[Music] um and uh the first thing that we have um we need an approval of our agenda is all in favor please say I I any oppose same sign wonderful um and first up we
have public comment um um we only have one comment card and there's only one section today so Mr Jones please uh go ahead to the microphone you already know the ru do you need me to read the rules or tell you the rules are you good no I'm all right all right I'll save you the time and then I put on a quick timer
really quick and then we'll be good how y'all doing I'm D Jones Pastor entrepreneur and Visionary today I got on my bike and came here I'm looking for a car I got the cash to get a car just looking for a car but um I'm excited to let you guys know the cool work that
I've been doing with the Esports activations our partnership I actually got invited to speak to the United Nations in April so after I do Esports activations with uh the school district and the Urban League I'll be flying to New York to speak to the United Nations
about economics the president of the social economic forum and the all of that stuff from the United Nations invited me to speak there so I'll definitely be putting in a good word for our school district and obviously uh it's 193 countries that's a part of the United Nations and uh they have 17 goals
is one thing I really care about is investing in the education and so uh very excited to go to the United Nations and put our city on our state and our school district and basically push East fors and um across the distri and across
the globe one day um also I'm very excited to say that uh I'm going to be speaking at the africanamerican conference on Friday so I know it's going to be some African-American grps students there I put together a nice presentation on using Esports for social
education educating students on green energy and infrastructure and uh digital Curren like cryptocurrencies cuz that's a big thing I actually learned that 60% of parents actually want their students I mean their kids to learn about cryptocurrency and uh I am a vice
president and a spokesperson for cryptocurrency that just launched PFT which is a play fuel token uh there's a a bunch of uh States across our globe I mean not across our uh the states but um countries across the globe that actually invest into crypto because of the
uncertainty of budget cuts and can't really depend on our federal government but there are other countries that have reserves and uh doing the due diligence uh some people we actually have a um state representative that actually um introduced some legislation House Bill
487 which allows our state government to invest 10% of our general fund in the economic stabilization fund then he also introduced another bill that will back our uh cryptocurrency if they do they will have a coin that is backed by um our gold reserves and our silver
reserves um so I do have some uh tokens and crypto and I said that uh eventually um once it grows that I'm going to donate some to grps so I do have some safe and as it grows and things like that I plan to donate cuz I want to be the leader uh for donating to the grps
foundation and not Doug and Maria DeVos I wanted to be D Jones because I believe that my educational values align with a lot of people that's on this board and I'm African-American and I'm just not liking how our federal government is cutting funding and doing things across um our nation that's affecting the globe
so I'm going to stand up I'm going to be thorough I'm going to be authentic but I'm definitely going to do everything I can to support our school district thank you thank you Mr Jones all righty and then our items today we have thought I stopped it sorry
okay um so we have uh several uh uh items before us that are action items we have our purchasing agenda uh budget amendment one for general fund special Revenue fund debt uh retirement fund and then we have some donations as well so
um kind of the way that we'll do it um Miss uh cribs will kind of go over all of these different budgets and at the end of each section she'll ask us about questions that we have and then um we will have to vote on them individually as well so all righty Miss CPS okay
first up we're going to start down through the purchasing agenda um so it's actually a shorter purchasing agenda this time but we do still have a number of items um the first two items are adjustments to blanket orders that we set up last June
so over the course of the Year some things have changed um we've had to have additional grounds equipment repairs so bringing an addition to that blanket order um also for temperature controls boiler and Air Handlers
hbac hbac equipment repairs had some increased cost for those as well um Down Under support materials um we have a grant the 20 section 27b future proud Michigan educator grow your
own teacher certification Grant so we have an agreement with Davenport University that would pay for tuition and fees for employees to go back and become teachers so that's an exciting one
and continuing to spend down our section 97 security Grant to add surveillance camera systems for three more of our buildings and then need that little thing to go away um moving forward on health clinics
through we have health clinics at Innovation Central adal Hills and Union High School so we did receive another Grant to do some renovation on those spaces for those health clinics and a contract for the wellness provider for wellness coaching for
employees with opportunity Thrive and then the last item under building and sites with Innovation Central as we were doing the renovations there our money due
to increased costs over the course of that Bond project we had to do additional construction type costs and Furniture was kind of pushed out of the budget because I don't know if several of you were not on
