion to adjourn the meeting. Um, do I have a motion? There's a second. All in favor, please say I. >> I. Against. Thank you.