001meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. Um, and we'll just jump right in. We've got the consent agenda that includes minutes from the July 14th board meeting, certified and co-curricular staffing recommendations um as listed on the agenda. Um and I would look for a motion unless >> move. >> Okay. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Okay. Have it. Um does anyone want to p Anything out specifically from there? Okay, sounds like no. So, um, all in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? And Bruce is still not logged on. So, that's a four four zero for all of us here. All right. There are some personnel items that do not require a vote. Do we have any public comments so far? All righty then. Um, all right. So, that brings us to believe it
002is the district administrator's report. >> Hello everyone. >> Hello. >> Thank you for waiting for me to catch up. >> Long time no see. >> That's okay. This is the earliest in the agenda I have ever had district administrators report with no information or discussion. So, uh, we're going to start off with a summer school update. So, so most of summer school has concluded. So, uh, we offer summer school for students in grades one through five in Jul in June and July and then camp kindergarten uh, just wrapped up. But we also have band and orchestra lessons for our older students in spa, the speed, power, and acceleration classes. So, I'll give you some updates. So, the summer school for grades one to five uh was operated pretty much as we've done in the past.
003So, if you don't know, the way that we do that is their students are grouped by grade and they're assigned to a room and they have math, reading, writing right there. Um, and then they also get to have a related arts class and a recess class for a half day session. And that is really nice because it mirrors sort of a shortened version of what they have during the school year. There's a lot of consistency and we found that to be very successful. So we're this is our fourth year of using that model and this is the second year in a row that we're able to almost exclusively hire our teachers that are teach during the school year which is wonderful. >> I honestly Part of that is the model that they like that model.
004>> It's they're familiar with it and very comfortable with the model and so they're able to teach both June and July and stay with it the whole time. That's really nice. Both both there's two sessions both sessions. So we had uh about 267 students who participated in June and 246 in July. 21 teachers and then also some EAS educational assistant office staff um people supporting students on oneon one and that is very comparable to last year um that 267 last year we had 277 so pretty consistent and really that there's a ton of work that goes into that during the school year Melissa F and Carly Cherik are doing a lot of the planning and then when it's boots on the Um, we do have our our K5 administrative team that shares responsibilities for that
005and serve as acting summer school principles. Camp kindergarten two weeks um just just wrapped up and um that is a really exciting time. really the goal is just to get kids in the building familiar with with the building and frankly parents too um that they get to practice pickup and drop off and we had um 148 students participate in that and that's quite a bit more than last year. Last year was 124. >> It is a a bit of a bigger kindergarten class, seven teachers. Um, and >> what is the size of that class again? >> I don't know the class size off. >> Oh, I >> for the people that attended >> the people together. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Memorizing those things. >> So, that's a really good participation rate. >> Yeah. Yep. Yep.
