Board of Education tentative budget meeting for March 11th 2025 the New Jersey open public meeting law was enacted to ensure the right of public bodies to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings sorry of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at
which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provision of the act the kilan board of education has caused notice of this meeting to be published in the Suburban Trends on January 19th 2025 posted in the Kenan Public Library filed with the bur Clerk and posted on
the district website Miss Francisco will you call the board please Mrs Leonard here Mr Meyers here Mrs Pella here m Mr pepy Mrs Portman here Mr Eisen minger here Mrs Donaldson
here please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance Sor Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liberty and
justice for all okay student rep is not here here today since not required superintendent's update all right thank you Mrs president welcome everybody um tonight we Mrs Francisco and I are excited to present the preliminary budget and I just want to thank our
admin team and the board for the time it it took basically since last December to now to come to this point and um also on the agenda tonight we have the revised calendar I know that was a lot uh last or two weeks ago when we had our last meeting um and just like a small
Preamble I know we all had our own thoughts about the revision um and giving back the the holiday and back and forth with the half days and full days and I just want to say because I know that um I Heard It In the last meeting from somebody that was here I don't know
who but it was in the back it was kind of echoed that Mrs Donaldson was on the record when she was talking about possible days to trade off and so then this is also on the record we're not setting precedent we're taking everything in consideration we moved forward but every year the school
calendar will be justified on to as to the goals of the board the administration of the district and the timelines which um we select to move forward and what we think is best for the district so I just leave it at that and um that concludes my report Mrs oh
hey um congratulations to coach myON and our team winning the state championship yesterday that was a big win and I know our boys fifth grade travel team uh won last night against uh they play Lincoln Park I believe and
now fourth grade as well fourth and fifth grade boys travel basketball and now they play tomorrow night I believe against Ringwood so Middle School hockey Sunday for the final so once again I don't I know we have an empty house I wish it was packed I don't know why people leave for
sports I don't know but I'll leave it at that thank you Mrs president okay uh committee reports the Committees all did meet but they basically all met and discussed the same thing which is the preliminary budget and the um proposed changes to the calendar which was what I
actually had said on record was that we would revisit the calendar I did not make any promises as to what that would look like um but Carl why don't you go ahead and just give a quick update on what all the Committees met met about yeah I mean so more or less it's exactly what you said so we all discussed the
same thing I think everybody met except for policy um so we did not meet for policy but we did discuss the preliminary budget um just kind of what items kind of can go into those things uh we talked about um um also the revised calendar kind of weighed a couple different options there trying to
put days you know at the front of the year or back of the year and and see what kind of things we can do for the for the community so that's pretty much it yeah okay thank you um and I don't think we have any uh delegate updates do we does anybody have any delegate updates okay no all right petition and
hearings of citizens for agenda items which is the proposed budget and the calendar are there any comments for that okay all right none all right there any you have anything no okay agenda items
um so the first one is the budget motion for the adoption of the tentative budget for the school year 2025 2026 pres we'll do the presentation yep all right you you come you want to come on over yet
or gotcha all right so welcome everybody and uh for anybody that doesn't know myself or Mrs Francisco we are responsible ultimately to the board to uh put together an annual budget I want to thank this admin team again uh the
conversations sometimes become intense not everybody's always happy you know then we bring it to the board and everybody has their own selected um choices and and um glasses which they're looking through and that's what it's really about it's about collaboration and coming to a moment to where you feel
this is what's best for students and then how does that impact our community so um M Francisco and I are very happy to start off this budget presentation now what I'm going to do is step to the side and Mrs Francisco is going to go over the first couple slides and then
we'll tag from there so so um if we um the fir okay normally uh the state of New Jersey allows us to increase our tax levy by 2% and um if we did that it would be 41
m6983 unfortunately when you look look at all of the um obligations that we have in the expenditures um the 2% no longer seems to um be able to cover all of the
inflationary costs that we're dealing with along with collective bargaining uh contractual o obligations and although the state of New Jersey understands this and knows this they refuse to um
increase that 2% cap and um they feel that the local fair share needs to be increased in order to support the things that are unique to a community so what we've um been able to
