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All right. At this time, we are going to start with a prayer and then the pledge of allegiance. So, if everybody will bow their uh head with me. Dear Lord, thank you for this day. Thank you for all you have given us. Thank you for the uh many blessings that you blessed us with that we don't need but that you've so

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graciously given us. Lord, thank you for a great school district, for great leaders, and God, I pray safety and security over all of our children and students and staff as they return to school, God. I pray for a positive environment and a safe environment for

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our kids, Lord. And I pray all of this in your name. Amen. Please stand for the pledgece of the United States to the At this time, oh, sorry. I call to order the board meeting special meeting for

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July 30th, 2026. Welcome citizens of Klay County. I want to take the opportunity to thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to attend today's school board meeting. This is our opportunity as your elected representatives to collaborate openly and make decisions that will

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decide the future direction of our public schools and the education of our children here in Klay County. If you wish to address the board on an agenda item, there will be an opportunity to speak for three minutes. Please fill out a card located at the side entry door indicating the specific item number or

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topic you wish to speak about and turn it in promptly to one of our officers. If you have items that you would like to present to the school board or superintendent, please hand them to an officer who will distribute them accordingly. Your participation is welcomed and appreciated.

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And at this time, I see no comment cards or speakers. So we are going to move on and we will begin with the presentation of the 2026 2027 tenative millage rates and budget with Miss Don Posey, chief

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financial officer who will provide an over overview at this time. Sorry. Thank you. Okay. Um good evening superintendent school board. We are um here tonight to

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um request your approval to adopt the 2026 2027 tenative mill rates and budget. Okay, we're just going to do um a quick uh review of our trim calendar at least as far as the dates that have um

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remaining. Um July 23rd, which was last Thursday, we um had a board meeting to approve the tenative millillage and budget for purposes of advertising. This past Tuesday, on July 28th, the tenative budget and proposed millillage was advertised on the district's website.

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Tonight, July 30th, is the fi first public hearing on the adoption of the 2026 2027 tenative mill and budget. And then on September 10th will be the final public hearing on the adoption of the 2026 2027 final millage and budget for

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the upcoming school year. Um this chart is our millage rate comparison over the last 10 years. Um you can see um in the last column, the variance column that there's um only a change in the required local effort from this year to last year. And that is a

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decrease of 049. All the other millages, the basic discretionary, the additional voted millage, the capital outlay all remain the same with no changes. So our total 2026 27 millillage is going to be

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6.223 compared to the 2025 2026 millillage which was 6.272 with a difference of 049. Um just a quick note that we've I've said before and last year just a

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reminder that um the Florida statues mandates that um we assess as taxing authorities the required local effort in order for us to participate in the FFP program and receive over $252 million. This chart right here is our property

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assessment comparison over the last 10 years. Um the second column of course is the total assess value in Klay County. You can see from the last two years the difference between uh the 2026 and 2027 and the 2025 and 2026. The difference

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between the 22.8 million billion sorry 22.8 billion and the 21.9 billion. There is about a 430 change which represents a $942 million increase in property taxes during that time period.

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Um the next chart is the proposed millage rates for the 2026 2027 and the amount that will be generated. The proposed column is the amount that will be generated from these rates. The state required local effort of 2.975 will

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generate 68 million. The basic discretionary of 748 will generate approximately 17 million. The additional millage will generate approximately 22.8 million and then the basic discretionary millage capital outlay will generate

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34.2 million for a total proposed millage rate of 6.223 and a total proposed uh amount generated levied of $142 million. Okay. So this chart right here, we're going to kind this is required by trim

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and by law. So we're going to go through the roll back rate. Um what is the roll back rate? The roll back rate is a rate that would generate the same amount of tax revenue that was generated in the prior year using current year property

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values. So if you start in the 2025 2026 column and you look at the Klay County taxable value which was 21.9 billion you apply the millage rate of 6.272 then the total dollars generated for the

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2025 2026 is $137 million. So if you go over to the very last column, the 2026 2027, and you look at the amount of Klay County taxable value at 22.8 million with a millage rate of 6.223,

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you'll see that we're going to generate 142.2 million. Okay? So if you go in the middle column and you take the property values as of today, which is in 2026 2027 of the 22.8 8 if you put that in the middle column

