001hearing. Start out with the district information. Have anything you want to say? >> Um, no. I'm I'm recommending um that we exceed revenue neutral this year to make sure we can pay for our um increased expenses, special education, the raise we've given our staff, um property insurance, uh our declining enrollment, that revenue loss. I just want to make sure we're responsible. However, uh we're not exceeding it by much, just a little bit. So I don't feel that this is going to be a huge burden on our taxpayers and trying to be responsible and thinking about the district as well as our taxpayers and and balance both of those uh needs as well. So you guys have questions about RNR. Um please ask I'm here got Kaylee here too. She she's our on the job so
002she can help answer any questions you guys might have. She's the the number. >> Did our mills remain level? >> Our our mills are down. >> We're down on >> Yep. Our mills are down. Um so I like to think about mills in into like thinking about mill levy neutral versus revenue neutral. The revenue neutral means you're bringing in the exact same amount of dollars as you were the year before. Um your mill levy means your actual mill rate is staying the same and we are below that um from what we were at last year. Uh we've actually gone down two years now. Um last year we were below revenue neutral uh $60,000 less than neutral uh than the year before. So I think we're in a pretty good place. I think we're making a
003really good downward trend. I think we've been really responsible the first year I came in. Um things were up. We had a we got hit with a bunch of things at one time. Uh we've tried to, you know, absorb places especially with declining enrollment affecting our revenue every year. uh making decisions about personnel and uh being more efficient in other areas. We've looked at a lot of contracts, things like that to just find places that we can um cut without, you know, I I don't want to dig too much into uh details of programs, but make sure our kids still have programs, still have opportunities, and we're still doing what we need to do to teach kids. Um but as our numbers go down, um those are things we look at, especially with personnel since
004that's where we spend most of our money. So, but you can only cut so many people uh when you're still operating at this at the same um capacity that we have for a long time. So, so that is my recommendation. You guys will have to do a real roll call vote on it. Um but we can talk about questions or anybody here has questions >> questions public questions >> any public comments questions >> you fellas in the background any questions >> did your teacher talk to you about budget school budget and >> we'll tell Mr. Stabby he was here if he asked us so Are we are we comfortable to move forward? >> Okay. >> All right. Well, that will bring us to adoption of revenue neutral. Uh this is a roll call vote. So,
005a yes vote says yes, we will exceed revenue neutral. A no says we will not exceed. Correct. >> Right. Okay. >> Yes. So, I'll call everyone's name and I'll just start with Amy. So Amy and then just reply yes or no. >> Yes. >> Stephanie, >> yes. >> Justin, >> yes or no. >> I thought that's Yes. Sorry, that was me. >> Tanner, >> yes. >> Michelle, >> yes. >> Jamie, >> yes. >> Okay, motion passes. Sorry. >> Okay. Um, we'll explain it a little better for some of our board members next year. >> Thank you. >> Um, all right. So, our revenue neutral rate hearing is now adjourned at 6:04. So, we will take a 6minut break and open our budget hearing at 610. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Chicken. Okay, 610 >> everyone.
006610. We are now going to open our budget hearing. Um, once again, we'll start off with district information and we have Katie here to answer any questions. Like I told you before, we have prepared a what I believe is a very responsible budget considering some increases we're having with special education, the raises we gave, uh, property insurance, our food service increase, and then the adjustments we've made with our expenses and tried to reduce quite a few expenses that we've had over the years. Um, we have also reduced staffing to meet the needs of declining enrollment. And I feel like what we've proposed is very responsible. We've changed a few things in the budget, few line items where we're trying to take supplies out of one area more than the other and really just kind of
007clean up some of the the lines. There's so many lines in that budget. I know you guys go through them and you're like, why are there 75 lines for learning services and salaries? It's because you can you can take things out of different funds uh based on um where you get your revenue in and when you get your revenue in. So, we try to allocate different lines out of different funds throughout the school year and and they will change. So, if we're taking salaries out of 06 and we get to a place when Kayle's like, "Nope, let's start taking these out of '08 or we put administrators in this line and we put teachers in this line." So, it is complicated to read. It's a mighty big and there's a lot of codes in it.
