001Yeah. Yeah. We have a good evening. I'd like to call to order um the June 5th board of education special board meeting. Can I get a roll call please? President Wasowski here. President Boyd Ortiz here Neil here. Here Sanchez here. Also present are Dr. Salami, Mr. Vanour, Mr. Deli, Mr. Caress, Mr. Lee, Miss Pusca, and Mrs. Stratus Becker. Excellent. Thank you. Um, if you guys will join me in saying the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America, I'd actually like to make a motion to amend and approve the agenda to move action um action items with discussion um letter E um about the Mary Jane Kennedy reunion recognition plan to after close session. So it will stay as an action item with discussion, but we're just going
002to move it till after close session. Let me get a second. Second. Any questions or concerns about that? So, is that right, Laura? Uh, that was moved by Dana, second by Junah. Oh, Cynthia. So, sorry. Cynthia. Okay. Roll call vote, please. President B. Neil. Hi. Ortiz. I Parich. Izz. I President Wesowski. I five. Five eyes. Zero Naz, two absent. Motion carries. And now for the reason I think most of you are here tonight, a couple shout outs before we get to you guys. Um, just a special thank you to everyone involved uh with the Wester Middle School graduation services um in the Westchester Middle School band who sounded fantastic um at the graduation ceremony. That just last Friday. Yeah. Yeah, last Friday. Um, it takes a huge amount of work and coordination to pull off
003um such a large scale event. Um, and every year the staff makes it look flawless, effortless. So, thank you um to everyone for all of their hard work in making graduation happen. Um, and uh, congratulations to the entire district staff on a great great school year. Um, we hope that everyone has a wonderful summer and spend some time out and about doing the things that they love so that everyone is refreshed and rejuvenated um to start the the school year in August. And then finally, we would like to um now recognize our special guests this evening. Uh tonight, the board of education would like to give a board salute to the Westchester Middle School Destination Imagination Team Conspiracy Crew. Is that right? Yep. All right. Uh, this team qualified for globals in Kansas City and
004did an amazing job. Uh, they placed in the top 10 um earning ninth place uh in the competition with teams from around the world. Um, and if I'm not mistaken, this is our highest place. Yeah. So this is I believe the highest uh placing that any of our destination imagination teams have done in how many years have you done it? Do you know? I fig 13. So 12 years. So at least 12 years. So really kudos and and job well done. Um so at this time I'd like to read the team member names and I'd invite you to let's do that. It's a second. Um you guys can come on up. We'll end up taking a group picture, but you can come on up when we um when I read your names. Let me get
005this out of the way so I can actually read your names. And just a note that um the coach, Mrs. Blair, could not be with us tonight. She had a prior family obligation. Um, so the team conspiracy crew, we have Logan Cook, Nathan Cook, Adrien Perez, Ryland Trapowski, Milan Jar, Cron and Sante Regza and their parent coaches Megan Jar and Jerosa Regoza. Yeah. So, we'll take a few. We'll take a You want to do the pictures first and then I think the board love to hear more about it. So, let's take a quick picture first. [Music] Principal E. [Music] Awesome. So, do you want to ask questions? Yeah, we got a few questions if that's all right for you guys. Um, go ahead. I would love to hear what the project was and um maybe
006somebody could tell us what the project was and someone else can tell us how you got so far. [Music] I know because I've been at Destination Imagination many years that you have to sell your product in order to win. So, who spoke there? I would love you to stand up and tell me what you said. This is the performance. No, you before the performance they interview to ask you, don't they? Or and after. You're trying to all then tell me. All of you tell me then. Okay. You had to construct a device or multiple devices that would build up uh any stacking tower and a device that also destroy the stacking tower. And we had to plot around it where one character had a wishful state where where they wish for something that they desire.
