001question. Yes. Call this meeting to order the uh work session. It's not a meeting, it's a work session for Thursday, May 2025 at 5:30 p.m. Miss Administration building. Yes, sir. M. Yes. Mrs. PZ present. Mrs. Crimley present. Mr. Rosco present. Mr. Croll present. And would like to say happy birthday to Mrs. Cameron. Happy birthday. Thank you. 22 years old. 22 years old. 21. 21. I'll take that. What about 15? Sure. I think that would be obvious though. Yeah. We'll keep with the 21. All right. On to pledge of allegiance. 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. I salute the flag of the state of New Mexico. A united cultures. All right. On
002to any changes to the agenda? None. Okay. On to approval of the agenda. I'll second. Mrs. Crumbley. Yes. Mrs. PZ. Yes. Mrs. Cameron. Yes. Mr. Rosco. Yes. Mr. Croll. Yes. And with that, on to presentations. And the first one is RBC Capital Markets. Yes. Good evening, president, members of the board. Uh, I just want to confirm that you guys can hear me. Yes. Yes. Wonderful. Thank you. Well, thank you for your time tonight. You know, I'm here to discuss some uh additional and updated election scenarios. Um, you know, in my presentation, I understand that we already went through a lot of this information, so I'll try to go through uh it pretty quickly so we can get to our discussion. Um, without further ado, I'll begin to share my screen here. All right. Is everyone
003able to see my screen? So, what we're going to do is uh Joe is going to try to keep up, but we want you to continue leaving your screen on for the live stream, please. Sounds like a plan. All right. So, go on to uh slide one. This is the district's history of assessed valuation. Again, the district has seen steady growth and its AV year-over-year with your 5-year average growth rate and your 10-year average growth rate sitting at around 2%. For financial planning purposes, though, we anticipate that your AV is only going to grow by a half percent for the next 5 years and then 1% thereafter. You know, we do have some updates about the veterans exemption. Uh skipping over to slide three here. You know, we received some updated information about the level
004of disability of the veterans within uh Luna County that's allowed us to calculate or uh project a more accurate um understanding of how the disabled veteran impact will uh impact the district's assessed valuation. So, our our more recent projections is that this uh veterans exemption impact will impact the district's AV by $14.1 million or by about 2%. So, again, for our future election planning and our tax rate setting, we do take these drops into your assess valuation into account. Uh we anticipate that the veterans exemption impact will begin next year and then the disabled veterans impact will begin in 2027 or or tax year 2026. Again, as we get information about this, we'll continue to update you about it, too. You know, the next slide, we have the district's history of tax rates. As a
005reminder, the district has maintained a $5.75 general obligation bond debt service tax rate historically. So that your overall total residential tax rate has been $8.25. Our current plan of finance is based off of keeping your tax rates at their current levels. And all the election scenarios that we'll talk about tonight maintain your tax rates at their current levels, too. The next slide, we have the district's current outstanding debt. You know, the district is on a bond cycling program of issuing bonds every year and going out to voters uh every four years for geo authorization. Uh you can see in the bar chart below the district's debt is structured in a declining manner. This is what allows us to layer in future issuances without a tax rate increase. You know, your debt service payments are pretty
006level through 2028 though. So, the district's plan of finance is a little tight, you know, for the next few years, but that's something that we're aware of. And our goal is to try to roll over, you know, ex's cash year-over-year so that we can continue to maintain your tax rate at its current levels without needing a tax rate increase while still being able to go out to voters. You know, overall debt management plan. Again, the last time we went out to voters for GEO bonds is back in 2021. we have sold all of that $5 million of authorization, uh, which is why we're going back out to voters this upcoming November potentially. Um, you know, the amount of that election or the timing of it really does depend on the needs of the district. You
007know, the other thing on this slide too is that we talk a little bit about your tax rate management. Again, our goal is to keep your debt service tax rate at $5.75. That debt service tax rate though can be a blend of geo bond rate and also education technology note rate. Also, and then again, lastly on the slide, we have your legal bonding capacity. You know, the district can legally bond up to $40 million. Since we have $22 million outstanding, you know, the district could issue an additional $18 million. The reason why we're not looking at issuing an additional $18 million though is because of your tax rate capacity. So, slide seven is where we get into our election scenarios. So, first looking at scenario one, this looks at only going out for a geo
008bond election in 2025. So, you would dedicate the full $5.75 cent debt service tax rate towards the geo bonds that allows the district to go out to voters this upcoming November for $9.5 million. Scenario two looks at, okay, what if we try to target $400,000 of ETN issuances annually? It would require a 66 cent uh ETN tax rate to be able to collect $400,000 annually. With a 66 ETN tax rate in place, that would allow for a $59 geo bond tax rate. That $59 geo bond tax rate would allow the district to go out for $7 million this upcoming November and then would go back out to voters in 2029 for $8.7 million into perpetuity. I'm going to skip around a little bit and go to the next slide on slide eight just because I
009want to talk about the process of an overnight ETN uh before we talk about the next election scenario. So really what we would be doing is that you know starting in August of 2026 we would go ahead and levy an education technology note tax rate. Now I'm sure you're wondering why not this upcoming year. And the reason being is because your debt service payment for 2026 is similar to your debt service payment in 2025. And again, we've had to levy a $5.75 geo bond tax rate to be able to cover your outstanding debt payments. And we're anticipating that we're going to need another $5.75 geo bond tax rate for the upcoming year to be able to cover your 2026 uh geo bond debt service payments. Now, if we see that there is some overcolction, we
010may be able to start the education technology note this year, but we'll have to see how tax rate setting shakes out with uh peed this summer. But at the latest, we would set an education technology note in August of 2026 with peed. you know, once that tax rate is in place, um, beginning in tax year 2026, you know, tax collections begin to accumulate in the district's education technology, you know, debt service fund. Um, you know, we basically will issue the amount of ETNs depending on the amount of collections we get. Our target is $400,000, but if we collect $410,000, then we can issue a $410,000 uh education technology note. The amount of ETNs we issue depends on the amount of collections we collect throughout the year. You know, in the summer, what we would do
011then is that we would issue uh an overnight loan with the state treasur's office. And the reason for that is because the funds collected in your ETN debt service fund, they can only be used to pay off education technology notes. They cannot be used for your technology needs. ETN proceeds that you get from selling an ETN, those can be used for your technology needs. So, what we would do is that we would basically sell a one-day ETN with the state treasur's office because we already have the collections in the bank. We already have the repayment of this ETN in the bank. The day after it closes, we would pay off that ETN and it would be completely off the books. you know, doing so converts those ETN debt service funds into ETN proceeds that can
012legally be used for your technology needs. Um, we also like this process too because it just reduces your interest costs since that ETN is only outstanding for, you know, one day, you know. Then once we would get to August of 2027, we would set the ETN tax rate again with peed targeting a $400,000, you know, issuance. you know, should we go with scenario two? We would do this process every year with the state treasurer's office. Going back um to the slide before, you know, scenario seven or sorry, slide seven. Scenario three looks at what if we skip the 2025 election and instead we go out to voters in 2027. You know, because we wait a couple years, um that gives us some capacity. you know, your debt will continue to mature in 25 and 26
