001[Music] board members. Um, is this on? Adrian today. Sorry. >> Where's Stephanie? She's Where'd she go? I can't remember. >> Uh, she's visiting grandkids. >> I knew that. >> I'm going to do her on Monday. Her and Kinda. I think Doc Pearson, Mr. Kuz Monday. >> Okay. Now, >> okay. Are we good? Yep. Okay. Great. Um, I'd like to welcome everyone uh to the public hearing on our uh the Saint Tammy Parish School Board budget. Uh before we get started, uh would you please call the role? Miss Kley, >> Mr. Green >> here. >> Miss Hansen >> here. >> Miss Rutherford here. >> Miss Font Laoy. >> Mr. Harold here. >> Miss Martin here. >> Miss Moore here. >> Dr. Peterson. Miss Baker >> here. >> Miss McCullum. Miss Lamey. Miss Hurst >> here. >>
002Mr. Bro here. >> Mr. Kuzanne. Miss Rafino Gallagher >> here. >> And Miss Gallagher will lead our invocation and pledges. the two of them. >> Dear father, let us come here today to do the best we can in making sure that our faculty, students, and staff get the things that they need in our budget. And we continue to pray that our school year continues to go seamlessly for all those in our system. Amen. >> Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Again, I'd like to thank everyone for being here. Um, I'll make a few comments. Uh, I have a little piece written here. Um tonight we're pleased to present
003our budgets for fiscal year 25 2025 through 2026. Our budgets are reviewed each year by our external auditors Leaport CPA and business adviserss during the course of our annual financial statement audit. During this audit, the budgets for the school board are reviewed for content presentation and for compliance with all requirements of the Louisiana Local Government Budget Act. The Local Government Budget Act found in Louisiana Revised Statutes 391301-1315 directs political subdivisions of the state as to the manner in which the budgets of the political subdivision shall be adopted, implemented and amended. The school board strives to be transparent and this detailed budget is prevent presented to reflect this. The school board has received no audit finding findings related to the budget. The school board is also required to submit its budgets annually to the Louisiana Department
004of Education for approval. And the school board has received no findings on the budget from the Louisiana Department of Education. And so uh tonight we are here um to hear public comments. This is a public hearing on our budgets. Um and so board members, we are uh here to listen in this hearing. Um, for the most part, we'll have our opportunity to ask questions on the budget in in uh uh future meetings. Uh, this is a chance for the public to to voice their opinions and ask questions. And so, with that, I'll turn it over to Mr. Jabby and Miss Pos to uh have some comments and can answer questions as well. >> Thank you so much, board members. M uh President Green and members of the public. Uh thank you all for being here
005and thank you for tuning in at home. As Mr. Green said, remember that this uh is not for the board to ask questions this time. That will take place at September's committee as a whole and for the uh September board meeting. This is for the opportunity for the public to ask questions of the staff of any clarifications they might need to make. Uh and again in September, the board will be asked to to place a vote on the budget. I want to begin by saying how proud I am to share this year's budget. It reflects a lot of careful planning and strong commitment to our students, our staff, and our community. The most important news about this budget is that every line is balanced. That shows that we are fiscally responsible in keeping our finances
006strong. Uh we invest in in our people. Uh we have invested in our teachers and our support staff. This year, our teachers again received a pay raise this year of $2,550 for all certified employees and for all of our support, $1,750. We're also providing every student in the district with free meals when we dedicated $1.6 million of our funding to make that possible. Our employees will also have an extra stipen this fall thanks to the surplus from this past year. Those monies will be directly given back to the hands of the people that serve our children every day. And Miss Poss will provide us with a with an accurate number in in the recent in the near future uh that will that will show the exact amount of money that every employee will receive in
007a stipen this fall. Uh we are also making smart choices with our future with $1.5 million providing uh equipment for our students, for our faculties to use. also classroom technology of $1.1 million for training and all the resources are needed to develop our teaching force every year. On top of that, we expect to get $1.1 million back in FEMA reimbursements to cover our past CO expenses that we're still waiting on to be sent back to us, but that should be coming very soon. All of this shows that we are responsible, we're transparent, and we're focused on what matters most, supporting our students, learning, and supporting our staff who make that all possible. A huge thank you to Miss Terry Post, our CF CFO, and our finance team, and all the central office board members. As