008So, if you have any specific line item questions, uh Haley enters all the numbers for us. She goes through the budget software with us. We sat down with Greenbush, had them look it over. They spent a whole day here with us. They will then come mid year to to look at it again and give us some projections on where we're at and see if those are lining up with where we're at. And then we also bring it up to KSTE. KST gave us a great suggestion this year on our tax collection rate. Um so at the end of the fiscal year, we may not have collected all the taxes that we've levied due to delinquencies. So based on that, we don't always collect everything that we show in here, nor do we get all this
009money. This is just authority. Um if you don't have authority then you have to rep publish your budget to have authority to spend those funds that you get. So does that make sense? Okay. Anybody want to add um like said I think we were we've been trying to tighten it up a little bit the last couple of years and just make it a little bit cleaner. Um, so you will see things u from last year to this year where you might see it on code six and this year there's a blank on it but over on code eight you see an increased number over there on the corresponding line. We're just trying to make sure that it's easy to follow, easy to read and um anybody in the community could look at it and say,
010"Oh, okay. I see that you spent $30,000 on electric last year and this year you're projected to spend 45. Those are just anything that jumped at you in there. Okay, questions. Special education um we did have to transfer quite a bit of money at the end of the year. So there were required transfers. So that we do start with some cash from last year that we transferred into certain funds to prepare for the year. So you don't start with zero dollars in a fund. Uh we also don't get those dispersements all year long. We get them at certain increments throughout the year. So we have to make sure that we have cash in our um accounts so that we can pay for things right off the school uh right off the bat when the school
011year starts. Um our raises kicked in at the se September payroll. So everybody got their 5% raise starting in the September paycheck of the paycheck and uh and then the benefits um changed, supplementals change. So all that is currently in effect. We're up about $18,000 from two years ago. I think that's a pretty moderate increase over two years. Um, our tax collection rates around range from 88 to 89% collection rate. Other considerations are, you know, that we don't put in our budget necessarily. We try to find other um forms of revenue. That's why we write grants, things like that that we wouldn't be able to just bulk pay for certain things. So, there's things that we want to do for kids that we try to be responsible and and not take out of the general
012fund where we're paying people salaries. So, we do our best to stay afloat, but also to be responsible and find, you know, some other means to to help us out. There's lots of great opportunities out there for rural districts like ourselves that don't have the luxury that some districts have. There's a lot more lot more money. So >> any public comments, questions about you? >> I'm just here for government. Did you get your name? [Music] >> I heard some good stuff. >> He's impressed. >> All right. Well, since he's impressed, um, >> we just need a vote to approve the budget. Correct. We just >> just the hearing we'll approve it in the regular. >> Yeah, that's okay. >> So, anybody anything else? >> No. >> Okay. >> Um, now this time we will adjourn
013the budget hearing and we will call our regular meeting to order. So, ordering and approving agenda. Let's see what we have here. Uh, you have a 4.5 resignation >> and a 5.1 employment personnel. >> That's right. >> Correct. >> Yes. >> Anybody else have anything they need to add? >> Motion to approve as amended. >> All right. We have a motion to approve as amended. >> I'll second. >> Second. All in favor? All right. Um, that brings us to uh building needs assessment. >> Did everybody bring that? >> Yeah. Yeah. We have a big old packet. You've had it for multiple months. >> Yes. >> So, you guys have we brought it to two meetings now. >> Um, there's lots of information in there. I do have all of our building principles here to answer
014questions if you have any questions about um perspectives on any of those needs, additional needs that you guys might see that um you feel are important for us to consider or priorities in there that you really want us to tackle. You know, I think we do a pretty good job with what we've got, but I know that there's always there's always room for improvement, and I think that our budget is is a is a great place for us to consider um how we can meet some of these needs. I know money is not everything, but it it sure does help to to buy um and pay for high quality staff, high quality programs, give our kids opportunities, and um and we have to do that responsibly. that when you're considering your budget and and where
015our money is put, um I think that we tackle a lot of these things in here um with that money and I think we're very responsible with making sure our kids are getting a good education at Stamping Trail. You guys have any comments about your needs assessments or clarifications or anything? I if I was able to update mine, I would put in there our new program that we were allowed to implement because we were able to get Alison Nelson full-time. So, our specialist teachers are implementing IPS with our students. So, like third grade starts, we switch quarterly. Um Tasha actually brought me all this beautiful stuff today from KSD to update. So, um, Ashley Falls, Jess Roberts, Allison Nelson, um, and Stephanie teaching that for us, and they get that from 2:30 to 3:00. Um,
016and they do like five days on, five days off because they're kind of building the plane as they're flying it. But, it's been it's been really great. So, that would be the only addition for this in regards to the IPS question. that highlight one the preschool stuff is in there with overbrook so you don't miss the best that okay and I just think we will need to um approve we need to make a motion on the assessments yes I think the only thing I guess I'm sure it is but just to be said out loud I mean the reconfiguration considerations obviously as we look at this right I mean so we're not making any >> good >> significant investments on something that may be changing or may not we don't know but I'm just and
017I know we are I just wanted to say that out loud >> yeah that's a good point I'll make the motion. >> Okay, we make a motion. >> I'll second it. >> Michelle has a second. All in favor? >> Okay, now we are local a budget percentage adoption. Um, you recommending the 33% will be kind of what we do every year. >> Yeah, we've done this for many years. Um, all you guys just have to uh we sent it off in April, right? >> Yeah. I think we sent it off to the county in April. Let them know that we are intending to stay at 33% max. Um, so all you have to do is just vote to continue. >> Make a motion to remain at 33%. Lot second here. Okay. All in favor? budget
018adoption. I'll make a motion to adopt the budget. >> Okay. A reasonable and responsible budget has been developed based on a needs assessments, state assessment review, and all other budgetary considerations for the 2526 school year. With consideration, >> building needs assessments and district state assessment information that were used in the budget development process. I motion that the uh 25 202526 USD 434 budget be adopted as presented. >> Well done. That's a very good motion. >> I'll second that motion. >> Second. >> Yeah. >> All in favor? And the other few sentences were perfect at >> just in case. >> Okay. Consent >> agenda. Anything you want to pull out. >> I make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Okay. >> Motion. I'll second. >> Second. All in favor. >> Perfect. >> Uh
019personnel report some time. >> 15 minutes. Okay. >> Mr. President, I was trying Well, I was trying to think if I need that. Mr. Then move to go into executive session to discuss personnel employment pursuant to not elected personnel exception to comment on the open meeting will resume in the boardroom at 638 with faith pres. All in favor?