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adjusted by the uh property appraisers for some adjustments. So that gets you to 22.4. If you then take the 137 million from the prior year that we should be generating or that the law asked for it to be assessed against of 137 in the

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middle there calculates what the roll back rate would be and for us that would be 6.129408168. So overall the 2026 2027 uh millage rate of 6.223 is higher than the roll back rate which prompts the notice of prop of

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tax increase that needs to be advertised. If you also look at this chart you will see that for 2026 2027 you'll see that our rate of 6.223 is less than the 6.272 in last year. However, you'll also see

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that our property values increased, which is the reason for why we are now going to be generating 142 million then 137 million. So, um overall um the change in the total amount

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generated has nothing to do with the millage but everything to do with the assessed value of the property. So, Miss Posey, just to be clear, the millage rate that the board is assessing is less in this budget than the previous budget.

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>> Yes, sir. >> But property values determine the what the taxpayer actually pays. >> Yes, sir. >> So, we're going to go through two scenarios just to kind of like emphasize that and just to see it in the numbers. Um, so scenario number one, this assumes

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approx assumes no increase in the assessed value, none at all. So you start out with an assessed value of $200,000. Your homestead exemption is $25,000. So then your taxable value would be $175,000. So for 2526, the millage rate again was

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6.272. For us, for 2026 27, it's going to be 6.223 decrease of 049. So last year's taxes $1,9760. This year's taxes $1,89.3.

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So the you have a decrease of $857 or 7808 because we had a decrease in our millillage of 049. Scenario number two. In this scenario, it assumes that the property value

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increased by 3%. Um, so the assessed value instead of being 200,000 is 206 less your homestead exemption of 25,000 gives you a taxable value of 181. So you go to the second box over there to the well my right but anyhow the second box

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you can see that based on last year's millage rate of 6.272 this year's millage rate of 6.223 223, a decrease of 049. Last year's taxes, $1,13524. This year's taxes, $1,126.36

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for a decrease of $8.88 or 7822%. So, in that very last box right there on the bottom of the page, the screen, last year, so let's go back to last year. Last year your property was $200,000 assessed value and last year you paid

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$1,97.60 but this year your property went up 3% so it's $26 value,000 assessed value and this year pay year you're paying $1,126.36. So there's an increase of $28.76

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or 262%. So that scenario there kind of shows well it doesn't kind of but that scenario shows you the increase in the taxes is due to the increase in the property. Um okay so my favorite part of every presentation or wherever I go is I'm allowed to have disclaimers. It that

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just was given to me no 10 but three but if we need more I can do that. But before we get into all these numbers, I do have to say this is tenative, not final. Like even today, like when I said last week and go up a zero and down a zero, we went up two zeros today. So,

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you know, wherever before the decimal, wherever, it doesn't matter, but we went up some. So, just remember tentative, not final. Um, and then a big part of the FEF calculation is that we projected, of course, the state gives you the guidelines and the graphs and

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which one to pick, but we projected our student enrollment. So, if we don't make those projected enrollments and their shifts in that enrollments, then that's when the second and third cow comes and they bring us back down to reality. So, um, are we going to meet the enrollment projections we had? Are we going to have

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all the kindergarten comes in? Where are we going to be at our 10day count? So, a lot of this is really is really tentative and the fact that we still have not as of today closed our books for the prior year. So, we still have another week of um bringing in revenue,

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doing um journal entries and and recording um invoices back to the old year. So, just something to kind of think about. Um oh, sorry, sorry. Okay. So, our total budget for 2026 2027 is our general operating budget is at uh

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over 435 million. Our special revenue fund is 45.5 million. Our debt service fund is 4.8 million. Capital projects a little bit over 122 million and the internal service fund at 57 million for a total all funds of 665 over $665

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million. Okay. So we also looked at this slide last week and I'm just it's a very important slide. So we're going to go through the and this is just a state comparison just the state comparison revenue not federal and local combined that's on the next slide but just in the state comparison revenue just to point

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out that the voucher family scholarship um went up four million which is actually a reduction in money that comes to us. So our total state money has gone down $6.8 million. um general fund. This is all estimated revenue. So this includes federal

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um local and state on here. And so um for the 2026 2027 tenative, our total estimated revenue, you look in the difference column, it's going to be $2.5 million a decrease. Um and then our total estimated revenue, other financing