identify are uh some pressures by health insurance I think that you know that's something that has been in the media for quite some time and um last year we experienced a significant increase in the health insurance premium and this
year is no different as a matter of fact it's much higher we're expecting somewhere between a 12 and 15% increase and so um you can see in the right hand corner where it says the projected increase 12 to 15% you can see
the range based upon our premium that we currently have now this amount is offset by employee benefit contributions which are required by the state of New Jersey but one of the things that we've also noticed is that um when Senator Sweeney
was um president of the state senate he um developed a um chapter 44 contribution and and employee benefit plan and because of the rapid increase in premiums a lot of our employees a lot of employees throughout the state have gone over to the HP and while the the
benefits haven't really significantly changed in premium the um contributions that employees make is different and it puts more pressure on the budget to make up the difference between what they would get from chapter 78 and chapter 44
so that's one of the pressures right there the health benefit um contri um premium increases and so when we figure out the budget the state allows us to uh take an adjustment to that 2% tax levy
uh by taking the health benefit increase so you can see that last year in 2025 we had a project a $242,800 increase after we calculated out and
it's um and that allowed us to increase our tax levy by that amount of money because of projected health benefit increases however this year the pressure is a little bit higher and as you can see the health benefit adjustment for
2526 the propos budget is actually 530,000 125 so um that along with uh some of the other increases that we're seeing um with our liability coverages as a matter
of fact I just got um a projected workman's compensation premium um email today and when I budgeted workman's comp for 2526 I thought I was given myself a
little bit of a cushion by budgeting $215,000 based upon last year's premium well lo and behold it's going to be more so we don't even have a tenative budget yet and I already have a line item expenditure line that's going to be
under budget I mean over budget it's not going to be a lot of money but it's going to be some you know something and it's just only it's only the beginning and we haven't even approved the budget yet so so one of the other areas so we have the ability to increase our tax
levy by more than 2% using the health benefit adjustment we also have the ability to increase our tax levy by Bank cap two years ago you were able to bank cap because you did not go to the 2% you used other adjustments and you but you
didn't go to the 2% with your tax levy increase so the difference between two years ago was $257,450 you can use that this year in order to um keep all of your programs that are so important to you um address
some of the inflationary pressures that we have and try to um mitigate some of the costs that you're seeing based upon um repairs and other things that you we've identified and that need to be addressed so that we can keep our buildings
open so um we were able last last year to add to our capital reserve account capital reserve account is like a savings account for facilities and um we were able to you
were able to use that when we got the rod grants to do the roof Replacements at Stony Brook and and PRM or Keel right ke and Stony Brook um which were completed during this past summer and while we're hoping that there
might be more Rod grants in the future right now now um that's a a moving Target but we were able to save some money and put some money aside into capital reserve account and so we like to withdraw um $1 million from that
Reserve in order to address a couple of the projects that the board feels would be um a significant you know addition to your uh academic program so uh and the two programs that we're
going to address are the um culinary arts program what the students um really are looking forward to uh the the price tag on that is pretty hefty but we feel that we can do it over two budget Cycles so that we can start the project now and
finish it by uh September of 26 and um the other um advantage that we've had is that we had some audited fund balance so what that means is that after the audit has been completed um
you're allowed to maintain 2% of your expenditures as a a bank account for emergencies if um you know that's the easiest way to try to explain it and then um anything over and above that 2%
amount becomes an audited fund balance which you need to use in a subsequent budget year also um we've identified some additional money so the 25,2 $219 has also been identified as being additional
fund balance currently up to this point February one in the current Year's budget so using those two amounts will also um help to maintain the programs that we've put into the budget and the
expenditures that you need um one thing that becomes difficult is that the fund balances that you use you can't depend on on them from year to year um they may appear they may not appear and so it's
difficult to use that to support your general fund budget um the audited fund balances are usually used to support your Capital outlay things that once you do it you don't have to think about it for a few more years um or it's going to
do something significant like you know putting cameras on on the fields on the exterior putting um gates up inside your buildings to eliminate possible vandalism by kids walking around or adults walking around in areas that uh
should be off limits because you know there's no reason to for anybody to be into the classroom parts of the building unless they have a permit to use those spaces so we're hoping we our plan is to use