013so that by the time we get to 2027, you do have more capacity. So that's why we have a $12 million, you know, election in 2027, slightly higher than what we would be able to go out for in 2025. Now, the thing with this though is that it can be kind of tricky to um manage a tax rate without having any uh geo bonds to uh issue. So you can see that, you know, for the total debt service tax rates, you know, tax rate for tax year 2024 has already been set at $5.75. You know, because your next year's debt service payment is about the same, we'll be able to justify another $5.75 tax rate. But, you know, starting in tax year 26 or calendar year 27, we'll start to see that tax rate potentially
014go down to $5.62 and then even lower to $5.50 50 cents in tax year 27 or calendar year 28. Now, some of the tricks we have up our sleeve to avoid the district's tax rate from dropping would be that for one, we can try to prepay your debt. Um, and then the other option, too, is that we could levy a small education technology note to really fill in that gap so that your overall debt service tax rate would continue to be $5.75. You know, I just want to emphasize that we really want to try to make sure that your tax rate continues to be $5.75 because even if it were to slightly drop down to, you know, $562 or or $555, you know, if we go back out to voters in 2027 for a tax
015rate of $5.75, we would have to communicate to them that, you know, it's a tax rate increase even though $5.75 has been the historical average of your tax rate. So, you know, all three of these scenarios we're more than happy to work with. It really just depends on the timing of uh your capital needs and also depends on the amount of your education technology needs. Also, you know, that really does uh conclude my presentation. You know, I know I went through a lot of information pretty quickly, so I'm happy to go over any part again, and I'm also happy to go into further depth about any of the election scenarios if you have any questions. When do we got to decide this these scenarios? Yeah. So, the deadline um we really would want the district
016to approve the resolution for the election by your July meeting. Um, I want to technically say that the final date for an election resolution to be filed is in the mid of August. I think it's August 15th. Um, but generally the sooner the better, but we still definitely have plenty of time. Um, we can, you know, approve at your June or your July meeting knowing if if we could. just that if we're in a position that we're able to maybe push it out to 2027 just to um allow us more wiggle room and then see what happens with this with these taxes and the exemptions that are that are coming up and see if Yeah, she was talking about Yeah. Um you know, if I may. Yes. Yeah. So, again, we're well aware of the
017veterans exemption. Um, again, going back to slide three, we've run an analysis and we believe that it'll force your HV to drop by about $14.1 million or by about 2%. So, we're aware of this and this analysis is included in our uh election projections. So, you know, all of our election scenarios anticipate this drop in your AV2 so that we can avoid that tax rate increase. You know, the other thing I'd like to mention too is that, you know, although, you know, we may ask voters for geo authorization, we are not required to issue it even though we have that authorization. So, we can go out for an election this upcoming November for, you know, $9.5 million or that $7 million. And who knows, maybe the veterans exemption comes in a bit more um aggressive
018than we anticipated. If that happens, then we don't have to issue all of the authorization in order to avoid a tax rate increase. Yeah. Because I'm sure if it said what it said so far, but I'm sure there's going to be some some movement with it, you know, in the next year or two and, you know, that could equal that or spell that out as far as like what it's actually going to look like versus what they've what they've told us on the front end. Yeah, we've tried to use very conservative estimates. um you know, veteran or the um the the second amendment that just raises the veterans exemption from 4,000 up to 10,000. You know, that one's pretty straightforward. We anticipate that that'll impact her AV by um a little bit over $4.3 million.
019But the disabled veteran is a little bit more tricky to um project just because, you know, we only have uh information about disabled veterans for Luna County and not specifically within the district's boundaries. Um we've tried to use very conservative estimates for that level of disability though. I mean, is there is there something glaring right now district-wise that we need to to need the money for this this year? Mr. President, members of the board, um the reason that we were looking at specifically scenario two is for the one to keep the tax rate the same, right? The other is for the uh tech note of the $400,000. The main focus on that technote would be to continue our onetoone uh laptops that we have at the high school. Historically, we've been paying for that money
020out of title one, but title one money continues to reduce and our, you know, the raises and everything continue to increase the need for title one. So, it's getting tighter and tighter to figure out how to how to fund that one to one laptop program that we have for the high school. And so what this $400,000 does is it it gives us a long-term uh solution basically to continue that program at the high school and anything that's in addition to this because right now that the the one to one's is about $250 to $300,000 depending upon, you know, with everything that's going on that we're kind of looking at that rate. anything that's el anything that's addition to that then we're going to be refreshing the computer labs that are throughout the district and other
021areas and or refreshing other computer uh servers etc that that we need. So that's that's kind of that looking at that from a different perspective um on as far as the needs and then the the $7 million as far as the the go bond we would just uh look at the the facilities master plan that has been approved and and look at the needs for that. Um and and was what was mentioned is we don't have to necessarily issue the bonds. We just need to go out for the election and then we can adjust to issuance later on as we need it in the next four years basically. Which scenario is it that you are two? So So which one that one puts in that would be a 2025 go. So we would we would
022redo it again this year basically is what you're saying. So we would we would issue that in 2025 so it go out to go out to voters in November. In November. Um, now as I understand it and and and RBC can correct me if I'm wrong, we would go out to the voters with the $7 million election, but that the tech bond we can go out to, you know, we can mention it there or we can just do it without going to the voters on I don't want to have another issue where we don't get it gets voted on. You know what I'm saying? Like we can do it without have using the voters to just do it. I mean, the the seven million you do have to do that, but the the 400,000 uh
023each year you would not. I think scenario three is just too risky with your tax rate going down rather than expecting people to be okay with it going up. And and that's exactly the reason why we wanted to do something. Um and so the the discussion was with the the technotes so that we can continue that onetoone program uh that we've been doing for several years at the high school. technology costs in order to just go up. Yeah, exactly. And that's that's why I say I go back to, you know, the dust hasn't settled yet with with what they what they've done and this possible reduction and but it's going to take another year for the dust to settle and then they're going to make tweaks to it and they're going to be like, "Oh,
024well, we changed this and we changed this and now you got to got to contend with this." And so, yeah, I think we need to be kind of just in the middle of the road and not be one needy one way or the other. Is there anything else that's pressing that we need or we're good? There are some issues. Um, I'm sure you've been told about um, you know, Columbus, we just replaced the HVAC system over there because the geothermal was is going down. RST's got the same thing that's going on. Baton's got the same thing. They're not quite there yet, but they're they're headed that direction. As I understand it, um, RST already has one of the four pumps down. If one more goes down, we're not going to be able to operate in