the board but the with we had the wall at Innovation Central in Auditorium so that was a significant cost increase that was not anticipated at the beginning so um with part of that building and sites transfer that we transferred out of general fund last
year um we're going back through to pick up some Media Center Furniture so with the rest of their redone building their Med Media Center Furniture is being updated as well so if there's any questions on the purchasing agenda
items we do have several colleagues here too if we I don't I don't have questions but for future can uh we get like a budget like line items because looking at like a
full let me use an example 75,000 for wellness provider maybe that's not a good example but the maybe the media the the auditorium and you were talking about like the different things you needed to purchase as like oh can we get like a line item just so I can like WR my brain
around the big the big number I was going to say maybe as we start to walk through um like the overall budget too maybe some of that will start to make more sense and and I know sever two two of you are brand new to this um and the
whole finance and our school finan is incredibly complicated and a lot of different pieces so did have some conversation with um Miss William too about doing some additional training and what that might look like so um we can
continue to support you and help you developing a better understanding of school finance and JPS Finance in generals so is there's no questions I just have a quick question on number three so the the movement that we're um taking
towards sorry speaking to this towards the health clinics is this the last Lem item we'll be approving so that that's able to start or what can we expect in terms of um future approvals for the health
clinics like to see Alex on the health clinics hi everyone see Alex so let me ask you to expand a little bit on your question let me see oh I was just noticing that this is so last month we had some line items as well on the
health clinic so I didn't know if this was it and then we're planning to start soon thereafter or should there be more approvals before they start we're hoping that this is it okay one thing that we are dealing with is that uh we are getting more money we didn't know we had
uh we suddenly had more money so some of the scope of work has been changed because there are more funds available uh due to these grants but these are all the clinics that we have and we are not anticipating we're not expecting any other the changes other than just get
the work done now y thanks thank you all righty is there a motion to approve the purchasing agenda motion to approve seconded okay all in favor please say I I I any oppose same sign
all right we will move that forward to our board and um next okay I'm G to start down through General operting but before I get into the numbers for our um budget amendment for um um General operating fund I'm just going to talk through and it's kind
of to give some context to what we're going to talk through so bear with me I always make some notes is my talking point so I'm GNA kind of do a lot of reading but I also know there's a lot of information and trying to go through it fairly quickly but um so the largest
source of our revenue for our district is the foundation allowance and that's the per pupil amount multiplied by the student FTE so for 2425 our pre P oh sorry I can't can't talk tonight per pupil amount is
$968 it's the same amount as it was in 2324 the student FTE count is determined through a calculation using 10% of the spring count of the preceding school year and 90% of the Fall count of the current year so it's student counts
calendar year not school year and they usually refer to that as a blended student account so Foundation allowance is received locally received through locally collected property taxes and state aid
so you get another kind of combination there um since the early 2000 our foundation allowance increases were typically less than 2% from year to year there were years with no reduction with reductions and or no or no increases so
it was not unusual to have a 0% increase like we did this year during those years our expenses continue to increase even though we did not have Revenue increases sufficient to cover the additional costs so that's kind of made this structural imbalance to our budget that we usually
have to address every year so in 21 22 through 23 24 the foundation allowance increases of 5 to 7% were in anomaly due to the federal Co spending um the state also got that as
as well as we did so um that's just to bring it back to so 2425 we didn't get a foundation allowance increase so the next largest source of our revenue is local state and federal grants these grants are typically
restricted for specific purposes with varying requirements and guidance for each Grant most of these grants have a supplement not supplant concept that means we can only use these funds for supplemental purposes above the base level that the district must provide
using unrestricted res resources in the last couple of years the state's greatly increased the number of available state aid categorical grants for 23 24 there are over 100 new categoricals so there specific purposes
and they may not align to our greatest needs so they've also created a significant burden on the district to administer all of these programs um and as the state comes down from their Federal coing Cliff many of these categor grants are not going to be