the audited fund balances to support some of the things that we need to do as far as upgrades go um do you want to add anything no I um know if you want talk I mean on the other side of the the presentation you
see that we're in negotiations with both the Kaa and Kaa so those uh percentages are pending central office is looking at a 2 uh five maximum in one bucket and how that's broken out uh is based on evaluation and um job performance and
then we're looking at as as Mrs Francisco said the health benefits the important thing to remember is that drawing down on the FY 26 health benefit adjustment of 530,000 and the available Bank cap will raise us over the tax levy
now um that'll put us somewhere in the neighborhood of a 3.9 or on a house assessed 581,000 around $457 School portion flip side to that coin is is that um and that's a board resolution it
doesn't have to go out to a public vote it's not a referendum it's not a ballot question it's none of those things that's the board privy the flip side to that coin if we didn't do it is maintaining programs and Staffing and Personnel because we would have that gap of almost
$800,000 and that's where it falls so as I've kind of uh shared all along from last year till now we just want to breathe a little bit lightly we want to tread water we don't want to lose staff I think we've been very creative within our lines and this is more or less the
longest piece of this presentation we'll be able to show that in our programs um but the fact remains that we are where we are and I know for some folks when they come to board meetings they see $48 million and they think oh well that's a healthy budget no actually it's not it's
not and I've said all along that we've had a board and that the the actually all of the Affiliates within the school district so now I'm talking about staff from top to bottom have been fortunate to always have a board of ed to be supportive to go to the 2% to use a
lotted funds time and time again I can tell you obviously the tone since I've been here this is now my third budget cycle has changed right we're very prudent we just don't spend for the sake of spending um and that's across the board but um folks don't understand that
when boards say hey we we have to slow this down and again we have 1620 students we don't have our budget reflects 2,00 to 20 22 uh 200 so we're we're well above and yes we've Rift restructured or
not replaced 24 and a half positions this is accurate I told you you need a whole school we're not there yet so for us to be in this third budget cycle to be treading water I think it's worth spending that money and moving forward
hopefully we have successful negotiations with both the Kaa and the Kaa cooler heads prevail because now we're talking sustainability because if not then we'll be right back to where we are next year but we won't have this availability so I say that a year out in
advance in forecasting so um we you know some folks if they get a little bit upset as we move forward and of course the board has to vote tonight and then vote again on April 29th um we're going to take it from there okay so you can see that uh last year
this time our uh state aid was $3,647 se2 about three weeks ago I received an email from the state saying that I should anticipate getting a 3% reduction on that and lo and behold when the state aid numbers finally came out
we did get an additional $169,800 fully funding is based upon demographics um socioeconomics and the number of students that you have in your buildings um so we uh were fortunate enough to get a little bit extra in state aid um so we're working with 3
m234 669 but that's again a moving Target because in the past they've decided you know they have no problem deciding in the future um to to cut that and don't forget too that the um state government
has to approve this final budget that the um the governor presented and uh that has to be done before June 30th so that we're assured of the numbers that he that we've received up to this point and I've also been in situations where
in July you have a reduction in your state and you have to do your a revised budget so hopefully we don't have that in the forecast we were able ble to refund our bonds the existing bonds
yeah no you got to go back so we were even we were able to refund our existing uh debt um and this is a i this is the second time these bonds have been refunded uh you you paid
off one Bond um last year and uh this is the remaining Bond um we have um we we received [Music] $162,700 I can't even think that far
ahead but 2033 you will be saving a substantial amount of money and you'll see that in a future slide okay um last year uh we did this pie chart and it's basically a breakdown of what
um where all the allocations are for the um expenditures um you can see that in general Leed instruction is $1,696 $4 and special ed instruction is 6 million oh I'm getting my numbers
cross here 6,4 [Music] 189,900 23,87350 the um all of the the the pieces of the puzzle that go into making a successful School District but this is pretty much um a chart that shows you all of all of
the the players and and and what their role is and and how it all fits together to create what you've built here in kinon all right so we thought and Mrs Leonard I'm going to give you the credit on this so during committee Mrs Leonard brought up to uh Mrs Francisco and I why
don't we do a slide on actually things that we were able to to achieve to offset um and we did so that was a great idea and this is what we actually did so you're looking at in the 23 24 year we received $53,000 uh for a high impact tutoring
Grant we were successful we had the two Rod grants for the partial roof replacement so none of this is on taxpayer This Is Us going out and doing our due diligence um and you see those that cost there is over it's about $825,000