025in the heat because we had to close school one day because it's too cold, right? Just for that. So, uh you know, your facilities master plan, I know that's part of it. There's some other things that are that is part of that facilities master plan that that we're we could use the the funds for. Um, but being a four-year election, you know, you could spread some of that out to meet the needs that that you need, but not necessarily overburden the um everything else in case, like you say, something else happens that the veterans come in a little bit higher than expected, we could still work with that. Okay. So, if um if it were to go out to voters and it wasn't approved by the voters, what what would that look like? How would
026that change the whole scenario question? Yeah, more than happy to answer that. So, you know, if voters do not approve at this November election, we can go out for a special allmale and ballot election in the spring. You know, technically state law does not allow us to bring the same question to voters, but you know, generally bond council's opinion is, you know, if we asked for $9.5 million in November and that failed, well, we can ask for $9.4 million in the spring and that's fine. It's still technically not the same question. You know, our other option then too is that we would just wait until the 2027 regular election. And in the interim, we could try to manage your tax rate, you know, through levying whatever education technology note rate would be needed to keep
027your tax rate level or by prepaying some of your debt. It's likely to be approved, I would say. But we got to make sure we push it out there. It's for the kids and you know I think if it's if it stays the same I think that's that's too we're not trying to increase anything just trying to maintain what we have and maybe it needs to be worded that way it's staying the same it's just and usually whenever we have the flyers we're advertising that we do you know that it is a maintain maintenance of the the rate not an increase. Yeah. Now does this include more than our students? Does it include our teachers and Paul in this improvements in technology? Yeah. Well, and technology can be spent on anything that the district needs
028technology. So, it can't be just teachers or just Okay. So I mean our our main focus or my main thought on this is for the one to one students but given a 400,000 versus like I said it's normally about 250300 in that range that gives us about $100,000 to do additional uh technology things that is needed either for students or for staff. Thank you. If I can add to that too, on slide 13 is the statute for uh education technology note use of proceeds. Um, let's try to get next the following guess in June and get it over with. We have to we have to do a a walk through next week or on it or do we or whatever they call it the talk about it. the first read or first read or whatever.
029Do we need to do anything or we just approve it and we approve it next week? I I think this is just a a board approval once once we put the resolutions together. Let's just approve it next week. Is next week too soon or should we do it next month? That's it. Because I think part of that too is the sooner we know what's going to happen with it, the more time we have to get the information out. It's probably better and and get um you know, it done in May, our staff is still in in the building. You know, all the staff is still there. We can start getting that information out as to what what is trying to be done with these That would be a good for them to look forward to.
030All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Um should you have any questions, you know, please don't hesitate to reach out to myself or any of my colleagues. Um, you know, additionally, once you guys have decided on election amount, you know, if you could let us know, that way we can kind of get the ball rolling with bond counsel, um, you know, next week is, uh, definitely doable for an approval, but to get you guys everything needed in time. We'd need to know by, you know, either tomorrow or by Monday. Sorry, what was that? Yeah, for uh an approval next week, if that's what the board would like to do, um we would just need to know uh which scenario you would like to go with by tomorrow or Monday to
031give bond council enough time to draft up the resolutions. Oh, okay. [Music] Forward. The green is there's a district one. That's what we're going to do. Okay. Good afternoon, President Rosco, members of board. I am here to present on our child development center and give you some information. Thank you. That we're looking at school year and Mrs. Reinhardt, Mr. N, Mr. at any point in time you want to jump in, please jump in. Okay, so just kind of an overview of where we're where we've been, the struggles we've had. Um, the original vision and expectations based on the information I was directed for and the grants that we received, the child development center was supposed to be a monastery dual language early child program from birth to three years old for staff. The first grant
032we received was specific to um an organization who needed um child care for their staff. The second grant we received was um a teacher retention program that was based on dual language um and early childhood. And the vision was to go from birth to three years old. Um the grants were written in the fall of 2022. I believe I was hired in April of 2023. I have from April and originally the end date was June. We were supposed to be open in June of 2023. Um that didn't happen. The they gave us several extensions. We ended up opening it up finally with ECD's all their approvals um through lensure in November. um district financial support. In the very beginning, it was the understanding that the district would be able to support the center if the
033funding didn't um completely reach what we needed. So, if there was any gaps at that point in time, um it was the understanding that district would be able to support it somewhat. Um my job, duties, I came in as a childare lead. They switched me over to assistant director of extended learning services. Um I received a center with the expectation that that would be a minimal part of my job once it was I was only supposed to run the budget. Um I'm also in charge of the community schools after school program, summer camps, high dosage tutoring, um trying to think of everything on my list and I'm just I just picked up attendance. So I'll be taking over attendance for next year. uh challenges. Once we got the ball rolling, we discovered um that the
034district could not financially support us because it was not a K12 program and because it was early childhood, the district was not allowed to put any kind of of financial support into the center staffing because we hired in we started hiring in September and with the very specific monastery dual language early childhood um program ideas, it was very difficult to fire hire staff. Um my first round of staffing I had two applicants for my teachers. Um so that was has been a a a difficulty and of course the ECB requirements have been very difficult and I'm going to go into a little bit more on the requirements. Um they were not at the forefront at the very beginning because we didn't realize we were going to go into the what's called focus which provides us
035our additional funding. The very beginning, the idea was that we were just going to have teachers self-pay and they were going to be charged 640 a month. What year did you say that it opened? November of 20 23. Yes, I want to say 23. I think the grants were written in 22 and I came in in April of 23 and then in November we finally um and then again going back to my job duties, I'm spending a lot of time at the center. I have to fill in subs have been very difficult. Um our our teachers work eight hours days and subs do not want to work eight hour days. They want to go home at 3:30. We open from 7:30. We close at five. Um so we've had a difficult time with stuff. So
036I've had to fill in a lot for my teachers. You talk about the district financial support. From my understanding it's a component of PED. Correct. Because it's not K12. So PED won't fund that. Right. PE won't allow us to use any kind of funding operational or otherwise because we are our our district's a K12 district. It's not meant to serve it's not meant to early childhood. So yes, that's correct. It was a p it was a p thing, not necessarily a district thing. No, with with that though we do have in a prek program that we that we do here, but that is a separate funding source from the state of New Mexico and that is for three and four year olds. Okay. Okay. So who will serve as of June? So we have some
