Good evening. Welcome to the Monday, June 23rd Board of Education meeting. If we can all rise to the Pledge of Allegiance Of the United States of America and to the Republic. Religion stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty, and justice for all. And we'll have a moment of silence, please. Thank you. Moving on to recommended actions, approval of the proposed agenda. We'll take a motion, I'll make a motion to approve our agenda. There. A second. Okay. We have a motion and a second. Any changes to the agenda? I. Okay. Ms. McDougle
Youngs. Yes. Anderson? Yes. National? Yes. Lang? Yes. Riker? Yes. Kish? Yes. 2.02. Approval of the May 5th Board. Workshop minutes. Madam Secondary, Madam President, have reviewed the May 5th workshop. Minutes. Everything appears to be in order. I make a motion. We approve as presented Board. Okay. Any questions? Ms. McDougal Youngs. Yes. Anderson? Yes. Ello? Yes. Lang? Yes. Ryker? Yes. Yes. 2.03. Approval of the May 19th Board meeting minutes. Madam Secretary,
Madam President, reviewed the May 19th meeting. Minutes. Everything appears to be in order. I make a motion. We approve as presented. Support. Any clarification, sir? Okay. Ms. McDougal Youngs. Yes. Anderson? Yes. Ello? Yes. Lang? Yes. Ert? Yes. Kish? Yes. 2.04. Approval of the April and May financial bills and, um, reports. Vice president, Madam President. We, this finance subcommittee met prior to the meeting today to review April and May, financials and bills as well as the, um, budget,
future, and past budgets. Um, I'd like to make a motion to approve the financials and Bills support. Okay. A lot of data there. Any questions from any of the board members? Okay. Ms. McDougall Youngs. Yes. Anderson? Yes. Ello? Yes. Lang? Yes. Riker? Yes. Cash? Yes. Moving on to this consent agreement, 3.01 approval of the 20 24 25 organization sanction requests. I think there's one on there for the baseball team. So we'll take a motion for that one.
I'll make a motion to approve Support. Any questions? Just clarification. Do we know why that was submitted so late? You know what, I'm Not aware. I'd have to talk to Jody. Thank you. And I think they're over the 20% as well, if I remember right. This is cross country. Uh, is that cross country? I do think I heard that there might be somebody, uh, new leading that this year. And that could have been the delay in why it was received at the end. That was what, Yeah, I can follow up. Okay. Yeah, because they're, they're supposed to have 20%,
but maybe it was the end of the year. Okay. Any other questions on that? Okay. Ms. Youngs? Yes. Anderson? Yes. Han Yes. Lang? Yes. Riker? Yes. Cash? Yes. Trevor, When you check on that will, they haven't submitted one for this year yet, so make sure they're aware that it needs to get in before. Really. Thank you. Do that. Uh, 2025. I'm sorry. 3.02. Approval of the 20 25 26 organization sanction request. We'll take a motion. I'll make a motion. I support. Any questions about this?
I know I did talk to Ryan, um, this afternoon 'cause he's outta town right now. Um, and I think he's at a follow up. 'cause there are a few that do not have a spend down plan and that are over the, um, 20%. So if we can make sure that that is taking place. I know it's fairly new for people. Right. But there's, there's one that's quite a bit over and we don't wanna hold them back, but we need To know. Yeah, I know we're giving Grace till this time. So the rubber's meeting the road now, so. Okay, good on that. Thank you. I can add, finance committee did tell me to give them grace until the start of the school year.
So if this is for ongoing, um, should Be for this. We haven't been flagging yet, so if you want us to start earlier, we certainly can do that. Well, this is start of the school year, so it probably, but You're starting to get those requests in now, so We can do That. Yeah. And then just back. So while you're doing that, or is our treasurer need? I, my staff member is doing that. Okay. Yeah. The one school in particular. And I'm just wondering too, it's possible because it hasn't, we haven't even hit the fiscal year end for them, but they still have staff coming in for the end of the year. Correct. But with their balance being up as much as it is, I'm like, that money should have been spent on those kids.
And I'm thinking maybe it was, it just hasn't come through Yet. What I can tell you is that they're planning summer activities, so the year hasn't even wrapped up yet. And they're already thinking of fundraising activities for July. Right. And that's what's happening right now. The fifth fiscal year hasn't even finished and they're already pre-planning for July and August activity. So you're, we're at a, we're at a weird time of the year where although the school years ended, the fiscal year hasn't and neither has the books for them. And we don't wanna punish them for thinking ahead and also planning, you know, trying to get that paperwork in. So that might be a, but
What we can do is just be proactive and say, Hey, you're not at the 20%. And then send it back. Like, we Can do that. We just need their spend down plan. If they're saving it for something they're doing that we just need an explanation. 'cause it's like 700% over the Yes, we can do that. That was big. Okay. Um, any other questions about the second one? Okay. Ms. McDougall Youngs. Yes. Anderson? Yes. Nel? Yes. Lang? Yes. Riker? Yes. K. Yes. Okay. Moving on to presentations. 4.01.
Summer project updates. It's always, well, it's always interesting to me when we see people in the community, they say it's summer. What do you guys do? We do all summer on vacation. Um, but it's pretty busy time right now. And Jeff's gonna give you a little glimpse into Yeah. You know, some of the things that are happening around the district. Um, so I'll turn it over to him. I know his team's working hard, so Jeff, you wanna go ahead and kick us off? Yeah. Um, a lot of exciting things. Actually. We have come right out of the shoot rocking, so it's, I'm very happy with the start. Um, if you go around the district right now, contractors started basically on Saturday
after school got out. So I am thrilled if you were to drive by Meyer's Elementary right now, they're ready to start paving. So they tore out the sidewalks and, and driveway regraded drainage. And it's, we're only a weekend into summer. So I'm, I'm thrilled with that. So, um, I think this clicker will work. Yeah. I wanted to start off with, uh, strategically with the s sinking fund. 'cause I wanted to thank everyone here for passing that. So anyone in grand blank that voted? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um, just a list of some
of the projects we're doing, uh, high school, east Roof, Anderson roof, those are very big deals, right? Um, between those two, we're talking about 1.3 million. So that's just not something that can come out of a general fund. We know that. Right. So 1.3, just to do those two roofs. Um, the Meyers and Reed parking lots, you're looking at another 600,000. So again, the total for roofing and parking lots about 1.9. So obviously coming out of a general fund would be very difficult. So we're very, very appreciative of that.
Um, in addition to that, we have, um, some concrete work at Anderson outside the playground. A bunch of miscellaneous sidewalks. One big sidewalk at Mason. So a lot of good things happening in the sinking fund. Plus there's a bunch of onesie twosies that we're doing with HVAC and, you know, that sort of thing. So just a lot of great things there, Jeff, in the past, we've done, uh, put signs up while their construction is happening. Like, thank you for funding this, this project, or a sinking fund. Thank you for supporting or whatever. Uh, do we still do that?
We still have 'em? Yeah, we'll do that. Okay. Yep. About the only place I don't want to do that is Meyers. Okay. Um, Yeah, that parking lot's gonna be pristine. And you've been in Sun Valley. Some of the roads in Sun Valley are, I'm being a little humorous, but No, I mean, you're right. We, we definitely put out signs after the fact and we'll put on the marquee and some of the schools, if you drive by now, they'll say, thank you for passing the sinking fund. So it's Just, I, It's nice for them to know, oh, this project or this was, this is from that, you Know. No, that's a great point, great point. So over to the 2020 Bond project.
Um, obviously five years ago, we're in our last phase of that. Uh, the last phase is Jew trail, high school West, uh, the west pool in Phil. So, I love to talk about this because at the beginning it was, we were supposed to white box it. We are building a gym, so it is a new floor. It'll have a new floor, new entrances, basket, rims, you know, basketball rims. So it, it's looking really good. Um, construction started there at spring break.
So we did the pool infill then. And now we're working on actual construction. So Is that separated from the rest of the school? Can we lock it away? We had to for construction for safety reasons, uh, put up a one hour firewall. Mm-hmm. So if the teachers over there are like, what's going on here? That the fire marshal made us do that. Okay. Just during construction. So yeah, during construction, we wanna take it down this summer, but they're like, as long as you have custodians in the building, you're not gonna take it down. So, so we're kind of forced to have that, but it's a safety thing, so I really can't complain. But, um,
and I have pictures to show all these after the fact. I just, we'll run through these quickly, but, And just a reminder, you've said this before, we're getting more than we planned out of this bond. I will get to that in a second. Okay. But yeah, absolutely. And This is one of 'em, when you said white box to Gym. Yep. We went from a white box to a full gym. On top of that, we are going to A-A-C-S-S program where we're putting in doors, new restrooms, outfitting an office, um, and a secured entrance up there for, so if it does go to a ninth grade campus, if, if that indeed happens, we'll at least have a secured entrance there to work with.
