The Brownsburg Community School Corporation Board of Trustees regular meeting, 07/14/2025. Please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. 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. Thank you. Please join me for a moment of reflection. Thank you. Communications, accommodation for the annual School Transportation Association of Indiana School Bus Safety Competition winners,
mister Myros. Good evening. I've got three bus drivers, that present or that, participated in the School Transportation Association of Indiana's annual bus rodeo. It's a safety competition where bus drivers throughout the state of Indiana come and and see who's the best the best is. So very excited to, have Steven Ogden, won first place in the state of Indiana. Erica Ogden won second place, and the team of Steven, Erica, and Sean came in first place in the state of Indiana. So very, very excited about that. So if you guys wanna come up front. In addition,
Steven is gonna represent Indiana at, the National School Safety Transportation Association, Rodeo next year. And so, the winner from last year just won sixth place at at the national competition. So Steven's got a lot to, a lot to study for that. So but congratulations to you three. Thank you. Brownsburg Education Foundation, doctor Dixon. Thank you. There are, BEF welcomes five new members to the BEF board. Moe Balogun, Ben Behrend, Hi Quinn Jamieson, Devin Nelson,
and Jeff Smith. Retiring board members are Lindsey Catalier, Tara Fettig, Melanie Harris, and Alicia Smith. We are grateful for their years of service. The Chip in for the Kids golf outing presented by Summers Plumbing, Heating and Cooling was a huge success and the event raised over $29,000 There's a free SATACT test prep workshop presented by Club Z In Home Tutoring on Saturday, August 8 from 10AM to 11AM in the BCSC Administration Boardroom. Sophomores and juniors are specifically invited to attend but any age student is welcome.
Parents are encouraged but not required. See the BEF website to register in advance. Drive for your school, presented by Bill Estes Ford, is Wednesday, September 10, from one to 5PM at East Middle School. Take a quick drive in a new Ford vehicle and earn over $40 for BEF without even opening your wallet. Thanks to Ford Motor Company and community partners who will match an an amount per drive. And Designer Persp and Go, presented by Adelsberger Orthodontics, is Thursday, October 2 from 05:30 to 09:30 at the Binford Pavilion at Lucas Oil Raceway. The tickets will be on sale to the public starting September 6 from nine to
11AM in the BEF office. Thank you. Operations update, mister Hacker. Thank you very much. So kind of going backwards to go forwards here. I shared this particular slide with you, at the June board meeting about construction mobilization for the start of the school year, and because I have a a drone picture of the over overhead side as well. But just a reminder, as we begin the, start of the school year here that the area, this area here, which kind of the old softball parking lot still is utilized by the softball group. But it for the following school year,
2526, this will be all for all of our construction workers as we now have the two trailers, kind of together here on the backside of the by the track. And this area is kind of some lay down area for construction as well. And then this area just right here in front of the school, as I will shift spots, is actually looks a little different now because this area here in North is kind of now also a construction zone. So we will have the construction construction perimeter fencing there. What used to be the turn in to come into the visitor lot or Door
1 has actually been recut. And you can see the the yellow highlight here is the path that if somebody was to drive in to come to Door 1, they will come in through this path here. They could park visitor lot here or continue on around Door 1 and back out onto Odell Street. But, just kind of the update there, that was in place for the, fourth of July parade here for the town of Brownsburg. We ensure that we were able to stage there. Thanks to chief Dunning and his crew for his help there. But just wanted to as we, again, get closer and closer to the start of school, I wanted to provide an update of what that area looks like and the changes
in really this whole area right in this, spot really underneath I just talked about the varsity gym, the connection from the Second Floor senior academy, and then some of the art rooms in this area that has continued to be under construction. And so the reason why we have shifted for the construction parking here and entry here is so that construction workers can go straight to the site versus if when they were over here by the two homes and parking on this side, that they'd have to walk through the main part of this school and, again, trying to get the the path of least resistance as well as as what we'll
talk about a little bit. The all the student parking we wanna utilize back here with the new area. So that's what the start of this school year will be for construction parking, and construction mobilization moving forward. We think about parking at the high school. We've worked with Doctor. B, as well as, Chief Dunning here to create the parking plan. And so while there are different colors for lots here, really, everything from in the light green, regular green, and blue, and they kinda just represent different lots. Those will all be for student parking for next year. So whether you're senior,
junior, sophomore, incoming that that you might get, your, your parking pass later in the, like, second semester perhaps, this is where you will park. Right now, we do not have a special designation for seniors, or anything like that. This is all student parking here. Note that we do have the band lot up here that we will ask students to make sure that they are out by 03:30 to ensure that the band, as they get their practice and stuff going, that they are able to do so at that time. Speaking of bands, again, the turf field here is also a band practice field. And so once football practice is over,
the band stays much longer than football, typically. But we do have the band storage facility as well that's right here. And so then it's an easy transition from all the for a lot of the equipment and props that can easily go onto the turf field here. And so band, has a nice area here for their Praxis facility after school. We also have staff parking for, that'll be in this lot here. This was also used for staff. We think about the drive lane. Ultimately, the drive lane kind of stopped right here. So this little spot for the last previous school year was just open for staff.