037kiddos who are be aging out. We can't take anybody after three years old after they turn three because of lensure. Um we don't have enough space. We can only have two classrooms and three-year-olds cannot be housed with anybody under three. So um we had to drop it to just six weeks up through two. Um so we will have nine infants and four toddlers. Our center can hold 11 infants and five toddlers. um toddlers being two-year-olds. Um but we have two empty spots that will be open and one toddler spot that is open. Staffing, we have um as of June because we are losing some teachers, we only have three teachers that have their children at our center and 10 support staff support staffs looking like EAS, nurse assistants, uh community schools. This is the staff
038that use the center, not the staff that work at the center. Sorry. Sorry. Confusing, but it's all staff. Right. Yes. So this is who our parents are. The parents. Yes. So one of the questions I have is um the parents who are in they could receive a site. So that is what we ended up doing. So when you did the numbers 640 16 kids it was not going to cover salaries. So then I started looking into other funding sources. I started jumping on the early childhood zooms they have every month and I learned about focus and the childcare assistant. The child care assistance pays far more than what um we're charging our teachers for example of at right now we're at a two plus star and for an infant we get a,50 but we're only
039charging our teachers 640 um and then a toddler drops down to like 865. So the more stars you get, the more money that the state will give you. But that's only if our staff qualifies. So as you see, we're starting to drop down because our teachers can't afford to pay 640 a month. So now it's becoming more of support staff because they're able to get the childcare assistance. And that is really what's floating the center is the government. Um so 188 staff. So, we have 10 staff members who have 188 day contracts and we have three staff that are 240s and then two self-pay and 11 childcare assistants. Now, for the funding to work, we have to keep the center open for 12 months. We need to be getting that income all year round. Um,
040we did talk about dropping to the 188, but that drops us down to 10 months and we're losing two months of income. So, they pay regardless if they come just like every other childcare center. Um, so that helps us to maintain some of that funding for our salaries. Any questions on Well, and it helps if uh parents have a certain place all year long rather than having to get two months down to figure out what they're going to do differently. And we do have a lot of we have a lot of teachers um and support staff who do run summer programs. So they do or or they go to training. So they do have a place for their their child during the summer if they if they need it. We do drop in numbers during
041breaks. Um we typically have about six kids during breaks as opposed to the whole like well right now we have 15. Um but we still we're still getting used regardless. Yes. So there in their contract it says regardless of holidays or vacations or or breaks or when days that they still have to pay. And then our self-pay staff theirs is um payroll deducted. So it comes right out of their paycheck. So either we get it straight from the state or we get straight from their paycheck. So projections for next year where I'm going is dependent on how many stars we have right now. So once I made two plus stars in January of 2024, I got to apply for a focus training. So focus starts in the fall of every year. So I started in
042the in October cohort. Um there are several requirements in moving up in stars. So I've had to do last October started um Zooms. So I've been doing Zooms on Saturdays and Wednesday nights. Um I think the issue is they used to be during the day, but a lot of child care centers work at their childare center. So they can't step away from the kids to do the Zooms. So I've been doing these Zooms, twoour Zooms every in the beginning it was every two weeks. Now it's monthly so that I can get to a point where I can verify and apply for higher stars. So to get to four stars, we're at two plus. We're going to have to skip three and go straight to four so that we have the funding to be able to
043provide for our salaries. Um, and this is kind of where we're at. I've got three more months of these Zooms. My last Zoom is June 28th. So as soon as that Zoom is over, I can apply for a coach and then apply to verify to get moved up and starts. Um, online trainings. I still have about 17 more hours of online trainings that I have to complete. teacher requirements. The teachers have to have six credit hours of childhood courses. I have one that's met that already and one who is currently in classes trying to get those out credit hours. Um online, they also have 24 hours of annual training they have to do plus one, two, three, those four trainings they have. Um our EAS also have to have the same trainings. And then the
044structural requirements in order to move forward is is this is kind of my one of my big concerns is that we have to do three parent conferences within a year and each one of these parent conferences has to have four sets of observations four months apart. So I don't know if they will qualify us even though we've done it. It hasn't been four months apart. So that's that's kind of unnerving for me. And so I'm I'm hoping to work with the coach and she'll help us through this. Going going back to that that last slide, the training that's required there, how does that compare to a teacher, a director, an EA at a school site? Is that pretty similar? I have never done this much training in my life. And it's not exactly the best
045training. It's sitting on a computer clicking, you know, it's a lot. And the reason I asked that is is is the squeeze worth the juice, right? Well, is what I'm what I'm trying to get at. Our prek teachers have to get in associates. So, that's their that's the only other group that are kind of required to do additional training. A prek assistant, a kinder EA, no. If they're hired, if they take their PAR educator test, they're done with training other than what we as a district required. And the the prek teachers have trainings. They don't have kids on Friday afternoons. So they do a lot of training. That's why that's important to have that time for the trainings they have to give them. So our dilemma becomes that we can't close the center for them
046to do those trainings because of the fact that those are staff kids who need to be at work and that's why we're open so that their their parents can work. So we can't close down to allow them to do these trainings. We don't have the funding to bring them in on a Saturday and do these trainings. So that becomes trying to to kind of juggle the amount of time. Okay, you do an hour here. And I do have one EA that is a floater. So, she floats between the classrooms whenever we need it. She covers lunches. She covers um the teachers prep times. And so, they kind of alternate out in these like one-hour increments and that's if everything goes according to plan and nobody's out. It was stressful like parent teacher conference days with
047the district. Yes, that was hard. The first parent teacher conference day we tried to meet let all the st we cover we kept the center for all the staff so they could follow their school schedule. The second time we're like here's the hours you'll have to find if I didn't because we can't afford it. It's too though you were sticking you were going to six to six or whatever. But that was every school was open at a different time. So it's not like on Mondays and Tuesdays I could stay late. It was all week. So I was trying to figure out okay can I can I pay overtime? Okay they work too many hours. what days am I gonna come in early so that I could get them to Andy covered a lot. It was
048just hard. It was hard. It was hard. So, which appreciated it, but it was hard. Yeah. So, like with the EAS, let's say an EA for for this for the the childcare center versus an EA at at elementary school. Does it pay the same? Yes. So, we are paying our EAs $15 an hour, but they are required to have a CPR certified. They have to have their food handlers card. Um they have to do a health and safety training. Um they have to have two different background checks. Um all and and what I'm getting at is that if is it a situation that you're like I don't need that headache. I can go make the same doing something hours and less hours a day. Eight hours down in their salary though. So the additional hours