006section. Um so um that that program uh in addition to those mentioned the the teachers play such a critical role. Leah Lackey really was critical as a new administrator jumped right in that first week. And also I want to recognize oh and then Brook Hower was the second week and really want to recognize two people uh Jess Carl and Lauren Orango who jumped in on the first couple days to make things make sure things got smoothly um as well as Lindsay and Sarah in the office there. So really takes takes a lot of people to help these incoming kindergarters. >> You know that's a that's a beautiful thing but it just doesn't surprise me all that much. You know, that's what our that's what our faculty does. >> They do. They just jump right in
007and that's great. >> Spaso speed, power, and acceleration. There's five instructors for 327 students. >> Wow. >> So, that is very popular. Um, and that wrapped up at the end the end of July. >> Wish I would do that for adults. >> Maybe the word. You're welcome to lead that. >> Um Rothwell's yelling at us. >> So, um we're getting started with the with the lessons for band and orchestra. So, that's exciting. That's another way and to get get them ready for the year. And I know the music department does a great job with that. >> Yes. So, very successful program. So, thanks to everybody involved in that. also have some um recognition. So, let's let's start with the the slideshow here. >> Before you jump into that, I just saw that Bruce joined. So,
008can you give us a thumbs up if you can hear us? >> Amazing. >> We cannot hear you. >> No, we could read your lips. >> We only Yeah, we only knew to answer because we could read your lips. All right. So, some things here. You got the incoming second graders enjoying some time on the side doing some reading there on there. You've heard about the Japan trip, right? 56 students, amazing advisors who did such a great job. >> You can see there some of the things that they uh got to do. Uh just really exciting. I I you know I haven't seen anybody individually to hear it firsthand but >> you know seeing the world's largest metropolis. >> I love the 71s. I know >> when did they do that >> a couple weeks
009ago. >> Yeah. The peace memorial park very powerful. >> So this was a new the first time I think doing the Japan trip. This was I don't know. Any others? >> Very exciting. Thanks for that. Uh partnership with the class of 25 and Bob's Coffee Shop who put together some of this branding. That's only some of it. There's more, but it >> looks great. >> It does. >> Want to know where you are. >> Yeah, they do such a nice job. >> We're grateful for the donation of that class of 2025. But makes it a really big difference. >> Is somebody from this class this or >> apparent? >> Yeah. >> Was it this class? >> But Bob has done >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Um they also did the branding by that. >> Cool.
010>> Yeah. Bob's great partner for the whole community actually. >> Yeah. >> I'm sure you've all listened to this several times. You can hear We can hear you. >> Sorry. I'm so sorry. Yeah, just the internal mic I had to get out. Sorry. >> Amazing. >> We're glad you're here. >> Welcome here. And I'm sure you've all listened over and over uh to the viral podcast of the school perceptionist podcast that I was able to participate in. Was really fun. >> It was interesting. It was cool. >> And that's uh the slideshow, right? It's summer. >> Thanks so much for doing that. >> Be president. >> Yeah. >> And uh >> other things going on, recognitions. We had the Bill Garvey Memorial golf outing. So, 136 golfers. >> Super fun. >> Craig Bruce and I
011were there. >> Great. >> They were there in a different capacity than I was, but >> Right. >> Word on the street. a great event. Um, thanks to the McFarland Educational Foundation and the athletic department for organizing that. It's a huge fundraiser. >> It's a great fundraiser >> particularly because it's Bill >> and Bill was all all into music of course, but he you know people forget he coached here for 20ome years. >> It was a great event. Couldn't have had a nicer day. Yeah, the weather was great. >> Really, really nice. >> Great. Yeah. >> Wanted to give some recognition of our safety coordinator, Mike Clemens. Um he led us through a reunification practice with some of our key staff members and just what would we do if we had to evacuate to an
012off-site location or even actually internally but reuniting um parents with their kids. And so um I got to be a parent um through that activity and was was reunited to with my two children who are both police officers. Um so you have a variety of district staff in police department that participated in that just in case we need to evacuate for any reason that we would know to do that. So also wanted to recognize uh his leadership and the work of many uh including buildings and ground staff that have been installing blinds in some of our classrooms. 220 blinds over 220 blinds have been installed um just to make sure that there is a spot in each room that is not visible um in the event of a emergency. So that's been great. >> That
013is so cool. >> Yeah. I just >> without the knowledge of the safety >> things, you would not expect >> blind window coverings to be such a vital >> thing in this day and age, but they are. >> It's always a challenge because you want the room to be as open, you know, and let in as much light as possible. And there's also safety reasons to have it be visible to be able to see as well. So, >> it's always a mix, right? But having one area um at least in the room that is not visible is important. So thanks for his leadership there. Thanks to Bruce um for his leadership in forming this community group that's working on creating a a display to recognize Conrad Elvium. That work is getting started. Meetings coming up
014in the next few weeks. I think there are about 12 members of that um group, community members that are are involved. So excited to see that. Some some are were on the committee for the um facilities advisory renaming. Um also some just local historians >> and others. >> Couldn't have a better man leading the way. >> Thank you, Bruce. >> Yep. >> Way to go, buddy. Um, also did you want to were you gonna say something, Bruce? I can. >> No, as of right now, I believe there's going to be 11. I think one person is >> reconsidering um or considering not. But um I think we have a wonderful group of people and I think they're kind of um just leaders in our community and I think that's what we're looking for. >> Yes.