This is now be be completely open, and the drive lane will extend right through here. But this brown spot here will be for staff as well as this spot here. We will have some staff in the pink as well as we have some spots available for our area 31 students who leave during the day. And so we don't wanna take up spots in the full student lot for students who are only coming here half day and also ensure we have spots. So they will have separate passes to allow them to park special. And that again, that will be the teams working alongside those specific students to ensure they've got a
a different spot to park. We will keep the visitor spots here open as well as probably some subs. And then if we go back, I was unable to get this on here, but, one more. This area here will be for, like, front office staff, some of these such principal team areas that have their offices right in this right in front of door one. So this will be some employee parking for the front office as well, but we wanna try to keep as much of this for visitors and things as possible in some of our subs. So that is the parking plan for the high school. Prior to moving forward, I wanna make sure that if there's any questions that you all have,
I'm in will answer those at this time. So is parking first come first serve in those three lots for the students, or will they be a sign? Is parking be first come first serve? We will have numbers on the on the faculty lots that'll all be aligned to a, to their parking pass to ensure that all staff have a spot in those areas. But, students, the earlier they arrive, probably the the better off that they will be in it for a close spot. So as well as, you know, we've got some that probably might even prefer to park in the back of as far as ease to get out. And so I'm sure that they will begin to figure that out as well.
I do wanna mention that, right now, we think about Tilden being closed. And I'll it'll I'll share it again a little bit later. But as far as construction goes, we will have the drive lane, obviously. That is completely, that was available last year. It will extend. The parent drop off line will extend now all the way here where we've got Door 9 will be the new pickup and drop off area for for, for parents to to drop their students off. But I know that Bulldog Boulevard right now looks like it's not paved. And but this will be paved for the start of the school year. We still will have construction up as we begin to finish up this spot there
just, on the west side of the stadium. But students will be able to pull into Bulldog Boulevard to access the lots prior to the start of school. So that will be finished for them. So Bulldog Boulevard isn't going away? Bulldog Boulevard is not going away, but it'll be utilized primarily just for entering the student lot. And then we also have the, like, the, not the the dock, but the the trash compactor and stuff there. So deliveries might take place in that spot. But really, on, like, game day and such, it will not really be utilized at all. It will kind of be more of a, perhaps, it could be the tailgates activity or or spot or maybe some food trucks and
things. Obviously, whatever mister Lang and mister, Duncan have planned for the football, games, but more it's more of a, like, a concourse gathering area than a drive. And so but for games and such, we will actually block Bulldog Boulevard off right here. So that way, anybody coming in can just access the lots for parking, but they will not be traveling behind, because that's really where the entry in the gate will be for the football stadium. But Bulldog Boulevard will remain, but it'll all be utilized for drive through for deliveries and and accessing the the compactor and stuff. Will there be parking available for track and field use in February?
Since all this is gonna be hopefully all done. But, when this 2026 track and field season starts Yes. Where are they gonna, like, for a fence and Sure. Sure. Sure. Okay. I I gotcha. So no. It took me a second. So this was this parking will not have fencing around it. And so this area here can still be utilized for track as well as we've got the front here. And, also, when, obviously, when school's out, we'll have the south side and the north side. Now what will not will will continue to be in place will be this fencing out here for lay down area of the construction. So that we will have a few spots taken away for the track season in
'26. But we should have, again, spots here and on the south end. People really park there already probably more than likely, especially when we've got, both a softball and track event going on. And so we will have to expand in other spots. But, yes, we will have the use of the track for the upcoming 2026 season. Thank you. Yep. I have a question about student parking. Sure. I know two years ago, we were limited on spaces and it was a concern of whether every student driver would have the opportunity to park. It seems like these numbers are high enough that that's not gonna be a factor this year. Is that true?
I would say that we will probably cut it close for the next two years. And then once bigger classes. Right? Once we are able to get across, East of Odell Mhmm. The the, the the project that includes adjusting the track and, constructing two softball seating. We also have about 500 parking spots there. Once that is all done, we're gonna be good to go on parking. And so but when we think about the number of tags that were sold the previous couple years, the number of spots we have available covers that right now. And so but again, as the class sizes continue to grow, we might cut it close in 2627 school year.
But once the the project is done East Of Odell, an additional 500 spots, we will be really, really good to go on parking. How about handicapped spaces near the door formerly known as 14? I don't I assume it'll be 14 again? Yes. Well Visitors. So as far as I'm not we will have this Door 9 and this so 8, that didn't change. Door 9, the new pickup drop off. This the kind of the new entry to senior academy would be Door 10. Tenth. Thank you. And so we will have, handicap accessible parking in this, here and also on this area for the,
football game and such as well. And we have added I'm sure that Brett knows maybe eight spots, I think, around this but I think eight handicap spots here also for Door 6, which is a lot of times used for the performing arts areas. And we will continue to have additional handicaps. So I think we got four right now, but that's something as we look finishing up East Of Odell and looking at the front of our building here, that's something we can adjust as far as additional staff. But we should hopefully have enough at this point in time. Great. Big events, we will typically add with with our temporary for for additional signs like Bulldog Spec or some of the other especially performing arts,
probably the bigger Sure. Events that we would host. And so typically, we will add spots there as well. Great. Thank you. Yep. One more question. Sure. I happen to be going by the new practice field today Mhmm. And I noticed there's a net behind the goalpost. Yeah. But it doesn't appear that it is really going and stopping too many of those, potentially kicked footballs. Sure. Does it raise up? Or So that that the net there is actually for lacrosse more so than the football net, for the kicking football. So, while that field is designed to hold a,
a game and potentially certainly could, if we were gonna be kicking field goals for practice, we were probably kicking towards the other side. But that fencing on both the north and south side is really there for lacrosse to keep the lacrosse balls from going, on off. So a 20 foot fence there is is really, as we've talked to the experts, kind of the the size needed in order to keep the lacrosse balls from going. I was concerned because the footballs are either gonna go on to Tilton or they're gonna go on to the the is it the the the the the Alehouse Building. Yeah. So I mean the the locker room here, the Freshman Invisible Lockroom. So we do have we are working with,
the design team on potential of of looking at at a net that if something were to go on top of here, then that kinda kicks it back. No. The practice field. The south side of the Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sorry. That Yes. Right here. Yes. Yeah. So we're looking at to putting, something here where a net would go over top of that to where if a ball lands on it, it will fall to one side or the other. Okay. Mhmm. Good. You guys have prepared a good question today. I like it. Anything else on the, parking? Move on. Next thing on the list for operations is just the Crossroads Elementary pick up and drop off line. And so this is the current path in the 23,
24, and 24, 25 route. And so, which the reason that we this was put in place, as I, asked mister Voigt, in the design, is because, ultimately, we, at one point in time, thought that, and it still might be the case, but, obviously, the space here is designed for Elementary Number 9. And so we wanted to try to keep the the parent pick up and drop off line contained just only in the footprint of Elementary Building Number 8, as well as we didn't have to adjust a practice. With the upgraded, demographic study, would suggest that Elementary 9 is not gonna be anytime soon. We wanna try to improve that process.