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sources and fund balance for 2026 2027 tenative is 400 over $411 million. Um general fund appropriations um our total appropriations this year for 2026 2027 tenative budget is three

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over $398 million. You can see in that first line where it shows instruction, the majority of our appropriation, the 259.9 is at the instruction level um account code 5,000. And then our total appropriations other financing uses and

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fund balance is 411 million. one mill the one mill fund estimated revenue um you can see from this comparison chart between uh this year and last year we're going to be up for our revenue on that about 94,000

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and with a total estimated revenue other financing sources and fund balance is 24.8 1 mill appropriation. Um the biggest line item on here that for appropriated dollars is the operation of plant which is our um appropriations for the police

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department and then the total appropriation at 8.9. You can see that in the 2026 27 tenative it's 8.9 and that our total appropriation other financing uses and fund balance is 24.8 million.

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Debt service debt service revenue um debt service is mostly funded by money moved from the capital fund into debt service to pay for principal and interest. So in this instance our the money moved from capital into debt has been reduced by approximately 1.6 6 million and that's because the bus

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leases for the 100 buses has been paid off and we no longer owe on that lease. So that is going to be the reason for that change. And then the total estimated revenue other financing sources and fund balance is $4.8

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million. And then the debt service on the appropriation side, same reason. our principal and interest went down. Our payments went down between the two years because we no longer owe on the 100 buses. And so our total appropriations other financing uses in fund balance is

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at $4.8 million capital our capital revenue, our total estimated um revenue for all capital funds. So that'd be the 1.5, the sales tax, all that is um has increased $4.1 million

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between this year and last year for a total estimated revenues for 2026 2027 at 69.5 million. And then the total estimated revenue other financing sources and fund balance is at $123 million.

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appropriations. Um total appropriations in this fund is at 88.15 million. Um the majority of that is classified under building and fixed equipment. And then our total appropriations, other financing uses and fund balance is at 123 million.

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Food service, our food service um is funded mostly mostly by federal dollars at $16 million. Then um then by local of the six million for a total estimated revenues for 2026 2027 of 22.2

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million and then her total estimated revenue other financing sources and fund balances at 31.2 million. And then food service appropriations. Um most of her um appropriations are in the materials and supplies of course for

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food at the 10 million and then her total appropriations other financing uses and fund balance is at $31.2 million and then the special revenue fund. So on this is basically and this is similar to last year is basically a listing

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currently right now of all the tenative of course the of all the projects grants that we have that are in business plus this is mostly salaries and benefits as soon as we get the applicable grant awards from DOE then all this will be updated the tendant will be updated

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include all the other funds and allow for um obligations to be against those funds to occur. So, of course, the biggest grants that we have is IDA right now at 8.7 million. Title 1 point Title One Part A at 3.7 million. Um, and like

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I said, the majority of our grants right now do cover salaries and benefits. Internal service funds. Um, so the district rather than purchasing services for our workers comp and medical um from an outside vendor, we we provide those

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services inhouse. We bring in the revenue and we pay all the expenditures. And so those are for the workers comp and the medical funds. These are those two funds combined. And their total operating budget is about $57 million. And so this last side is the notice of

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the public hearing. That will be our final public hearing for the 2026 2027 mill rates and budget. Thursday, September 10th, 2026, um at 5:05 p.m. right here. And that is the presentation

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for tonight. Thank you. At this time, we are going to open the public hearing for comments on the 2026 2027 budget and millillage. If you would like to make a comment, make your way to the microphone. Um state

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your name and your address. Well, good e good evening. Uh, this a no wonder there's not a whole lot of public here, is there? Uh, I'm Richard Arnold. Richard Arnold. Uh, 811 Redail Lane uh over in Greyhawk uh uh district uh

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subdivision. Anyways, I'm more here for a clarif I'd like to have a clarification if I can get you all recognize this. This is the assessment, my property tax and assessments. This last one that I paid and I'm concerned

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with a couple areas. My total was $4,700 the amount and half of that goes to the school system. Okay. Two over $2,000. The thing that catches my eye is you've

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got it says school discretionary. There's a school discretionary amount and then a school discretionary voted amount which total is over 600 bucks. Now discretionary by definition means

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money that is used for whatever purposes without really any accounting for it. I guess do you agree with that? And I'm real concerned about why there's two discretionary amounts on