So, pretty pleased about that. Some of the little projects, because of, I'll talk about this later, but because of, uh, our financial, uh, status or state that we're in, we're able to put in a band tower, um, this new stairway that goes around the back that allows people to come around, um, new press box windows. Um, now that we've built this beautiful place, more and more people want to use it. They wanna bring, um, band festivals and tournaments. I don't, I don't even know what they call 'em, but, um, but anyway, that requires, um, windows in the press box
That open, That open so they're operable now they can yell down to the field, um, that sort of thing. So those have been installed last week. So that's done. And we're happy with that. And then the final little thing is to paint the old pool at high school East. Um, I put this at the end just 'cause I'm, I'm so kind of proud of this because when we paint that, and if you stand out in the middle of the field, all the buildings will kind of match, right? So we painted some of the, the buildings out there at the Frank. Um, we want to paint the press box at the soccer field.
Now I, I just wanna be able to stand out there and have everything look like it. Oh, that was built in the sixties. That was in the seventies. This was in the nineties. I want it to all look uniform. And That you meant, Sorry. That project will make That happen. You said, you know, because of our financial, but, but this is from the bond. So it was because of the use and investments from that particular bond that these additional projects are being interest rates created. It is not from the general fund. So what I was gonna share was, no, okay. Michelle did a great job investing the bond proceeds
to the tune of millions. And that allowed us, allowed me to extra pay all these extras. Um, we're doing a band tower stairwell, the pre, um, some updates in the press box, the video board, uh, some lighting. Great. Some, a lot of good things that came from that. So very thankful there. I, um, here's some of the pictures. Um, I'll go through these real quick. Anderson Elementary, we're replacing the roof along with the roof. It's more than just a roof that's insulation.
I was just excited. Sorry, I apologize. But Oh, I was like, wow, that's the worst picture of a roof I've ever seen. This is the day after school got out and I already have insulation in the parking lot. Okay. You gotta know my excitement. I apologize. That's awesome. So it's a picture of the insulation I got. Not the roof, not Insulation. When we're done with the roof, I'll, I'll update you guys and give you a picture. Um, so out the back of Anderson that there's a sidewalk that connects the building to the Blake playground. It was really rough. So that's a picture of that. Again, another sinking fund project.
Thrilled to be able to do that. Uh, some landscape work. That's gonna be a, a very good ad. Um, again, this is what three days after school ended, uh, at Meyers. That's the bus loading zone. The entire parking lot has been removed. They're now prepping for the new parking lot. So very happy there Again. High school east, a few days after school ended. That's all the insulation. The truck on the right is a vacuum. So not just, we can't just go in there and lay down a roof. We have to vacuum all the rock off.
So for a week there's been trucks running in and out vacuuming rock off the roof. So, But then do we put the rock back on after? No, they won't have Rock. The new ins. The new is a, is a single ply insulation that doesn't need a ballast. That's kind of an old school technology that's no longer needed. So, um, move over to the high school west, uh, pool. Uh, I should call it the, yeah, the old pool. Now a gym. Just a few pictures here that show our new entrances that we have. Going to the outside. Couple more here.
You can see, I don't know, you can really tell where the pool was. 'cause the concrete, they did such a good job with the concrete. Go, go back one. Will you Jeff? See that corner there? That's the front of the building. He, he punched a hole in the wall there. Have you noticed all the excavating in front of West High School? They're gonna create parking down there too. Um, because we have talked about potentially a clinic space, which that locker room would, would be ideal for. So there's gonna be a drive that goes down and that's why they're excavating out there. Awesome. So the ceiling there, that'll all get painted. So it'll be a nice finished gym when we're done padding all
the way around the, the perimeter new baskets, that sort of thing. Hard to tell in this up On top, like a a, a track or What is that? Um, no, that is just the old, uh, overlook. Okay. Uh, that's a space where we could probably put four or five step bleachers. Oh, okay. If we wanted. Or you could make that, um, if they wanted a workout space like we did at East and put workout equipment. So we had to improve the rail. They already installed the new rail. Um, so a lot going on here. Um, Uh, just a quick picture of the CSS area where we've removed a wall and redoing the bathrooms.
Um, I don't know if you guys have ever been at a Bucky's on your way to Florida at all. That's our favorite. Smart Okay, great. Oh, look at that. So when you walk, those Are the best bathrooms When you walk into a Bucky's bathroom and you just, you see nothing but doors. Right? That's what you're gonna see here. Oh, That's awesome. Which allows us to put a vape sensor in each one. And I can, you can put a camera outside the doors. So now when the vape sensor goes off and then whoever walks out is the guilty party. So if we wanna be very aggressive,
we can be very aggressive. Nice. But then again, they'll just use a different bathroom. So never nevermind what I said. Don't use the nice ones. I'm not telling these guys anything. Yeah. Uh, just another picture of that. Um, some of the old plumbing in the wall that had been removed, um, in doing the CSS uh, portion of the building we're kind of, uh, blocking off CSS from the rest of the school. Right. Um, and that caused us to have to put a new entry door in. So this is a picture from the outside that'll you'll walk out as a set of doors.
Uh, a sidewalk will go off to the left there and to the new parking lot that we're gonna install. And that's just a picture from the inside. It's the same opening. So, um, this is kind of what Trevor was alluding to. Um, it's always one of those exciting projects where we just get started. I'm gonna put a new road in and then the fire chief comes to me and says, I'm sorry, you need to put a 20 foot wide road in. So we have to come from the bus loading zone all the way down and around the building 20 feet wide. I have to use eight inch concrete, eight inch base.
I mean, we can land your Chinook helicopter on it, right? Appreciate that. But we have to do that so they can access that little fire hydrant that if you can see in the picture there. So just one of those things that we kind of get pinched and that's what we have to do. So, but it will be a nice drive, very welcomed. Um, people come down there. I mean, obviously golf is, they use that back area a lot. And just to access, even when we talk about reunification drills, buses can now drive back through there very comfortably. Um, so it was kind of a, kind of a compliment to that.
Um, over to Jewett Trail, right now, it looks like an absolute jungle. Um, they're removing about 2000 feet a curb gonna replace the curb that's been eroding over the years. And then obviously all new asphalt. So just a quick snapshot of that. Uh, out in front of high school west right there. Um, another exciting one out the back, um, of the tunnel and the new athletic complex is the footings for the new stairwell. Um, they got that put in in the first couple days after school got out. Uh, the metal right now is being fabricated and they, I'm hoping to be done by the end of July.
So that's, that's going well. I, um, band tower. Um, again, another, because of the way the money was invested, we were able to install this. Um, obviously very beefy, fairly expensive. Again, another thing we, we could land a helicopter on if we needed to. Uh, very happy with that. It turned out very nice. I like to show this slide 'cause it kind of shows, tells everyone, um, where we've been. 2020 bond was passed. We got all of the projects completed and then some. So, um, you can see the last little thing
to not get checked is Jewett Trail. Obviously we're in the middle of that. Um, like I said earlier, the band tower, the steps, the video board, um, the extra bleachers, the lights, um, I have to thank everyone that came before me that thought this and had this vision. So I was very happy to be part of it. So thank you for all that. Michelle made me look really good by supplying me with more money to handle these types of projects. So it's been a wonderful, wonderful project.