008you know, I have tasked the people sitting in this room with making cuts to our budget with taking a hard look at staffing and resources and doing everything we can to provide the budget that we're able to bring to you and to provide our employees with every bit of resources that we can give to them. So, I appreciate everyone allowing us, board members, staff, I appreciate you guys all coming together so that we can work together uh to make Saint Parish the great place it is to learn and to grow. So, with that being said, I'll turn it over to you, Mr. Green, if you'd like to ask for public comments. >> Thank you, Mr. Jabia. Um, we don't really have a signin sheet. I see Mr. Osborne and Mr. Broom in the audience, and
009so maybe you guys want to flip a coin. Uh, but I'll let Mr. Broom. How about you, sir? You were here first. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to the board for this opportunity to discuss the budget. My name is Robert Broom uh from Slidell and I do appreciate the chance to go through this budget. As the superintendent pointed out, it's a conservative budget that has a lot of details. Um it's very transparent and I can't claim it's easy to understand. It's certainly understandable and um it generated a lot of questions. So I think uh hope you forgive me if I take a few minutes or more than a few minutes to go through this budget and ask questions. Of course some answers may be not readily available but we'll get what we can
010do. But I appreciate it. What I'm going to do is going to refer to the general fund budget first and I'm just going to go through page by page asking my questions and we'll we'll get as far as we can. Let's see. This is that And some of these questions might be somewhat detailed, but I think you'll it'll be educational for the public to hear the answers. Um, on page one, the budget summary, there's a comment about special programs. And it's I don't really understand what special programs refer to. If perhaps the administration give us a couple of examples of what special programs are. >> I can answer that. Um, if you go to page six, there's a detailed breakdown of what special programs are. Um, for our school district is going to be our
011English as a second language, ESL, and preK. That's the bulk of the expenditures, and special funds. So, it's salaries, benefits, travel, materials, and supplies for those um areas. >> Thank you. Um, in other expenditures, there's community services. What was the $1 million for and why? I mean, there's a large D change in that line item. What is community services? >> Yeah, community services is made up of two things. Um, in the prior years, that's where we um recorded our before and afterare expenditures. Um we also have um a payment we make to the LSU agricultural program in there that's 32,000. That payment remains but the other um after and before care expenses were moved to a project that is considered a local grant. Um it's project it'll show up in our grant budget when I
012present that. Um we moved those items there just to count for them more clearly by school so we could see make sure the schools were making money or covering their costs. and then any profit that's left over by school is returned to the school. So, we just pulled it out of general fund and recorded it in another special fund. >> Thank you. Um on page one, the committed the line item on the fund balance summary committed to bond rating disasters. there's a a huge jump from 2324 of $26 million um where was where we had budgeted um and then we budgeted 83 and anyway could you explain why the big change there and what is involved in that line item? Yes. In years prior, 24 and prior, there was an amount that was dedicated by
013the board many years ago that was for bond rating. Um, that amount was, I believe, 26 million. Let me flip to that page. >> 26 million. So, in July of 2024, I brought a new um fund balance policy to the board where I recommended that we commit two months of average expenditures um for bond rating plus for disaster recovery. So, the calculation that is two months, the increase is the um two months of um average budgeted expenditures plus transfers. So, >> so that'll be adjusted each year based on what the the monthly budget average is. >> Okay. So, basically the principle of having a reserve is still there. It's just a >> protect Yeah. >> in a greater amount. >> Okay. On page two, uh utilities. Um I frankly was surprised to see the um