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here. And one, as I said, it claims it's a discretionary amount voted. What exactly does that mean? Can anybody answer that or >> I can clarify that. The discretionary amount that's voted, it's voted by the public. I'm over here. [laughter]

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>> The discretionary amount is the millillage that's voted on by the public. So the board does not directly, we are not a taxing authority. We don't set the tax rate. Um but we had a millillage that was voted on by the public and approved by the public four years ago. That's what that

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discretionary is. >> Okay? >> Which is also what was in that verbiage that the that the public voted on is I'm right here is all we can spend that money on. So it's it's the safety and

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security mill. um and operating uh expenses >> and it is accounted for. Because it's discretionary does not mean I'm over here. Because it's discretionary does not mean that it is unaccounted money or money that can be spent however the

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board desires. That's not the case. When it's voted on by the public, what Miss Skipper is saying, we have to put in the advertisement literally every single thing that we might possibly spend that money on. And then on top of that, what um Miss Posey just presented um includes

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every bit of that money. So it it is accounted for. It is audited. Um so it's not just a unaccounted for fund. >> Okay. And what is the procedure protocols for the counties to get money

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from Tallahassee? Uh and the lottery now you know the lottery they 2.2 billion to 2.5 billion annually goes to the school systems. Okay.

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And that's roughly 25% of the total lottery amount. And with there's uh in Tallahassee they've got over eight they're sitting on $18 billion. I think

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you probably know that. Okay. Now, the economists are projecting billions more in the coming years. And I'm sure you all watch the news and are are aware of the fact that New York Miami is going to be known as the

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financial capital of the world within the next 5 to 10 years. The way things are moving, everybody's moving out of New York. Wall Street's moving to Miami. I think you all know that. So my thoughts are with the wealth that

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this state has, what are the protocols? How can a county go to Tallahassee, the school system, to say, "Hey, we need to build two more schools. We need $500 million to accomplish that. They've got the money,

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obviously. So what how what's the protocol? How do you guys do you ever pick up the phone say, "Hey, Ron, we need money." >> All the time, actually. >> All the time. [laughter] Okay, that's what I'm saying. >> Especially here recently. Yes. Yes, sir. I know about one part.

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>> Can you hear me? I'm doing this thing where my microphone's not working again. >> But the the scholarship programs that the bright futures is part of that money. You see that 25% that

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Well, I'm talking about the what? The lottery money. >> Okay. because my understanding is that they divvy out amongst all the counties in the state the the lottery proceeds and then you all use it to

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>> so so over here sir the the basics is there's a formula it's called the Florida education finance program >> right >> it's it's like 23 parts to it but the basics are the state says to the board hey you have a required local effort you

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have taxes that you have to assess on local taxpayers. We go ahead and we we would then assess those otherwise we wouldn't be able to receive the money from Tallahassee. So Tallahassee says have to assess

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millillage at this particular rate. We assess the millillage we collect that it would go to Tallahassee and then they would redistribute it back out to the counties. So, to give you an idea, like in Klay County, and Don, you can correct me if I'm wrong, to give you a

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roundabout idea, the money that it would require to run Klay County schools, probably about 21% of that comes from local taxpayers and the rest in essence come from the

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state and what is collected by the state. So, we're totally reliant on the state to provide us that money. So, we we consistently lobby lawmakers in order to receive more money because despite

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the amount that you see there, uh many areas are in need within our within our district. So, well, okay. I because I know I'm here, of course, myself, but I know I'm representing a lot of my neighbors and all. We talk about this all the time and not so much myself. I

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mean, I I do okay with the, you know, paying these property taxes and everything. But what my concern is this. I know people, and it's just not Florida. It's around the country. You see this all the time. Property taxes are taking a major hit on people,

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especially a lot of the elderly people. People are losing their homes because they can't afford the property taxes. And when I see half of this, you know, going to the school system, now I'm all for schools obviously and everything, but there's got to be to me it seems

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like there's got to be a way to tweak this stuff. We got to we got to protect the elderly. We got to protect a lot of these homeowners who are losing their homes. And that's my concern. And I, like I said, I got a couple neighbors that are worried about theirs, which I

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find to be odd. I mean, where where I live, it's, you know, pretty nice place, but but there you go. You got some people who you wouldn't ex imagine having problems or having problems. So, and but the four the the money to this