So thank you to everyone in this room for that. So, and, um, last one. I think that's it. Any questions? Or Any questions or Jeff? Well, I just want to commend Jeff and Michelle for their work on this. I mean, $87 million worth of jobs and projects to complete them on time, on budget and do 120 or 125% of the, what the voters passed five years ago. It was pretty amazing. And I've said this before and I said this at Chamber. Um, you know, it took, I think it was an $11 million project door highway extension
that took 10 years to come to fruition. He's done $87 million in five. So, um, and more and more so because of Michelle's investing. So they've done a great job. So thank you guys. And It all started during COVID. Yeah, That's right. Oh yeah, for sure. It's amazing. I know we were a little bit slower to get stuff done than we wanted, but you ramped up and were sprinting once we got through a lot of those supply chain issues. So appreciate, well thankful. 'cause I, I talked to many schools and they had to value engineer a lot out of their projects and,
and they talked like, oh, we got 80% of what we promised done. And we have truly completed 120% of what we said. I mean, 20% beyond. I mean, when we say we're gonna white box two pools, I mean, we completed two gyms out of that. So huge. Again, very thankful, you know, that that turned out this way. And the investments and that sort of thing. And it's huge for our students. I mean, they have space now to do these things. Yes. And especially in the spring when It's rain, how you have two dreams to actually work with. Not just spaces that we filled in a hole. You know? So very happy with that. Um, little things like the CSS project and that just add
or added onto it the back parking lot behind West for CSS. We added that to the Jew trail project. Combine those two. And they still came in under budget Really. So Yeah. And that's gonna be good for net just CSS but also for The baseball, baseball CSS during the day. But baseball, track soccer in the evening, it's just a welcomed for, for someone that grew up here. These, this is very welcomed right. As I, I'm not, I just don't work here. But when you grow up here and you realize kind of what we've all done,
this is, this is huge. You know, so very thankful to be part of it. So thank you. And it's been, again, recognized nationally. Like you found that article about one of the top facilities in the last decade in the country when it comes to athletics. So yeah. Well done. Yep. Okay. Any more questions for Jeff before we move on? Okay. 5.04 OLA policy. Madam Secretary. Uh, Madam President. So this is the second reading of new policy 50 55, 30. It is a drug prevention policy.
Um, these are things again that we already do and we are just codifying it into a policy. So I'm gonna make a motion. We approve the second reading as presented. I support. Okay. Any questions? Okay. Ms. McDougall Youngs. Yes. Anderson? Yes. Ello? Yes. Lang? Yes. Riker? Yes. Kish? Yes. Moving on to new business 6.01. The, I'm not gonna say it. Batista Batista versus the Office of Retirement Services. Okay. So this has been an ongoing lawsuit, um, between the Michigan Association of School Administrators and Office of Retirement Services
on spiking administrative contracts. Um, you'll notice that we all now have salary schedules in our contact on, in our contracts. That's intentional because there were some administrators throughout the state that were spiking those contracts with the board in excess of seven to 8% increases a year. So that is something that, um, legal has advised us on and they're advising the board to adopt this resolution that we don't, that we don't participate in spiking administrative contracts for final average compensation.
'cause the last five years is what? The retirement Last three. Well, I guess if you're basic it's last five. Yep. Okay. Let's take a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the resolution. Support a motion and a support. Any questions about this resolution, but it's recommended by our legal counsel mm-hmm. To say we're not doing It. Yeah. And all of our contracts administratively with our principals, with cabinet, with my contract, have schedules similar to what our, our teachers and other with steps in them. Anything else? Okay. Ms. McDougall
Youngs? Yes. Anderson? Yes. Fashion? Yes. Lang? Yes. Riker? Yes. K. Yes. 6.02. A presentation from Ms. May. I'm gonna Ask you to drive if that's okay. Alright, here we are. Oh, it's been a very busy month, but I'm very happy to finally get this done. Actually, I would like someone to click for me. Oh, because I wanna read my, I want, I don't wanna miss my notes. All right. Um, so we are going to present to the board the 24 25 final budget amendment. And then we'll also hold the 25 26 budget hearing.
Uh, Mr. President, look for your queue to start that. Um, and then we'll just go from there. So can you click for me please? Thank you. We'll go to the next one. Alright, so what we typically start with the presentations. I always show you screenshot. The last time we were here, what did we do in the last amendment? So I'm not gonna go over this slide. This is a repetitive slide that was in the last budget presentation. These are just reminders. We did two, we did an extra amendment this year because of the craziness with the state at the beginning of the year. So we did an amendment in December, then we did an amendment in February
and now we're doing the final amendment. We typically only do one this time around. We did two. Um, so this was in our last presentation. So I'm not gonna go through all these changes. These changes already implemented and were adopted by the board. Thanks. So these are the changes between the second amendment and the final Amendment on the revenue side. So really just tweaking the numbers. The closer we get to the end of the year, the closer that we have, um, solidified numbers, we're still doing a little bit of guessing, but much, much closer. So the biggest changes on the books for local revenue is increased interest revenue as a result
of high interest rates that have been unprecedented in the last 15 years. In all of my years in school finance in 20 years we've not seen these rates. Um, these used to be prevalent back in the day and we would no typically receive maybe $20,000 a year annually in interest. We are now able to recover in this fiscal year approximately a million dollars in interest. So that is $250,000 increase from the last budget amendment. Um, I don't have a crystal ball on what interest rates will be. This is unprecedented
and if we didn't have this revenue in this year, the budget would look very different. Um, so we did true that up this year, based on what's actually happening and what we know today, I would probably think the first quarter of the year would continue down this track. And then as things become um, known with the Federal Reserve will keep it, will pay attention to this moving forward into the next fiscal year. Very minor tweaking with local grants. The Summer Arts Academy, which is running now or is almost finished and proportionate share services for IDEA, it's a requirement that we service wholly family and that's considered a local grant.
So no actual cost to us, it's just where the funding sits. We get reimbursement from the state for those services. Comes from the federal end, comes back to us on the local end for servicing. Holy Family. We did receive an additional nurses grant last year was the first year the ISD provided us with a nursing grant for our second nurse. Um, for Ms. Rebecca Frederick. There were some caveats that we had to participate in, like um, participate in medical Medicaid billing, some other agreements we had to do in order to receive this funding. And this year they had a second round of that funding.
So we're able to use it to cover our other nurse as well, a portion of our other nurse as well. Um, and use what we would normally um, pay for that nurse for something else. So that is one time money. We're not sure if that's going to reoccur next year or not, but we did get it in this year so it was a good surprise. Um, the other minor change in local revenue is the reduction of the Medicaid reimbursement. Those estimates are provided to us from the ISD. They're um, they gave me a final estimate, which is still an estimate, but it was lower than what I had in the Second Amendment. So I made a minor tweak there. State revenue, not a lot of changes,
but we did get some good news for the Learning Gloss grant, which is at 20 3G Michigan kids back on track that Allison has been working diligently to track and make sure we have for us, we thought that was going to end in this year. The state's giving us another year to be able to spend that funding. So if we didn't spend it this year, we were going to have to just basically turn it back. It's what we're using to pay for the K eight summer school program. So many other initiatives that she's running at the building levels. Um, we're not gonna spend that all by June 30, which is good 'cause now we have an extra year to spend it. So we'll defer that difference into the next fiscal year.
So that is a subtraction on the revenue side, but also subtraction on the expenditure side. So as a reminder, any grant is an in and and out. So any change I make to the revenue side, you'll see the exact same change on the expenditure side. I just like to remind people of that that's not lost revenue, it's just moved somewhere else. Slight adjustments for GA oral line items. The state is constantly chewing up. We still receive state aid, although our fiscal year ends June 30. State aid continues through August 30th for this fiscal year we sit in. Um, so they're constantly truing up those numbers for federal revenue.
Um, Mr. Cushman has been working to get us the full to first grant. We weren't sure we were awarded the grant. We weren't sure when the project would start. So we had it in the amendment project didn't actually start or has started but will not be completed until next fiscal year. So that's just shifting it out of this fiscal year into the next year. So subtraction in 24, 25, but in addition to 25, 26. And then minor changes for Medicaid outreach, which is again an estimate provided by the ISD. That's federal revenue received for Medicaid reimbursable services. Next slide please. So overall changes,
this is pictorially what we went through. So the left side of the screen is what we presented to the board at the Second Amendment. Taking you to the total nine item approximately 105 million in um, expected revenues. There is in that, as we talked about in the amendment one time, MIPS source funding that is coming off the books in the next year. So the number is, is higher than normal because there is one time MIPS funding that will come right off the middle column is the amended, which includes the changes and then the increase decreases are depicted on the right hand side. So that bottom total double underline is about a change
of approximately $95,000 from the last amendment to this amendment. And I'll take questions as we go. So please stop me. So we have $105 million budget in the amendments for less than a hundred thousand, correct? For Revenue? Yes. For revenue, yeah. Uh, next slide please. I did not include in the last amendment we had like three pages of expenditure changes 'cause that was the big one. So I'm just gonna include what I changed in um, this amendment. So finalization of all level changes for staff and overage payments. We didn't know what those numbers were at the time.