014we showed it's listed as a percentage of the total budget of 29 2.19% but it's a a 30% increase from 2324. Is there some is that what caused the huge increase? >> Yes. Um in 24 we had a small deficit. Um we um moved utilities and telephone expense to our community disaster fund to balance the budget. So they were recorded in another fund. Um for this year we started the year thinking we would need um the money the utilities and the telephone to be budgeted in the community disaster loan but um thankfully we ended in the black. So I moved those back to general fund freeing up that money in the community disaster loan for future issues. So that's the full amount of utilities. That's the actual cost of utilities for the district. It just
015wasn't recorded 100% in general fund for 24 because we were in deficit. >> Thank you. Hopefully I'll remember that answer when that issue comes up later. So I hope that won't happen again, >> right? >> Um let's see. Building repair. Um we dropped from 7.4 to 5.5 million. Um was that because 2324 was unusually high or >> Yes. Um we had incredible um AC repairs and issues in 2324 plus we had an extreme year of inflationary cost. Um so it somewhat leveled off this year and then we didn't have all the AC work that we had in the previous year. So we were able to save some money. Plus um in the building area our building insurance we were able to drop that down a million dollars. >> Okay. Perhaps that's the same answer for
016the next question. It's construction in 2324 was 4.8. Now it's two. Is that the same? >> No, that's different. Um that the construction relates to transfers to construction roofing and parishwide construction. Um we did not fund uh construction roofing in 25 and we're not funding it in 26. We're going to use the fund balance to um cover expenditures um hopefully one more year. And parishwide, as we discussed when we passed the food service free meals, we agreed to reduce that transfer from three million to two million. So that's the difference between 24 and 26. >> Ah, thank you. Um, also on page two, there's the workman's compensation. That was a substantial drop. So congratulations, but I'm not quite sure whether this workman's comp are these payments to somebody. Are they premiums? Could you explain that
017a little bit? >> Yeah, that's part of it. We're um self-funded for workers compensation. So, what happens is for every payroll check, each employee pays in a percentage, not from not them personally, but we pay it on their behalf into the workers comp fund. Um those premiums are set by an actuary. So, it's a percentage of their check. It varies depending if you're maintenance, food service, a bus driver, uh clerical, the the rates are different. So we fund that workers comp fund that way and then out of that workers comp fund we play claims, we pay an insurance premium, um administrative cost, whatever the cost may be for that fund. Um and the drop was 446 351 when compared to actual for 25. So it's a 21.49% drop. >> Still congratulations. That's a substantial drop.
018It's always good to see when our costs go down. Yes, >> Mr. Davis. Thank you. um telephone postage and advertising in 2324 it was 260k and now it's 400k. That's a a large jump. Is there some particular reason? >> That's the same as the utilities. Some of the telephone was recorded in the community disaster loan to help balance the budget and it was put back in general fund. >> Thank you. >> Or 25 and 26. >> Great. Um see on page three there's some discussions recovery of uh indirect costs through interfont transfers went from 4.5 million to 1.8 million just a large swing. Perhaps you can explain what's going on there. Um in 24 we had full ESSER funding going on the pandemic funding and for every dollar we spent we received reimbursement of course
019but we also receive an indirect cost reimbursement. So of course that year we had high indirect cost reimbursements. Um that that um program the ESSER fund was um completed in September of 24 I believe it was. So we only had a small amount of indirect costs on that program for fiscal 25 and so for 26 we will have none of that. So it's just the the um normal indirect cost that we were getting precoid um or pre-SER money um which is going to be your um title um sped money and some some other federal funds we get an indirect cost and reimbursement on. >> So the about the 1.8 is what it should be. >> Got it. So that was just a an esser artifact of esser. >> Okay. >> Um I have questions on
020the interest and unrealized gains or loss in investments on this page three. Um could you explain what unrealized gain on investments are and how it differs from interest? >> Um we invest in treasury bills mainly. So their market value is different than what we actually paid for them. So we're required by governmental accounting standards to record the actual market value and in our case that market value has been higher than what we paid for it. So we have to book that as an unrealized gain. >> Okay. Which makes it a different line item than interest. >> Yes. >> Got it. Thank you very much. >> All right. on page four, um ballots for preschool teachers, um there was a a significant change in the number of paras while there was an increase in teacher billets.