049do help them make more. Um, and they're open 240. So they they are getting more money. Um, but it's a lot. It's a lot. Is the pay comparable to what they're making with the Head Start because the Head Start people have to I stole one of the Head Start teachers. My infant teacher, I stole her from Health New Mexico and she's making $100 less with us than she was with Health New Mexico. And a lot of that has to do with benefits because they don't provide benefits. So even though her her hourly rate was higher due to all the benefits she's making $100 less than what she was making over there. Does this fourstar requirement process is that something that stays with the center? We get annual forever or is it associated with you? No
050the center. Okay. Yes. Not associated. It's with the center. But it's an annual checkup basically every year and you can put all below that licenser is in the building all the time. just barely actually just got um inspected and we passed. So that was great. I was surprised because usually they come in and there's things to work on and she's like they said, "Nope, you did great." So that was good. But that was just like a health and safety check. So they do health and safety checks and then they also come in and do um like focused as far as instruction and stuff. So So in order to be able to be solvent and make money, you need to have more people to break even make money. So yeah, it's we have to have more
051staff to have more people. You can't have more kids without more space and you need a bigger building. We need a bigger building. I was quoted about what last year, two years ago, I was quoted a half a million to add another classroom and another bathroom and that would be the only way we could grow because we're kind of we're at now fivear when you get to five star there's more money. We're not thinking five star yet. So that's why head starts are able to involvement because they have lots of students and they have a lot less we're we're we are juggling ECED focus and head and district. So when you talk about other centers they don't have to do the benefits we have to do so then they don't have as much open yet
052and they have a lot of federal grants as well that they can get through help. Yes. Are there enough um spaces with health New Mexico? They have much bigger classrooms and they also have two teachers in every classroom. So they don't have any EAS. They have two teachers that divy up all this workload, right? So it's not as hard on because historically they had a huge waiting list and they do they still have they do and that's specifically because of the requirement for um low income. Low income. Yes. foundation. Okay. So, where are your kind of back to the benefits? Um, there's one slide that we we present to uh directors and principles and such about, you know, whenever you want to pay a stipen for some some extra duty that a teacher is doing,
053they have to add 28% in benefits to that stipen. And that does not include any health insurance or any of the insuranceances. That's strictly ERB, FICA, Medicare, all of those things that are that are required, retired healthare cost, etc. So, back to their point, if they're getting better benefits, but it's it ends up less money. So, where we at? So, we're currently a two plus star. I made two stars and then because I joined focus training, they gave us a plus. So, we're funded as a three star. But technically we have to verify as a three star. And so what that looks like is in July once I get my focus coach I get to apply to verify which takes the 45 days up to 45 days to come visit the center and to inspect
054it. After that they have 90 days to make a decision on whether we get it or not. So let's say we skip three stars and we go straight to four. If I verify for four, I don't make it. I'm stuck at two stars. They don't say, "Oh, but you don't." So they drop you all the way down to where you were originally. So it's kind of like, okay, we can go for three stars. I'm confident we'll make three stars, but then you get the time and the funding that comes with it. So, and I'll show you a breakdown of what we need to happen. Um, my training, I think I told you guys all of that already and I talked about the staffing. Okay, so this is my projection. Now, if this is like best
055case scenario, no kids drop out, we're fully enrolled and we make four stars by November, I'm projecting 27,300 for the year. That's the current approximately for our current rating at two plus stars. We get about 15,000 a month if we have all our our kids enrolled and no one drops out. Once we move to four star, we'll get approximately 18,900. And just kind of comparison annually at three star with our 16 kids. Um I keep I keep my self pay at four, no more than four because I need the funding. Um and then it's the 11 toddler uh infants because we paid more for infants and then the five toddlers. Um four stars, a full year of four stars will make us 226,800 and once we get to five star it'll be 282,300. I do
056get the grads grant where they gave us $5,000 for supplies and materials. And this year they gave us 5,000 to for intern compensation. We do have a father from the high school who comes to the center for about an hour a day and he helps out with the kids. Um he cleans anything we need him to do. Any questions on revenue? I mean that just the just the overall jump you go back one slide from the three stars to the five stars is I mean it's it's a big jump. It is a big jump make make all this amazing and and a lot of it has to do with my staffing too. Are they able to complete the trainings? Are they gonna are they gonna stay because is an issue? Yes, definitely. Okay. So, this
057is what I'm projecting for our budget. We will have about 30,000 in carryover. If I'm doing this correctly, Joe, you got about 30,000 right now. Let me do the till the end of the year. We'll see. She's I'm still bringing money. Hey, what happened to the check we're going to get from what's his name? Uh the senator uh did he write us a check yet or no? I haven't heard anything about that. gets distributed through the state and it's not very just asking. Just asking. So, I'm hoping to have about 249 for this year and that's if everything goes according to plan. Um I I had to really be creative the last two years because I knew right away the funding was going to be an issue. So, I ended up um convincing one of
058my grants to extend a year because both of the grants were supposed to only be a one-year grant and that was it. So, the second grant I convinced them to extend it a year and I saved all that funding. Um, and that was how we ended up with enough to make it through this year. Thank you for doing that. I wish I would have known that you did that because I didn't know that you did any of that. So, she's amazing. She is amaz She's I think we were asking for this information for the longest time and you weren't getting it. So, thank you. I'm sorry you didn't get it. Shake your hand. I'm not blaming you. We really didn't we didn't know any of this. So here okay so this is where currently their
059salaries are at. I have three a and two teachers. Um and we're currently at 230. That's what their 4% increase that that is their current. We are not going to be able to float this next year obviously. So we have some options to discuss. None of which are any order of preference or anything like that. It's just from highest to lowest I guess. Um so the first option is it stays under learning services. I remain the director. There you go. One more. There you go. Okay. Um the center the staff move to a 2:30 contract and we flip them. So 2:30 is some of them will work summer and some of them will work um holidays. That way the center stays open and even though those days are going to be lower kids anyway, we'll
060still have the ratios but we're still able to keep it open all year. So we rem maintain that funding coming through. Um but one of the EAs will have to switch to a sixth hour. Um I need that 5A because without them we can't cover lunches and we can't cover prep times and prep times are required by the state. They have to have two hours in order to um meet lensure. Um the challenge of that is me. I'm paid out of operational amongst some other grants but a big question operational which technically the district can't fund me to do. So that is one challenge. Um time to complete the required training is another another challenge. So that's option one. That's a repeat option. Sorry. And that's what that looks like without my salary in it.