So those have come in finally and we know we can, um, true those up adjustments for any unfilled vacancies and unpaid long-term leave. So we have had some teaching staff on unpaid leaves of absences. So those are some variances within the budget. Adjustments for hourly wages, we're constantly estimating hours work for our hourly staff. We're actually not fully paid yet. Our final pay for hourly staff, if they're working through the last day of school is actually in that first week of July. So, um, still guesstimating, but getting closer and closer. As we know, the hours that are being worked throughout the
end of the year changes to any health insurance life disability plan, elections from open enrollment, those changes come into play, uh, play in January. And then we just constantly true up as we know what elections people have made. Aligning of expenditures to final estimates for purchase services and supplies, including any unspent funding, um, dollars for our contract services, which would include custodial services, security bus drivers, noon hours and so forth. Reduction of bus fuel is a result of rate fluctuation. So if you remember at this time last year, we had all time high rates for fuel.
So we started the year that way and we've kind our tapering back down, um, which is good news, but we were expecting those to stay up 'cause we were just guesstimating on what fuel rate fuel prices would be. So we were able to make a negative um, reduction there, which is good. Um, on the flip side, although we are seeing decreases in gas prices, we are seeing increases in electricity. So we do have overall increase utilities. We did have to increase electricity budget significantly from the last amendment. Rates are just higher and so is usage. Well, can I chime in there too? I think part of that is Jeff's work with the control systems as well.
So we have some things that are functioning where they're supposed to be that previously weren't. So they were a savings on one end, but now they're an increase on the utility side, Right? So although we fixed it, it costs money to run it, right? So, um, increase for district-wide copy initiative, um, the superintendent in multiple memos and communications to the board has talked about the need to slowly phase out our print shop operations by including, um, a district wide copier initiative, which is putting in high capacity copiers at every building and multiple, not just one.
So we purchased those copiers in this budget. Uh, shifting a filter first and cable board grant, as I talked about on the revenue side, this is the expenditure side. So again, a decrease on revenue is a decrease in expense. And then basically just realigning and doing our best to guesstimate what our, um, expenses will be for a grant allocations, including for Title I-D-E-A-G-S-R-P and our 20 3G. Um, when I put ending 6 30 26 'cause it's one time multi-year grant money. So these are, this is the pictorial view of our changes by function. So I always tell the board, what is your by function?
What does that mean? I always say this is our, what, what programming, um, of our budget does that include? So again, goes from left to right. Our categories are instruction, support services, community services, facilities, and outgoing transfers. Um, these are mandated by the state of how we do our reporting. So we had, uh, at the amendment $105.6 million budget. Our proposed finals around 104.8, sorry for net, um, changes of about $783,000 or less than 1% in changes.
Next slide. And this is the slide I like the most. This is the what? The meat and potatoes of what our budget is. So changes to each category, salaries, benefits, purchase services, supply. So although those look like negative numbers, sometimes we shift between purchase services and capital outlay. Just depends on where the expenses, especially within the maintenance, um, budget. Um, so the biggest changes you're gonna see anytime you make a change to a salary, there's a correlating change to a benefit. There's f and retirement in every single dollar of salary. So as we've had, um, unfilled positions
or those long-term leaves of absences or just changes in guessing what, um, hourly wages would be, there's gonna be a correlating benefit expense as well. And, and that also includes any of our health insurance changes. So overall a difference of $783,000 change. Next slide. So this is the overall view. So we work from left to right and top to bottom. So revenue expense ultimately we brought to the second amendment a spend into our fund balance of 196,000, which is a, a balance budget. Or now we're looking at adding 492,
which is still a balanced budget. So less than 1% change overall. We still have those assigned fallen balances. But you're gonna see in the original budget those are going to zero because those one-to-one Chromebooks still need to be purchased. And we have no other line item within the budget for technology purchases. So although it's here in the next few minutes, you're gonna see it just turn around right, right out for a total fund balance of 28.71%. Any questions on general fund before I go into other funds? No. Okay. Other funds? So the first fund here is your children's garden fund. This is our tuition based program
that is operated under Michigan childcare licensing requirements. This fund does not receive any general fund dollars, nor is it considered general fund. We actually receive, um, that pays the general fund for indirect costs for running rent, utility security fiscal services. Um, that $80,000 is just a line item in there. It's actually a formula by MDE that we get to charge those programs that run under us. But those are 100%. This fund is 100% paid for by parents in our community and children's in our preschool and latchkey programs.
Next slide. This is our food service fund. This is the restricted fund. Um, this is an intentional spend down of our food service fund. So the rule is the feds do not want you to have more than three months of operating expenditures within your fund balance. We had a planned kitchen renovation. I couldn't remember the building Reed, thank you. At Reed. Um, so that was able to come to fruition in this fiscal year. So although we're spending 588 into that fund balance, that's what we wanted to happen. Can you go back to Children's Garden please?
I didn't even talk about that. So Children's Garden, if you remember doing COVID, we had spent this fund down to where we only had around 30,000 left. We're wondering if we're going to shutter this program. Um, we were able to receive two large grants and working and restructuring the program to be able to maintain a self-sufficient fund where it's covering itself. So although it does have a fund balance, we were able to work that through grants and through changing restructuring of the program. We also, this pro fund also receive supplemental, um, state assistance from DHS for those families
that can't afford childcare services. So I forgot to mention that. Sorry. Any questions on Children's Garden or food service? No. Okay. Next student activities. This is our student clubs and groups account. This funding is a hundred percent done by fundraising from students. Some of those groups include NHS Hope Squad, senior All Night Party prom, student government class of 2025. This does not receive any funding from the general fund, nor is it supported by it. We do not also charge this fund any indirect costs.
So in order to budget here, you're guessing on bake sales and fundraising activities. So we kind of look at where they ended last year. Last year they ended at around 2.5. So that is my guess for the final budget. I am estimating they take in exactly what they spend out and never comes a hundred percent. Um, but the intent of these funds is to raise funding for these groups. We have 201 accounts including umbrella accounts. The high school alone has 50 accounts within them. Some of them include Unite, um, yes. Mean you're familiar. Used to work a lot of those programs too.
So although it is a healthy fund balance, this is why we've put those restrictions in place with the fundraising. Why we spent all year looking at the fundraising policies and why we're talking about not having more than 20% in any given. You wanna make sure those students are reaping the benefits of those programs. So ideally in your Projections, you you wanna project less even as they spend down Yes. What they have you would hope. Yes. Which is what we're the messaging that we're now continuing through through our work this year with finance committee? Yes. But these funds are not accessible to the district to use
for other things because No, it was raised by these groups. Unless, Unless you the board would like to decide to use it for something else and tell those students that then no. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Next fund. The Debt Retirement Fund, this is a restricted fund. This fund is strictly used to pay back our debt. So as we pass the bond and we get expenditures for that building out there, we have to pay that back. So it's just like a loan on your house. This is the account for having a loan on your house. Um, so as property comes directly from property taxes, we do invest this money.
Um, what happens is when you refund or refinance a bond, you're able to restructure your payments and paying down your debt just like you have to look at it just like you do your house. They use different words, they use refunding and all these other things. It really just means refinancing to get the best rate possible. Right now that's not really happening because the rates aren't the best rates possible. But if you remember when I first came here, we were probably doing a refunder every six months. Um, but we've slowed that. So once that gets to happen again, we'll be able to restructure our payments where we're spending more of that fund balance. 'cause this can only go for the payment of the debt.
Okay, those bond payments are made May 1st and November 1st of every year. This fund encompasses what we've paid in this fiscal year, The sinking fund. So again, this is another restricted voter approved bond that comes directly from property taxes. Um, all homeowners pay into this if you live in Grand Blanc. Thank you to the voters for passing this. Um, Mr. Cushman had paused projects because we were very nervous on whether it was going to pass or not and we didn't want, we wanted to make sure we had a sustainable funding source
for keeping kids and staff warm, safe, and dry. Um, so if it didn't pass, we wanted to make sure what projects we could and couldn't complete. We'd basically have to prioritize. But because it did pass, you just saw the slew of projects. He's already started. So it was good news for our staff and students. Next slide. The athletic complex fund. It's a big building over there with the brand new pool. I wanna call it an Olympic sized pool, but I don't think it is. However, it does require maintenance and upkeep and there are four turf fields that require replacement. So at some point, so we have this fund until we need
to be able to support that building for repairs in any upkeep, that's not coming out of the general fund. Right now the only fund we're getting in there is we advertise on the scoreboard. So we do rent that out to members in the community of contracts with those groups. So we're trying to take in funding to make sure we can sustain it. We would like to be able to rent out the pool. We had aspirations, but it's a sole start. But I think we're getting better at knowing what the timeline is, making sure our kids have first access. And then we've also invested this as well. So we're doing what we can with investments as rates are high right now
and just trying to reap the benefits of those in all of our funds, including the general fund and the athletic complex is receiving funding in that format. Next slide, series two. So if you remember, 2020 bond was a three series bond. Series one was done and spent. Series two will be is actually spent, but we have to carry it on the books until June 30. So this fund falls off the next fiscal year. So you won't have another budget to adopt for this one. So we fully spent this fund and now we're into the next slide, series three, which are the projects that Mr.