021Um reducing the paras I know would save money, but how does it impact the classroom? Okay. We don't have any prek paras in the general fund budget. So I think you're talking about >> paras. I guess I am. Yes, you're right. >> Yes. So um I believe I researched that for you. Um so for paras there were cuts to some paras. That's true. But these cuts were to the oneonone paras. So when the student that they were one-on-one with graduated, that parah was not replaced. But the paras for entire classrooms were not impacted. So this is just the one-on-one paras. We were able to reduce those. Okay. Um, okay. There is there are line items for preschool classroom teachers and preschool classroom paras. Um, the last two, you know, four lines up from the bottom.
022>> Yes, I understand. But there's nothing budgeted for 25 or 26. We were able to record all that in state funding. Um the only reason we've usually had um funding for prek teachers and the aids for prek in general fund is when the grant doesn't cover 100% of the salaries and benefits. But the last two well rejecting for 26 and 25 it did cover all the salaries and benefits of those two um teachers and aids. 23 24 it did not. >> So it's a portion of their salaries. >> Got it. Thank you. That's clarifies that. Let's see. Let's skip over that question. That didn't really apply. I'd like to see I guess there is a lot of detail in these budgets. So it's it's easy to get stuck in the weeds. I don't want to
023take too much time here. What is the tax collection pension fund fees? Okay, I Yes, let's clarify that. Um, I now understand it, but I'd like to get it explained for the public. Uh, pension on page eight, there's pension funds, fees, tax collection. Um, would you explain that to the for us? By Louisiana law, um, property taxes collected by each parish, um, by the particularly by the tax collector, which in our case is a sheriff's office, are required to take a deduction from all the entities property tax revenues, and that deduction is for pension plans. So, a percentage goes into each state retirement pension plan. It's set by law and they just take it from each payment they make to us. They remit it to the different pension plans, >> right? >> So, we record
024the expense. So, it's it's money that we're we're >> we're helping to fund those state retirements as are all governments that get property tax. >> Yeah. Just another way the state does it to us. Got it. >> Well, they also pay into teachers and school employees, so it does benefit us. It's it's may not be totally transparent to the taxpayer but ultimately it is money that we have expenses that we have incurred as a state. Okay. I'm curious I about on page nine we're referring to more partly as an example the salaries for the billets or the salaries the number of assistant principles um under expenditures in 2025 we had 87 um actual assistant principles employed. We're budgeting for 92. Could you explain why why we have we're seems like an an assistant principal should
025be a fixed number. I don't understand why. >> I believe they added some parish wides um which that varies. That could vary in any year if they need one at a school for whatever reason. That can vary. And there may have possibly been vacancies in that 87 number. Um because as when I do this budget the numbers are moving um constantly. So that's a possibility. So um but that's not a big swing. >> No, but um how many parish wide did you ask? >> It's a very good question. Two or three, I think. Two or three. And we using two parish wise to actually get through a couple schools because we didn't name permanent principles with the late changes with Mr. Favre stepping down or retiring at S High uh and the changes we had
026to make there. We use our pool of uh parish wise to fill those vacancies. So that's the the discrepancy in different numbers there. >> Okay, that makes sense. Thank you. >> No problem. >> Okay. On page on page 10, upkeep of grounds maintenance. Um, see it's it's not a huge number, but is that what does that involve? Is it contracts out for outside support or supplies or >> it's going to be supplies? It's going to be lawn maintenance mainly. Um, that our maintenance department, Dale Ror, handles that. They buy lawnmowers. They buy lawnmowers would be an equipment line, but they buy, you know, I mean, I'm sure there's fertilizer, all the things related to the actual land. >> Um, the state makes us break that out from actual buildings. So, that's why there's a separate
027line. >> Okay. And that would be does the does each school get a budget for their lawn maintenance or their property maintenance? Is this >> I'm sure there's an allocation of some sort. We don't book that way. Um, but I'm sure >> it's part of their operational Yeah, >> it's part of their operational funds. >> Okay. So, this is this is on top of what a school would pay. >> This is what maintenance is handling. The schools do have their own um that they do their own maintenance as well. >> Schools are not responsible for buying lawnmowers, weeders, those kind of things. Maintenance helps supply those things uh and fund those things. We're just in charge of keeping up our grounds and whatever disposables that we need to do those things. It's probably tree removal,