then uh we received a hip uh Foundation excellence and education grant I believe that was Mrs Basinger am I right Mrs Thomas okay so we had that Mr shivas was very aggressive in his school security Grant uh for a half a million dollars but we were denied I still think that's because of our socioeconomic uh Factor
group but I have no proof but that was so far the only one denied we right now we applied for another grant for computer science Mrs trombetta thank you very much and we're waiting to hear and as Mrs Francisco said on the second Bond we did refinance earlier this calendar
year to the tune of 861 th000 over the remaining life of the bond which is 630 of 2033 so it's not as if this board and this office and central office and administration are sitting on our hands we're not we're just not diving into
taxpayers we're doing our end as well as to what's available you know um the state is funny the way they kind of bring Rod grants and SDA grants in and out in their time frame of it but it's School District's responsibility to do their due diligence and go after them
when they are available so when they have been which are reflective of us and what we're trying to achieve we go after so hopefully they do uh come out with another bunch of Grants uh soon enough and we we'll do our best but that's an important thing for folks to
know so our facility needs we're going to go now we're going to just break it down of what's included in this budget breakdown um and you could see there's the cost and then there there's the source so where did it come from so we had said earlier that um at a facility
at KHS here is phase one of the culinary arts program and that's we're we're drawing that at a cap reserve and then also the continued exploration of This Very Room the acoustic remediation at 250,000 so the million dollars reflected earlier in the presentation are out of
cap Reserve this is for those two things now when you look at uh some other items and we're just talking here the high school here's the estimated quotes the resurfacing of the KHS track at $400,000 the the installation of a dck dust uh collection system for the industrial Arts room at
35,000 that's all that all comes at a capital outlay so that's fund 12 capital outlay and if anybody has any questions I'd be happy to give that over to Mrs Francisco to answer but that's where it's coming from milling and pay caving that's still yet to be determined those contractors haven't gotten back to us
just yet continued on facility needs we come over to PRM the steps up the side between Keel and PRM we're going to replace those that comes out of our own supplies on a general fund 11 Stonybrook degrading to prevent water infiltration
um Keel concrete uh work by the boiler room and kitchen door and um those items all come from here that'll be in-house projects but then you have Stony Brook and kill both we need ventilation in the it rooms and that's to be determined with HVAC and and just to um clarify the
reason why they have to come from our regular general fund budget we are required by law to put in a percentage of uh required maintenance for our facilities to maintain them so um there's a report that's done every fall
to track the required maintenance costs that you've done in the previous budget year so we have expenditure lines that require us to maintain the building envelope and the mechanical systems and
um so we budget for that and those things would come out of that that particular budget then we look at security so again this is Mr shivas um straight down the line from KHS to to ke we're looking at hardening the interior of our schools
with interior Gates uh then at PR M we want to continue with some surveillance Stonybrook and ke we want to continue with surveillance so that all comes out of capital outlay fund 12 and that to I believe that total is somewhere around $120,000 in total for security um
because security like technology is ongoing it never stops kind of like our facilities when you look at technology we've made some great strides the last two years so thank you to Mr John CI and then when Mr Miller came on that's a lot of work um we're looking to continue our
districtwide server upgrade and that's out of capital TW capital outlay and fund 12 and then as you could see when you go down all the other items that we're doing whether it's Chromebooks for grades six and nine and thank you Mrs trombetta for jumping on that with the tech department uh classroom displays uh
at PRM for TV screens and this this new um Tech update Vivy that Mrs tretta likes and wants to bring in cyber security continuation Mr janelli thank you Mr shivas and just goes on and on but this is where the money's coming
from in case anybody has any questions so they have that you understand how much it's costing and the time that um it'll need so obviously for now we're going to hold off on consolidation of the routes at PRM and KHS hopefully for 2627 we'd
like to do that I'm going to dive a little bit more into Transportation on the last slide of this presentation because I have a few thoughts in mind um but with that we are going to to purchase on a lease purchase a 54 passenger bus so that'll be $50,000 for year one and that's out of fund
11 so now when we're talking programs um curriculum things of that nature PRM it's pretty self-explanatory what we're doing um from the supplemental manth Anda continued on with the resources at 9390 or the revised science curriculum
thank you Mrs Kowalski uh that's $2,000 that comes out of fund 11 and then for uh special education we have a program uh self-contained program at Stony Brook School that's going to now continue to grow and come up to PRM when I have the
Highlight there that says does not impact the PCR PCR means position control roster every district is responsible to have one so when somebody leaves under Personnel did were they replaced were they not what's the offset in the dollars and cents including health benefits um we had a staff member