007But also a frustration point where it looks like they would never get deadly. On top of that, we had to build something and knock it down. You also have to get the stat material, a destruction device, and a device. What was the material that you used to build the thing you had to deconstruct? It was mostly, but we had an Yeah. And then an aluminum part. Then the construction one was mostly just power board and then a little bit of cement. That's really awesome. So then how do you how did you guys get ninth place? What made your your project better than the other thousands that applied? If I had to story like Oh, we don't. So, you think you won them over with your humor is what I'm hearing. And your and your knowledge
008of course of the engineering test. Yeah. There's also like a risk factor that we had to put in to make sure that um it gave us extra points. we were rescued with like how the stat formed and like what placements were made of. Can I hear more about that? Yeah. Um so for our stat we used like these blocks and we made our own blocks on the t-shirt. I see. I see. Oh, look. Did you design that as well? Your shirts. Uh, Adrian. Yeah, I knew that. That's why I asked. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Continue. So, go ahead, Nolan. Yeah. Tell us about the risk. We got more points for uh making risks in the stack um the design. So, it took us a little bit more time to um construct it, but we did
009the doctor. That's wonderful. And I I'm sorry, but I have one more question. Go for it. Do we have any eighth graders here? They're almost eth. So, I would love to ask you guys to come back next year to help the team because that's something that we didn't have. Um I would love to see because you're going to go to high school. You're going to need service hours. Please come back and help the teens because um what you did is uh remarkable. It's never been done and we have to continue representing um our school. So, awesome. Anyone else have questions? I would love to hear No, you asked some really great questions. I'd love to hear like some of your like highlights of the experience or just globals in Kansas City. Yeah, that's we got
010to watch some of the other teams and a lot of the ways that they solve it was very different from ours. Like we could have up to 20 items in a stack and we were literally possibly the only one who had only 11 items in staff. Wow. very few. Wasn't there like a time limit and you guys like were like down to the seconds for the for the first project? Miss Blair was telling it was Yeah, it's pretty wild. Any other highlights anyone wants to share? globals uh get beat other countries and trading them like being able to other people also just meet people. Yeah, they're very Where do you guys think the furthest country would have been that you met the team from? That's awesome. You can follow them to go extremely far. We
011trust you. We trust you. Any others? No. Guys, that's very impressive. Thank you guys so much. full school year activity, right? Like it it takes um lots and lots of hours. Parents, team parents, I know. Um I think my understanding is that it really is team driven and you are there just to sort of support them. So I'm sure that that is difficult as well to see them try and and fail and try something different and fail again and then, you know, work together to figure it out. So kudos to everyone involved. Mrs. Flair who couldn't be with us. So we really do um we're just so excited for all of you. So thank you for coming. You are welcome to stay for the rest of the board meeting, but we completely understand if you
012got places to be. So thank you for coming. Enjoy your summer. Thank you. Thank you so much. Bye guys. Congratulations again. Bye. Fun stuff. All right. Now that I just booted the entire audience, I don't know if we have any audience comments. I excused them. I didn't boot them again, but I excused them. All right. So, uh, consent, uh, consent agenda. Uh, a motion for the board of education to approve the consent agenda as presented. Okay, second. Is that Rose? Gina. And then just for um confirmation, tonight on the consent agenda, we have regular board meeting minutes open and closed on May 15th. in the personnel report including um the hiring approvals of the super or sorry summer custodians a teacher and the building forman as well as the res a teacher resignation. Uh any
013questions or concerns before you vote? Okay. Roll call vote please. Vice President B. I think it is the old McFerson Neil. Hi. Ortiz I Pitch. Hi, Sanchez. Hi, President Wowski. Hi. I sort absent. Motion carries. Sorry. I thought I caught them all too. I know. It was the community. What's happening? It had um it had last board's names on here for us. Good job. It was a surprise. It was a little surprise. All right. So, then moving on to action items with discussion. Um, I need a motion uh for the board of education to open discussion for the purchase of staff Chromebooks as presented. Moved. Moved by Gina. Second. Second by Jared. All right. Is this you, Jacob? That's me. Yeah. Floor is yours. Tell us about the This is for the staff pro uh