015and a real neat kind of variety of expertise and experience and interest. So that >> ages it's really a neat group. >> Yeah, it's great. I want to give some recognition. The you know final numbers come in um each year looking at our partnership with ESS which is our our guest teacher or substitute program that provides educational assistance and other staff and teaching staff um to to fill in when our teachers are gone. Uh we filled 3,292 assignments this year >> and that is 84 more than last year >> and our fill rate was 89%. >> Many other districts would be very jealous. >> I was going to ask if there was any comparable >> information out there because that seems like a lot. >> Yeah, >> districts don't tend to share that with each
016other. very high. Um so Sam um Prudin has been you know the the coordinator in that role has done a great job but with just the very active support of Harry Roberts here in the district office as well as the building and administrative assistants and administrators. The other people I I also want to recognize are just the staff that welcome our our guest teachers in and make sure they have what they need. Check in with them feel supported. That's why Also, as long as we're sharing some, you know, over the course of the year accolades, school nutrition had a great year. Um, so we uh we saw some nice um increases in the in the percent of people um using breakfast or taking advantage of the breakfast community. And a lot of that was at
017Wiza where I think their change in their start time really helped them had a little bit of a we saw some little bit of decreases at the middle school and high school with their later start time. That's okay. >> Um we'll assume that they're eating breakfast before they >> they come. Um but they are welcome to enjoy that. And then lunch. Uh we had 56% of our our students participated in a full school lunch. But where we really saw a dramatic increase. Separate from that number is alle. >> So the middle school um started a grab and go program that was very successful. So catch this. There were 176,335 alart items. >> Wow. >> Lot of snacks. >> Yes. Snacks. So, and and there and there are healthy options, you know, and so really excited
018about um and then just in other news, um obviously just a reminder to you some upcoming events. August 11th is our work sessions >> and um August 16th is the stuff the bus donation event that'll be right here at the high school. wanted to stop by and thank the Lions for their amazing work. They do a great job. Grateful for those donations from the community. So that's all I have to share. Any questions or other recognition you would like to add? >> Um I would the with regards to our work session just a reminder to maybe bring our calendars if you don't have them electronically. >> Yeah. So that when we look at the board events Yep. Um, and then I did have one recognition. I don't know, you probably have seen this if you're
019on social media, but um, wanted to recognize some teachers, specifically Angie Bazan and Brian Ward. Um, I they helped organize a rally against for education against um, national administration efforts in with regards to public education. Um, and so they were out and it looked like a great group on Saturday >> just trying, you know, and I think we always talk about trying to reach people in the community in the ways when we can't reach them in other ways. And I think even just presence like that in one of the main thoroughares is really important for creating visibility and engagement. >> So I'm sure that many more attended and were involved. Um, but those are the two who I know spoke. So I just wanted to and going, >> you know, at that intersection in particular.