061That's just the staff. So that drops you about 208 and that's maintaining the 4% at the 230 days. And we're still over the 207. But yes, but the 207 was based on a perfect world. Perfect world. A perfect world. Yes. With all seat films. But the blended it's five months of one and yes assuming you're going to get the four stars and assuming you know the training is done perfect we don't live in a I try really hard though we have tried hard for so option B um is a little bit more pricey but it kind of takes away some of that liability of the district is transitioning my infant guide into the in she's in we call them guides because that's a monatory term. And we had issues with teachers thinking that it was
062open to teachers and there's a huge salary difference in those. Um making her the supervisor and and the infant teacher. So she would be doing both roles. Um she's already she's working on her associates. She'll have her associates in December. So she has all the educational requirements needed to be the director. She's already done all of the trainings that I'm supposed to be being done. Um she's already certified to do classroom observations uh using ears and she's in the infant classroom and there's only six students in the infant classroom as opposed to the 10 in the toler um so it's a little bit easier for her to walk away with her as long as her EA is in the course. Question. Yes. When you said that option B um helps with the exposure liability of
063the district, is that because we are not supposed to be paying you. So is that audit findings of okay they're not really supposed to be so basically you're moving away from it and doing something else and having this person be in charge. Yes. I would still run like the budget part of it probably the HR budget like the overseer that's but all of the instructional part like all of the trainings and the um compliance parts of what has to happen for lensure would now be on her. So, it's because you're paid out of operations. Yes. But unexpectedly, your job duties now are including a lot of this. Yes. A lot. What percent of your time you spend? Yeah. What? Um, I'm there every morning for two hours. That's what I do at the center. And
064that's just a check in, make sure everything's good, go through things with my staff. Um, it is very noisy in there. I don't know if any of you been in the in the building. It's a tiny office and you have a lot of kids screaming. So I have an office at Florida Branch and that's where I go to do all of my office work. So I'm also doing ethics which is all of the funding for it. I have I'm working on the trainings. I'm dealing with any kind of student issues, any kind of staff issues. She I'm running the center. She handles all staff issues. And so that works for that workound with paying you out of operations to so that it's not out of the line items for this exposes the district to problems.
065How come we weren't told that they don't want us to know that? How come we weren't told about that? That there's I can't answer that. Yeah, they can't answer. Sorry. Fine. I understand that. But you know, anyway, you probably should have been. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for being aware. The main goal was for me not to. I was supposed to just set it up and then I would And please don't take the the questions. Please don't take them the wrong way. We're just trying to understand. Yeah. It's nothing against you. It's just trying to figure all this and wrap our head around some of this stuff because we didn't know this. So in in this scenario here, the person who is going to be running it, do you feel like they're educ educationally able
066to do educationally? Yes, she is young. I'll admit she is young, but she's been teaching me. She was from um she was Yeah, she was and she center. Besides the building, we would have no and paying them and doing all that other stuff. We wouldn't have no responsibility. They would handle their own little things. I mean, we be in charge, but obviously, you know, I just went through the instruction part of it. So, all those and my name wouldn't be on the director part of it at the state level because right now I'm the director of the center on the licensing through EC. So, it would be her. It would be her. Is is there an option C? There is an option. There is an option, but But I got a question with option D
067so we can get down to the nitty-gritty. Can we afford it? That's where I'm going at. So is this more pricey? Because I would have to give her a bump in pay. That's under a perfect because of the fact that she will be she'll be taking on a whole lot more duties than she is right now. Um so I would bump her up one one up. So she'll be making 22 as instead of the 21. Um, that would drop that EA part-time to six hours instead of eight. And but we're still looking at 216,000. That's just salary benefits. That's just salary benefits. And then we're really we're really supplies hardly on Brad's for their supplies and material. Have you projected out what it would look like overall? What would would we be in the hole
068every year? About how far how far in the hole how far in the hole? Well, I mean in a perfect scenario, you were at with four stars, you were at what? 27 that was the the lended lend. So So four stars, we would be at $226,000. So we would perfect world now. Exactly. Perfect world. Now each one of these scenarios is north of $200,000. And that's if nothing changes. In a perfect world, salaries only. That's not any any type of supplies, anything like that, we'd be applying on grants for those supplies. And so if four stars don't happen, if somebody drops out, if a staff member leaves and we can't fill that right away, we lose students. All of those variables come into play whenever we start looking at all of that stuff. What's the
069what the ball is? Yeah. What's Give me an idea. What's that idea? What are the other expenses ballpark? Oh, well, so for meals, we don't do anything with meals because our parents have to bring their own meals. So, we're looking at just basically wear and tear stuff. Cleaning supplies to be surprised how clean supplies are. I'm paying about 500 bucks a month on cleaning supplies because they have to be constantly sanitizing. Um, but we have stocked up pretty well as far as instructional materials and toys and those kind of things. I wanted to get what I could with the grants and I just we bought a beautiful storage in the back and we have everything stored back there um knowing that eventually the funding would be wouldn't be in there. I think the scariest part
070is making sure we get that four stars which that's the biggest just that's the biggest gamble because if we don't get that four stars we're in it's like we'll do I don't know what almost like playing the stock market like well hopefully can it's just like well hopefully we're not going to do a but all I want to do is what about B all I need to know is where how much money are we in the hole with that's you buddy how how How much are we on? How much are we in the hole with realistically? It doesn't have to be perfect. What do you think? 30,000 on the cap. So, so if if you're talking year-over-year with with u was salaries and some supplies where you're talking about $500 a month, which I think
071is is low. You're probably breaking even at a perfect scenario at a perfect world. Perfect world. In the real world, in the real world, every student that you lose is now a loss. Can I ask something about the meals? There is a reimbursement program for me. There is, but we don't have a kitchen. And in order for us, so we didn't have we have a refrigerator and we have a microwave, but we don't have an actual kitchen or the ability to cook any of that. So the set the originally the plan was was to just tie into the district and um nutrition was going to provide all but then nutrition found out that they weren't licensed to serve anybody under three. So that couldn't happen. So then we looked to help New Mexico and they
072wanted a lot of money per kid. They wanted between eight I think it was $8 for breakfast and 10 bucks for lunch per child. She's going to give us So we just let's see option C. Yeah. Okay. All say is discontinue the center. That's I mean so but we would finish we would finish the year. We would finish the year. Yes. Um what would happen with the kids? The kids and so staff members we'd have five staff members to place within the district somewhere. Um all items purchased from grads and we've spent about 30,000 from grads because they gave us a $20,000 startup grant last year. Anything purchased with grads has to go back to grads to the high school. It wouldn't go to the high school. This is childare. It would go to their