014Oh, do they have Chromebooks? Yes, too. Okay. The staff Chromebooks. So we have a mixed environment. So some windows, some Chromebooks. Uh uh this is uh we would purchase 50 Chromebooks for to replace the devices that are destroyed or stop working during this probably next two years because we lose about I say about 25 maybe 30 Chromebooks per year. So our teachers most they mostly have two devices but this would be their primary device. Okay. We don't want any downtime. Yeah. Whatsoever. We just get them going. So, this is something that uh last in previous years I would um the Chromebooks were a lot cheaper. So, this year this year we're just going to get them from CDW buying them bolt which is not a lot. That's 50. But that should keeps us going for
015next a good 18 months to two years. And do they you said they had they have two devices. Do they rotate? Like if they get one of the new ones, does their old one rotate to their secondary device or is it just It's possible. Some of them opt out to have one. Okay. Which that's the goal. Some of them require uh Windows device due to their some of the software that doesn't really work work well with Chrome and it could be the training could be just preference. Sure. Uh but we have a good mix. I think overall mo most of the teachers are using Chromebooks. You say that desert? Yeah. Yeah. We have a pretty good 70% are in Chrome already because we we are a Chrome district. So document sharing emails and everything like
016that. it's in Chrome, but we do have some of the specialists where um they use Windows devices due or some kind of reporting that not it's not really coming up well on the Chrome devices due to the line the lining alignments and and so this is something that we need. Any questions for Jacob? Question. So, I heard you said if we have two, have we ever thought about just making it one and like doing the windows cuz they had more capacity? What's the I guess what's the rationale behind them having two different types of So, it's not two different types. Some of them have two Chromebooks. Oh, okay. The the my my rational rationality is if something happens, they have a secondary device right with them. Okay. So, they just move on and we'll get
017to them. But there is no downtime, no instructions. And we've we've actually noticed that it's helping us a lot. Nobody's panicking. Hey, my my primary device is not working. I was using the secondary one. And can you can you take a look at this? We're pretty quick. We actually replace them fairly quickly. And so this you said that some of them have Windows Windows and then some of them have that. And so that's just how they like it because there's more capacity or more apps or I guess more resources that they have preferences. Preferences. Okay. And we're not going to force anyone to do um to a single operating system. Uhhuh. But like I said, we when I started it was primarily a Windows district. Those are expensive expensive to manage, difficult to manage, more
018difficult to manage. Uh Chromes are a lot easier. The replacement takes five minutes. Okay. So, like Desiree would get a new device, enroll, there you go. Log in and off you go. And so, usually they'll have a newer one and then they may have like an older one that's So, we have a lot of older ones that I've been buying. Uh, we've during the co times, I was able to purchase a lot of refurbished devices. Um, the Acers 514s, they were kind of a slower, but they worked. At least they had a backup device if something something happened during the instruction. And then the ones that they have will be these right here, right? Yeah. Those are the ones that we want to we really like. Uh we've tested them. They're really powerful. We don't
019have any any issues with them. The staff loves them. So this So if this this one the 714s. Yes. This what we have. This is the one the 714s. Gotcha. Yep. That's the one that they have because it says the Acer so I figured it. Yeah. Yeah, they're really good. I've spoke with um CPU rep during the device showcase um uh meeting and seems like there is the device to go to for most of the districts. And so then for the student ones, I know you're going to talk about that too. We could also go by we did CDW as well for the student ones as well. Yeah, buying in bulk devices. Uh it's CDW. There's only few companies in the in the United States that that do a really good job that they can