020So, I would imagine a few joined in that weren't aware maybe. >> Right. Exactly. >> And there were only a couple of >> I guess there was an issue with the the diesel truck >> that chose right in front of those people to, you know, how they can shoot that black city smoke out, >> right? that was there. >> I feel like that's at everyone a diesel car comes through and >> intentional strategy, >> right? >> Yeah. So >> unfortunate. >> Yeah. >> But they were unbothe >> as they are. So yeah. So that's those are the recognitions I have. Anything else? >> Okay. All right. >> Moving on. >> Yeah. Um, okay. Now we have the business manager report. Mr. Jeff Mahoney, >> come on down. >> Hello. >> We're going to have a
021presentation that's going to incorporate both of those fiscal years. And we really never feel like we wrap up 2425 until we get to the finish of the audit, which we have that presentation in November, sometimes December, depending on when the hottage shows up. So that's a long-term project. And you know, 2526 planning began back in 23. So um and even sooner than that. So there's a lot there. I did want to clarify, Erin, on the start time at WISA uh related to lunch. Both of our breakfast programs got a little bit better at CS and WISA because we split those busing routes where we have the double routing. So the high school and middle school kids come on their own bus, but our C, excuse me, our MPS and our WA visa students um come
022on their own bus and we had much higher ridership. >> Um I'm sure Aaron will want that data from me soon. Um, always depends on where they live though, so that can go up and down. But, um, that really benefited a lot of things. So, >> cool. >> All righty. 2425 2526 update. Uh, we'll kind of bounce a little back and forth here. 2526. We are at August 4th. And while I feel like boy, we've had a lot of dates and times. We've talked a lot about stuff, well, we still have a lot to talk about for 2526 as we will in September get into doing the annual meeting notice um and talk about the budget hearing that will be uh October 20th. Um so and some important dates I'll chat about. But um this
023year will be one of those unique years where we get to discuss a little bit more about the posting because there are some opportunities for the board to have uh some more input and thoughts about um some early estimates on taxation. So we'll kind of get into that. So 2425 wrap up. I'd love to say we're wrapping it up, but it just feels like we're uncovering it. Um, audit is in full progress. Uh, we started to get a lot of our info requests back in April and May. So, we spend good amount of time with that. Uh, if there's a dollar sign or a grant or a um um fundraiser or something, it it's part of the audit. So, everybody's involved. Uh, the sites are involved. All of the district office staff are involved in
024some capacity. um board members will become involved. Usually the auditors will ask one or two people, particularly the treasurer and particularly the board president to answer some questions and they'll be in touch in the next couple weeks. Sometimes that's either done over a phone in person um or they'll schedule some time. So >> um it's it's good process. Johnson and Block has served us well. >> Can't wait. >> And um you know it's one of those a a good audit process that has a lot of transparency and a lot of interaction with others other than just me >> by far. >> So, um tonight you'll be doing an annual practice which is called the fund balance designations. Um that is basically looking at items that have to be specifically used for grants that revenues have
025been already receded and but they can only be spent for certain items for um the 25 26 and beyond years. So that's kind of an annual thing. Additionally, uh we had the buildings kind of because this was their first year that they had the big 10% cuts in their budgets this past year. And they also they have furniture material budgets that they rely on. Um and you know, we can date back to 19 uh 99. Uh Wisa still has some of the furniture that came out of um primary school um and the middle school. So just giving you an example of the district has always funded its buildings and it's given a portion of money availability through uh referendums for furniture but not enough to cover a brand new building. So uh the building budgets
026have funds available to take care of the most needed areas. So, um, tonight they'll be all four buildings have designated funds for furniture, uh, that they did not use that they'll use in 2526. They wanted to make sure that this year went pretty good. Um, and that, you know, the referendum passed. And so, um, and that's been a good practice that we actually allow the principles not to rush, um, and just get into another fiscal year and start that planning over when they know they have a set set of a set of one-time funds. So, some real strong highlights for uh 2425 already. I think we've been commenting about interest earnings. We are just over 450,000 o above budget. I have another slide that will kind of show the history of boy that's really good,
027but don't always count on that. Um, and then our virtual school district, our oversight fees, uh, $563,000 above budget. And again, those are that one is a little bit more something that we can rely on. It's been steadily growing. Um, and again, I have another slide on it that I want to highlight the amount of money that has come from other taxpayers other than McFarland School District taxpayers. So, that's pretty important. Additionally, we had uh about 2% savings uh throughout many of our uh budget areas. Uh particularly our special education. Um we had some more grant opportunities. We had better Medicaid funding and that's something that's going to be kind of probably migrating away a little bit. And so our transfer, our expected transfer from fund 10 to fund 27 was $537,000 less this year.