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school system, the half of it going there is the reason I'm here. I just want clarification to try to figure out this discretionary two discretionary amounts and what that was all about. So, >> yeah. And [clears throat] just a thank

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you for your support and thank you for coming and asking. But just to clarify, every dollar that's in our budget um has a state statute attached to it. So we can't just spend it like we want to. >> Well, I figured. Yeah. >> Yeah. And there's a there's different ways we have to spend it um in different

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buckets. And I and and if you need further clarification afterwards, we can talk to you in in depth about the budget because I think a lot of people truly don't understand how it works. And each county's formula is different. So Klay

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County, people wonder um why we're different from St. John's and Duvall and how they can do this and that and we can't. Well, their local revenue is a lot different than ours. And that's the short answer, the simple answer. Um but again, thank you for for asking, but I

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wanted you to know that there is guidance to every dollar that we spend. We're not just signing off on it. um and and that uh there's language that follows that. Okay. So, >> well, and again, I was interested because when I started doing the research, I started making a couple

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phone calls and finding out the money that we're sitting on in the you know, 18 billion plus and then everybody is always screaming for money and I just don't understand what the hell what what they uh are sitting on that money and

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what they do with it there. I mean, and I think that that's a question for Tallahassee, but we can we can definitely go over further after um all this is said and done. If you want to, we can we can talk in depth. >> Well, that's okay. But I was just, you know, I'm here because I've been I moved

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here six years ago. I love it. You know, I came from Virginia >> and I grew up in Indiana. I lived had my career, went to school and everything in Virginia in the Washington DC area. retired, moved down here, and then I traveled all over the country. I've been

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all over the world actually, but all the states and everywhere I visit here in this country. When you watch news, wherever you're at, it's always the same thing. People property taxes and schools, the school budgets, it's it's like it's a

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it's the same it's the same thing everywhere you go. >> I wanted to say one thing because I did research on this one portion. So, we are about 24th out of 67 counties in size, right? We're a middlesized county. We're fairly large. We're growing.

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When you look at We are 24th out of all the counties in Florida. We are 64th in the amount of money we collect. Our tax that we collect is lower than 63 [snorts]

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other counties. So, We're a big county, but our taxing authority is low in Klay County compared to other counties. So, >> okay. All right. >> Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. >> Thank you.

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>> All right. Seeing no more um public comment. We're going to close this public hearing at this time and we're going to bring it back to the board. Can I get a motion to adopt the 2026 2027 tenative budget and set the public

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hearing for the 2627 final budget for Thursday, September 10th, 2026 at 5:05 p.m.? >> I'll move approval. >> I have a motion from Miss Gilhousen. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> I have a second from Mr. Alvo. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Any

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opposed? Motion carries. 50. Next up, uh, everybody voted. Okay, we're going to adopt the resolution for Can I get a motion to adopt the resolution for the 27-01

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request for adoption of the 2026 2027 CCDS tenative millillage for required local effort basic discretionary capital improvement and additional voted millage. >> I'll do the approval. >> I have a motion from Miss Gilhousen. Can I get a second? >> I'll second.

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>> I have a second from Miss Clark. All in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. 5. And then up next, can I get a motion to adopt the resolution for the 27-02

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request for the adoption of the 2026 2027 CCDS tenative budget? >> I'll move approval. >> I have a motion from Miss Hansen. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> I have a second for Mr. Alvaro. All in favor signify by saying I. I.

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>> Any opposed? Motion carries. 50. At this time, we are going to um move to the proposed educational facilities plan presented by Miss Bryce

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Ellis, the assistant superintendent of operations. Okay. Good evening, superintendent and school board. Wait for the presentation. There we go. Uh tonight I'm going to present and request the adoption of the tenative

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202627 educational facilities plan. This is an annual requirement [clears throat] required by Florida statute which upon approval uh will be submitted to the Florida Department of Education and also local governments to um collaborate with

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them on our planned and proposed capital expenditures for Klay County District Schools. At this time um I had placed at each of your places um a packet of the actual plan. If you want to go to page 22,

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we will go over all the revenue sources for capital um outlay. So this this page is what details all the funding sources for capital um resources. I'm going to go ahead and go to the next slide so you can see the dollar amounts, but I'll go through the