sustainable what we've asked is you know our Kent County group of business officials have has advocated for fewer categoricals and a larger Foundation allowance increases that would allow individual districts to determine how to use those Fs in the best way to meet the
deed needs in their own District um but it's challenging because so much of our Revenue we really don't have a lot of control over so we usually focus on the expense side and as we're a service organization the majority of our
expenses over 71% are related to salaries and benefits during the very Lan years before covid there were several years with limited increases for salaries there were years when staff did not move steps and or percentage increases were very
small retirement is the next largest component of our benefit package the rates are determined by the state and vary by which retirement plan each of employees is in there are eight different plans and there are a number of plans that are no longer available to
new employees however we still have a large number of employees on the older more expensive plans and then I just want to say if you want to see how complicated is the one of the back pages in our budget book has all of those in
there um health insurance is the next largest component for our benefits for more than a decade the district health insurance costs were capped under Public Act 152 which limited the district's contribution to either a hard Camp
amount prescribed by the state or 80% paid by the employer and 20% paid by the employee methodology grps has been under the hard cap model and currently the district's covering approximately 82 to 84% for
employees um the initial hard crap rates for 25 were 7,718 for single coverage 16161 for twers coverage and $2,049 for family coverage during the lame dug legislative
session a bill was passed that would increase these rates by 7% effective January 1st 2025 there are other sections in the bill that would make the 80% a floor not a ceiling it also links the annual rate
increase for the hard cap to an index that doesn't exist or 3% as a minimum so the closest index that to what doesn't exist would show that we would have probably an
increase of 10 to 11% in health insurance cost for next year but this bill is one of the ones that has not been transmitted from the legislature to the governor for Signature so it's kind of in limbo and what's going to happen with it but just
wanted to get you it you know it could have significant impact on our budget um instructional non-salary costs includes items teaching supplies curriculum software other materials substitutes warranties for technology dual enrollment costs and tuition for
our Center programs in my school at Kent support non-salary items include utility costs District Insurance repairs custodial and maintenance supplies professional learning costs transportation Professional Services software and translation services so that's kind of
like a big very big picture overview of what some of what you're going to see as we go through so I'm go down to the first numbers page our general fund is composed of three components General operating grants and Athletics in our original
budget we projected our general fund Revenue to be about 26.7 million this amendment reflects a projected decrease in revenue of about 800,000 bringing the new projected total to about 29.8 million and I'll get to the details
here in just a second with our beginning fund balance there's about 300 million available to appropriate on the expenditure side these are the categories that are required by the Michigan school accounting manual we're projecting an
increase to our expenditures of 4.5 million bringing the estimated total expenditures to 276.50 so it's a summary of our fund balance so when we finished June 30 in the audit we ended up with a five 40
million I have to look down my paper because I can't read it on the screen so 40, 579,000 our original adoption was a use of fund balance of just over 11 million showing the proposed decrease in Revenue in the
increase expense has a net decrease of another five million or use of fund balance bringing our projected fund balance now down to 24 million about just $ 24.2 million so one thing I did um share this is a a spreadsheet that
our former CFO tracked fund balances so I did um leave a copy with the board and just want to say when we were in that session downstairs I misspoke and said that it was going to drop down further than it is so I just wanted to highlight sorry when I didn't have my papers in
front of me I misspoke so just wanted to get the correct numbers in front of you but currently we're at 14.95 with this budget adap I I will dve to that yes okay projected So currently we're at 17.8
five that was the the original adaption y um so as we go down through here I'm not going to highlight every line or we all be here half the night so I'm just going to hit some highlights um but I do show the different portions of our general operting so I've got General operating grants and Athletics shown
separately investment income is one that I'm going to do we are projecting an increase from our original estimate in future years this like amount will likely be lower due to declining interest rates and as we continue to go through our fund balance our cash and
investment balances are also decreasing leaving less money to actually earn interest on taxable values continue to be strong in the city so we're projecting an increase in property tax revenue enhancement millage is a
countywide millage levied by the kisd and allocated to local school districts the allocation is based on student counts next one I'm going to go down to is under State sources so membership Revenue was impacted by the lack of a