leave last summer we did not replace that position but it was already budgeted so it's already within the budget so when Mrs uh davidman came to us we had extended conversations about bringing the program in to PRM what resources would we need what would that be that cost com you know making a
comparative out of District in District in the end we thought it would be best to keep our students in District um and we also had that position readily available so it's a new program but it's not adding a position to the control roster
and that kind of continues on at KHS we'll be bringing inl intervention resources for manthan ELA it's $2,800 comes out of fund 11 it's a three-year process but now when we're talking electives and this was from our students with the survey um we're looking at
increased elective offerings for theater drama the social sciences robotics engineering and in tomorrow's teachers none of that impacts the PCR because they're already here it's already budgeted so theater drama we're not replacing a retirement we received about two months ago we're going to reallocate
that money for here so that's a whole new program um robotics engineering we had a res resignation last May or June out of the science department Mrs Kowalski came on board she felt it wasn't important to replace the position but it was already there the dollars are there we're going to replace it with
robotics engineering now so again that that's where we are we're aligning science and and math with uh physics specific and we're creating stem pathways options for 25 26 important for 2627 is culinary arts that will be a new
position to the position control roster but again that gives us time at least 12 months 13 months to take a breather and figure out financially how we're going to bring that position on a year is a long time retirements help breakage helps if
folks leave in certain uh particular positions and we may not need to replace them you just have to think a little bit differently than what kinan has ever been accustomed to which is just replace and add that doesn't always solve the Sol that's not a solution um and then the potential stemies so quite a bit a
lot happening so it's not Doom and Gloom it's a lot happening continues on into Keel and Stonybrook we don't want to leave anybody out anybody get upset um with the ELA resources that's 37,000 that was purchased this year but it's a
continuation we have math resources from the 2425 pilot it's your one of three the takeoff 43,000 and then Implement new social studies resources at Stonybrook grades three to5 and that's 12,000 so assuming that later tonight
this preliminary budget is passed and then assuming we're passed at the April 29th public meeting at the tri Forum all of the programs that's what it'll be so that's why I was excited two weeks ago when we were up here Although our house
was packed over other items um I hope that many people come back for the triform assuming our our presentations pass because there's a lot to be excited for here so um that's where we are as far as program support and then really you know what
here's the million-dollar question what what are we looking ahead at well we want to continue to enhance our instructional programs schedules and resources right be creative investigate cost Effectiveness for Courtesy busing so again as I stepped out in
front of the Stonybrook conversation I'm going to step out in front of this one the board hires any board hires any superintendant to come up with Solutions that's the job um in doing our investigation what I
found and Mr shivas could attest to this although I don't want to call him out on this tonight uh for particulars but um during our our Discovery process about the collapsing of routes our transportation department clearly said our buses are half
full sometimes even more than that less Transportation I'm going to go back a couple slides I just want to show everybody that's a lot of money taxpayer money and just so everybody has the understanding because I know kelan
doesn't have sidewalks but courtesy busing is what we do for a good portion of our district that means two miles outside that's the radius elementary and middle so any student any family that's out that's inside of two miles you could
consider that courtesy busing so if you're not taking the bus and you're constantly being dropped off why are we paying for it and that doesn't mean I want to lose our staff like our staff they're ours they have an appreciation for what we do but why do we have to be
beholden to first student or jointure and they're going to escalate their prices and we're just beholden why and then the high school is two and a half miles so any family that's within two and a half miles of KHS and you're D and you're sitting in those lines in the
morning okay so understand that I will be heavily investigating it because if I'm standing here this time next year looking down the scope of a possible shortfall between our expenditures and revenue before I lose staff I'll lose busing that would be the first to go courtesy
busing so we will be taking attendance and myage Mr shivas that we had that conversation with transportation and they're con they're also contacting our outsourced we're taking we're going to start taking attendance and everything is a parent choice right health and health
curriculum can't just yell about the health curriculum we're going to be on the same page with everything when it comes to money so we're going to take attendance we're going to do our due diligence and I will't have facts before this time next year about courtesy busing because losing staff is not something I enjoy
contrary to maybe one of two people in the in the social media Outlet around here so I just want to put that on the record I I love that Mrs Donaldson that somebody said that to you it's on the record I thought we were always on a record but I enjoy it um and then you