Cushman just showed you. So the one project we did not complete that is being completed right now is Duet Trail. But because of the timing of that, you don't see that in this month year end. You'll see it in the 25, 26 budget. So it's a weird time where we're talking about, we're in the summer, we have PLA projects going on that are slated to finish in July and August, but we're adopting a budget for June 30. So we're talking about those future projects, but we still have to wrap up the fiscal year first. So you'll see that in a few minutes on the next budget presentation. And that is your 24 25 final budget amendment.
And I'd take questions before you go into the hearing. I'd Like to make a motion to approve and then we can Sort Any questions. It's a lot. I know. Sorry. You do a great job and we really appreciate everything you do and try to explain it to us so we understand it and make the best decisions. Any other question? Spent a lot of time also talking through it today too at finance subcommittee. Okay. Anything the second time hearing it. So really starting to sink in, huh? So I don't know if you wanna take a motion to prove now
Marty was always the one to step in and tell me how to do this. So do you wanna take a motion To, somebody did a Motion, didn't they? 24, 25 before going. It's Up to you. I feel like we did do separate motions. Yeah. Final amendment and then yeah. Budget hearing for next year. Okay. Go ahead Ms. Ms. McDougle Youngs. Yes. Anderson? Yes. Cash? Yes. Lang? Yes. Ret? Yes. Cash? Yes. Okay. Moving into Resolution, budget, hearing, hearing, Budget, hearing. So we're going into the 25, 26 budget hearing. I'm not sure if there's any questions prior
to us entering in here, but we always start with the taxable values. So the con release are taxable valuations for our area. If you know, if you didn't know, we have six municipalities that are taxed through grand blank. Um, Holly Atlas, grand Blanc Township, Mundy, city of Grand Blanc and Burton. Um, with Holly, we do extend into Oakland County. So we do receive a slight, um, we do have a slight tax base within Oakland County. Year over year. Taxable values are increasing, not increasing as quite as fast as it did last year, last year or about 7% this year.
We're about five 5.3 to 5.79 depending on the property type. So overall good news for taxpayers and those living in our community. Next slide. What that means is though is because of that our property tax rates are rising faster than the rate of inflation and that's where the Headley rollback comes in. A rollback occurs when that is happening and that is because you are not allowed to tax your constituents more than what they voted on and agreed to pay. So although we just passed the sinking fund, that is not
for this one because it doesn't expire until December of 25. So the renewal replacement, you won't see until I come to you a year from now. And then we'll be at the 0.9915. Right now we're still operating off of the last passage of the sinking fund and because of that we do have a, a rollback from 0.9636 to 0.9567, no rollback and our non-homestead, which is good news. So although rates are higher, they're not enough where we need to roll back there and you're not allowed to roll back debt. The debt is the debt. Um, so that's what you'll have
before you on the next slide with the tax rate request. That I will ask you Ms. Kish and you Ms. Anderson to sign for me today because they are banging on my door to get those tax rolls out. Okay. Do we need to take a motion for this one? I am, Don't think so, but just wanna make sure no one has any questions. Okay. Okay. So we are a hundred percent summer collection, which is why you see that here before you and why they're pounding on my door is because we're a hundred percent summer collection. Because we don't receive state aid in September. And for cashflow purposes, it really helps the district make sure we maintain payroll
throughout the summer month when we're not receiving state aid. So we get the funding from a different source. We do have to take action on that. You do? Thank you. Okay. On the, on the summer tax collection, you guys do have to approve that. We'll it's just outta order on the agenda. Okay. See that? It's 6.04. Okay. So I will take a motion for the summer tax rate request. I'll make a motion for the summer rate tax request Support. Any questions on that? Thank you Mr. Ray. Always cut me straight on that. Sorry. Ms. McDougall Youngs? Yes. Anderson? Yes. Han Yes. Lang? Yes.
ERT? Yes. K. Yes. Thank you. Okay, so now we're moving on to 6.03, right? Budget, budget 2025. 2026. Budget. Yes ma'am. Go for it. Okay, so um, unfortunately we do not have a state aid act, which is not all that surprising. Uh, but disappointing and the versions out there are all drastically different from each other. This didn't used to happen this way. They always used to be somewhat similar, although a little bit different from each other, but they're drastically different from each other. And the only common denominator within these budgets
is the retirement rate. So I did a summary on what each proposal is and what the estimated impact would be to our district based on what's out there. So the governor proposed, she came out first with her proposal of a $392 increase with some best practice funding of 307,000. However, 1 47 A four, which is that 5% funding we received this year plus that 1 47 G, which is the 3% employee. Uh, re refund. Sorry I'm twist, I'm tripping on all the words.
Um, those were all one time dollars this year, which are coming off next year. So that would have a net decrease of 370,000 to our district with the governor's proposal. If you look at the employer capped rate for the MIP ERs, it's a 1.5 overall reduction. Everyone's on a different plan, different rate. So this is just a high level reduction. It'd be about a $739,000 difference or a net increase of 369,000 with the governor's proposal. That'd be it. So the Senate version
I got asked today if I had to pick, which is my favorite, I don't like any of them, but if I had to pick beggars can't be choosers, I would pick the Senate. It's a $400 increase. However, 50% must be used for educator compensation. I'm not sure how they would measure that. I'm assuming some sort of reporting would be required or always is 31 A is slated to increase by a million dollars and there's a 50% increase to 31 aa, which is how we pay for our security services right now of approximately 800,000.
That 1 47 a four still comes off. It was one time money, but the Senate has a proposal to add that 1 47 G and I'm not sure where they got the dollar amount of $760,000 probably on a prior payroll that they're estimating what that amount would be. The retirement rate always comes out with the governor. So I just keep that out the same. This was the first year we started the year where it didn't match what the governor put in place and that's why we did a special amendment and then they changed it and went back. So I'm just assuming that they'll go with status quo here and the retirement rate will be consistent across the board
for a $2.7 million net increase to our budget. Again, this is just on the revenue side with the exception of that retirement rate. When they come out with our State Aid Act, that's always rolled into what, what are we going to get? The retirement rate is part of that package. So included in here in the summary, the house budget, although it looks lovely, there's a lot of red and there's a lot of red tape. So $417 increase. But then all of our categoricals, for the most part, not all but most would go away. And that would include 31 A, 31 AA
and CTE just to name our three biggest programs that we run. Which would mean that anything that comes in the foundation, if we were to continue with those programs, would automatically have to be set aside to fund those services on those programs. I dunno how we would track it, but we would have to track it and we'd have to figure out a way of distributing that funding so that we know that that funding is assigned for those programs and those programs alone. The other C in here is that part of the UAAL would be removed, meaning the categorical that we get for part of the UAAL rate
that we're always talking about is an in, in and out would come off, which would mean that expense would have to go back on our books. The portion that's being removed, I didn't include it in here 'cause I have no idea which one it is, but I put it in here so that we know what we're talking about. So not including that with the retirement changes. And then they put 22 F, which is best practice funding and there's a lot of contingencies and caveats and which is why I put caveats in place to receive that money. I'm not going to go into the political line items, I'm strictly here to talk about the financial pieces. So with that, the net impact would be a 4.4 increase
if the house budget does get pro proposed or approved or versions of it. So as you can see through various and very different scenarios. Um, we're doing our best to move forward and project on what we think we'll receive. What we know for a fact is that 1 47 A four funding is going away. That's the one pit of information that's consistent across all three and the retirement rate as long as it stays. So, next slide. This is just some verbiage on the requirements for 22 F. I'm not gonna go into it, I just included it for you because it's a very large document.
Next slide. So, budget assumptions. We assumed a hundred dollars increase in foundation and I did not remove a lot of the categoricals. I kept the categoricals assuming they're going to stay in play. Um, so I didn't do what the house wants to do and I didn't quite give all the increases on the categoricals because the governor provided none on any of them. So I just kept it status quo with the categoricals, with the exception of the money that we know we're losing with that 1 47 A and that 1 47 G funding, blended enrollment or projection of a loss of a hundred.