020do deliver without without any issues. And then do we have any warranties? Do we have to pay for additional warranties for them or No. So, this is a one year standard one-year warranty that comes that comes with that. Uh any damages? Uh Des replacing screens and keyboards, that's something that we can knock it out all the time. Uh but sometimes they do they do break and we've had one that we we send out for repairs uh you know if they if they drop it on the floor you know let's say device is 3 years old there's not much need you just move on right and then so on average they last about 18 to 24 months or do they you find that they last a little bit longer no I think the 714s could last
021probably two two three years at least okay so that's the goal but we have to keep to leave going because we kind of don't have any extra. We probably have another 10 left between our offices. That's emergency stack. But uh I don't want to keep buying devices with during the school year because I just don't know. And what's the total number of staff cuz you're buying 50, right? So half ofund and we have 100 teachers. Okay. Our uh there are professionals and staff that's like a support staff. We give them the older device. Okay. Uh that's fine. Uh we try to give everyone who is a employee uh a 14-in screen. Uh but they they will not you know teachers are teachers are our primary focus for this purchase. Any other questions? Okay. Roll call
022vote please. Hi. Hi. President Wowski. Hi. Vice president. Hi. Neil. I six eyes, zero nay, one absent. Motion carries. Next, we have uh the student Chromebook purchase approval. I need a motion to open discussion for the approval of the purchase for student Chromebooks as presented. Move by Cynthia. Second, second by Rose. And this one is the one that we have previously discussed. So, this is just the official motion to approve the purchase. Um, but any questions about that? Roll call vote, please. Sanchez. I wasowki. I void. I seven or six eyes, zero, one absent. Motion carries. Great. Next, we have the server purchase approval. I need a motion to open discussion for the approval of the purchase of new district servers as presented. Moved by Gina, second by Jared. [Music] All right. So, you want
023to walk us through this one? Absolutely. So, uh the district has about eight active directory servers. Those are the ones that manage the network login and traffic, the DNS resolutions. It's kind of a main brain of our network. Uh I've been not replacing the hardware for a while. As you can see, some of the one some of the hardware is actually servers are original when I came back 20 is is that the 2012? Yes. Okay. So, the servers are very old. They keep on going. Uh I'm just noticing that it's we have to move on because the I we have to upgrade the active directory screen which is the controller to the latest 2022 or 25 version and I can't because of the 2012 and 2019 service. So this is something that uh I've been
024waiting to do and I think this this school year I would like to replace one by one. This cannot be just you pull them all out and put new ones in. It's a it's a it's a tedious process where you install the server, you start moving everything over, make sure everything runs, and you decommission the other server. Uh I don't know if you've noticed, but we have two servers per site. Uh that's a main and primary. That's something that I've learned throughout my professional career that it's always good to have a backup running in the back. uh when something happens and the system crash, I don't have to run around building something. I can just move the services over to uh to the other servers and keep this going. I just I just don't want
025any downtime. So the idea is to work with the vendor. I I think you can see the first 2025 was installed in the uh admin building cuz that's that site was created due to the fiber up link. So I know it's just a house but it became our own little network of uh it's separate it has a separate connection to a to a to a network. So we've built it out and it's it's working. It's live. I've tested it and I now I'm confident that we can go ahead and start rolling out the middle school intermediate. There's a lot to it. Printing uh active directory login accounts, other syncs with with with uh feature devices. Uh so it's just a slow process. Do you think that the Oh, I'm so sorry. Uh do you think
026this is a summer project or like a school? Yeah, like that's a that's that's probably during the summer I can do probably about two or three. Okay. Depends. And then every month I'll probably do another one without any interruptions. People it's usually weekend work or um later at day uh transferring everything over making sure everything runs. Uh I wouldn't I don't favor doing everything all at once especially with this because then when everybody comes back and then you're like oh my god something's not working. That's what I don't like. I'll test it in real time. Yeah. I'd like to test it real time. Uh the same thing happened at the uh admin building. Nobody knew. They came back and I was kind of hoping that this no one's going to notice anything and nobody did.