073district offices to court. They wouldn't even let you take it to the grads at the high school. No. And I want to say Josie, didn't you say that happened once before? We've not I'm not that there was a separate program. There is a separate program for the high school. And as I understand it, sometime in the past that did this the the grads program and the high school did this continue. All of those supplies were sent back to to Coral. the grads program did come back to the high school and they got their stuff back because they, you know, it's still part of the program. They make it so complicated. It's difficult. You gave it to us, just let us have it, you know. Yes. Um, and then the last thing would be was supporting
074our families and buying childare. So, I would reach out to the, you know, the other centers within the district and see if I could help place their kids in other centers, you know. Um, and there was not a lot of the only thing I'm going to ask I like seeing a lot and this is the only issue. We have obviously some amazing staff that you currently have right now. That is my biggest I would make sure that we I mean we we have openings here. We got to make sure we place them somewhere. I mean I think that's only right. That that's not easy. No, I'm not saying it is. That's not what I said. Yeah. Let's try to see if we can find something. He's talking about staff staff. He's talking about staff. Yeah,
075the kids I'm not talking about them right now. What is the district's recommendation? See, what what have we spent in this whole thing? What have we spent overall with from construction to where we're at now? What have we spent? So, here is here's some information that that Leslie had provided in the past. Well, with all the grants and everything, obviously the grants offset everything. What are we in the real The real question is what are we in the whole Right. Right. We're not the Okay. You made it. Yes. She She was very frugal. Very frugal. Very She did amazing thing. Thank you. Thank you. You know, to be honest, it's not fair to you to have to work on Saturdays or you do that extra stuff that you have to do to keep. I wish
076we would have known this, but I wanted it to succeed. Yeah, we see that. We see that, too. It's But you got kids and you got family and so this is some information that is that is a little bit dated. Uh it's not but it it was done in in 2025. Leslie did this um some time back. Um I believe you were provided this information. This is all we got. I mean, just between the two grants, the early uh early childhood grant and the Kellogg grant, you're looking at u $600,000. Yes. Yes, it is. Um what kind of construction costs have we spent? That was like $250,000. 250. And that was just the beginning when they facelift, I guess. That was grant funds though. Everything that does not grant funding. It's not been district. There's
077been no district funds used besides me and maintenance. Is it grant funding that could have been used for something else? This grant funding was very small childare center. Yes. The capital outlay line. The capital outlay line was was for other stuff. I mean that could have been right for the structure building. I knew the yellow was specific to this but the building can be converted to something else. We can still use the building for other things if if option C is is determined. I have an idea. Yeah, I haven't yet. I I we were proposing maybe we could use it for the online school and also for secure school for when students are struggling in the regular setting where they could go. So, you know, we can still provide their services and they would be
078in an alternate location to keep them in keep their education because now we're trying to we try to keep kids in school and provide what they need. That would be my thought. So, the building I don't think would waste but Terry, I don't know how you felt. I know Terry and I talked about that. What is it? What is it? about all this about all of this. I know it's a lot on Andy. I know that it's in my opinion it's not sustainable at the rate we're going and like every year we would be like okay are we going to get the floor and do we have the staff and so on. We just like Melanie just mentioned we do we could repurpose the building for students that are struggling or disappoint you know that
079an alternative placement for some students. I mean I think just that 40,000 foot view and you know we're trying to service 3,000 plus kids. It goes back to that the the the juice isn't worth the squeeze. We're not but the money that we're being spent to to to benefit know nine kids up to 15 kids is and I think it I'm a little disappointed I guess that I was under the impression that the center was meant to serve staff and students because that's what I was told later when I found out about the grad grant because I was that's what I was told was from the beginning that's what I was told now the the the first grant that was written was specifically for an organization looking for um childcare for staff. Okay. It was
080during COVID and you know everybody was struggling because that no one could watch their kids. So ECC put out this grant. So that was the first grant and one of the requirements of that grant was you had to have another grant to supplement that funding. So then she reached out to Kella grant and they said okay we'll do this. We want to do a um it was special for us because we're outside of their area but it was specifically for teacher retention. How what can we do to bring teachers in and keep them here? Um with the added part of it being a dual language. Oh, okay. But then the funding didn't allow for it to be full of usual teachers kids because they weren't qualifying for that. So that put us in a little
081bit of a So when do when do we vote on this? I don't necessarily a vote. I think this is a discussion. Well, it has to be voted on. I think I think you can put it on the next next week's agenda. Do we have that? I don't know the program. So, I will go out a school. It it doesn't have its own number or anything. The board just needs to be careful in how the recommendation is shared to the superintendent where it's still ultimately the executive's decision and not decision. Well, we can express ourselves too. So I'm expressing myself that I think expressing myself I mentioned I did mention that C is probably the best option with the idea that the people are helped the kids to be get replaced. I know it's going
082to be difficult like Mrs. B says but that also that the staff gets put in the right position and given an opportunity and there is some discussion from my understanding the county ended up with some money to open an acre center. house. I I heard that somewhere. They I believe it was $2 million last. Wow. Yeah. So, I don't we can reach out to them too and find out like, hey, maybe that's another resource. Yeah. You know, but it'll probably take some time to get set up and all that. I would venture to guess. Yeah. We can check as a status on it. It would be nice if they wrote us a check for $2 million. I I just, you know, suggest we do something sooner rather than later because the more time we have
083to make those changes or the staff that are there have time to find other resources, the better off it will be. Yeah. I mean, and again, it's nothing against anybody. It's it's just I mean, just looking at things and it's not sustainable, you know. Um that's that's my that's my take on it. and just playing that game that you know if if we get to this point if we get to that point and it's a lot of uncertainty you know in a government uh entity is is not comfortable for well and any public schools focus should be on prek through 12 and that's what we'reing the district's liability here that that is the focus of what we should be doing and if we're spending time and effort on this because we didn't even talk about
084any type of indirect costs. You know, we run payroll for these people. We keep track of all of that. HR has to do their piece of it. Maintenance. Maintenance has to maintain the building. all of those types of things that was not anywhere in this this presentation and you couldn't you can't really monetize it anyway because you can't that I mean that's the the definition of indirect cost. What do you think Olivia? Because this is your this is your up your alley in Yeah. No, I the only way that you can maintain when when we were presented it the goals um all the details about what obstacles were coming up we didn't know about. So there there were of course there's going to be it's a very difficult thing to learn obstacles either until we
085really started digging. The only way it can work is by having a large daycare center with a lot of kids. so that you can maintain what it costs to run it. And so in a small in a small situation, it's really even hard for one a home care provider to to be able to afford to continue with her home care thing because there's so many things coming across. Yeah. So no, I I agree. I think though the thing that worries me, Daniel, is just finding daycare for the for the kids. No, and I understand that. And there's going to be nine 10 parents, 15 parents that are stressed about how they're going to get, but they're going to be able to start it earlier now than later. You know what I'm saying? So that they
