001All right. Good evening and welcome to the June 24th board meeting. I would like to call the meeting to order and ask that you stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge aliance 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. Right there. Right there. Hello. Very good. Hey, may I have a motion to approve the regular meeting? So move. I second. John Christensen. Yay. Crystal Luca. Yay. Kathy Holland. Hi. Ann O. Yes. AJ Wilson. Yay. Motion carried. Okay. We first, excuse me, have a gift item which is a donation to Vinland Elementary. Mrs. Okay. Um, good evening members of the board. On behalf of Vinland Elementary School, I'm here to receive a
002gift of $1,500 for Minqua um, Works Credit Union. Um, their donation is going to go to five mini computers uh, for Vinland Elementary. The computers will support two programs. It will be used to expand our afterchool gaming club um and give our students access to more games. And then we're going to launch a new audiovisisual club next week that will give um our elementary students access to create, record, and start sharing stories. Along with receiving this gift, I do want to just take a minute to thank District 70 IT um because they've been super supportive in this process. um their expertise, their rapport, their ideas. They've just been so great supporting both of these programs at Vinland Elementary. Great. Thank you. Thank you guys. Have a motion to accept the gifts as presented. So moved.
003I second. John Christensen. Yay. Chris Luca. Yay. Kathy Howland. Hi. Ann O. AJ Wilson. Yay. Motion carried. Okay. Next is our information from the board and superintendent. Let's go ahead and start with John this evening. You have anything for us? I do not. Okay. Kathy, you have anything for us? No. I' I've been in vacation mode where I'm just not thinking. Okay. So, I don't have anything either. I mean, I didn't attend summer school and and I was able to go to ESY. Um, so I got to see our kids in action over the summer and some of our teachers and pair of professionals as well. So, good for me. All right. Quick and easy. Nothing for me yet as well. All right. Let's move on to discussion. Um, our first item is a presentation
004of the 2526 adopted budget. Mrs. Whitman. All right. Good evening. So, we have the adopted budget um that we'll go through. I'm trying. All right. So, not much has changed since the proposed budget, but we'll go through the process for the people that may not have been here during that process. So, the budget is a collaborative effort. Um we directors, principles, staff, board of education and the accountability committee which is made up of community members. Um our per pupil revenue increased um $426 per FTE. So that was from 10,778 to 11,24 per student. And then our budget is based on a student count of 8,164. And that's just for district 70. That does not include the charters. Um our priorities are instructional. So, our budgets were built on a teacher ratio of 25 to1 and
005of course the ESS pair of professionals and the student support priorities of mental health, safety, discipline, um adding counselors, uh social workers and psychologists. And some of the highlights um in this budget are our local factor um changed to town fringe. So, that added 2.14 million. So, our net revenue increase was 1.9. Um we reduced expenses by 1.8 million. We um were able to give employee raises of 2% on the base. We steps and lanes and that was a total of 3.15 million and that includes benefits as well as salaries. We also had increase in utilities of 310,000 3.3 increase in transportation of 130,000 insurance 287,500. Um we will have to use some of our fund balance for the best grant match of 2.7 million and that's for the roof and sewer at county high.
006Um some of the stuff on the horizon um is a capital projects projection. We have some roofs um in public west that we need to start taking a look at. One of the priorities is Sky View Middle School um that is now on insurance as cash value and then of course safety and security is still one of our priorities. Um so the appropriation by fund um the two that changed our preschool um by 147,668. This is a really good thing. We've had more kids um enter preschool probably due to our advertising um full day program. And then um we adjusted uh the grants fund for grants that we know we're going to get and the ones we have currently. So um and within the general fund the um amount overall did not change but we
007were able to take payroll from one line item of the estimated of um the raises and we were able to spread that through all the schools into the line items. So we're starting off strong for the fiscal year 26 school year. And then of course our graph that just shows um our state equalization that stayed the same, but just how much we're dependent on that. Um and the new funding formula um just to keep everybody reminded that we're not out of the woods, but it does look a little bit better. We'll see what they do in August um and throughout the school year, but we'll keep an eye on that. But uh we're solid going into fiscal year 26. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, next we have open forum. Do we have
008any comments this evening? No ma'am, we do not. Okay, we'll move on to our action items. So, the item is approval of the tenative agreement between PCEA and district 70 regarding end of service pay definition and article 10-7 end of service pay. Mrs. Russell. Good evening, Madam President, members of the board. I would recommend that the board approve this tenative agreement with PCEA and District 70 regarding the end of service pay definition and the article 107 um of end of service pay as previously presented. Do I have a motion to approve the tenative agreement? So move second. John Christensen. Yay. Christa Luca. Kathy Holland. Hi Ann O. AJ Wilson. Motion carried. Okay. Up next is our consent agenda items. Is there a motion to approve these items? A second. John Christensen. Yay. Christa Luca. Kathy
009Holland. Hi. Annne O. Ag Wilson. Yay. Motion carried. Our next board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 at the Educational Services Center, beginning at 6 p.m. Our regular meeting is now adjourned.