foundation allowance increase our original budget used uh $241 increase which was the governor's proposal the Senate's proposal was $32 per pupil increase and the house was 2117 so I used the one in the
middle um so having no perp increase was about a $3.3 million hit to our budget the other factor that NE negatively impacted our membership revenue is a decrease in pupil count so we had budgeted for our enrollment to be approximately flat but we using that
Blended enrollment uh we've had a decree decrease of 138 students so audit process is still under way so there still may be further adjustments for students that either came or left During the period between the fall count and the spring count but that's the best
projection I have right now um 51c is we've got an increase of about 100,000 there it's related to the special ed component but it's also Foundation allowance so if you want to a foundation allowance impact you've got to look up at line B for the property tax revenue
and then lines n and zero n and O for the state sources um one line item that because our enrollment is declining we're now eligible for the section 297 categorical for enrollment stabilization but as you
see it in no way makes up for losing those kids as and having a full foundational so it's it's Miss Crips can you clarify quickly that um the um this when you talk about enrollment here enrollment
decline versus uh enrollment for our actual School enrollment can you clarify that that's I was going to say and and this is one I'm I know but I'm just like my colleagues said because enrollment can be it's you've got to be very specific of what you're saying you know
it's we have so many enrollment counts are you talking spring count are you talking fall count are you calling you know projection you know we're doing projections now for next year's counts and then when I do my budget I look at that Blended count so as you hear
different things it's you know it's not that we're trying to do different books or different counts and all that it's just depending on the purpose you might be getting a different enrollment count because there are so many different counts taking place and how they get used and all of
that so I mean one of my when I hear enrollment I usually ask you know is it fall count are we talking Blended count because that's my world but just want to be very specific about which enrollment count you're hearing um the next line down that is
that line number Q um there are six different myser state categoricals um and so this is a net of the effect of the enacted State changes is from our original estimates so one of the
categoricals which is 147 C1 rate stabilization um there's a decrease in Revenue but they also changed the rate so there is a decrease in our expense as well there's a decrease in a mypers
categor for for cost offset 14782 that's almost offset by a different Myer's categorical 147 C2 a onetime deposit so those two approximately nutted to zero but there's
a new Myers categorical 14784 that was added in lie of a foundation allowance increase so it's kind of like okay they didn't give us a foundation allowance increase they gave us this miers categorical but then the impact of
decreasing the rate on the one C so it just kind of Nets down to our Myer's categoricals are about $2.6 million less um there's another one that we have not included at this point um it was 147g that is to reimburse staff that made an
election in 2012 to contribute 3% of their wages in order to receive health insurance when they retire um the health care fund at OS became overfunded last year so it's like why continue to have employees districts
in the state continue to make payments into a Healthcare F that's overfunded um so instead of at least just stopping the employee contribution when they passed the state aid bill they put in this weird
reimbursement categorical um they finally sorted and then it's another one that when they wrote the legislation there's a a technical problem with it and that it's allocating out to districts based on
last year's salary amounts so last year's salary amounts that employees paid 3% on are not the same 3% that they're paying this year but we're supposed to reimburse this year's contributions so they've been working with MD ORS and legislation to get a
technical fix that still hasn't happened so they haven't done the allocation it just showed up on our state AIDS this this month like yesterday or today um so what we will there still
pursuing that legislative change but the amount that we're getting will likely change if they get if and when they get that change and then also the timing of when we receive those payments but since we did get money in February we're looking to start
reimbursing employees um and it looks like we'll be able to fully em reimburse for their payments from and it doesn't start until October 1st so there are any payments people have put in October 1st through the first payment will do through January F 31st and that payroll
and we'll reimburse them out of the money that we just got in February likely because there's still uncertainty at the state level we'll wait see what happens at the state level look to do another payment in June for whatever money we received at that point and then
likely we'll not do another one because we will still continue to receive payments through July and August what I heard is if they get their technical fix we won't get our last payment until November of next year so it may be November when we do that final payment
so whatever we get in we will reimburse employees as we can but just kind of don't want to get out ahead of the money coming in from the state you know mde was very oh you'll get it and I'm like you know after what happened last year
