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The time is now 6 o' and welcome to the 29 special meeting. We're running through Okay. Here. Here. All right. Item number two, approval of

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agenda. We'll approve of the agenda unanimous consent. There are no objections to doing so. Are there any objections to doing so? No. Um agenda is approved. We will now move to item number three.

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Dr. Rob Green, superintendent search consultant from The That is But So Okay. Well, question.

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And Okay. Remember So that audience. I'm not tellbody. Obviously, question. I would like to

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question question. So these are all going would sayelcome. And then one thing I'd like Yeah. So then you say Now

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You ask question. I'll be here. I'll be I'm going to So first Don't question the other. So audience

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audience feedback. That's 25. question. Everyone Let's say let's say So there is particular number of questions.

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So I give them than interest. All right. I'm going And then up your heart. Some of this interviews.

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if I read it correctly and that was something that I was considering, we're not sure. I like that. reinforce. And I also want to learn

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whatever This is what I like. I'd like to All the other 151 85. Um personally I don't know

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You know the number 115 starting for Oh, 115. Just a reminder. Okay, just one second. Um, we will now move to item number four. Participation.

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Thank you. Thank you so much. Because board of education values public meetings not just in public welcome public comment from speakers are express and privacy of others who may be affected by public comment. The public

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comment of the meeting cannot be used to make personal attacks against the school board member or school employee that disrupt the order of the meeting and are totally unrelated to the manner in which the member performs his or her. Speakers should be aware that statements violate the rights of others under the law of

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defamation or invasion of privacy. Such comments may result in legal liability. Most comments can be stated in three minutes and the boardfully that comments remain focused on topical issues and not be directed at specific You can go to the menu.

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from last year. ongoing situation before the beginning of her school year. She was little about your mother. At one point I told him about

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his children and now it was no over there. 15 minutes every I won't accept it. She didn't call her

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Wednesday or Thursday. I want to know everything because I filed a report. I don't want anybody to come out and you got today.

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So I can go on and on and on. I just want to be good. She deserves to be happy years like my other kids. I know my child care about no more. I care about my

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child. I care about other app. We're not allowed to respond to you but will email you. Don't know the full character she now

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at the middle the world record. >> Sorry. All right. Okay. We are now at number five adjournment. Um our next meeting will proceed right directly after this meeting. Um this

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meeting is 7:06. 706. So, we're going to continue on. How We're going to follow down number two. Number three, boards. Number one, start meeting on time. Number two, questions. Number three,

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meetings. Number four, no surprises. Number five, question. Number six, treat each other with respect. Address and challenge ideas, not manage. We're going to move on to item number

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four, presentation. All right. What is um well first of all good evening to our board. Um tonight we are presenting the stabilization plans and targeted structural realignment as requested by

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the board meeting regarding our budget. You're receiving two documents. One is a plan about I'll reference it during the presentation and then you have a hard copy of deck that I'm getting ready to

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um and so before we start tonight um this plan really is just including immediate actions and plans strategy and all of the things that discussed in our last meeting and I want to state this very clearly before we

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begin is just not about cut requires more than that. Um it's about stabilization, it's about control and it's about rebuilding our financial discipline as a district. Um but more importantly, it's about protecting

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students, right? Um so it's protecting students classrooms, legally required services, and to the greatest extent possible um to protect those who serve every day.

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And so we also realized as you indicated before that behind every number that was presented at the board there's most likely a person always but most likely right so we're very conscientious about that we have that in this plan um and so

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um some of the key assumptions that we um key assumptions and commitments that we have identified this is on page one of your handout slide of the day. Some of the key assumptions and

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commitments that we are making as we go through the plan is um first we're working from a proposed and projected budget. So our projected budget takes into account historical financial trends. It also takes into account um unknown variables. For example, the state has

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not passed our own budget that we're required to pass on July 1, which indicates the foundational. So that's variable that is missing as well as a big day in schools accounting um at certification of enrollment and that is the first Wednesday in October

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and so we're working from a lot of assumptions at this time and so um obviously that means that the budget will continue to be monitored and adjusted as necessary and current board policy that you all approved the court um decided on last year um there are

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quarterly amendments right that we have to present that does clude you from asking for additional information at any time. Second, some of the key assumptions is that the district 13% target reduction across major

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categories, but that does not mean all things are equal doesn't mean that we had to give a target um so that we can pass cannot pass the next budget. you simply cannot and so we had to do some reductions in

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major categories but again these are moving targets right um legal obligations student safety instructional priorities sequencing of anything that we have to do in terms of and third our core commitment and most importantly is

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a student centered mission right we prioritize high quality instruction for children period that means that the people in front of them every day are also prioritized to the greatest right again

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mostly behind every number and we're very conscientious of that and last but not least um part of a destination district right we have a lot of wonderful key ingredient um great athletic programming um you

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know we're moving and taking in the right direction and so this plan is mindful that we trying to create a destination district, right? And stabilizing our finances is a requirement um and necessary for that.