And so when we think about this current staging area, and we looked at cameras, and this is about where the maybe the the cars get on the longest point. That's about 1,581 feet. And so for the upcoming year, and worked with mister Cooper and mister Faulkner on this to, kind of re line in our purple from for the parent pick up line for folks to enter off of, off of airport. And then they will come around this kind of access drive, make an immediate right, and then go right in front of door number one, and then out onto Northfield Drive when then it's all said and done.
And this will avoid, if you think about especially with staff oops. Don't wanna do that yet. Especially with staff parking, the cars were interlooping here between where staff would would park and walk. And so to try to get a better system in place, this alleviates some of that pressure here with staff, especially on Wednesdays with our related arts. Staff coming from PLC, maybe at a different building. They're trying to get their own time, have to navigate through that parent pickup line. And so we think, like, this will just be a much better system. Of course, mister Cooper and his staff will continue to train folks on this and communications out.
But, again, like any parent pickup line, it only works if we make sure we get all the way to the edge before we let students off and and open the doors to let students in. But the elementary staff, they do a fantastic job of training folks. But that's a change for this upcoming year that we wanna make sure and let you know about. So any questions on that? That's just the marking change. It's not That's exactly right. Just the marking change. And, last thing, just a quick construction update on some timelines here, especially through the month of July. And you can see here we are leaning right up towards that July 22 where spaces are fully turned over to us.
So, in ninth, we had Indiana Homeland Security in, inspection for the elevators. We got the approval to do that, which allowed us to get all the cardio equipment upstairs and and it's a new home. On July 10, we received temporary occupancy of senior academy that essentially allows folks like myself, the high school staff or custodial staff, as we begin to transition furniture and get things moved into classrooms. We don't have to wear hard hats and such, so we got temporary, occupancy there. The eleventh, we received the approval from Hendricks County Board of Health for the Senior Academy Cafeteria. So, we will be ready to serve food in in our spots.
We're very, very excited about that. And then this week and next week, again, are our two really biggest timelines where the seventeenth, we will will receive full occupancy for the Senior Academy, field house, soccer, and the tennis complex. And so what that means is that all of our sign is up. We have the, like, the fire maps in in each door to to where if somebody's in there, then I would, get out of the building, things like that, or what the, fire marshal is looking for. But we will get that this week. And then on the twenty second, really, spaces are turned over to us, and we are ready to start moving things in. So very, very excited. Been a long time coming,
but that place will be ready to go for the start of the school year. And then the last two items there on the list. Again, I think sure maybe you have. I know we've received some sometimes a lot of questions on the street closures, but Odell Street will open up, this Thursday, thereby the tennis complex. And then Tilden Drive, the single lane here become opens back up, on Friday the eighteenth. Again, what they're doing here just to ensure that they can get Boulevard Boulevard paved, and so they had to come in to Tilden there a little bit. So that's the operations update. Again, appreciate all the questions, and happy to answer anything else that might come up. Thank you. Mhmm. 2026 budget presentation,
mister Hackert and mister Hubert. Alright. Thank you. So budget season is upon us. And as we kind of look at our budget season, couple things just as a reminder as we dive into this presentation tonight. First, this is for the calendar year of 2026. And so that's always a little odd when you're thinking about a school year, and you can kind of plan the August, start for school or July now. And we really are looking at our budget being a calendar year, which once again a little different than the school year and even the state fiscal year. This will cover part of the twenty five-twenty six school year as well as the
twenty six-twenty seven school year for the 2026 budget. Couple highlights tonight, we're gonna focus on talking about some of our different school funds, a little bit about financial essentials. We'll dive into the Ed Fund, Ops Fund, and our budget timeline. And as we go through this, if you guys have any questions, feel free just to stop me and ask along the way. So a little bit of school finance one zero one. You can see in purple a couple of our major funds that we have accounts for. Off to the right is a, brief description of what the expenses are that are related to each fund. So we've got our education fund, which is utilized for all educational expenditures.
So think of your staff, your supplies, anything that has to do with instruction of students, is gonna be in the education fund. The revenue sources are listed below that. When we talk about the education fund, we're primarily talking about state aid, and that comes from the form of state collecting taxes and then coming up with a funding formula to disperse the schools across the state primarily based off of how many students are enrolled in the school district. I wanted to give a brief kind of historical perspective of what the increase has looked like from the state aid year over year for VCSC.
And so if we go back to 2020 and then all the way through 2026, which is a projection, we can see what the increase will look like. Now if you were to get online and look at what the state increases for 2026 as projection for Brownsburg Schools, you notice that it is, claiming a 4.2% increase. That's a little misleading because they have now, included in that the curricular materials fund. So we used to have a separate fund, which we were able to basically get reimbursed for curricular materials. And for Brownsburg, it was gonna be about $1,600,000
that we got, from that fund. That is now just included in the state aid, so it's not its own separate account. And so when you go into that, if you take that money that's part of that, it's not really new money to us. It's just now included into the ed fund, since they've gotten rid of what was the 900 fund for curricular materials. Really, really important, and we'll come back to this later in the, presentation tonight, is that this is really just based off of enrollment. And we'll talk about the dollars that are attached to each kid. But it was really important for us last October to do that demographic study update so we could really get a feel for what our projected enrollment would be.