with stay dat I'm just we'll pay it when we get it um one last thing I'm going to jump down for a second we do have a decrease in the transfer in from Food Service um for indirect so overall there's a projected decrease in our general
operating revenue of the 6.6 million going to jump back up for Grants so generally our budget for Grant Revenue will equal our budget for Grant expense for a number of our grants the grant period is different from our fiscal year so we budget for expected
expense in our fiscal year and so the amounts that you're seeing here won't necessarily equal the grant award it's the change from what we originally projected to what we've got now
um many of our grants also allow for carryover of unexpended funds from one year to the next so typically we don't budget for carryover in the original budget we just need to close out our fiscal year Andor the grant period to close so we know what carryover actually is and we adjust those budget in
Amendment one so these are the changes from our budget for these local state and federal grants so it can be the result of the final allocation change because our title grants we typically are operating on Final or preliminary allocations from
the state until October or November and they tell us what our final allocation is carry over new grants or changes in expected spending so a couple that I do want to highlight down under State source and make sure I get the right um line W
is a decrease of 1.3 million so back when we were doing our original budget in May and June um we had were working on our Grant application and we were including um some tier 2 supplemental curriculum material software um when the
state finally reviewed our application those items were not approved so we had to revise our Grant application in July ju or August I don't remember for sure when but I know it was after the fiscal year um so these items are now funded with General operating
funds so that's one of the things you'll see as we get down into um the expense side um another item to highlight is the reduction of 31a Revenue so in our original budget we' planned on funding 29 teachers from section 31a for class
size reduction as we've done for many many years in September we learned that teachers have record could not be funded by section 31a so that meant the funding for those teachers couldn't be included under Section 31a um they did in their
state aid put in a a new categorical but the requirements that they put on that were not really feasible for grps to use it for class size reduction any longer so um the reduction had to be shown for
multiple years in a single classroom and with the mobility of our students in our classroom it's just not really feasible for us to show that one classroom at one building has a reduction for multiple years on being able to fund it that way
so that was another unexpected increase to our expense on General operating and it's not that we're getting less 31a funds but it's we're just going to have to repurpose those to another another allowable use
um so now moving down to expense side so in our original budget we try to estimate what our cost will be if all positions are filled however we still have continue to have a large number of V vacancies so but I do include an
estimate for vacancies in our salaries and benefit budget so it's not like you know if I'm going to have 40 custodians and I've got 30 vacancies or I'm bad numbers but you get the idea I don't I don't budget for All Because
just knowing historically we've had a challenge filling those so but do you do see the salary and benefit adjustments include the Meer rate rate reduction that I discussed earlier as well as vacant positions so with the vacant positions the estimate for substitutes
and instructional Services which primarily is the contracted special ed AIDS that's not something we've had in the past so um we had to increase the budgets for those for this year so students are getting better Services
because we're covering it using the outside um agency cost estimates for instructional software materials and supplies are increasing in part due to that change in section 23g funding that I just
mentioned um the other large one there line a y Center program tuition um some of our special ed students attend the center programs that are operated by KSD for the countywide rebuild tuition based on the days the students are enrolled in
the program so kists now revise their estimate of the amount that will be built for this year some of it's due to the additional Revenue that they're receiving from property taxes and they're also experiencing um vacant positions so their costs are less than
originally projected so it's kind of one of those that's kind of anomaly this year on their side as well but we'll take the significant decrease and expense for us um General operating Support Services the reasons for the salary benefits are
similar to The instructional programs um one thing to note um prior to this school year special at itinerant um we're dual employed with kisd um because we could get additional
funding from the state um because that additional funding has evaporated gone away um we've Sunset sunsetted that agreement and now those itinerate staff are just totally just grps staff and
their salaries um and benefits are shown as salary and benefits rather than payments to other school districts um General aerating other there adjustments for indirect between General op ating and grants and the transfer between General operating and
Athletics um but one thing I do want to note we did had to increase the transfer to Food Service to avoid a deficit in that fund um on the expense side we typically don't go through all the detail but give you the detail of the grants and