027So I'm like good, right? You know, goes well, right? It goes well. I can start decommissioning one of the 2012s because most of the roles are transferred over and plus the hardware is just our stuff is very old. That's I was able to purchase couple servers throughout the last eight nine years. Nothing big, nothing worked. Uh we had some hiccups just um two days ago Mr. Lee called me knowing nothing's working and sure enough one of the servers got stuck. That's a 2012. You just have to give it a push. Question. Um, so I saw the configuration will be at three sites. So of course that's the three different schools. Yes. So they're not charging us for the Are you doing something for the admin as well? It's already done. Oh, okay. It's it's we're
028this is like we just have one there. It's okay. So that one is already done. So that's why I'm only buying seven because the the the admin building which was this project this it happened last last month. Okay. Gotcha. Just all on this. Okay. Right. I just have to update every one of them one by one. Gotcha. Any other questions? No vote, please. President I zero nays. One. Motion carries. Right. Got one more, right? Yes. Uh, chrome cast replacement approval that I need a motion to open discussion for the approval of the purchase of the new casting equipment as presented. Yes. So, sorry. I'm sorry. Moved by Gina. Second. Second by Cynthia. Okay. Now you we took a second. Not a problem. So, testing is something that we all use right now. It's the wire
029kiss thing that we've rolled out probably five years ago when it was came available. Um, it's a free application. It's a little it's a round dongle that hangs be behind the projector and just works. Well, Google just decided to end the live all of them just because they can. So, the free goes away. So I've looked into couple different options and I've I've actually knew about the airtime when I originally rolled out chcast. I just at that time I wasn't asking the board to finance this because I knew the free solution was working well. But just this year we had an issue when the version two chcast just stopped working for a week. There's no communications from Google. Nothing. uh kind of put us in the in the bad situation for a while. We had
030to kind of work with the teachers. Some things it's not working. Order a couple used units from eBay just to get this stuff done. But this application, we had a uh we had a presentations with CDW and I'm very impressed with what how this works. And the best part, it looks exactly the same. People will not even know that there's a different product behind the projector. It's just mimics the chcast uh uh casting, which that's what I want. And that one of the sales thing that one of the salesmen told me that's exactly why we sell them because your teachers will come back to the district and do exactly the same thing that they've been doing for for 10 years. We don't want any. My philosophy is like don't reinvent the wheel. Don't train people
031when they come back. Everybody's stressed because the school is starting. They don't we this just has to be easy and work. So that's uh also what I like about this uh there is no license. So most of them come with a yearly license. This once configured you don't need any license until you start making changes. Room assignment which we don't. Yes, of course. is going to run probably about we're going to use it for about four or five years but at least we don't have to pay for it and eventually 5 years from now someone probably me or ask you to upgrade them again probably and it's just the cycle nature of the it's just cycle but uh the one thing that I can say we've tried to tell the staff to use cable uh
032HDMI cables that's not really popular I think they all like the freedom of moving around and casting so that's something that I would like to I think it just makes sense to give them what they want. Sure. And what um is this a product that you install as well? You and your team or that's a very easy plugand play. Okay. So there's literally will just remove the chcast, plug this one in, name it, and it comes with the management. We had no management. Google doesn't have any management full chest. So you don't know who's testing what this one does. You can do all there's a lot more features. uh we can wake them all up all at the same time. Mr. Saleni can do the video announcement to everyone and it's just works. Uh they
033also do I don't know if you've noticed we have um couple of uh digital signage TVs in the in the schools. This this will do that. They're known to to do this and they're really good at it. Any other question? Any questions for Jacob? No. All right. Roll call vote please. Vice president boy I abstain. Neil I peritch Izz. President Wowski I six eyes one abstain. Motion carries. Thank you. Welcome to Shanda. Um so we uh admitted the agenda. So the item that we're coming up to, we um amended it to follow um after close session. Okay. So that brings us to discussion items with no action. The first one is the tended fiscal year 26 budget discussion. I'm guessing uh Dennis that you have a presentation for us that you will be casting with