028Partly because also we had a lot of turnover with special education assistance staff. So we filled a lot with our um substitute pool which means our substitute budgets were pretty much wiped out for this year. whereas the previous year there might have been about $150,000 available. So there's always a correlation with that one too. So those are areas we're uh reviewing. Um gas and electric uh most notably uh electric has been going down this year. That's partly because and we're going to get into some more reports on this later this year. We've been working with a company called Data Wrangler. Uh they're able to put systems in place that monitor our usage at different times of the year or different times of the day and help us develop new habits and patterns to uh reduce
029our peak demand times. And if we can just nail those demand search charges a little bit better, we get better rates. So we're spending a little money to save a lot of money. Um and we're only doing that right now in this facility. So, in November, we will have had a full year of doing that. >> For instance, if you're in the building at 3:45, you'll hear the outdoor air system go off because we take it out of occupied mode. >> Technically, you can do that after school has released. That's a lot of energy we were carrying. That's Hats off to Ben Snider for researching that and going, >> "That's awesome." you know, we're burning electricity when we don't have to. So, >> that's awesome. >> Lot going on there. Um, us during the summer
030have been feeling uh lots of the testing going on of things. Some days it might be a little more humid and warm than normal, but uh those are all good things. >> Does that have anything to do with the Eco Club who did kind of their some of the work? Did that >> they they've used our data um and they've also had data systems put on as well. >> Okay. And certainly um we've been working with that club for years about how we can help do things and the more they push the more um they seem to have a really good push on uh staff to ask them to turn off lights and stuff like that. We might not sometimes have that pull but when a 16 17 year old is looking at you and
031saying why do we need the lights on? We have this nice outside light. Some good stuff there. >> Yeah, that's some good cross collaboration students >> and administration. >> Um, out of the five plus million dollars worth of er funds that were, you know, for the four different years that we were able to have er funds, we did have about a remaining balance of 100,000 that we had between a few different of the funds. So, we actually were able to use that and not use some general fund money. So, you know, the net is at this point because now we're going through our audit. We're still working on fun fact, we had one building send us some invoices today for May. >> Oh, no. >> So, you know, every time uh you know, you get
032something that's from 2425 and it's significant uh it's about four to five transactions just to get that one little transaction taken care of. So, that sort of stuff is always fun. Um, Carrie's not smiling as much as I do. I kind of chuckle, but she looks at me and I just remind myself in May we're going to have conversations next May with people. >> so, uh, balanced budget 2425 plus, what I mean by that is, you know, we're designating funds and we also looking like we're going to be to the plus side for our fund balance. >> That is a good thing. Yeah, we should just stop for a minute and recognize that. >> Yeah, >> because it's we were gonna dip into that a lot. >> Yeah, we were. Yes. >> So, that's amazing.