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So, still on page one of your handout, but now slide three. So, a couple of things I wanted to clarify before we move forward in the plan is some questions that are received and that is why revenue is um and so this explains it relatively

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speaking. The first is state revenue is projected to decline um about $4.5 million from fiscal year 2526 and it's driven by two compounding factors and that's at the bottom of the page. First is expiration

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of one time state funding program for end. So my healthy schools in this chart on the right hand side those are one time grants that we have that will that will fall off for the 25 school year which obviously impacts your revenue. Um

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so my health schools grant at 3.16 million educator compensation the 27 L two that came through M first healthcare offset at 390,000 and then a few other one time grant programs that are falling off from this

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year. Another major thing to note is enrollment decline. So we have experienced a decline in enrollment over the last couple years and Michigan funding is specifically aligned to per people right when enrollment goes down.

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So that's the major part of our revenue. Um and then also align to special education which is called special education heavily funded. So the students that are coded special education is called MSDS the Michigan

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data tracker along with which is the center for education performance. when our enrollment declines, so does our general funding and special education heavy funding. Um, your handout also has an accounting note on it that talks about the bomber

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grant that keeps coming up in conversation, right? Um, last year was the first year the district received the bomber grant and um our finance department um at that time um there were some errors that we made,

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right? Not on purpose, right? We received that grant but summer schools in two fiscal years June 30th and the new fiscal year starts July 1. The summer school is June through July, right? So you're in two different fiscal years when you're talking about summer school

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specifically, which is what that was. And so the issue we recognized all of the revenue in one fiscal year, but the expended mismatch because it looks like when you capture all of your revenue, it looks

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like your bank account. But then we captured all of the expenditures in the following year and so there was a mismatch, right? We thought our time was up here when really those expenditures were also coming out, right? So we have noted that this year we also got the grant and we will not

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make the same mistake twice, right? But last year was the first year. lessons learned in terms of counting practices. So, but the biggest takeaway is that our financial response cannot rely on um expenditure reduction alone. We also have to

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stabilize and grow in Michigan. That is the quickest way to increase funding revenue driving enrollment. Right. So, a couple of key over budget expenses are again questions about how we get

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here. Um, and we'll make sure this slide is uploaded to our board after this so that community can take a look as well. Um, and so key over budgeted expenditures. So we have four major areas that total about $711,000

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in fiscal year 2526. Um, first of all um the root causes are different for each one. So added was the biggest over budget and it's all of our special. So it's largely driven by obligations

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and legally and ethically required services for children with special needs. Um this is important because those services can't you can't cut those services right legally, ethically and morally those children have a right to a free and appropriate public education.

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So that was a hu a larger expense than years prior and added also operations and maintenance has been over budget for about two years. Um the root causes are the age of our buildings. So we do a lot of repairs of buildings. Yes, we have

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sinking funds but that doesn't always cover all of the things. You can't just put according to the Michigan accounting principles. So some of the things we have to repair in our buildings just because of their ages, right? Um also some service contracts that have

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automatic percent increases, social security, custodial different third party vendor contracts, they have automatic% increases on contracts and then we found that those automatic increases were not always

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big, right? Millions of dollars, right? And then pupil transportation and administration was a very small thing. Um so again I will tell you this uh for example one year one month of invoices for district transportation for general

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education students is about $150,000 one month for special education which is our students who curb curb house to house school home it was $100,000. So 66%

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right of the whole transportation budget for one year one month. So these are the things that that you you got you got to do right because it's legally ethically morally the correct thing to do. But with more kids being identified as being special education

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services at the same time right for example our county average of students with disabilities% that means in any given district county students with disabilities represent about 8% of the population in Oak Park

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is 13% right so that means we are servicing more students with special needs we're going to do it that's what they deserve right a right to a public education But that also means these other things that come

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um and their school administration was very it was like 31,000 it wasn't um but it it was there right we added assist of principles to our elementary um for years the elementary did not have I'm here to tell you being an elementary

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principal in 2026 is nothing how it was in 2016 or even 2016 a lot of stuff that happens in schools see his needs rising. Um, and so to manage all of that, that was that was one thing that we did in our district.