034this old equipment. I got jokes tonight. You heard me. You said you said the same thing. just always little jealous that Jacob had gonna have his presentation. Okay. technology issues. Just a second. Was that a set up? One of those old staff laptop. He gives me the heavy note on purpose. Sure. Shut up. Right. So, tenative budget, it's early look at it. It's it's not final yet. I'll bring it back on June 26th. Numbers are fairly good though. Um, and then there are quite a few things. We're going to go through it. Here's another Where's the Where's the remote? I like my dad was asking me where flashback. Yeah, I was got scared for a second. We already approved it. Stop. This is why we need the upgrade though. So, thank you for approving. So,
035the purpose of the tenative budget, it's to meet the requirement posed by Illinois law since I'm just going to keep going. Since the budget doesn't go final until potentially September, uh we have to have something to work off of during that June, July, August, and then most of September. It also provides a district that expending and taxing authority and satisfies the minimum level of financial information for local, state, federal governments. Penitentive budget must be developed with both revenues and expenditures. uh notice must be published of where, when, and during what hours the budget will be available for inspection. If you publish that in Chicago sometime shortly thereafter, meaning um Mr. Mr. Leven is all things that you never do. [Music] Guilty is charged, man. That's teamwork right there. He must have the good laptop. I
036can't handle this. Um, and we do publish that in Chicago sub Times. It will be shortly after the 26th, but the actual article as far as what we'll put in the paper will be presented with the June 26th edited budget. And then we do adopt the budget in September. You have to adopt it by September 30th. Typically that September meeting is what we do it. We'll also in conjunction with the tenative budget publication publish our September notice of we're going to have a budget hearing. This is the hour. will all be in one presented in June. Okay. The budget must be filed with the regional office of education by October 31st. And the budget is also required to be posted on the school code requires that the tenative budget be published in uh available for
037inspection at least 30 days prior to the adoption since we're going to be publishing it probably early July. It's just so close to the end of June. more than adequate to meet that timeline. So some of the assumptions that were used in creating the budget um so 97% property tax collection rate that's very close to what so I know during co we got that abro fact that fiscal slightly over slightly but very very so I was very pleased to see how it's all shaking out payment new taxes budgeted based on 24 25 actual collections state sources biggest concern when it comes to state sources is always the categorical payments and the timing out reductions on our stuff I know for transportation have a a transportation claim and they parade that based they're 80% of whatever
038our claim is. So if we submit a billion dollars been consistent for years, but that can change has changed in the past. So I was hoping that the fiscal year using the same assumptions for the previous year, but they get out of I'm also working with colleagues find out if there's any updates on this information for that September budget. Usually by September I'm I'm feeling a lot better. But the tenative one it is tenative. It's something to change. Typically doesn't change by more than 5%. When it does change it's usually federal sources again that funding is coming to an end. We we do still have one little bit the stronger connections grant that Dr. Phil and Stephanie got us that is going on through the end of this fiscal 26. that is part of the
039ARP extension and then once that goes away that's that's the end of our federal funding less that I know of as of right well you know when I was working on the legislative report Illinois was one of the 17 states that appealed the revocation of the er and the judge granted so they blocked it so hey complaint 77 million potentially. We'll have to keep our ears open, see if there's any more to come. Salaries. So, we do budget based on actual loan increases. Uh we have some tenative numbers in there uh for the WBA and some fairly loud numbers for WSSA and non uh union staff employee benefits. Those have been updated. The one change I haven't made at this time of the project is open enrollment changes as they have been in May and
040that's those haven't been pointed through the budget but they will be through the tenative budget formal presentation uh purchase services uh feel pretty good about those I've had all my uh departmental meetings all that information has been compiled into the 10 minutes budget so I'm not going to see a whole lot of changes in those regards supplies and material same thing all the department meetings that happened. All those numbers have been put into the budget. A lot of way technology requests uh still probably have a few capital projects I want to report for the board of education. We'll see that June 26 and if approved I will put those numbers in the budget move forward with those. Some of the finer details of it though we're going to go through the revenues, property taxes. We're
041seeing an increase of 606,000. Again, that's roughly about the increase of the 2.9% that we're going to see when it comes to the actual property tax exemption limitation law, but a slight reduction. So, then I'm hopeful that we'll end the year in those tax collections right on time. Taxes brought down slightly just because again that that popped in like fiscal 22. So, close to 800,000 that we see back down prior to 2022. that was around 200,000. So just slowly extended back down hoping that I'm going to come right in line with where the actual collections are. Chris lunches and tuitions by about 95,000 predominantly related to first income. We were slightly under interest income came in pretty nice because we kind of offset the tax which which worked out very well. So, I'm bringing it