instruction and support for all of those changes to that long list of all the grants that changed Athletics we did make some adjustments for salary benefits and purchase Services expense so that's the big picture detail of all
of the changes in Amendment one so there's a lot of line item individual line items going up and down this is the net overall picture on General operating so I know I've been talking very quickly and it's a lot of information but if you've got
questions I'll try to answer well just to make sure I understand so thinking about 1A Revenue coming in um when it has the negative you know almost 5 million so did we receive that and I think you said we now have to reallocate it because it couldn't be spent for the 29 classroom
teachers so we still received it yep okay so so it's in here as a negative but it's just because it hasn't been yeah the budget and we'll probably end up having to carry some of those funds over till next year Okay so we've kind of gone what can we actually you know it's like at the middle of the year if
we're going to buy additional some type of support staff Behavior specialist in example well by the time we post a position get it out there get it filled probably not going to spend as much as we would have if funding the 29 teachers that we would have started August with
so looking at that and just saying well not that we're going to give money back to the state for 31a we'll just look to spend that for next year oh so we're literally holding it off so in whatever we can look to implement still this share we will okay but and typically so
if there's a blank on the left side we're at what we've budgeted so sorry the left side meaning the First Column the general operations Okay saw your sorry so the First Column means we're at the budget $5 million so we when did we find out about that I guess I'm
wondering five million seems like in 31a yeah it could have been used in so many ways because 31a is so yeah it was September and so as we work through what does this look like what does the you know cuz at first we were you know well it is a
new they do have some allowances there for certain school districts which we were one of them could we make it work MH and that's where we get to into late October and we're like I don't think we can really make it work and still meet those requirements so and at that point
too looking at you know it's like I don't know it was just one of those things where we need to not just react and oh we're going to buy you know add a bunch more stack we want to be thoughtful about what kind of Staff we may want to be adding what our needs in buildings what does that look like so
there have been conversations about what that could look like just haven't gotten to decisions yet righty if there are no more questions is there a um a motion to approve to send to the whole board I want to clarify that uh budget amendment
one for the general fund still have more questions I'm sorry I thought others might as well so I was just trying to hold just wondering about the um we're looking at about a million and a half for community services that we spent I believe above the budget it's um sorry on
page uh four Community Services about a million and a half that we spent I believe if I'm understanding this correctly above what we had intended so I'm just wondering that's a if I'm so looking at the menu the um memo so if I'm looking at bi is
that where you're it's about oh yeah that's GNA be a combination yeah the biggest part there is that Grant related adjustments to Title One title two and title four and
Ida go under that community services so those federal grants that come to us we have to allocate a portion of those to private schools and so that's where we had additional monies that we have to and a lot of that is carried over yeah
of the private schools didn't fully expend their allocations from last year so we're bringing them on this year therefore increasing what we're going to be spending this coming year in 2425 okay we're working very hard with them to
have them fully expend their funds in the year that they come yeah that makes sense um but that's also something that's probably not widely known that those federal grants require us to do an allocation of our M grant money to the private schools so and then the a little
over a million for school administration that we've overspent I believe is there well I wouldn't say overspent at this point it's just adjusting you're right adjusted for you're right so it's kind of what we projected and
versus and let me go back up and that's going to be some of that salaries and benefits and where things happen to fall and I'm looking we adjusted downward about a
million a large part of that will be the retirement adjustment on that retirement rate that's it for me okay is there a motion to approve budget amendment one for the general fund
motion to approve seconded all in favor please say I I any Oppo same sign all righty um and then we are going to go to uh budget amendment one for special Revenue fund and then I just want to acknowledge it is 533
that's I was going to say I just looked at GL this going um go a little faster it will go a lot faster special Revenue funds don't have as much details so um this first summary page for Revenue a summary of all of our special revenue for funds expenses likewise and then
here's the detail by fund of what the changes are I'm going to Quick jump to the um memo where it gives you the detail and you'll see most of the changes are actually on our food service fund so with the declining fund balance in Food Service our cast investment