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definition so you can see them at the same time. So again, we have several different categorical funding sources that are allowed to be used for capital outlay. We have the one and a half mil, which is the local discretion account. um property taxes. There are variety of

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allowable expenditures with this report um with this funding source. So that comes in at $32.5 million. We also have the educational impact fees. This is for new growth. This is for developments that come in and they say, "Hey, do you

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guys have room in your schools for facilities or um for our students? we're going to build all these homes and bring in all these kids and if we they have to bring they have to charge an additional impact fee for those um developments. Um and we use those only on new growth. Um

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in your packet you can see what those current rates are in Klay County. There's different rates for single family, multif family, and mobile home. And we are in the current year, we are going to have to do another impact fee study um to see whether or not we are in

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line with where we should be collecting um to support our schools. Um certificates of participation, these are bonds. Um the most recent certificate of participation that we um had was for

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Lake Asbury Jr. and Oakleaf Jr. Those were the classroom wings. the discretionary sales tax. That's the half cent sales tax. Uh we do have a committee um that monitors the expenditures of the EDF first um sales tax. This is a 30-year sales tax that

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was voted in in 2020 by our um by our community. So, we will not have to go out for this tax until 2050. We're very thankful for that. Right now, we bring in um we are anticipating 20 a little over 20 million for the upcoming school

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year, which is huge for our district. The gas tax, it's a smaller amount um that we receive. It's a county fuel tax. This money is only allowed to be used in the right of way. Um we cannot use this money actually on our school properties.

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We use them um on properties directly adjacent to ours. So, if it's a sidewalk in front of the school, um we usually collaborate with the county on those type of projects and this money goes um towards that. The final one on the list is the prop

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share. This is impact fees upfront. It's a it's another developer um fee for um impact and new growth. And these are all the anticip this is just the new revenue that we are anticipating to receive for all of these different fund sources.

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Now, before we can um the obligations for each of those are detailed on the next page. Um if you turn to page 24 or I'm sorry 20 um five you'll see the

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obligations. So you can see there the obligations the um the cops the classroom wings we do play pay for that out of impact fees. Um then we have our transfer to general fund and property and casualty ERP equipment. All of these are what is

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taken out before we can apply them to our capital projects. So at the bottom you can see that our charter schools we are obligated to give them 6% um for our capital outlay our LCIF and our ED first and you can see the dollar

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amounts there. So that's what leaves us with the remaining what do we do with the rest of the money? What projects do we do? Um at this time I'd like to ask Lance to come up here and present on the facilities portion of the tenative EFP projects.

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And again this is tenative. Um we will present again at final in September and go over any changes. We will also in September go over our um annual growth presentation to discuss um any changes there from previous years. Oops.

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Good evening, Mr. Superintendent and board members and Madame Chair. Um, my name is Lance Addison, director of facility planning and construction. Um, throughout the year, Rice and I, we develop projects for the u for the EFP. So, I'd like to go over some of those

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projects with you now. So upcoming projects uh that we are planning for as you can see we have ceiling and lighting restroom renovations bleacher replacements reduction of portables CTE lab upgrades classroom additions

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fire alarm replacements drainage and storm water improvements so that we don't have sinkholes parking lot improvements um as you know Middberg High School is going on right now. New playgrounds for the students. Some of our playgrounds

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are a little bit dated, safety and security upgrades, interior and exterior LED lighting so that our parking lots are um lit up better and safer. Flooring, track upgrades, HVAC and

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roofing replacements. If you notice, a lot of that is upgrade. It's uh mostly upgrading or trying to repair some of the um older facilities and trying to bring them up to speed.

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Um as you see, you'll see through all the projects um in your in your packet and the orange projects all in your packet. If you go down all of the schools, you'll see the orange projects are projects that are going on right now. Those are carryovers. The green

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projects are projects that are planned for this year and the um blue projects listed in your in your list are the projects that are planned for out years or future years. So that's how that's um that's how we color code it per se so

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that we can keep track of what is what and when we're going going to do it. What I like to do now is go over completed projects. Doesn't look great up on the screen. It's kind of really hard to tell, but um if you look at your packet, you should

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have a little bit better. Um it should look a little bit better in there. I don't think the completed projects are in the packet because we just this is what we sent to the county and the state. But um the before picture up there is um Wilkinson Elementary