just continue down and this was really I Mr churos in the back this was the uh the burrow brought this to Mrs Francisco and I in the board about going out for a clean energy audit evaluation for an EIP program so we're waiting on that so that's why I shared that the referendum were basically look we still have enough
debt till 2033 our community has enough on their plate let's get off that and let's wait for this and then you just continue on down we'll continue to have the discussions about relocating the eighth grade um explore the afternoon
and possible weekend student center conversion in the media center right here in the high school and then really effectively allocate annual resources it's maintaining you want to be stable it's not just about spending because things happen we understand that you're
going to have leaks you're going to have a boiler go you're going to have a window blowout you're going to have alarm systems fail we're going to have Tech fail um students sometimes don't always fit inside the the traditional box and they may have to be shipped at a district in the middle of the year Well
if you if you don't have any extra money what will you do so yes I like to save some money I am conservative when it comes to that I don't mind spending when it's time to spend but we're not just going to spend because we're going to spend so um that's my job I know it's
not popular but uh I I take it seriously so that's this is our preliminary budget presentation I was very proud of this I think we all were um takes a lot of work over a lot of period of time for the board for us and uh I don't know is anybody have any questions for I'm gonna
say Mrs Francisco anybody have any questions for Mrs Francisco I feel like I could just turn it over to the ba no anybody online Jay okay that uh that ends our presentation Mrs president and the board this also will be on the district
website tomorrow okay so agenda item thank you a finance facility security budget motion K laborn of Education adoption adoption of the tentative budget for school year 2025 26
be it resolved that the tenative budget be approved for the 2526 school year using state aid figures and the secretary the Board of Education be authorized to submit to the executive county superintendent for the approval of said budget as proposed in the agenda
can I have a motion okay any discussion on that can we ask questions B okay um just to clarify a couple things on one of the first slides it had the amount for the health insurance that
was the total amount of the health insurance it was wasn't an increase right it was like a million dollars or 800,000 no that was the um the range of increase 12 to 15% over what we currently pay right
the that was the range right projected increase just right the increase is the percent but the dollar amount is not no the range is between C is 12 15% that's where it would end up so would be
98,000 to 1.1 milon depending on on the line item right depending on where it fell within so if it was a 12% increase it would be $889,000 over what we're currently paying this year and if it was
15% it would be 1 one million over okay and those are those are for healthare that's yes but the total total for healthc care also reduces our expected
uh benefit contribution so it is um the Health Care on in the pie chart is a net number and this is a gross number based upon the percentage increase the range does that make
sense so it's like five 500,000 is 15% of whatever piece of that pie basically right of that 9 million that's it's part of the health is part of that 9 million
it's part of that yes yep that's part of that so that's just an increase potenti yeah that's just breaking out the increase from the total amount that you that the district's responsible for for health benefits and and benefits is not
just for health benefits that that $9 million cost there's other things that go into it you know we're responsible for Social Security we're responsible for uh pension benefits for our support Personnel we're responsible for uh
vacation pays if anybody retires um you know six day um compensation if somebody retires so there's other things that incorp are Incorporated $9 million it's not just health benefits no the 500,000 which is the um
adjustment okay that is a calculation that the State State uh does based upon what was in it's it's a calculation based upon a comparison from last year's um health benefits to this year's health benefits
and uh taking into consideration what the State Health Benefit program was increased so if the State Health Benefit program was um a nominal increase then we would not be eligible for an adjustment for healthcare here but um
the only reason why we're eligible is because the State Health Benefit increase was substantial okay and that's an inflationary pressure that we can't we can't get around okay thank you for explaining that I have another another question um I know we're
in the middle starting in the middle of uh contract negotiations so that's a moving Target um what what number did you use just in getting this budget together um I Incorporated 2.5%
into the okay yeah and in the pie chart for instruction that's the staff plus like curriculum and the 12 million 609 yeah the 12 million 609 is for your gened
instructions so it's all of your kindergarten to uh 12 teachers uh and your um any Professional Services they might use um some of the uh technology that we
have to buy now digital licensing and stuff like that or supplies textbooks right um it's all incorporated into that so is sorry is teched support services so the it is that in Support
Services some of it some of it okay that's not directly related to to instruction um Support Services yeah it would be Health your your nursing okay your media Specialists um child study team um guidance guidance guidance