balance is also declining learn earning less investment income there adjustments to as the food service and the local state and revenue side as well and then we also o updated those salary and benefit adjustments for Food Service
grasp and Houseman field staff see much quicker than General that's helpful too all righty questions all right seeing none is there a motion to approve budget amendment one
for special Revenue fund so moved there support all in favor please say I I any oppose same sign all righty budget amendment One debt retirement fund and if you thought special Revenue was quick that's even quicker um so on our debt
retirement funds because we know our principal and interest payments upfront there's not typically an adjustment to those but property taxes we do adjust to what we now project property taxes will be for the the month and we've got a little adjustment there to investment income and the state does have a state a
categorical to offset um when they made a change to one of the legislative items it affected our personal property tax collection so they do have a state aid categorical to offset that as well so that is De retirement fund there's Revenue expenses and there you can have
the detail by fund any questions seeing none is there a motion to approve budget amendment One debt retirement fund motion to to approve all in favor please say I I any
oppose same sign all righty and we are on to donations from RE Renaissance charitable foundation and these are our most fun is usually when we get to donations so we did have a couple of individuals that made us gave a $4,000
terrible donation to use as needed and so what we've done is in um include that into a 509 agency account um districtwide as ongoing needs come up we will use it for student related items
not quite sure what that is yet but appreciate that these individuals I mean that's a a large amount of M to donate so definitely appreciate Their donation all righty is there a motion to accept
the donation from Renaissance charitable Foundation I just have a quick question you said uh for student related items when when would we hear what that means I say typically what they you know at this point in the year we one of the
items that we use that agency account is like if if there's a need for coats and hats and gloves but as we're okay I'm hope winding down on the they may not get used for that at this point in the year but if there's another need that comes up you know in April and May we we
know we have that account there also didn't want it to roll into like our general operating where it kind of just gets lost so it's there needs arise whatever that may come I've seen hygiene products mattresses things like that
that are hard to find other places yeah yeah uh could you just repeat again what what type of fund it is that a contribution like this would go into I say I it's one of a if you go back up to special Revenue it's the student agency accounts okay and so those balances roll
over from year to year yeah and are included there do we have a general sense at any given time like what is the general balance of that I know that's kind of a vague question I was going to say I don't know what that balance is okay thank you one of my staff could
probably tell me but I I know so we are again looking for a motion to approve the Renaissance charitable Foundation donation so moved there support all in favor please say I I any
oppos same sign all right uh the gsrp startup Grant um donation yeah I was going to say it's not typic it's a it's a grant um but it was a significant one just wanted to make the board aware what it is so in
conjunction with kisd we do have 225,000 in a startup Grant um we typically have not supported our Monas children's house which includes preschool children in it um as this grant became available um the
istd applied on our behalf to provide excuse me 25,000 per classroom to help boost these preschool programs um looking primarily to use it for outreach or instructional type materials at this point but we did
list the allowable uses there um and that it's the funds need to be fully expended by September 30th of 2025 that's great is there a motion to approve the gsrp startup Grant donation
moved okay all in favor please say I I any oppose same sign and then lastly we are going to the donation for Ottawa Hills High School Gauntlet okay this is um we received two generous donations one from the blackb
giving fund and 6,000 from an an anonymous private donor to fund the idol Hills Gauntlet program that you may have remembered started in the fall um so it's primarily giving scholarships but also funding some of the costs of the
program so it was an exciting new program and we're glad that they found those two donors to help fund it wonderful is there a motion to approve the owal heel School golet donation so moved seconded all in favor
please say I I any oppose same sign all righty and then we will move uh quickly on to any reports and updates that you have with regards yes I was going to say the only oops I'm sorry I didn't me to cut you off but I'm also looking at the time so trying to be conscious of that so other monthly financial statements
things are typically tracking as expected but as the statements they still show the original budget attachment when we do our February statements we will update that to this budget amendment one even though it won't go to the full board until in March but since you've moved it forward
I'm going to say we're going to adjust the budget uh in the February finan statements so some more of those should start to line up a little bit better on the monthly financial statements so all right wonderful thank you so much and then we don't have any policy so uh with
that and there's nothing else this meeting is adjourned and then we'll see you in the work