086can, you know, it just sounds like it seems like it's inevitably going to happen. Yeah. So it's unfortunate for sure. Hopefully like talking to the head start early, seeing if they can if you I hope Lori is not there anymore, but whoever's in charge. I'll reach out to them. reach out to there's a final decision made and I've notified staff and and see if they can if they can help with some for those kids. I know they have preferences and they have like formulas and maybe the kids not having well the majority of our kids will get there's 10 of them who get childare assistance so that will be easy because they'll be able to slide right in. It'll be our kiddos who don't qualify that will be harder because they have right now it's
087two kids who are migrant, kids who are homeless. I mean there's different priorities and then there's a lot of kids who have been on the waiting list have to come first before the kids not on the waiting list. So if superintendent NIPS decides to do part C that's up to her. How soon will this take effect? We go through June 30. their contracts are still and and we still have even if we do end up losing a kid whatever um as as and you said that we still have the $30,000 that was kind of coming into this year to come to remember we started out according to the slide there of $68,000 so we've already cut that in half and then some so we can make it you know till June 30 and And that
088way there's plenty of time to to try and help. And thank you guys for the work. I mean it wasn't it wasn't and I know a lot of stuff was kind of learning on the fly and learning was like oh yeah here oh got to do this now and so heck of an effort on on your part that definitely a learning experience. I learned a lot. But you could. I like public. I'll tell you that was much more. It's just that's that's kind of where we stand. It just What do you think, Mrs. Cameron? Because you haven't said too much. Well, I think like I think all of us agree it would be great to be able to do it, but then when we we look at at unfortunately finances really does interfere I mean
089not it doesn't but uh it's what we can do for a small number of children although I do agree that small number of children that age is what we what we should be but definitely well we have to do is lure so when you look at how much money versus the number of children it's uh unless some lots of people out there in when the county give a million dollars the you know several million dollars. I think we'd have to have a lot of more financial support. Uh I think like everyone we think it's a great opportunity but when you look at running it and and all that it uh entails it's it's concerning on how we could number one how would we choose just the children and then uh how would we maintain that
090over the years instead of just once I think it's a great program I uh and the parents loved it I got great feedback from all of them. Oh yeah. Well, and if you had a nonprofit come in, they could probably run this program very well and and do what needs to be done because again, adding 30% on top of your salary is I mean you you look at that that's basically your profit. I mean, whenever you if you run a corporation, right, you're 30 40% markup on your product, right? That's what you that's what you look for. That's basically what would end up here if it was non-government running the program and when we have to someway get money from other of our school to take away from uh the students that are in school
091too. And I wish we could I wish I had a if I get a million dollars I'll give it to you and play the lottery. who wants to go to Nevada with me. I'll drive and not charge. But I think it's you sit here and then how wonderful it would be. But yet at how many children cannot participate because you have to only have such a small number and the ratio. Yeah, the ratios are hard. You know, if we were in a a rich area. Yes. That's not a big word. Wasn't supposed to use more fluent. More fluent. That was it. I was going to change it over for you. Good question. I really think it's good though that we went through and appreciate that it all together. We we appreciate your effort and everything
092you have done. You've kept this thing afloat this long. So that's commendable. We appreciate that. I mean, and again, I apologize that this might have to happen, but it is what it is. Thank you. a great learning opportunity for me. Yeah. But I promise y'all when I get my next $5 million, I'll give him one million for your next. So that means you already have five million. Huh? You said your next five million. So that means you already have five million. No, I said that. I said when we have five million. Okay. Did I leave the wording out of there? All right. Let's uh we'll get back to presentations and we're on to the operational budget. 25 26 so for for the next uh piece we'll be talking about our operation additional budget which is
093the biggest piece of of the the funding sources for Demi public schools. We do have federal grants, we do have capital improvement grants, things like that, but we're looking at the the operational piece um with this. Um I know all of you have seen this before. This is in in Leslie's slides uh forever kind of the process of what it takes to get a budget put together for the operational and and and kind of those timelines. Um, this year a couple of things that's kind of pushed us a little bit further out is the 60-day session for the legislature. That always throws things out a little bit and then um changes within the district. That's that's also kind of slowed things down a little bit. Just to kind of remind everybody of why how we
094get funded, we get funded through the state state equalization guarantee or SCG. Um that was a funding formula that was done in 19 uh in the public school finance act of 1974. They did do some updates to this last year in the in the legislative session. House Bill 63 uh did change some of those funding formulas and the funding formula. We'll go through that. uh most of the income that we get comes from uh income taxes, property taxes, uh all the taxes within the state, uh oil and gas, all of those types of things. So, a few of the legislation things that that happened. One, House Bill 63 that we just I just mentioned, what it did is it increased our uh factor for grades 6 through 12. For grade six, we used to have
095a 1.0 045 factor. Now we're going to have a 1.3 factor. What that is is that's a a added a multiplier to our unit value. We'll see how that projects later on in a in a couple of slides. It changed our at risk on how that's calculated. It also changed our English language learners uh to be a standalone program rather than tied in with the at risk. House Bill Two, that's our that's the funding formula or the funding for the state. It put in a 4% increase for all staff. The name the word average was line item vetoed out of the bill so that everybody gets a 4%. House Bill 156 increased the minimum salaries uh for teachers by $5,000. Uh so this is the new minimums for each level. Deming public schools is over
096that level or over that amount on all levels. And then House Bill 195 that changed the the school nurse salaries. We'll do a a three- tier more like the teacher pay salaries. So, one of the things that we did is we put out a survey, a budget survey to the to the community to ask what is what is your preferences? What are you looking for? And so this is the results of that survey. As you can see there, we had uh about n 100 parents and about 90 staff. Um and then a few others u in there. I think that's a good mix between community and and employee. So the first the first question on there was what is your priorities? And they come back with school safety and teacher sales. Um, I don't know
097that that's any surprise to anybody um of what they're looking for. Some of the things that Demi public schools right now is doing to address those um priorities is on safety. We're doing increased security. Uh we're installing card reader access on all of the all of the entrances. Um we've added security vestibules of the schools. We do safety drills. We're adding, repairing, or improving fencing as needed throughout the district. Uh we've got some security camera projects uh here a couple of months ago, I believe, or maybe it was last month. It was last month actually. You you uh approved a bar uh for $8 million to use some of our operational cash and security cameras and security investment was one of those things. Part of that $8 million. We are investigating scanning equipment. [Music]