We're really hoping we don't hit this number Last year. The projection we had, we missed and we lost more students than we have projected. So we're hoping we're at the point where we're tapering off. We just don't know yet. Um, I think we'll know after this enrollment year to see how enrollment is coming against our enrollment study. Last year it was worse than projected. We're hoping this year's better, but we're projecting a loss of a hundred and increase in the MSU stabilization rate for the UAL side. So remember, that's an in, in and out. So that revenue has to also increase when that expenditure increases. It's not one sided. So I'm guessing that it's about what, what you used to get,
which was around 8 million. So we made that change in the budget. Assuming nine 8% collection of local taxes just gives us room if there's any MTT adjustments, if you remember the big McLaren change that happened here. So we just try to budget for that in case it does happen. We're assuming interest rates will come down. I didn't take it down to where levels were before, but I did have it. Um, trying to hedge if that mid-year that those rates do reduce. And then the reduction of one time funding of the 2.6 and the 900 that I've mentioned before. Next slide please. Reduction of the 31 AA grant.
If you remember in our earlier presentations I had carry over from the prior year that was able to fully cover our security services this year we no longer have that carryover, so that carryover was spent. So hopefully depending on whatever version we have that won't be, we'll have more in the budget. But with the governor's proposal, we don't have anymore. So we kept it with what our current allocation is, less the carryover that we had in the prior year. No other changes to IDA and title or 31 A. 'cause we don't know what our allocations are at this time. We would've received estimated allocations for title.
We are not hearing what those allocations are and we're hearing title two will likely be cut. Those are just rumors we don't know. At this point in time, we've received nothing for the consolidated application and we would've already had to have submitted and planned for next year. And we don't even know what we're getting. I got an email this morning that the estimated allocation for IDA has actually been reduced. I don't know what that means. So it's still an estimate. We're still in estimate mode and we're hoping that changes. But we have to go with what we know today. I kept it flat. I did not make any changes or remove any of these funding sources for next year. 'cause we just don't know. It'd be too premature to do so.
And then reduction of the one time pass through. So although we had also those categorical line items from sters, we had that one time pass through that was on the revenue and the expenditure side. They just like to make our lives complicated by passing money to us and taking it away. Um, I won't even sugarcoat that. So next slide. This is just a visual of our membership trend over the years. We're really hoping the enrollment study with, um, the tapering off will start to happen if not this year, next fiscal year for sure. Next slide. So this is our revenue at a
glance pictorially. So one point 102 million overall, um, for 25 26. Next slide. All right, budget assumptions for our expenditures. I'm gonna stop here and take any questions on revenue first and also I need to drink. Okay, any questions for Michelle? Okay, you're good. Hey, there's a lot we don't know. Um, so what we did was we assumed a plan spend down of approximately $6 million for increased salary and benefits across all groups. When we had come to the board middle of the year,
we had the intention of phasing that over three years. It's looking like our plans need to put that in the first year. So this budget includes that. We might not hit that number, um, but we put it all in there just on salary and benefits in the event that it may happen. And how would that happen? We are bargaining with three groups, so we don't know what those are yet and we haven't settled yet. But we wanted to have a description of view of what that would look like if we spent it all in one year. Overall increase to MIPS R'S retirement rate for the total rate, but a decrease for the employer contribution,
which I talked about in the last slide. So if you remember, a MIPS R'S rate is broken out into two buckets. There's the UAL side and then there's the employer contribution side with the 50 different rates for whatever plan you're in and whenever you're hired. So it's all dependent on your higher status when you started working in public schools is what your retirement rate is and what your elections were during that time. We're assuming a 10% increase to health insurance rates and that's more than an assumption we've been told. Told that's what's happening. But that is in line with increases across the state. Healthcare has just gotten pretty expensive nowadays.
Slight increase and that should not read dental. I saw that in finance committee that should read life and LTD as inc as your wages increase your rates on your premiums for life insurance. And LTD inherently increase as well. So we just baked in a 5% increase to cover any, um, correlating increases there. Continued increases in gas, electric and bus fuel. Um, if electric rates continue, I will need to add more during the middle of the for amendment, but I didn't want to go all in. We just kept it what it was for this year. So I continued with the increase at the final and carried it into this year.
Reduction of some strategic plan initiatives will need to come with the board to decide what plans they want to continue with. Um, so you said you can see it says some because we made some reductions, but we'll need to discuss with the board on what plans they'd like to continue with moving next year. Continued increase to a CC for ELA curriculum adoption. This is Walworth is working on getting or applying for a grant that's out there. That's been more than frustrating. Um, but we are at our ELA curriculum adoption cycle. So we typically have $570,000 in some change
for a CC annually. As you know, we don't do textbooks anymore or Chromebooks. But with the ELA adoption, there's some specific requirements for dyslexia. I won't go into all that. I'll allow our curriculum director to talk about that when the time comes. But we're anticipating a need of around an additional $300,000 to this year's budget and also likely next year's budget to be able to cover the a CC curriculum for this cycle. So we've done our, we've tried to split it over two years and that's really also dependent on what happens with the grant that the state has out there. Did you look like you had a question? Yeah. Okay.
And then increased the various costs. Reliability insurance came in. That's gonna be at an increased workers' compensation inherently increased with increased salaries, but um, I kept it at what the current rate was. Software licenses and just increased costs are continuing in more common than not. Next slide. We already have use of the assigned fund balance for fund for technology. There is a po I just approved for the one-to-one program for Chromebooks for second and third graders. That has just been a bridge to the next bond. There is no long term in the general fund for technology.
So if the bond doesn't pass, some decisions would have to be made if that, whether or not that comes into the general fund or we change what we're doing. 'cause classroom instructional technology will look very different. Use of the 1.5 million assigned fund equity for wage increases. It's far exceeded at this point. So those all go away. Filter first grant and 20 3G grant that I talked about on the revenue side are added into the expenditure side. And then they'll fall off the following year once those expenditures at June 30 are, are ended increase in software expense for the new district copier program. So we purchased the copiers in this fiscal year,
getting those ready to roll through the summer, the staffs side of the buildings. And then the software program, because this has a July 1st effective date, you can't purchase that in a different fiscal year. So that's in the 25 26 fiscal year. I did do my best to offset any print shop operation reductions, but it will require increase in copiers, um, capacities at the buildings for like print charges. We had talked about that in finance committee. Anticipate an increase from minimum wage from 1248 to 1329. We do have planned in this budget in addition of a social worker. As you can see, I don't have any reductions in FTE.
Um, we'll know more once the school year starts and we're able to place and have solid section numbers at the secondary levels. Um, we're not seeing very many. Anything we're able to change at the elementary is kind of in and and out. We're adding in a place we're taking outta place. So they're kind of washing at this point, not where we want to be, but we will be able to look at this more when staffing solidifies through the start of the fiscal year. And then we'll look at where we're at during the amendment. So our overview by function. So overall expenditures in total of 109,000,058
or almost 60% for instructional services. Next slide. And then this is the what, where is the budget? So as you see about 51 million is strictly for salaries, not including FIC and retirement purchase services supplies. Utilities are coming in at around 2.4 and that's with the increased electric rates offset with the decreased gas rates in this fiscal year, capital outlay and other. So the next slide, this is the overview. So this is top down. Your revenue is the top half. We're anticipating revenues coming in at 102.
Again, dependent on what happens with the state aid act. A lot can happen between now and the start of the year. And then, um, 109 million for our expenditure budget for a deficit of 6.5 or a plan spend done over our fund balance with an ending fund balance of 23.55%. Yes. This is, this is bringing our fund balance down from 28% down to 23%, But no assigned fund balances. Correct. This is one year not sustainable over year after year. No, it's not. Okay. But if it's an intentional spend down, the only way
to spend it down is to be in deficit. But that deficit cannot continue like this year over year. Thank you. But a lot is contingent on what happens at the state level. We do our best to project. You saw the three various versions out there. Mm-hmm. Um, just taking what we know and moving forward, hoping for the best, planning for the worst. Hoping for the best. I mean, taking care of our staff and our students is our priority. Correct. But we can't keep spending based on this budget year after year. No. Okay. We can write it out a little bit, but there will be some tough decisions that would have to be made. Okay.