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Um, so the point here in this slide is that not every over the same have the same solution. Um, some require compliance protection as need. Uh, some require contract review like our operations and maintenance contracts and some require stronger controls and some

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are right. So these are the things that we're looking about what next steps are we going to make to stabilize financially stabilize our district. So our gap closing framework. So in the

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projected budget that was presented in order to pass balanced budget, we had to identify about 8.15 million in reductions of some sort. Our 13% target for each category

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is highlighted on this slide. But again, all things are not right and These are target metrics. That doesn't mean that that's exactly what's going to happen as we continue like every time you um you know for example every time I go to you

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know and I my budget is you know 200 but I only spend 15 right so not everything across the board. Um we do need to highlight though that we are in the business of people

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are needed to an organization. Therefore, about 60 or 70% of total general fund expendes are stopped and um and we just know that a negative fund balance will trigger the Department of

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Education and the Department of Treasury to come in and take care of. So, we're very mindful of those not to have. So some immediate budget stabilization actions that we're going to do in this summertime from this point right now to

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the end of July. There are six things we're going to do. Uh spending freeze. So we're going to freeze all this um and some things are going to require superintendent approval. Is it necessary? That's my question. Is it necessary for student safety? Is it

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necessary for instructional programming? Is it necessary? Right? If the answer is no, put it on your whole list. Okay, that's all I got for you. Uh the next thing I'm going to go um left to right staff alignment and hiring and

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so uh we're going to freeze on non essential hiring. Now, if it's an essential position, special education posting, right? I got to serve our children, right? I have to make high quality staff in front of them. Um we're going to review every vacancy before the

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is approved for um and we are going to realign staff necessary. So something is not necessary realignment. We're also going to have some department reduction

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exceptions to this are any legal ramifications safety compliance or instruction. That's what we're prioritizing over the next 30 days. PO and encumbrance review. We're going to take a look at all of our purchase orders for cancellation, reduction,

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delay or grant reassignment. So if it's a PO that we have that we have not received, we can't close the PO until we actually receive the item, right? If it's a PO we have that we haven't received it closed, either you don't get the item or you tell the vendor to reissue it, right? And then we track it

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from there. Um supplemental pay control. So we're going to require approval for any extra notator anybody. Okay, extra is review. Okay, extended time, summer work, all of those things. And we're going to implement a standardized framework like a decision

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tree. Is this being done? And the question is going to be what is it necessary? Okay, so that's going to always be the question. Is it necessary? We're also going to do contract and vendor review. Again, we're going to review vendors, um, software, subscription, service agreements, and assess any overlap. Are we paying a

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contracted service for something that we have somebody in district doesn't do? Right? We're going to take a look at that. It's called deregation of duties. Right? Is something to someone performing the same task that a contracted and then finally summer school cost?

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Because that's the only instructional programming that we have right now. We're really going to be we're not going over hours, salary, uh supplies, control for summer school because that was a big expenditure last year as well. Summer school is funded by both the

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Bomber grant and title one. Bomber grant is only rising K through 10. Title one pays for everything else. So we're cross control. Um and the point here is that we're not waiting, right? We know counting is coming. We know we may have some

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attrition. Attrition is when people or move on, right? That doesn't necessarily mean we have to replace their position and there's someone already in the district that can be reassigned to that position, right? We're not reducing. But if somebody naturally is not a word, okay, audience will say

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nothing. Okay. Somebody leaves the district. Amen. Okay. If somebody leaves the district, is it necessary to hire someone new or can we reassign somebody to that necessary position? Because the question is what is it? Okay.

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Um so a couple of board direction request uh so for some board direction uh request we're asking for things. So approval or support non-essential spending which a group

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excuse me right um support for pre-approval requirements for any extra duty worker authorized review of contract software services for reduction or renegotiation and I'm not talking about labor contracts I'm talking about vendor contracted services right um staffing

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restructuring authority so do a comprehensive staffing review what's nice necessary. Uh where where are we double dipping? Where do we have two people that might be doing the same thing until we realign those students?