033And I'll have a better report on that later on that we can, you know, kind of piece back >> so that we can, you know, talk about that a little bit more of >> really what that means for September 15th when we get back together of >> we've typically whenever we've been able to have some one-time savings and we've been in a referendum, know I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself, it's actually on the bottom of this page. We have uh worked on using some one-time money that's been carried over to offset our debt service which in the end lowers the taxes for a given year >> for our taxpayers. Um we did that through our last major referendum back in 2004 through 2009. Got to be here for that. Um and we did
034that a couple times. So, it wasn't, you know, over the top, but it was helpful. It show it continued to show our fiscal responsibility that we're just not constantly building funds, building funds. Um, but so we'll we'll have a put together kind of an analysis and some thoughts for the board to consider >> uh for that September 15th meeting. Do you feel like, you know, this is fantastic. Is it sustainable? Can we do it again next year? >> Or is it so fluid that it's hard to even >> Well, we're going to be relying on some of these revenues that we've I wouldn't say underbudgeted for, but that we're having better trends. For instance, I wouldn't get too off the rails about interest earnings, you know, and I'll kind of show you why here, but
035our virtual school we could be counting on a little bit more, but we should be thinking about as their revenues grow, >> that continues to help offset um it you should be building your reserves a bit because your operating expenses go up each year >> and if you don't keep that margin for a couple things. One, unexpected large expenses. >> Think Woodman's roofing. >> Yeah, >> we have insurance. We're good on that. Um, but think, you know, just the fact that as salaries and benefit costs go up and you want to avoid long-term short-term borrowing, your piggy bank needs to grow incrementally a little bit each year. Basically, if your expenses are going up four to 7%, you want a budget that's going up or a a fund balance. >> And that only happens really
036when you have these years where this pocket had a good year. This pocket maybe didn't have a good year. So, >> um, so back to the top of this slide, fund balance did not take a hit at this point for 2425. confident of that uh fund balance grew uh due to what I've talked about our variable revenues. I've talked about that we should have a growth with that. We should allow the fund balance to have some growth uh for those one-time oh no events and also avoiding short-term borrowing. What does that really mean? uh jumping into this year uh 2526 increased reliance on weo um and I'm going to share what we're thinking for that and a little bit of increased reliance on interest earnings um I think for the next few years uh we
037should be in a good spot. Um, I've already mentioned for the annual meeting, which again is October 20th, but we'll do our posting meeting on September 15th, and we'll chat about what are some options potentially at the annual meeting for us to look at offsetting some of the increases for taxpayers. >> Next slide, please. All right, we've uh great to go back and always give a history. We started this partnership in 2009 2010 and we had a minimum revenue uh oversight fee of $300,000. So for the first couple years, we only saw 300,000. As you can see, when you uh get into 2019, 2020, and then uh there was that year in 2021 that seemed to have a lot of people go virtual. >> Um not even going to say the word. um our oversight
038fees jumped considerably, but then they did drop >> um in 2122 and then they rebounded in and again 2324. Significantly, when you go towards the bottom, um our 2425, again, we're looking at about $1.4 4 million as what we would budget for the oversight fee, we hit 1.963 million. So, um, looking at a 4-year average, I'm looking to plug, uh, the budget at 1.7 million. So, we're going to go up 300,000. I feel that is >> the right move. Um, because this could also over time go away. Um, state law can change. Um, lots of things can change. So, >> like it was a great move back in the day to >> decide to be a sponsoring district. >> Yeah. >> It was a district that gave up on the virtualmies and >> uh to
039be honest, McFarland had been approached like five years earlier >> and McFarland chose not to. they were worried that um bricks and mortar school would go away and that's >> what the board chose in like three four years before I arrived and so I went to um another district over near Milwaukee and then that district chose not to >> keep the relationship. So they came back and asked McFarland back in like 2007 is when we started negotiate that. So, yes, good opportunities for making sure that kids across the state have opportunities and even ours interest earnings. Next slide. Uh, very variable. >> Yeah, this one has one more. >> I couldn't come up with a better >> bold underline. >> Yeah. Uh, bold underline. So, I mean, you know, just think, you know, 2122 just
040about 70,000 and two years later 10 times that amount. >> Yeah. >> It's all about >> interest rates. >> Yeah. >> Um, you know, so we we do have a really good partner in uh one community bank. Um, they give us really good rate. uh they have a few uh basis points above what we can actually get through two other opportunities that the district have um fully collateralized as well. So that relationship has now been in full force for now four years. >> Okay. One community bank has also been going after pretty much each school district across Dne County and I think they're successful because they know that that's good for their business and it's good for school districts. So >> So um going to take that from a 250,000 to a 450,000 for at