Thank you. Yeah. Yep. So next slide. So some things to maybe look forward to. Obviously the biggest hangup right now is the political landscape in Lansing. You saw those three various budget versions. There's a reason for that. Um, we try not to get involved in the politics of it. So we are just hoping that they can come to a consensus before the start of the year. We will need to offset some grant loss of grant funds. So all that onetime money that you saw in previous presentations is gone now. So the only thing that we have reoccurring are 31 a in title. And thankfully 31 AA has been continued in
some versions of the budget. And we're now getting transportation funding, which we never used to before. So we're really hoping that continues. 'cause that was a big win for districts. Continued increases for minimum wage, unsettled collective bargaining agreements. Budget does include a spend down in year one. When we originally came to the board, we were looking at that over multi years, long-term planning for technology needs. There is a legitimate concern with our one-to-one program if the bond doesn't pass classroom technology. So classroom technology and one-to-one program will look very different and there need to be some long-term
planning if that bond fails. And when you said when the bond doesn't pass, we're looking at the May. If the bond doesn't pass in May of 2026. Yes. I don't mean when, if I hate to put that up. I mean, if if if it doesn't, We're estimating $26 million in needs over the next 10 years. Correct. So for technology, we're really fortunate to have her but the helm, because he is constantly looking like I'm learning some, I always come to you like, I don't know what a switch is. Like you think it's a switch. It's not, it has nothing to do with turning something on and off. Um, but he has a needs assessment and it's constantly updating and growing
because costs have gotten so expensive. But we're also fitted with the best technology in order to continue down that way. The only way to do that is with the continuation of a bond. If it doesn't pass, if we're hoping it will and we will plan like it will, there needs to be a plan B because there is no sustainable funding source for technology in this district. And I know when we were going through COVID, there was districts that were not at a one-to-one. That's correct. So, so they used their esser funding. We were fortunate we had the technology bond to be able to pay for all those Chromebooks. It was an, it was a terrible time
for everything going on in the world. It was the most opportune time for us financially because we had the tech bond. We had already implemented one-to-one. People were coming to us asking us, what are you doing? How is your cycle? What insurance are you? Like Herb and I were getting asked many questions about the program that we had. And I was new at that time too. I had no clue. So I was learning. Um, but we had that bond to pay for those things where most districts use their esser funding to be able to buy those Chromebooks in the technology. So is there any talk at a state level knowing the way students learn today is
with the technology versus hardback books? No, because I think there's a lot of disagreement on that. So they're never gonna come collectively on whether or not, and I'm not the expert there, I'm just the finance person. Okay. To be honest, there's a lot of disagreement on that. Thank you. So basically, um, evidence-based decisions moving forward. Are we going to continue? Are we going to reduce or are we going to cut? One of the things, one of the things we talked about too, finance committee is the free lunch. Oh yes. I forgot to mention that. Yes, we I can talk about that. Thank you. So one of the proposals out there with one of the versions,
probably the house, is to reduce free school meals. So in grand blank, we do not eat for free under the Michigan Eat School meals, whatever it's called. I'm sorry, I can't think of Michigan's school meals program. I'm just gonna call it that. We eat under the federal government, not we eat our students eat, forgive me for my proper English. Our students eat under the community eligibility provision program. And if you remember, Anderson and McGrath were under, under that program already for many years prior to us becoming district-wide community eligibility provision.
District CEP, when the state came out and enrolled the Michigan school meals, all kids will eat for free. There wasn't enough money to go around. So they changed the rules. And I'm not sure how the state was able to do this completely, but to where we qualified under the CEP program. And you were required to, um, participate if you qualified. So all of our students now eat for free under CEP under the federal program, not the state program. So our students, if we wanna continue receiving grant funding, have to fill out those survey family surveys
because we don't know who's free and reduced anymore, which was the old program. So if Michigan School meals program goes away and CEP stays, our kids would still eat for free. I don't know what would happen at the federal level though. And there's no way that our district could sustain covering 5 million in, in meal costs for students. So we're hoping it stays. We talked about this. There's a lot of questions that finance command. I'm glad you brought it up. So we're hoping it stays and CEP program continues. Um, but if both programs go away, there are some decisions the board would have to make.
Thank you. Yes, Jim? Oh, do You need Oh yes. Timelines was I say so October, we're hoping by October 1st. The state adopts a budget. I'm really hoping for that. So the state fiscal year starts October one. So by law they're required to have a budget adopted by September 30th, or it's a shutdown with our government. So we're hoping that happens. Audit presentation will come to you 24 25 audit presentation in October. We have to file that by November 1st. We have set up our PQ meeting with treasury for the 2026 bond.
I can't remember what PQ means. Pre-qualified Thank you. Um, for a may election. So we have to do the PQ meeting with treasury. We would come to the board in January for a bond election adoption. And we would need to start our bond election planning. And then I'd bring the board, depending on what happens at the state, um, the first budget amendment in February. So that's a typical cycle. I'm hoping not to do a December one if I can avoid it this year, if we have to, I obviously will do that. Okay. And that's It, Annie. Overall questions before we call for a motion?
Okay. So we'll take a motion to approve the original budget summary and the amendment, the final amendment for this year. I'll make a motion to approve I support. Okay. Any questions? Well done, Michelle. Thank you. Ms. McDougall. Youngs? Yes. Anderson? Yes. Ello? Yes. Lang? Yes. Riker? Yes. Cash? Yes. So do we need to pass a resolution too, or was that it? We're good. Yeah. Two Resolution. Yep, they passed. They already voted on the Amendment. Okay. And Meredith and I need to sign? Yes, please. I need you to sign that today before I leave.
Okay. Two copies please. You Have the three, right? Linda? The amendment, the board hearing, and the tax. Yeah, I just need summer tax collection. Just the tax rates need to be signed today. Okay. I'll sign it there for the meeting. Okay. Information and reports. Certificate. Um, yeah, not much for me tonight. Happy summer. Um, everybody's trying not to melt out there right now. I was fortunate to have a open house yesterday for my middle son in 102 degree weather. It was awesome. So I've been burning it at both ends here. Um, but I wanna thank Michelle. I know she's been burning at both ends too. This is a lot.
There's a lot of unknowns out here. Um, and I know Scott's sitting at the table with our groups and, um, you know, we wanna move that process forward. So we definitely want to get, get something in place. Hopefully, you know, we have meeting July 14th and we have a meeting August 11th I believe. So we're hopeful that we'll be bringing you guys some TAs and maybe we'll know more. I'm not holding my breath from the state, but we'll see where things are at. Hopefully by September. You know, they're gonna recess for summer vacation here soon. Um, so I don't see us learning anything more about the state budget until August, September at the earliest.
So, but we can make payroll. Yep. We're in. Good. We're we're, we're good there. So, alright. That's all for me. Okay. Uh, round the table. I just wanna wish everybody a great summer. Meredith. I'm trying to remember when we last met. Um, graduation was wonderful. Uh, I don't know how we ended up with a rainbow and no rain, but it was fabulous. And I'm like, it was really nice, at least from where the staff sits, that the sun wasn't blazing down on us this year. Um, and that was great. I'm glad that we also have a contingent plan now going forward that, um, that we know what we would do if it, if it,
god forbid, reigns one year. So, um, I think having a plan going forward instead of just waiting until right before to work that out is, is a good thing. And, uh, I wanna thank Michelle for all of her hard work with a budget. Um, we sometimes forget that five years ago we were in the middle of this bond project and we were buying stuff and setting it aside to wait until we had time to build it, until this stuff was available. And because of her, uh, fiduciary expertise and us having that in place and buying early, that saved us all the money so that we could reinvest that into other things
that we really wanted to do that we didn't think we'd be able to. And, uh, I wanna thank Jeff for overseeing all of that. You guys, um, you helped make Grand blank a phenomenal district and, um, just make us good stewards and do what we really need to do for the community. And we cannot do that without people like you here. So I wanna thank you for that. And that concludes mine. She said, um, with regards to graduation and a contingency plan, I, I would love for us to maybe pool the parents of the seniors.
I feel like we, I feel like most would choose to keep the class together and limit guests. That has not been part of the conversation. Um, splitting the, the sessions has been, um, more so, but, um, I feel like with the technology of a live stream event, I don't know, it'd be interesting to see if what they think. I, I, I had a graduate this year. I feel like as a family, we would say we wanna all be together. I feel like my daughter would've said, we wanna all be together. Um, so pooling the stu surveying the students,
surveying the parents to plan, you know, for a, you know, a contingency plan that most people could get around. 'cause no one's gonna be happy I know. But, um, I would love to see what that information is. Um, let's see. Trevor, thank you for going to the Rotary Club and doing your little road show around. I think that's a great idea. Um, I've got all my notes so they're kind of mixed up. But the Grand Blanc Educational Foundation just approved a grant to support the McGrath students
and their families to attend the National Soapbox Derby race in Akron, Ohio. We, they just, um, uh, qualified for that. Um, they were gonna send just the driver of the car, but with the support of the ED Foundation, um, the entire team and their families who wanted to go are able to go. Um, so good luck to the team. Um, their car and the team will be at the GBEF Duck Race on August 3rd. Um, so maybe I'm, I'm just envisioning the car rolling down the hills at Russ Park.