We've seen tremendous growth in this district as you guys are all well aware. We've seen a little bit of a trend in the numbers not quite being what the forecast had previously been. And when we talked to our neighbors and some schools similar to us, they were experiencing a similar thing. So we got that demographic study, and we feel like it's, probably much more in line with what the true growth will be. Given the changes in the world the last five years, it was really important for us to do that. So we are estimating that by October 1, we'll have 10,350 students enrolled in Brownsburg School. That's what the demographic study would tell us.
So we really use that as our kind of basis for the projections, and what our revenue will look like for the Education Fund. If we hit that marker, that 10,350 students, then the estimated new money coming from State Aid for our Education Fund is going to be just shy of $3,000,000 into that Education Fund. So once again, increasing our students, they have increased the percentage that the state aid will be, and we combine all that together just shy of $3,000,000 into the education fund. We'll come back and dive more into that, but I wanted to kind of give that, as a as a first step into talking about school finance tonight.
Second fund listed there is our operations fund utilized for all operational expenditures. So we're a big district. We've got, just about 600 employees that qualify under the operations fund. Education, we've got about 625 certified staff that fall under that. And so as we look at our operations fund, the revenue sources for that would be property taxes. They make about 44% of our revenue for operations fund. A transfer from the ed to ops fund, we'll come back to that here in a second, makes up 22% of our revenue. Some localized taxes, reimbursements and miscellaneous revenue really are the rest of the categories that fund our operations.
Two other really significant funds that we have available to us are debt service. This is our bond payment. So when we take out bond, we have essentially set up, like, a mortgage where we have got to pay those bond payments back monthly. Property taxes fund this at 82%, and that is our primary driver of our debt service. Rainy day is really just meant to be exactly that, one time expenditures that we have to make payments for. You really don't wanna set up a reoccurring payment in a rainy day fund because it's not money that you have any type of consistent revenue for. When cash flows allow it,
you can make, deposits into your rainy day fund, but this is a fund that we try to protect and use for one time expenditures. A really easy example of this is when we opened Crossroads, a lot of new one time expenditures that came with opening that elementary, and so we had to pull from the rainy day fund to get that elementary up and running. Historical revenues, as we talk about where our money comes from tonight, looking specifically at our three funds that we just discussed minus the rainy day that doesn't have a consistent revenue source, you'll notice on the ed fund and the debt service fund, you see some growth there.
That growth is really directly tied to our growth in student population. So I chose 2019 for specific reasons. 2019 was a year that the, accounts adjusted the different funds that the, schools have. And so we used to have the old general fund and capital projects and, bus replacement fund. And if you've heard those terms before, they simplified it and they really tried to make it a little bit more broad, if you will, into a fewer funds, and they come up with the education operations and debt service. However, the old general fund used to pay for all people. And so when they divvied it up between education operations,
it really did not quite equate one to one with what where all the money would be. So it's important to know that that ed fund is growing based off of our enrollment in our ADM. So we've grown 1,200 students since 2019. And so when you see that, number go up, it's that they've increased both the state aid and we've seen growth here in Brownsburg. Debt service is kind of the same thing. As a growing district, we've had to do a lot of projects in the last six years. So 2019 really was wrapping up, Lincoln Elementary. It was all a Crossroads build, primarily with the build of the renovation for the high school and West Middle School
as well as our task facility. The fund that we, we're gonna look at is not seeing much change here over the last six years is that operations fund. At time, we've seen decreases in the amount of revenue in our operations fund. A little bit of times of some growth there, and you can see it's really pretty remained pretty, stagnant over that six years, which as a growing district is a concern because we have more in students that we have to service through those different operations, and what those dollars can provide us. So talking a little bit more about that education operations transfer. When they consolidated some of the funds and they were looking at ways for schools
to be able to, allocate money to the operations fund, they said, alright. We probably have allocated too much to education, so we'll allow every school district in the state to transfer up to 15 of their education fund over into their operations. So with all the funds changing in 2019, we took a look at where the people fell on that list and if they were gonna fall on their education or the operations fund. And we looked at that and we said we need about $7,000,000 to cover those expenses, which in 2019 was over 11% of our, education fund.