041least this next coming year. Probably when we do our five year budget projections. I'll probably leave that in maybe at about 350 thereafter. Um start to see how rates do in the next several months and kind of gauge from there. But I I certainly think we can bump that up. Um that'll help us. But again, it gave us extra money that's one time that's now in the fund balance >> that we could be doing something for our taxpayers on a one tame basis for 25, excuse me, for their 26 2026 tax bill. >> Yep. So, just to kind of reiterate that for those of you who may be watching, this is a really prime example of why we don't want to dip into our fund balance is we actually earn money off of that interest
042so that we can pay ourselves forward. So, when we ask that question of why aren't we dipping into that, this is a really good demonstration of why. >> So, keep this chart in mind. And you can certainly uh add probably back to the fact that when you look at 12, 13, 13, 14, 14, 15, >> those were years that we did not have the opport we had to short-term borrow as well. >> So all adds up. >> Yep. >> Uh the next slide you will not be able to read at all from that point and I'm not expecting you to. uh you have I think the I sent it to you last week again a lot of information here on the revenue cap and the next slide has a lot of information about the equalized
043aid and we would spend our three credit classes on these. Um so we will go to the next slide. Really is kind of I just always want to remind people that our revenue cap um is cap minus state aid equals the tax levy. >> So right now till we have all the information which is not until October 15th even though we have the annual meeting October 20th >> which is good. It's a nice turnaround. Um, our cap is just about 33 million of which the equalized aid is just coming in shy of 15 million. A little bit down from this year, a little bit up from what we estimated two years ago for this year. So, some positives there. So, our uh cap tax levy for fund 10 fund 27 is at this point 17.6
044million. The other levies, always want to remind folks, uh, is our debt service, which is 4.6 million. We got about one more year before we get into what's known as callable, uh, bonds, which means from our 2016 uh, successful facility referendum, those bonds that we actually we hit the market at the right time because we're still in like three and four% >> uh, rates. and our rates will actually be hovering around four and 5%. So they might in the next year and a half if those start to drop we'll get into the refinancing gig like we always do save our taxpayers money. >> Yeah. >> So that is a recurring thing once you get into the callable bonds between now and 2036 when those would be done anyway. So, um, capital projects, technically capital projects,
045that $249,000 that we've been living on since prior me arriving, uh, does come out of the, uh, revenue cap. Uh, but that combined with money in our general fund does help with like our roofing projects that are going on right now. Um, gym A and gym B should be complete by the end of this week >> as long as it's dry. We don't have any more rain features coming through. >> Rain features. >> We did have a little bit of one, but it was caught right away. Um, and then community service. We've held at $532,000 now for about four years. And again, our programming continues to not necessarily expand. We continue to find where kids want to do certain types of activities and we're able to those more successfully with more participation. And then there's
046a lot more uh senior programming, adult programming that's going on. Uh we will be coming to back to the board to talk to them about a relationship we're building with uh McFarland Community Ice Arena >> that we're looking to be able to use some of their space during the day during school days because the facility is and we've been in talks with MCIA for now four years on this. Uh but identifying a couple probably about four hours a week that we can use the facility um and some of their open to do programming with like maybe it's tiny tots, maybe it's yoga uh for adults in the middle of the morning, >> um stuff like that. So that will be a coming attraction. >> Awesome. >> Cool. >> So, so overall estimated levy at this
047point, which will change of just about $23 million. >> So what will change? This was the first, >> you know, we get really excited around here when we like had seven new registrations today or seven new kids registering. So, it's like, yay. >> Um, we do some happy dances around here for that stuff. Uh, you know, equalized value comes in October 1st from the Department of Revenue. State equalization aid gets finalized based off of last year's spending compared to every other school district spending. number of students that's at our third Friday in September count and equalized value. So depending on where we land on all three of those, our state a could change from that estimate that DPI provided on July one. And then we do our final tax levy amounts and do the revised
048budgets and do the show over again as we move into another fiscal year pretty soon for planning. So the 15th, I've said it too many times already. We're going to have a little bit more discussion. I will get that information to you one week prior to the board meeting. So expect that on the 8th. Um, and then we'll have the third Friday, third Friday enrollment count October 1st equalized aid, excuse me, equalized values October 15th aid certification and the annual meeting October 20th. The >> end of the day, what is our >> So, I don't have that exact number. >> We're just over 14 and a half million. Great. >> Craig likes that. >> So good. >> True story. >> So, in other words, everyone should be in school on Friday, September 19th. >> Yes.