042up a little bit, not to the actual collections because based on discussions with the township treasurer, we're not going to see quite the income level we did in fiscal 25 and fiscal 26, but it's going to be so I wanted to bring it down or bring it up just a little bit, but not even where it came sources. We're seeing a reduction there was one of those pronations in fiscal 25 account for fiscal 26. So, we're seeing a slight reduction there. federal sources and they got a slight reduction. A lot of the stronger production grant was expended fiscal 25. So we have some rolling into fiscal 26 but not quite as much as we receive five along with some slight reductions in received. And then other sources of federal funds. It's a big number. It
043does look scary but that's the bond issuance refund. So that didn't happen in fiscal 25. It's not enrolled in fiscal 26. We don't have it happening in the get fiscal year. So that might go back. You're right. It does look scary. I panicked. It does. I figured it out. Almost $5 million, but that's a refunding. Quick question. I think I know what it is, but remind me what the tuition is again. Tuition. Yeah, under the interest tuition. The registration. Oh, okay. Yeah, we we charge a small registration. No, I know you do. I just was right. I for whatever reason I was saying tuition and I was thinking about like the Ly stuff and whether or not we would get any kind of reimbursement from the state for that and that's what you had in
044stuff like that but that's going to come under state sources. Okay. So that's okay. That's what I thought that was and that's what I was trying to Absolutely. You get something for pushing that paid for special. Yep. That's coming under state. That's what I was trying to clarify. That is actually the number that I that got hurried. So when we talk about a reduction of roughly 180,000 in state sources, that's what that's what it is. Thank you. All right. So projected revenues again 75 80% based on you know what other sources of revenue we have. We had a lot of federal revenue coming in. Property taxes went down to 70%. It's the federal revenues going back to pre-COVID levels. It's rising back up again. So, we're seeing that at 77.9%. It's a pretty good allocation
045as far as where our revenue comes from. Real estate property taxes are a steady stream of revenue. So, when it comes to merit expenditures, that's a good gauge of how much recurring revenue we're going to get throughout the year. State sources, federal sources, those aren't guaranteed to come every year. Grants can disappear. I've had a lot of people asking about federal grants and the what the department the education's going to what kind of impact again that's that's not guaranteed here. to try to stream or tie it in depends true that based risk when it comes to property taxes come every year that's that's the kind of money that we want to tie expenditures not to say that we can't tie expenditures to the other side but it's terrible expenditures we are seeing again a reduction
046big number but that's accelating predominantly on But our educational fund, we are seeing a slight decrease in expenditures there. A lot relating to various uh capital projects that might have occurred previous years supply purchases that were made 25. Now fiscal 26 races made a lot due to capital fiscal 25. We had some go back to the educational fund. had some technology budgeters that were higher than the the numbers that Mr. B just presented for the the current year. They've been helpful with operations maint projects but not to the extent that we're having them that service that's a large number of that 5 million comes from that all related to funding transportation fund again that's another big capital project occurred that's the one for the bathroom structure and offer We did a lot of work in
047that transportation garage. I think not stress to you how great the transportation department. Just the other day I was in there and uh one of our employees who had been there for 20 years came in. I was in the process of doing an evaluation. Why I got to use the bathroom? She looks at me. It is so weird being able to say that just not quite used to it yet. It's 20 years without it, one year with it. They're still adjusting, but they're extremely happy. retirement fund nominal increase. That's a good one to look at when it comes to salaries and gauge how it's going up. Now, this one's not going to be related to TRS, but all of our support staff and our non union have an I associated with them. If they work
048over a certain number of dollars per year, we see they still go up. can be certain that salary educational fund reduction percent so it does but it just not a good representation of 500,000 that's why it's not quite to that level because our employer committed to why we're at 1000 which is factor working cash no change there to Mac maximize our money to our working cash fund. Sort of like our savings account. We can put money into there and then from there we can pay it with whatever fund necessary. Typically going to be a capital project fund which brings us to the capital project fund. Again, we're seeing a a nice decrease there. We just again are not having the capital project. So we had fiscal six. The torque fund brought it down slightly. I