What you'll notice is that there was a concerted effort over the next several years to drive down the percentage that we are transferring out of education operation. And really the philosophy behind that is the more money you keep in education, the more money you have to hire new teachers, keep class sizes low, to give appropriate raises for our staff in the education side of things, and really try to find ways to be efficient and cost savings in the operations. And we're proud of the work that we did with that. I'll tell you that the world's changed in the last three or four years financially, and some of the levers that the legislation has given us to bring in revenue
on the operation side has just changed. And so we'll continue to talk about it throughout tonight, but we really need to find ways to increase that percentage. When you look at most of our similar districts, similar in size, similar in growth patterns, demographics, they're they're all around 15% have been. And so that's something that we need to make a concerted effort to look at ways to get more and more money into our operations. It's not something we can rip the band aid off at once and do. So we're trying to be mindful of that. This last year, we will have six point or four this year, I should say, we'll have $6,500,000
in a transfer from ed to ops. That's just over 7%. So that is the highest percentage we've had since 2021. We're looking at increasing that again for 2026 with an $8,000,000 transfer, which would be almost 9% of the Education Fund transferring over into operations. Those are some really important things to consider as we dive into why we do budgeting. I want to go through just some financials so that financial essentials so that you guys are aware of kind of the process here. A budget is defined as a submission of expenditures and revenue based off of both
historical data and our projections so we can determine how much we need in each of those funds. Really, you guys in the next couple months will be presented with a budget and you'll have the ability to approve that, and that then gives the school district the authority to spend the money. Don't have, so we maintain cash flow and cash flow projections and that gives us the ability to spend that money. I always think it's kind of interesting. There's over 3,000 different accounts that we have to, keep keep track of and be accounted for. So there's a lot of different account expenditures that we track daily through the business office. And once again, remember,
this is a January 1 through December 31, time frame that we do a budget for. So January 1, December 31 is what our projecting for 2026. We'll go through the process over the next couple of months of submitting the budget and we'll send it to the Department of Local Government Finance in October. They'll take their time to kind of review it, make sure everything looks good and then we'll get what's called the 1782, usually around December for us to kinda finalize things going into 2026. Any questions before I dive into the Ed Fund a little bit? Alright. So as we dive into the Ed Fund, remember we talked about how our enrollment is really a major driver of what we
see in the, state aid that comes to us through the Ed Fund. So ADM stands for average daily membership. This is simply our enrollment in Brownsburg schools. So what they do is they kind of take a snapshot on October 1 to how many students we have in Brownsburg and that becomes our number. That's where they're gonna base their, what they give to us in state tuition off of that October 1 deadline. This plays significant factor in the budget as we've talked about. And what we are really projecting for is what kind of net change is gonna take place from one year to the next.
And so as we were looking back on last year, our ADM count on October 1, was 10,249. So we're projecting 10,350, and that would be a net positive of 101 students total. Now, why does that matter for us? Well, as the state rolls out, what their dollar per student is, we're gonna take the difference between last year's state aid and this year's state aid, and we're gonna apply it to all 10,249 kids who were with us last year. Then we're gonna take the full amount of the new state aid,
and we're gonna apply that to those additional 101 kids if we meet that enrollment projection. And that gives us that new money that I showed you on that first slide of just shy of $3,000,000 And that really tells us how much new money we have for things like hiring new staff, to account for the new students, to look at raises for teachers. I just said, that transfer went up from 6,500,000.0 to 8,000,000. That creeps into that new money as well, and we have to do that to keep our operations afloat. One thing I think that's kind of an interesting, data point for us is to consider some of our neighbors around us and what
they see in state aid. There's a fairly complicated formula that the state uses when they look at the per student, the ADM, aid that each school gets. So if you look at Wayne Township, the state will give them $917 more per student than what a student in Brownsburg receives. Avon is $225 more. The state average is $400 more than what Browns would receive per student. So if Avon was the exact same size as us, if our ADM was exactly the same,
based off of that funding formula, they would have about $2,250,000 more than us in funding. And you might ask why would that be the case? Well, it's pretty simple. They look at things like free and reduced lunch that's kind of a complexity figure that they look at. They do look at special ed numbers, they look at E and L numbers, they look at your academic performance, that's where we do well, and we do pick up some additional dollars in academic as well as CTE funding there. So there's several different things to kind of factor into that total state aid that comes to each school. This is one of those things that,
you know, from a finance standpoint, I think we always say we just wanna be like everybody else. Give us the same as about everybody else does, and then we can make up some ground there, but this is the battle that we do face with state aid. Alright. Talking about the state budget here, about 50% of the total state budget is spent on k 12 education. So it is by far a huge piece to what our legislators care about when they go into their budget session, every other year. As we look at the state budget, one of the things that passed this year was an increase to the first year teacher salary. Brownsburg is always proud to to try to stay well above that as we are,
you know, competitive with our neighbors and in our conference schools as we are looking for the the best and the brightest to come be a Bulldog. So our starting salary for this last year was 52,000. And once again, this was a raise up to 45,000 from 40,000 in this new bill. Another requirement that passed a couple years ago is that you have to spend of your education fund 62% on compensation for your teachers. That also includes counselors in that number as well. And last year when we compared what we spend in compensation for our teachers, we were at 71%.
So once again, very proud of the work that we do, to not only attract the best and the brightest, but to try our best to pay them well, along with that. A quick dive into the amount of money per student in BCSC going back to that 2019 year as well. So you can see what the state aid has increased over that time. Once again, that 2526 is a projection based off of enrollment, and what the state says right now, will be given out to the schools on the different indicators within that. Now we add that up. Once again, trying to tie these things together,
hoping for 101 new students to get us to 10,350 plus what that difference is on every student we already had last year. That gets us to that $3,000,000 new money, about $1,500,000 of that $3,000,000 we really need to go over to operations. Diving just a bit deeper into Education Fund, you can see on the left side, these are the different revenue sources for the Education Fund. We talked about these a little bit, but I wanted to give you some numbers and context to that. So projected for the twenty sixth calendar year, we'll have over $86,000,000 in state aid.
We get about another 1.1 in local income tax. Little caveat to that, we we get a local income tax revenue in both our ed and our ops. That is going away in two years. So there's gonna be over $2,000,000 that we have currently receiving and have been receiving that goes away with some of the changes out of SEA one. And so that's something that we need to be considerate of in the future is that funding will, drop away in a couple years. We're able to reimburse ourselves for things that we purchase upfront, for for the education fund, for capital projects. A lot of these are technology type things that we are purchasing and then getting
reimbursed back out of bond, but that definitely helps offset some cost there. And then miscellaneous revenues or some other local taxes that go into that, some very limited student fees that we do charge go into the miscellaneous revenue. You add all those up and then you subtract out that 8,000 or 8,000,000, excuse me, that we know we're gonna pull out for that transfer. That's looking at a projected, education fund revenue of just shy of $82,000,000 for the 2026 year. So I thought kind of a good way to look at this as far as, alright, where does that where does that leave us? Where where do we stand?