049>> Everyone. You got it. You got it. >> Absolutely. >> Gonna start plugging that now. Just >> So, knowing some of those things changed, I'm kind of popping this question in you. the 23 million. How does that that tax levy compare to what we had planned for the next year >> like when we were doing the referendum stuff? >> Not too far off. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Um best way for me to answer that is a little bit back to I think Erin shared some information in July when I skipped town here for a little bit. um is using kind of what happens to a person's tax bill >> ultimately is that you know we're about $43 off on that house that median house that goes from 400,000 to 427 to 450,000 this coming year.
050>> So we're not too far off. >> Pretty close. Okay, >> great. >> But it will change, >> right? And we have those things listed >> per all those things and also the opportunity for the school board to look at doing what we've promised in the past. If we have the feeling of the availability because of some of our one-time earnings that we had in this last fiscal year that we can buy down that debt service a little bit >> and that will impact people's tax bills. >> Okay. Okay. Great. Any other questions or discussions? Bruce, do you have anything? No, he's good. Shaking his head. Okay. All right. >> Great report. >> Yes. And thanks for letting us interrupt you several times. >> Oh, no. I like that. >> All right. >> Invite all
051your friends. >> Yeah. Invite my friends. Thank you for that. That's great. Um that was and then related to that we move on to our action items which our first action item is the action on the 2024 budget changes. So um I would look for a motion um to approve the attached budget changes for the 2425 school year. >> I can make that motion. >> I'll second that motion. Um any um discussion? We just had a bunch. Any other ones? >> The only thing I can say is typically we would come back to you in like March and then again at this time of year, but there are so many that were just related to grants that we didn't feel like needed to come back in March. But >> okay, >> it's typical that you
052do this before >> Yeah. >> this time of year. Okay. All right. Um and then Bruce, if you want to just give us Oh, you can unmute so you can say for the vote now. Um so all in favor >> I I >> Any opposed? Okay. Motion carries. Um our next action item is for the designation of fund balance for the 2526 school year. Um, I would, um, it's an annual procedure for carryover funds, which Jeff talked about already. Um, I would look for a motion. >> I'll move to accept the administrative recommendation to designate certain 2024 25 unused funds to restricted fund balance for the 2526 school year as is included in the attachment. >> I'll second. Got the H's again. All right. Any further discussion on that? Okay. All right. All in favor
053say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? All right. Then our last action item um is to we have a closed session scheduled and I will read um this. So um and then we will adjourn from closed session. So any guests or anyone watching the portion that's available will be ending shortly. Um, okay. So, our closed session, I'm looking for a motion um to go into close session under Wisconsin State Statute 19.851C to consider the employment, promotion, compensation, or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility. And Wisconsin statute 19.851F 851F to consider financial, medical, social or personal histories or disciplinary data of specific persons, preliminary consideration of specific personnel problems, or the investigation of charges against specific persons, except where paragraph B applies, which if discussed
054in public, would be likely to have a substantial adverse effect upon the reputation of any person referred to in such histories or data or involved in such problems or investigations. Specifically for tonight, it's the purpose of reviewing or discussing investigations prefer pertaining to professional staff and hiring process. And we will do a roll call vote after the motions are done. Do I have a motion? I can make that motion. >> Chapman secondary. Okay. And um so we'll go into close session at 7:54 and we'll do a roll call um vote for that. How >> yes. >> Something in there said we already did that. >> Sorry about that. >> Excuse me. >> Um Chapman. >> Yep. >> Okay. Huie. >> Yes. >> Fisher. >> I will not be. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, and Fesler.
055Yes. So, we are now going to go into close session. >> Thanks for coming, Bruce. >> Bruce. Are we moving?