028um, dirt, things like that. We we have a lot of that go on. >> Thank you. Um, see salaries, regular trying to find trying to find my own question here. Oh, I'm on the wrong page. That's why I can't find it. Um, one thing that caught my eye was under salaries for regular ed bus drivers. Um the number of employees jumps but the budgeted amount decreases. Um that seems like the dollars went their opposite way. Is that >> it's a possibility because we had a lot of long-term bus drivers that um that retired. So the new ones come in at the lower rate of pay. Okay. So that's not unusual. >> Okay. >> And we may have had some vacancies too that are not accounted for in there. That's a possibility. >> Thank you. Um,
029next question is the maintenance ser on page 12 maintenance services for information technology. Um, we seem to be consistently spending about 1 2 to 1.5. We're budgeting 2.8 again. Um that's a 100% increase. Is there something coming up or is that just being >> We plan it is too important. So that we always have a pad in that budget because we don't know what's going to come up. Um we've just been lucky. U Mr. Bullion is um very good at keeping his cost down. So but we always like we better be planning because that's going to happen to occur quickly when that does. So you need that budget there because we can't buy things quickly on a PO or anything else unless there's a budget there. So it just protects us and it gives us
030a little pad in the budget. I mean it is a budget. >> You want your actual to be under but that's the reason for that because we we could have emergency purchases on a weekend and you you cannot with our system unless there's a budget there you can't do a large expenditure. >> Got it. So this is this is to make sure we keep everything up and running. >> Okay. Um again also on page 12 the community services operations um it says it's moved to the you know in 2324 we had a million dollars and now we have 32,000. I think you already explained >> I answered that earlier. Yeah. It moved to another fund. >> Got it. Thank you. Almost done with the general fund anyway. Page 13. Um, what is the supple supplemental
031course allocation fund and what tuitions are we paying? Is this for tuitions for faculty training or students or what? >> Yes. Um, the supplemental course allocation is an allocation we receive as part of our MFP. um we used to account for it in general fund but last year I moved it to a separate fund because we tend to get the allocations at the end of the year and we couldn't spend it all and it was rolling into general fund fund balance. So I set it up on its own. So the transfer that goes to that is the amount per the MFP and then that money is used to pay tuition for both academic and CTE dual enrollment college coursework. Um let's see Miss Langwa gave me some answers. We currently pay 12 hours of academic
032DE credit for all students in addition to the CTE DE courses. Um it's used to pay tuition to SCA approved providers, post-secary and operation spark. That's the bulk of it. >> Okay. So I could summarize that to say that it's mostly tuitions for students. >> Correct. >> Got it. >> And there's a separate fund for it in the special budgets. >> Thank you. Um, another question on this that um just I picked up at the end is what is the limited tax revenue syncing fund and why did it receive so much more transfer than the budget? Um it's just could you explain that >> we we got we received a um we did a note for Chromebooks last year late and I'd already done the budget. you have to transfer the principal and interest payments
033on that. Um, it's called a limited tax revenue bond. So, we have one for Chromebooks that was $5 million and we're also paying on a Capital One limited revenue bond that we used to buy buses with years ago. >> Years ago. >> So, that fund is accounts for the principal and interest payments and we make transfers from general fund. >> Okay. So, that is both >> right. So, that's an annual amount. Yes. >> Yeah. I remembered the buses but I couldn't remember the Chromebooks. Okay. >> All right. Thank you very much. Um, those are a lot of a lot of questions and I but I think it's it's important for the public to understand. Uh, but the general fund is is only part of what we spend. Um, so there's a whole bunch of um
034special funds that also need to be reviewed. So under this is the budgets for special revenue capital and debt service starting with the food service, school food service. Um not so much a question but a a comment that I would ask for clarification if I'm incorrect in this but I understand that school lunch funding is a concern to the board. But I would point out that if I understand the budget correctly, over 92% of the budget for food service comes from state and federal funding. And of the 8% that is funded from local taxes, most of that, if not all of it, is been dedicated in the local taxes, if I appreciate my memory and what the budget says. Is that correct? um partially but we fund a lot more than we're required to to