Let's look at our expenditures for the last school year. So this is the actual school year for 2425. So going back to, August one of twenty four and through our latest numbers in July for '25. And you can see the total amount of money spent out of the Ed Fund was just under $78,000,000 Really interesting, and this is very typical even if you look at the, the private world, about 96% of that is on people. So it's compensation for not just teachers, not just our counselors, but anybody that has anything to do with, our students and instruction makes up about 96% of our expenditures there.
So that makes one of the things if you're looking to cut from the Ed Fund, makes it difficult because, obviously, we we want our people in the roles they're in because they're doing a great job to to help our students and support their needs. Alright. Operations fund is definitely the one that's that's gonna be a little more tricky. You guys listened to a, presentation last month, by Stifel, one of our groups that we work with to help us understand some of the financial complications that we do see here. They work with us on our bonds and some other mechanisms that we have, for understanding where we go with our finances. So I'm going to talk a little bit about some of the numbers that he gave you just within reference to the Operations Fund.
When you look at the operations funds, primarily, 44% of it comes from property taxes. And as we look at the property taxes, they're directly tied to our assessed value in Brownsburg. We've talked about how that's been going up drastically. And one of the keys to legislator in the last session was how can we slow down some of that growth, the assessed value and the property taxes themselves. They felt like that was going too much. And so one of the things that they passed in 2023 is a way to cap how much your max levy can grow year over year. That's been capped at 4% for 2026. So if you look at the top line there,
that first row going across, you can see what the max levy available for Brownsburg Schools were for the operations fund. In red, right below it, is our circuit breaker. We talked about that a couple, sessions ago with our finance update. It would have been in May, I believe. And what circuit breaker really is is once homes have hit their tax cap threshold, then the, taxing unit for us, obviously the school, is no longer receiving those dollars. So you still levy for those dollars, but you don't actually receive them once that, property has hit their tax cap. Being that we're highly residential,
we have a lot of homes that hit that cap pretty quick. We are drastically hit hard by circuit breaker, much more so than a lot of districts across the state. So in 2023, we had $5,300,000 circuit breaker. However, circuit breaker could be shared between our debt service and our ops fund. And so we were able to gain back about $3,800,000 in 2023. So that really helped when you were kinda sharing the debt service and the operations fund, impact from the circuit breaker. That was removed by legislation in 2024. And so taxes waiver for the last several years. Meaning, we get the full burden of the property tax caps,
through circuit breaker go directly onto our ops fund. So as you look at that, you can see how that affected our net levy from 2023 to 2024. Again, we had a decrease in our net levy in 2025, and we project even a bigger decrease going into 2026. One of the reasons we see an even bigger decrease going into 2026 is because, as part of SEA one, additionally, this year, they passed the, 10% or $300 home credit for homeowners, and that is estimated to hit Brownsburg schools at about $700,000.
Now I will tell you this is, something a little bit different than what you heard last month because Matt kept saying over 2,000,000, from the home credit was gonna affect Brownsburg schools. Right now, the way the law is written is we do share this with debt service. So there's another additional 1,200,000.0 that is being affected on the debt service levy. The 700,000 is just operation. There has been talk amongst legislator, nothing official that this could potentially be something that becomes a full burden in the future on the ops, that would be a a dramatic hit to us as well. So we have to be, aware of that and think through that and what that impact could be for our
operations fund. Any questions on that? I know that's kind of a lot of in the weeds. All right. Similar to the Ed Fund budget, I want to talk through the Operations Fund budget here as well. So this slide looks very similar to what you just saw a couple of slides ago. When we look at our operations fund, and the projected revenues, over on the left side in the chart in the table, you have that net levy that we just talked through. So I don't want to go through that too much more. It's going to be about $6,600,000 Our max levy was $18,000,000 but once you remove the circuit breaker and the home credit, then what Brownsville schools will actually receive from property taxes is estimated to be about
$6,600,000 We do have some additional revenue generators in our operations fund. So as we look through that, we will talk about local income tax. Once again, a couple of years, that's something that potentially would go away. And Ed ops transfer, which we've talked about tonight already. Miscellaneous revenue, you'll notice this is much higher than what you saw on the Ed Fund. A lot of this is for rental spaces when, different groups are using our facilities. We're able to rent that out for a fee to cover, us using utilities or potential custodial. And when we gain back on those rental, we're looking at over 3,000,000 in miscellaneous revenue projection for the next year.