this does include the motion does include the bank cap so if there's any other questions about the bank cap the health care cost the maximum travel just go it does go down through capital reserve so item one if I can ask another nitty
nitty-gritty question how much money do we pay for Outsource busing not the in-house ones that we own and operate but for for student or um one number that comes to mind is about uh
$225,000 for one route for one route it it it deals with a lot of you know a number of students that go over to the um as at you know over to Morris County for um vocational and other programs um
but each individual route has a different cost sure over of it um I can tell you that our our in-house transportation is the smallest part of that um of the transportation cost yeah
yeah and um you know we we we have a lot that goes through red services and we also have eight and low for the students that are attending private schools so um there's there's a number of things that go into it and last year you know we had
an amount of money that we budgeted for aen Lou and then the legislature in the middle of Janu uh July increased it by a few hundred dollar so it's a moving Target it's an estimate of what you're
going to be dealing with in June of 2026 if anybody has a crystal ball any other questions for the um proposed budget tentative budget nope okay Miss Francisco we pull
the board please Mrs lonard Mr Meyers yes Mrs Pella yes Mr Pepe is absent Mrs Portman yes Mr eisener
no Mrs Donaldson yes okay item number two for finance okay be resolved Kenan Board of Education approve the removal of the Kenan High School from the national school lunch program for a pilot period
of April 1st through June 30th of 2025 can I have a motion to approve second okay can you pull the board Miss Francisco
Mrs Leonard yes Mr Myers yes Mrs Pella yes Mrs Portman yes Mr isisa manger yes Mrs Donaldson yes and be it resolved that the lunch pricing for this pilot program will increase to $7 for that
period April 1st to June 30th 2025 may have motion to approve motion second and again can you pull the board can I sorry just discussion clarify it's at the high school only right yes okay right
so uh one of the continuous um feedback we've gotten from the community and specifically from the students is the quality of the high school lunches and to change that we have to actually leave the school lunch program to offer different menu items so we're going to
do a pilot program to see if theu students enjoy it if the parents and Community are in favor if that is successful then we'll revisit us uh next school year um for a permanent change but for right now it's just a pilot program for the rest of the school year
thanks for bringing that up Jonathan um okay can you pull the board Mrs Leonard yes Mr Myers yes Mrs Pella yes Mrs Portman yes Mr Isa manger yes Mrs Donaldson yes Jonathan
personal oh sorry forgive me I was still doing math um uh you see section section B um we have item number one and it's simply um approving payment for the following staff members is indicated for a couple
different functions okay can I we have a motion to approve item number one I'll make the motion okay second all right any discussion for this questions okay seeing none can you pull the board Miss Francisco sure Mrs
Leonard yes Mr Myers yes Mrs Pella yes Mrs Portman yes Mr Isa manger yes Mrs Donaldson yes and Kelly education agenda item one represents our committee's
recommendations it is for the field trip for the njs AAC wrestling tournament on 35 to 39 motion yeah second okay any discussion for that just have a question um
the location is here or it's those kid Atlantic City for the high school yeah it was state tournament okay any other questions okay and can you pull the
board Mrs Leonard yes Mr Meyers yes Mrs Pella yes Mrs Portman yes Mr isisa manger yes Mrs donalson yes and policy M Portman agenda item one represents the
policy committee's recommendation um it's the revised 2526 school calendar as per policy attachment a and then there's bullet points 92 and 93 of 2025 will be full days for students and staff
9:23 of 2025 will be a day off school closed 23 I think it's supposed to be 2026 right yeah 2026 um is a minimum day for students
inservice day for staff April 2nd 2026 minimum day for students in service day for staff okay can I have a motion to approve the uh item number one with as
amended to February 1326 and April 2nd 26 motion second okay any discussion Okay no Okay can you pull the
board sure Mrs Leonard yes Mr Meyers yes Mrs Pella yes Mrs Portman yes Mr isisa manger yes Mrs Donaldson no okay and we have Committee of the
whole um anything for committee of the whole what we do just a reminder to uh Finance tomorrow night we have our semi-final round great okay Finance committees tomorrow night tomorrow night at at the board office at 5 we could get there a little bit earlier for our semi-final round of the ba interviews
okay and then Thursday we have personal negotiations five o'clock in PRM at pum okay thank you yeah I would have gone to the board office thanks for mentioning that any unfinished business anyone nope new business anybody no
correspondents anything anything no uh petitions and hearings from non-agenda items from commune members so anybody want to make any comments tonight no anyone I good I just want to say thank
you to um Dave and Barbara and everybody for putting the budget together and you know the presentation together you know it's not it's never easy it's probably not fun um but you you do it well and we just thank you for making it you know as
as good as it is yeah I Echo that that's a it's been a lot of work for the board as well so I do appreciate everybody's effort um okay can I have a motion to adjourn all in favor I all right good night everybody