035fund particularly for the um what we give in MFP I think we're required to give about 150,000 and we gave 6.9 million >> okay so >> so we're coming from the fed the state it's still more than the state requires >> yes it's a lot more but we have a premier food service program compared to most districts so it makes a difference and we're providing free meals for kids >> okay that makes sense But I certainly do think it's it's a worthwhile expenditure. All right, I think I solved my own question there. Um, the next question I've got is the BP oil spill settlement fund. Um um I'm happy to see that this fund is being carefully used for a good purpose. The board dedicated this money for school security which I think is a
036wonderful way to spend this money. But we now have a school security fund intended for all sec school security services. Um, in my opinion, and perhaps you guys can offer a comment, rather than paying expenses directly, um, safety expenses directly out of the BP oil settlement fund, perhaps it would be better to do a fund transfer so that all the expenses for security is under the security fund. >> You we can't the security fund. You're talking about the SRO's and MHPs. >> That's that's funded by dedicated tax. So that can't be comingled. Um this is reported separately because it is now committed fund for safety and security. So it has to be reported separately. >> Okay. So when we say that it's okay. So that the school security funds it's for all security school security
037services but that's a dedicated tax now >> only MHPs and only uh SRO's. And that tax that we receive funds about half of that cost and the general fund funds the rest. So we have to keep that separate. >> Got it. Okay. Thank you. >> Make sense. All right. So it brings up the question on the school security fund. Um, we transfer the transfer in from general fund is the mandated tax revenue that we received. Is that correct? >> No, the mandated tax is the first line that shows tax is 1.76 mills, >> right? >> That's the that's what we received based on what the voters approved. >> Oh, got it. >> And then below that is the transfer in for the general funds portion. We always knew that we would have to pay a
038portion of it that the millillage would not cover the entire cost. >> Got it. Okay. Um we're we're showing a see I think it's true. We're showing some increase in the expected fund balance right from 1.2 to 1.7 million. That's a 36% increase in the expected fund balance. Um, is that I mean we're since we're funding it from the general fund, do we expect a 36% increase? Why is the increase in the >> because the property tax is when that we reassessed the property tax went up for that fund. So, we were able to keep the general fund contribution at the same amount. But I will tell you, um, SRO cost is projected to go up a substantial amount because we're we're negotiating contracts right now. So that number may not even cover. I did
039go high, but I'm not sure what that number's going to be. >> Got it. >> Because they're all they of course they do pay raises and they want us to help fund those raises. >> Sure. >> Rightly so. >> Yes. They're providing the services. >> Absolutely. >> All right. Fortunately, I got absolutely no questions on this long salary reserve fund. So, that's good. That's I'm sure that that's a detail. Okay, my next question has to do with the camera purchase fund, which is I think page 17. Um, sorry I couldn't get these questions to to the administration ahead of time, but um, in the camera purchase fund page 17, uh, in the last two years, our expenditures have been at or under $100,000, less than $100,000 each here, but we're still funding or budgeting over
040$400,000 a year. Expecting is are we expecting a planned expense or >> Yes. Yes. I believe we're we're planning on buying um some some security cameras for Lewis can probably answer that better than I >> that's a grant from the state and actually there was a change in the law that's going to require us to expand our uh camera installation. So we are preparing for that right now. >> Okay. When you say it's a grant from the state, will the will the 400k be funded by the state or is that already received it. We received about 600 I'm trying to remember from memory about 600,000 um in go back to my cover sheet. Um in 23 we received a substantial payment um for cameras themselves um and then we received last year we received a
041payments for maintenance. So I set that up in a separate fund, right? >> Um and they could give us another allocation. Um the maintenance one was a surprise last year. So, we I don't really know at this point, but they're not going to give us $400,000, but we have the the funds there to to do $400,000 if that's what it takes. That's an estimate. >> Thank you. >> page 17 of the special funds, >> the cameras. >> He's on the purchase camera purchase fund. Let's see. Good news is you already answered some of the roofing questions, so that's done. something having to do with the um the bond construction funds. Uh this would be page 21 and 22. Um maybe perfectly normal, but it just something I don't understand. Um, and there's a um there