Capital projects, so it's about $1,000,000 for the Ed Fund, it's $3,000,000 for the Operations Fund. We like to push that up as much as we can. These once again are us paying ourselves back for things that we've spent alongside the projects out of debt service. And I do wanna talk quickly about nutrition services and boost. Those are two programs that we have that kind of operate separate of, the traditional rest of the school finances, as kind of, you know, there are groups, but they don't necessarily fall right in line with, where our budget is. They can kinda act independently. We charge them an indirect cost because those two groups do use our facilities at
a very high usage rate. If you think about nutrition services and the utilities that go along with that, all the water that goes through our cafeterias on a given day, and the energy uses, that that can be a big hit to our utilities. And boost is the same. And so we're able to kinda pay ourselves back using a formula that we get from the, state board of accounts called an indirect cost. And we project that'll be about a half million for nutrition services and about 300,000 for boost. So once again, that that's not really anything tied to, exact, you know, expenditures that they have. It's a it's a formula that we're given that we're allowed to then recoup those
indirect costs. That gives us a total revenue projected for 2026 of just over $22,000,000 As we look at that, I did the same thing, said, okay, what were our expenses last school year? And when we look at the operations fund, trying to give you a nice even number there based off of where we project to end up in July, It's $24,800,000 So you can see just based off of that hit to Circuit Breaker and that additional home credit, we're already saying we can't spend as much as we did last year. We've got to live within our means. So we're going to have to find ways to cut back on expenses because one of the things that we've talked about is we've really seen legislator pull out any
new revenue levers for us to generate any additional revenue with some of the changes in the law over the last couple of years. So when we look at the ops expenses by category, this one is quite a bit different than what you saw, 96% of our Ed Fund was people. When we look at this, it's 55% of our operations expenses are people. Now when I say people, this would be everybody in the ops side. So this would include bus drivers, maintenance techs, everybody's included on the people there. Utilities are 15% of our expenses. You can see it's about 3.5,
dollars 3,600,000.0 there. We're interested to see where that goes as we open up the new field house and the, and we open up the senior academy. So that's a new space that we're gonna have to have the utility fees for. We've done a lot of great work to to try to be more efficient in our utility, and we'll talk more about that here in a slide. But that's kind of a number that we've gotta be careful of and be mindful of. We obviously can control some of the usage, but we can't control the rates that go alongside those in utilities. So once you have those rates set, then you've gotta pay what that, that amount is. Maintenance is simple. Ops, expenditure is tied to things that come up in the school year in our different
buildings and our properties where we've gotta do upkeep on things, you know, whether it's our, you know, the outside and mowing and, grounds, whether it's things that come up inside. Those maintenance fees end up being over $2,000,000 for the last school year. Transportation, once again, this is not drivers and not staffing. This is simply, keeping the buses running and rolling and picking up students on time, was just shy of $2,000,000 under about 8% of our budget. Insurance. Insurance has been a tough one for us over the last handful of years. Our insurance rate is now up to over 1 and a half million dollars. If you go back five years, we were under half a million.
And so we've seen a million dollars more increase over the last five years, and this is property and liability insurance. So this is insurance that we take out to cover ourselves, in the in the case of different things that go on. A big reason for that is we've simply we've expanded. We've gotten bigger, we've added facilities, and so it costs more to protect that. Supplies, non transportation supplies are about $1,000,000 when you're thinking about all the square footage we have and how many bathrooms we have that you've got to have paper towels and toilet paper and all the things we use to keep our buildings clean and safe and secure. Supplies and non transportation make up just under 5%.
So once again, as I look at that $24,800,000 and know we got to make some cuts, it's a tough decision of where we go looking at those different expense categories of how we're going to make those cuts along the way. We do want to highlight some good news about the things we've been doing to try to offset this and one of the things that I think is important is when you look at that debt service revenue that has grown year over year, we do the best that we can to offset as many costs as possible into our debt service to keep our operations fund, afloat and in in a good spot. Some of the things that we've done is pay out of debt service for things
like exterior and interior LED lighting. And that's been kind of a slow matriculation across all of our campuses so that we can make sure that we have those LED lightings installed both inside and outside. And that's really an energy saver for us, and that helps us on our utility costs in the back end. So all the savings that we see because we've spent that money out of debt then helps the operations fund when our utility costs go down for something like LED lighting. HVAC updates and maintenance, obviously, that's going to be something that helps us in our utilities as well. Roof replace replacements and maintenance is all part of kind of our five,
ten, fifteen year plan for our facilities to make sure that our facilities are up to date, and that they're safe environments for students to learn in. A lot of different technology and network purchases and updates. We do yearly bus purchases to keep our fleet in the shape that it needs to be so that Nick and his team, can get our students to school on time and safe. A lot of paving and parking lot maintenance is done through debt service as well as playground updates. So when you drive around and you see something we're going on at Cardinal and Delray now, that's paid out of debt. And then different equipment throughout the year that helps with our custodial maintenance, different furniture as well as carpet and flooring replacements are all paid out of debt.
Now once again, a big key to say is that saves our operations side of things. It's also part of our long term plan of keeping our facilities in the shape that they need to be in, and that is a a way for us to to really manage the growth that we've had here, in Brownsburg over the last handful of years. Alright. So we'll finish up just kind of what are the next steps for, for us as a school district and you as a board as you, helped us lead through these times in looking at the budget season. We're gonna go through some different things in August where we'll look at a bus replacement plan. We gotta get that posted as long as the capital assets plan,
we get that out in August. We'll send you what's called the form three in August so that you can, see what our timeline is for actually getting the final budget numbers for 2026 so that we can get the public hearing started in September. Once we do the public hearing, we'll talk about an approval of what that trans transfer dollar amount for next year will be so that we know exactly where we're able to spend within the, transfer education ops. And then finally, approval will come to you guys in October for the bus replacement, the capital assets plan, and the 2026 budget, as well.
And then we wrap all that up with sending it to the DLGF. The DLGF gets it. They process it for a couple months, and then in December, they send it back to us and say, okay. Here it is. Assign, seal, deliver. And that tells us exactly for the twenty sixth year what our final enrollment will be, based off of that October, the assessed value, and how that, is applied with our tax rates. As well as our levies, which are really important for us to understand in that budget for the next year. If at that point we need to talk about any additional appropriations based off of this year or a reduction,
we can do that so that it kind of finishes up 2025. But, really, we're looking forward to 2026 for the next couple of months as it relates to the budget. Alright. That was a lot to throw at you. Any questions before I take the seat? That was loads of fun. Yep. Thank you. But it's important, I think, that everybody understands it because it is a really critical time. So I think in the ten ish years I've been on the board, like, the last couple, we've had so many changes, more in the last two than I think in the eight years prior. And so that's just a it's really good to be educated on that and appreciate
all the work and hard work you guys have been putting into this because it's not been easy. Mhmm. Thank you. No comment from patrons. We'll move on to consent items. Doctor Jessup. Thank you. We'd like to ask for consent of the following, or approval of the following. Approval of minutes from the June 9, business meeting, approval of claims, superintendents' reports, and, board policies that are, directly impacted on recent legislation that we have to become in line with. Motion? So moved. Second? Questions, comments? All the all those in favor signify by saying aye.