049think it's it's probably going to end up being a little high with some of the things going on. I put a little bit more in there for just again uncertainty. It's just a budget. It's not set in stone. I'd rather have a little bit more there and come in under than have not enough there have to come to a budget. Sorry, we have to amend the budget because we didn't budget enough. And then our life safety fund utilized typically that fund is utilized to maximize your building fund. They created the life safety fund which is utilized only for those items under the life safety list. But since we're not fully building fund accomplish this number to go down for roughly I I continued working so I submitted it to you. Right now I would say
050that the grand total is roughly around 500. The deficit deficit it's after capital projects that's after any technology and any transfers also which are not included in here which should be accounted for and that's $250,000 right off 89. There's a $250,000 about $550,000 the deficit even even if you're saying it's going to go down even if you're going to add you said you had to present some capital project s but again those numbers are going to be back okay because deficit I don't count for stuff that we're saving for and spending for it's still going to be an unbalanced budget okay but we knew fiscal 18 that we're going to stop going B we're going to try to what I'm looking at is if I back off all the expenditures out there that were no
051expenditures onetime expenditures I'm looking at just the recurring expenditures that's what I consider a deficit to be because we don't have revenues enough to accommodate those expenditures those expenditures will likely not the capital projects are one time no savings for them to consider that part of the deficit as that's why you have the less capital projects there at the bottom and technology as well. Okay. But again, after continuing working on it, I'm pleased that the numbers at 551 don't whole lot of change. There's going to be some fluctuation with that, but I think we'll land 551 plus or minus 5. And where does the capital where does the money for the reserves for the capital projects are they they're in more than just the capital projects from? Where do you have that money? So some
052of the money would be in build as the ground. Some of the money would be to work in cash. some of the money we did do a transfer of the educational fund over to projects transfer interest and as long as we designated it as interest every year and tell it that we're going to keep this as interest and not part of the fund balance which we do annually we get to freely transfer money throughout the I like to keep majority of our funding in the educational fund that's where 90% of our expense come from but as we need it with it 12. Thank you. Any other questions? I'll have one more detail at the varian analysis for the board of education where I go through line by line. Every account that we have and if
053it exceeds a certain dollar threshold, a certain percentage, I'll tell you why it's changing. If it wasn't able to get that information into this one, they typically like to have it in there if last year in it will be on June 26 and that's when we will approve the percentage budget at that time. Hold on. I did have one quick question. You mentioned earlier the um the state awards for transportation usually come out at about 80% um or paid out at about 80% and they can go up or down. Is there like a rationale for that? You know why at times the state will pay more? Or is it that when the state has a more balanced budget or they haven't really paid for? Are you saying typically goes down? Got it. Okay. Typically due
054to the financial conditions. Okay. Got it. How much notice do you get about those? I haven't seen a change in I would say seven years on that one. So it's been pretty consistent. Okay. I've been happy with that and I get few months. Okay. I mean, we all hold our broth every fiscal year when it starts. Are they going to are they going to get award? I do the same thing with other based market. Are they going to make any changes to that? Are they going to get the full allocation that we're supposed to get just because I know the overall condition of the state of Illinois? And uh sometimes you can change it. Questions? Any others? All right. Thank you. We'll see you back in a couple weeks. Sounds great. Thank you. Right. Next,
055we have another discussion item, no action, the board meeting software discussion. And this is something we talked about a few months ago, so we knew it was um coming, but our current uh software is Board Docs and it's expiring in uh December of 25 and they are switching to a new um company uh which Laura has laid out nicely here for us that it would be um a $2,268 uh per year price increase um which is better than we thought it was going to be, but still definitely an increase. And she has looked into um excuse me, thank you. A few other softwares. The one in the area um I think is used for quite a few is board books. I know if anyone is connected to district 209, that's the one they use. So,
056it was a little familiar to me there. the cost is um considerably less because there must have a deal as IASB members like a negotiated rate. Um is there anything you want to sort of highlight or share? Have you played around? Um I did go to I did have a um meeting with both. Um so with the new diligent it looks very similar to the way board docs is now. So there would be like