042seems to be a consistent underrun in the amount of money that we're actually spending versus the budget. Is that just because the bills haven't come in or no? >> Are the contracts actually coming in less or? >> It's very hard. First of all, we're not required to do budgets on capital projects. We do it understand >> just just because basically and so it's always it's better to go high again. the same as with the IT budget because when that budget's not there and the bills come in, it's a major undertaking to change the budget. We have to go to the superintendent. So, we go high and it doesn't really matter because the capital project um funds the state doesn't even care about. We're not required to budget them. So, they're basically just a hold to
043um track our expenses. >> Okay. So, >> our goal is to try to spend the on the page 21 that's 2013 bond construction fund. Hopefully that money will be spent for 26. Um it is using that money and for 19 um for the page 22 that's the remainder of the 2019 bond issue and there will be a plan for that at some point um for what's left. >> Fair enough. Okay. >> And then the new ones the new ones are there. >> Yeah. The new ones. >> Yeah. Well C40 that's the limited revenue bonds I referred to. That's the Chromebooks. And then the new one is I budgeted that. >> Yeah, they uh I'd forgotten about the Chromebooks. Okay. Um I think I'm almost done. Page 25 on the Parishwide Construction Fund. um for for
044the public, please explain what lands have been bought and what lands have been sold for the p for the public. What there's lands sold and lands purchased here. >> Um we sold land last year. Um it was >> Lakeshore Village. It was sold and put into Parishwide. That's the 1.6 million you can see in the 2425 projected actual column. Um, as far as I know, that's the last land I can remember being sold for a very long time. Um, and then land purchase we did none last year. We had um some in the year before and I believe that was transportation m possibly the big part of it. Maybe the 2.6 >> transportation and part of Woodlake Elementary. >> Yes, you got a better memory than me. >> Correct. Okay, >> that's correct. >> But
045we and we don't have any land budgeted, but that could come up. That's a possibility. When land comes up, we try to purchase it if we can use it. Makes sense. All right. Um, you already ex So that that's that and that's that. There's a typo in there, but you'll catch that. And you already explained the limited tax revenue syncing funds. That's the page 27. So, I think I did it. Thank you very much. I appreciate the um detailed of these budgets. It it gives the public a chance to um follow along and see where the money is being spent and make and gives everyone a comfortable feeling that while a lot is being done, at least it's all being documented and shown to the public. So, I appreciate the hard work for the administration
046and the board on um following all these budget line items. Those are all the questions I have. >> Thank you, Mr. Broom, for your homework and thoroughess. And I was just sitting here thinking, you know, in my line of work, I get a lot of questions that eventually I can answer most of them and then I say, "Hey, I have to get back to you on that." But not with Terry. She she knows that budget >> and she knows >> and and on that I want to I want to say this because Mr. Broom reminded me uh after my first year, first term, first budget hearing and um I had sent a lot of my my questions and actually sat down with Terry for like an hour and we went through the budget. She knew
047it like the back back of her hand. But Mr. Broom reminded me after that meeting when I didn't speak up and ask questions. He says, "Hey, look, there are people out there in the audience, there are taxpayers that that would ask this question and would want answers that don't have access." And so I would just have the board members keep in mind that, you know, there's some things that are obvious that that Terry can answer on the phone or some in a meeting, but some of these questions a lot of the taxpayers want to know. So, you know, keep those in your back pocket for September 4th. And and uh and but I again, I appreciate your questions, very thorough, and appreciate your advice early on in my term that that there are other people
048watching and listening that might have interest in in our questions. >> Thank you, sir. >> Yep. >> Mr. Osborne, >> I'm just a in case he didn't show up. >> Would anybody else in the public like to comment? Um, have questions on the budget? See none. So, the next item on our agenda is announcements by president. And I I made some up here, but get your safe school training done. >> And then our next meeting will be the committee as a whole meeting on Thursday, September 4th. >> And there's a expulsion appeal hearing at 4 before the committee as a whole meeting. >> Okay. >> Please attend if possible, please. And so with no further business, this meeting is adjourned. [Music]