Aye. Oppose, same sign? Motion passes. Thank you. If I have my name. With that approval, I want to acknowledge, Sam Parmerly, who is a one our new assistant director of special education. Congratulations, Sam. And, also, before I get to who I'm gonna announce here, I do wanna point out that the staff of Lincoln Elementary might be, the most in touch with finances because they have now sat through two school board meetings. We are going to look forward to seeing you all in August for whatever reason you might wanna come back. But with that approval,
we have approved, Kelsey Shepherd as the assistant principal of Lincoln Elementary. And we are gonna dismiss all of them to go take a picture outside, I think, with Jody. Yes. Okay. Great. Thank you for being here. Unless yes. Thank you. Thank you. Recommendation to approve resolution reapproving Building Corporation, mister Hacker. We're good. So, this falls under old business. This is actually related to the previous project approvals that we already have in place. This is something we do each and every year in preparation for, the upcoming bond sale.
So we will have a bond sale at the end of twenty twenty five that essentially will continue to pay for the high school project that is currently going on. As we cash flow that, we didn't do all the entire project in one bond sale. We have cash flow that and only taken out what we needed for each year. And so in order to be prepared for that bond sale, really, this is what a and b are related to, but we must reapprove the building corporation. Again, the, nine twenty nine Brownsburg Building Corporation is ultimately who holds the debt, because this is a lease rental. And so then through the next twenty years as we, pay off that mortgage,
then they will lease that back to us. And then in twenty years that, everything there that was covered under the project will become the ownership of Brownsburg Community School Corporation. So, need your approval to reprove the building corporation at this time and asking. So moved. Second. Questions, comments? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Thank you. Recommendation to approve resolution approving nineteenth supplement to master continuing disclosure undertaking, mister Hacker? Again, the this is also related to the previous approvals there at the high school.
Essentially, we have to, approve this each and every year. So next year will be the twentieth supplement if we do another bond sale. It essentially is saying that we will, send our financial information to the, securities exchange committee. When they ask, we have to do that on a quarterly basis. And, this is a resolution that says we are agreeing to do so. And so asking for your approval at this time. So moved. Second. Questions, comments? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Thank you. Second reading and recommendation to approve staff handbooks. Miss Libby. Yes. So,
again, just want to present the second reading and recommendation to approve the staff handbooks. And at the next board meeting, it would be the third and final reading of the staff handbooks. Thank you. New business. Recommendation to accept donations from 2425 school year. Mister Hecker? Yeah. Just an annual, approval that we're asking. I believe the list we're including in the board packet that in order for us to officially accept those need your approval. I'm asking for that at this time. Do you have a motion? So moved. Second? Second. Questions, comments? All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye.
Opposed, same sign. Thank you. Motion passes. Recommendation to author for authorization to sign agreements for alternative services in private residential school placements. Doctor Jesset. Thank you. This is a, request we make every year at this time. When we have students who are in need of different services or different school placements, we want to be able to do those when it's needed and not have to wait for the next board approval or the next board meeting for approval. So we ask for you to grant us the permission to do that. Motion? So moved. Second? Second. Questions, comments?
All those in favor, say, by saying aye. Aye. Opposed same sign? Motion passes. Thank you. Supernite comments? Doctor. Yes. We are certainly gearing up and getting excited for the 2526 school year. So we are are ready and waiting for students to show up. So we're hoping they're soaking in the last few days of summer vacation, but we are going to be ready for them, when school starts. Congratulations again to our bus rodeo winners. Great work, Nick. Thanks for leading that crew. And then, thank you to mister Ebert for his work,
in preparing and presenting that information. It was a lot, but it is very good in the sense that I think it's easy for people to understand with the way you explain it. So thank you for that. Thank you. Sure. Your word. Yeah. I just want to also congratulate the transportation winners and the Indiana School Bus competition. That's really impressive and very, makes me feel proud of our transportation center. Thank you. Thanks to Mr. Hacker and Mr. Ebert for the construction and budget updates. Those are a lot of fun,
Really made my day. And congratulations to Sam and Kelsey, and welcome to the new positions. Doctor Dixon? Just echoing what everybody else has said. I, I know that this summer feels like a freight train. We're racing toward the beginning of school, and some people are, looking forward to that, and others are my students. My children at home are are hanging on to every last bit of of summer, but I know that the the teachers and staff are are hopefully refreshed and and, rejuvenated and ready to have another great school year.
So mister Paul. Just wanna thank mister Acker, mister Ebert. Very detailed and thorough, presentations. Actually enjoying, learning about what's going on behind the scenes. I love how Lincoln comes out and supports the new hires. Either that or they don't have anything going on on a Monday night out here, but it's great to see the support for, the the new hires. And I cannot wait for the start of the school year to get here. So hope everybody has a safe, energetic, and fun start to the school year. That's crazy. Nothing has nothing said.
Welcome back here, everybody. Yeah. Welcome Kelsey and Sam. Nick, do you have, like, a wall of fame over your is it are you running out of space? Running out of space. Yeah. We're gonna have to build another transportation building, I think, just for the trophy. So that's awesome. Congratulations to you and your team. Hoping everybody is enjoying the rest of your summer and getting ready to buckle up for another school year. Thank you, guys. Do I have a motion to adjourn? So moved. The second? All in favor say the second thing aye. Aye. We adjourned.