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School, their roof. It looked pretty bad. And then the after project, as as you can see, we did all of those buildings right there. was a cost of $380,000. We completed in June of 2026 and they have a brand new roof. We do a lot of roofs. We don't want leaks on the kids,

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okay? That uh that doesn't that doesn't that's not a good learning environment for our children if we have leaking roofs. So, we try to make sure the learning environment is um up to speed, that the kids are comfortable. A comfortable student uh learns better,

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and I'm sure we can all agree that this is uh Clay High School. This one's a little bit better to see. You can see that um on the left, the before of Clay High School, and on the right how it looked um later on after we finished it. It was a final cost of $625,000.

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Clay High. It was the entire main building of Clay High School. Um is completed in July 2025. Um so you'll see the before and after pictures of that. That came out really really good. I I that's a really good drone shot of of

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the before and after and the lovely playgrounds. So, um, Ridge View Elementary, we um, as you can see the the um, uh, for lack of better terms, the monkey bars that they used to have, um, way back when and the swings. And you'll see

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the updated playground equipment that they have with um, safer equipment. That's the best way to put it, that the qu the equipment is safer. It should it won't rust. The kids are not going to get injured on there. If you see the ground, the ground is shock absorbing.

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It's built up with with um with a material so that if they were to fall that it it would it would um absorb their their fall and overall it just looks better for the school and the kids deserve a good place to go out and play

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during their recess time. It was a final cost of $347,000 um and completed in June of 2025. And u I don't know if you've been to a ribbon cutting ceremony of a playground where the kids come out. If you have

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not, you need to go. It's really really fun to watch and see how excited the kids are when they do get a new playground. I did this project. I'm proud of this one. So that's um Green Cove Junior's gym floor refinish.

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Green Cove Jr. the floor was looking pretty old. You could almost see the the the nails coming out of the floor. Okay, so we did a complete resand a complete paint. The kids were so as the basketball players were playing, they were slipping all over the place. So we

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redid this floor. That is one of the older gyms that we have in the district. So, as once again when the students for um PE come out or the students come out to play volleyball or basketball, um obviously they're very very excited

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to come out and see the floor. And I think it just came out beautiful in my opinion. And SPJ, another playground. If you look to the left, that's the older playground right there. Very small, not a whole lot to it. um the newer playground. You all

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remember the um the metal slides? I'm sure we all do. Yeah. That that kind of burns a little bit going down. So hopefully the kids won't get burned on this on the newer slides that we put out there. $136,000 on this new playground.

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And guess what we have opening up in about a week? Right out elementary classroom wing with a new parking lot. So, it's going to be beautiful. I hope that everybody goes out and visits it. It's um those are actual pictures of right now of how it

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looks. The um the classrooms are furnished. I've seen some teachers in there. We've walked it. It um is beautiful. The the faculty, the staff, the administration, they're really, really excited to have this. And we also

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put a new basketball court out there for them, too. an outdoor basketball court because we had to chop into their their previous basketball court to to make room for this one. And uh we made a little bit of a of a better

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um walkway from Fireside Village so that they don't have to walk out onto Henley Road. So, we kind of cut through some of the fields. So, we provided a sidewalk for them. So, overall, we're just trying to make it a better and safer exper uh um experience for the kids. um whe

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whether they're walking, whether they're coming to school, whether in PE, we're just trying to make the experience overall just a great experience because my kids go to Klay County schools and um and it's just a great district for our

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kids to be in. That was $12 million. And thank you. That's the fun part. Thank you. I don't think people realize just how much things cost either. So, the taxpayer dollar doesn't go as far as it used to.

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All right. At this time, I'm going to bring it back to the board. Can I get a motion to adopt the tenative 2026, 2027 through 2030, and 2031 educational facilities plan? >> I move approval. >> I have a motion from Miss Hansen. Can I

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get a second? I'll second >> a second from Miss Clark. All in favor signify by saying I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. 50. And then can I get a motion to approve the proposed allocation changes for 2026

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2027? >> I'll move approval. >> A motion for Miss Gilhousen. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> I have a second for Mr. Alvo. All in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Motion carries. 50.

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>> Me. >> Oh, sorry. And then Mr. Albero second. And it was a 50 vote. All right. At this time, this meeting is adjourned.