Right? We could totally do, do that. I don't know if that's OSHA little rides in the Derby car. Like how fun would that be? Um, so we'll talk about that later. Um, the ED Foundation also provided funds for the author celebration at Anderson for their kindergartners and first grade, um, student writers. Um, I was able to stop by and look at that and listen to some of their stories. And they all had matching shirts and they were so proud of themselves and, and their stories. And they would read it to you and you'd give them a sticker
and they just wanted all these different stickers. It was very exciting. Um, so I'm really proud that, uh, the ED Foundation was able to support that type of program there. Um, my daughter did, uh, was one of the students participating in the RAD program pilot, um, the Rape, aggression and Defense, um, program. It was, um, you know, the, the instructors who were trained were almost like re training and practicing teaching this select group of students, but it, it was well received, I think, from the students themselves as a mother.
I think it's awesome. Um, and I was talking to a friend of mine who's a cop, who says that the community reaches out to the police departments for programs like that that, that they don't offer. So I know we're talking about continuing this for our students after they graduate, but maybe there's some room for community type of programs that we could, um, create for them as well. Um, so I'd love for us to look into that. Um, thank you for everyone who was involved in that, and I love the forward thinking,
um, trend setting, um, choice in, in doing this. So thank you for that. Um, just in so many ways, these kids, the class of 2025 students are quite impressive, um, athletically as well as many of those athletes are, are great kids and really good students as well. Um, the top 10 list was out. Congrats to the top 10 students, um, who, who finished so well. I would love, uh, even all the 4.0 students. If we, if we put that information in the shout to have even the names of the 4.0 plus students, the 70
of them that, um, were able to be that successful and that involved in that. Um, you know, I, it's just such an accomplishment and I'd love to be able to acknowledge the top 10 as well as the the 4.0 kids and show this tradition of excellence that we still, um, value and, and, um, you know, love, uh, and are proud of. Um, I wanna thank Blessing, heating and Cooling for donating all the fifth grade graduation signs throughout the district.
Um, all fifth graders had a little yard sign in their yards, and the elementary schools had them all displayed, um, at the schools before their fifth grade graduations. I was able to attend the Indian Hill alumni, uh, or Indian Hill fifth grade graduation. Um, my daughter was chosen as an alumni, um, scholarship winner for that. So she, part of that is, is to then speak at that fifth grade graduation. And I love that they do that. I love that the kids can see these, um, graduates, um, come back and show how that school, their school, um, impacted them in a positive way.
Scott Ssic from Great Harvest was a keynote speaker at that, um, Indian Hill alumni or Indian Hills fifth Grade scholarship, um, ceremony as well. They sang and, um, gave special awards out. It was very well done. Um, the robotics team began their inaugural, um, honor society. So there is an, there's a national robotics honor society that they went through the process to become part of. And so now our robotics kids are able to wear cords,
you know, supported by the district, um, at graduation to show really how much time and effort that they've participated in robotics and held these, you know, were held to these high standards. So I love that they did that as well. Um, and I also was able to attend the, uh, east Middle School eighth grade graduation walkthrough fun event. Um, it's different than the old school. Sit down and have a ceremony. I'm not sure which one I like better. It's, it's definitely different. Um, but, um, I had a eighth grader finish up at East,
so now my youngest is gonna be a high schooler. It's weird to think about that. Uh, I can't believe it. He was just born. So, um, and then that's it for the school stuff. And then I've got, okay, so, uh, just an MASB update for everyone. Um, the board of directors moved to use TRU for their policy work as opposed to, um, uh, ola. Thank you. Um, they felt that the policies were more concise and easily understandable. Um, they're more, they've been more responsive from
what they're saying, and they like that it's a Michigan based company. So I just wanna share that. Um, they also are bringing it, it starting these challenge coins for board members and superintendents, um, that are filling a space that MASB value. So if you are at a conference or if you're doing something and someone gives you a coin, uh, good job with that, you're, you could choose to keep it or pass it on to somebody else who you feel is doing good work. So that's something different that they're doing. Um, they also, um, I don't know, for those people who went
to the, uh, a LC conference a couple years ago, they used this app called Goose Chase and as like a, uh, it's like a scavenger hunt thing. We've used that before because our administrative team, and they, it should be free or very reduced cost be for, for like district member districts. The mAbs account with them should cover our use if you want. And it seemed like a really cool thing to like, for new employees to like mm-hmm. Experience. I don't know. So I just wanted to share that as well. Um, for the Genesee County Association
of School Board members, um, we had our last meeting in May. Um, I think overall the membership was pretty supportive of the programs that we held throughout the year. We are taking ideas for future programs for, um, that you'd like to see for all school board members, um, moving forward, if you've got a good idea that you'd like for us to do any type of training. Um, and then there is no June, July, or August meeting. So that's it. Thank you. I don't have a lot, just first timer for honors night and graduation, and I did not.
I thought that the high school counselors did an awesome job for honors night. Um, and they did a great job with honoring London too, which they just, they did a fabulous job and then graduation was great too. So that's it. Happy summer. I'm officially on break two. Woohoo. Uh, so first happy summer to everyone. Uh, don't hate me for saying this, parents, staff, uh, students, but you have 63 days until school starts up again on August 25th. So just get ready for those 63 days. Enjoy it. Uh, more importantly, in 41 days is the, uh, duck race.
So if you haven't already bought your tickets, you can buy some tonight from Mrs. Young or Mrs. Kish. Uh, uh, so make sure to buy your tickets. Um, on June 2nd, I attended the GISD biannual election, uh, where we unanimously voted Desiree Jo Giran and Raphael Turner to serve, uh, a six year term. Uh, there were 19 districts there, 17 were able to vote. Uh, since it was an uncontested election, it was my favorite type of meeting,
a short one over in 15 minutes. Um, a few days after that, on the fourth, I attended the Young Authors event at Anderson Elementary School. Uh, and it was wonderful to hear those kindergartners and first graders read their stories. Lots of great handwriting. I noticed. Uh, lots of great diction, uh, and pronunciation and, uh, the confidence in, in their reading abilities and projecting their voice was wonderful. Uh, within that span of two hours, I was asked if I was a second grader. Uh, I was asked if I was another student's parent.
And then I had one student tell me his home address and said, so you can come over to dinner tonight. Uh, I said, no thanks buddy. Um, I also had the great honor to attend the fifth grade graduations at Mason Elementary School, Indian Hill and Meyers Elementary School. Uh, it was great to be there to celebrate with roughly about 230 of our students, uh, in the class of 2032, uh, as well as their parents and their teachers. And to, uh, echo what I told the students at Mason, um, I kind of want to share that with all
of our incoming sixth graders. Uh, to remember that even though you're moving up to the middle schools, uh, and just becoming a grand blank bobcat, you'll always be a reed rocket, A Brenda Bulldog, a an Anderson and McGrath eagle, an Indian hill Jaguar, a Myers tiger, or cook cub in Mason, mountain lion. Uh, never forget where your academic journey started. Never forget those teachers that taught you your ABCs and your one two threes, or the friends that you met on the first days of school when you didn't quite know that many people
or the staff that kept you safe on the playground in the lunchroom or in the libraries. Uh, these are important parts in your lives and always remember that beginning. Uh, so congratulations to the class of 2032 as they start their new journey in middle school, the class of 2038 as they enter elementary school in kindergarten, the class of 2029, as they now start high school into the class of 2026 as they enter their final year of high school. Uh, I'd like to give it a, a shout out to our teachers
because, uh, ever since I was a little kid, I had to go help clean up and close up my mother's classroom this year since she's recovering from surgery. I had to do that all by myself while she supervised. Uh, so that is no fun task. Uh, so shout out to you guys. We have to do that every single year and then open up again in about 70 days. Uh, and then finally, I want to wish everyone a happy summer. Happy 4th of July. Uh, stay safe, stay cool, and of course, stay hydrated. Yeah, the, um, at our last superintendent's meeting for
before summer, uh, Mott Community College was there and some of their, um, students made this in their lab. So the MO Middle College. So, um, every district got one. It's a book, it's got some mo stuff in it, but pass it around. It's kind of cool. We'll put it in the back of the board. Yeah. Okay. Uh, that is information and reports. Um, we have no public comments today, so we will take a motion to exert adjourn to executive session. I'll make a motion to adjourn to executive closed session Support. Okay. Ms. McDougall
Youngs. Yes. Anderson? Yes. Ello? Yes. Lang? Yes. Riker? Yes. Kish? Yes. Thank you.