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And then we agreed to do a um service for these board meetings forward. So that those four direction request it gives the board regular oversight into what's happening in our district and gives you clear direction. um moving

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forward. So, next up is a 30 60 90 120 150 uh implementation timeline. Now, I won't read all of those things. We aligned it to the actual school calendar. So, district ended for regular school ended June 12th. We're currently

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in summer school. New school year begins with staff on August 17th, students on August 24th. So, that's where this timeline is coming from. All I did here was timeline out some of the actions that we already talked about. So in 30 days we're doing this. In 31 to 60 days

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we're doing that and so on and so forth. Now a cav a caveat here. Um we want to move urgently not right again requirements requirements high quality instruction and also we have an incoming

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superintendent. Right. So Shaina Murphy as the interim I'm not gonna make wholesale changes and decisions when I got a new leader coming right that's disrespectful but I will do things that stabilize the district in the way that

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we do at this time so the six things I've already notated right taking a look at contracts taking a look you know freezing native spending all of those things I think are in the for right now anything that's longer term will require that person to and they got to leave the district

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beyond that. So I'm not going to town and uh somebody got to walk into okay um so this slide is um guiding priorities. Okay, here we go. Guiding priorities and

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enrollment strategies. So a few guiding priorities that we are sticking in to we're going to Legally required services protect student safety class instruction to the greatest extent possible. Avoid one time fixes. So if it's just a

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bandaid, but you got Hey, nurse Rogers, is that right? Amen. Okay. So we're gonna avoid one time fix the problem, right? It may give us a shortterm uh headway, but it won't last long. And then we're going to follow all

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board policies requirements appropriate notices if anything falls into one of those categories. Another big thing is enrollment goals. So again we can't cut our way to increasing our revenue that only comes from increasing enrollment. So we have

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some enrollment goals that will be strateically collaboratively by central administration building leaders communications athletics and administrative support team. So um important things there retain retaining retaining retain retaining

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students is very very important. Um converting prospective families at entry points. I'm going to show you our enrollment plan in just a moment. Um but we have some key points that we are losing families. Um, so we need to take a deep look at that and see what we can do to

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either stop losing families and then for people that are interested in our district making sure we keep that communication loop. We're closing the communication loop um strengthening transitions between elementary, middle, and high school and they connect programming and school identity. So what does it mean to be partner? What does it

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mean to be over? What does it mean last night? All of those things create a sense of belonging. a sense of belonging and to connect students and families to the school district and teach them to right so one

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side is reduction side is revenue we got so here's some enrollment data and plan um this just gives a snapshot of our current enrollment data this is as of March 4th which is our lastation of numbers now the numbers in my may look a

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little bit June 12. This is the number captured from our winter count. Um, and it tells us a few things. First, we need to protect elementary enrollment because that's our biggest driver. So, as you can see the bar, most of our

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students come from the K5 section. Um, second, we have to pay close attention to those transitions. As you not enrolled. Um and then um you know we recognize so a

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lot of those enrollment goals that we have on the side of retaining students, improving conversion, better programming and district branding and messaging. Recruitment is not just about marketing. It's about a family experience. Okay. experience, customer service,

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front office communication, response time, visible programming, athletics, safety, all of those things in a so in your handout, I know it's not up here, but in the 15 page stabilization

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plan for enrollment, uh we have a 309 plan for that as well. on page for enrollment drivers. I'm almost done implementation trackers.

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So what a commitment that we're making is to create a board implementation. So all of these actions that we have committed to doing in those in those time frames, we will provide a tracker, right? what cost benefit analysis can we provide you to track the savings that

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we're doing or the uh reviews that we're doing that so those are the things that we're committed to and that comes from discussion to monitor discussion implementation and finally I went to every school uh this uh May

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and June to talk about the Oakland enhancement Shout out to the OPA and MEA for backing all of this. putting a lot of effort and energy and money into this um and partnering right to information out to home owners of Oakland County

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that we will have an open enhancement village on the ballot on a court um and it's for all schools in Oakland County. So I provided this information already but for our invisible audience um a mill just provides additional funding beyond

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the state for people funding that we did that's not tied to infrastructure can do more versus bond funding. Bond funding is infrastructure. Mill is on everything else. So if it's approved on in August, the mill will be collected countywide from all homeowners in Oakland County

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and it will be distributed equally on a per people basis to each district in Oakland County and then you all will determine the board will determine how those funds are spent. So the vote happens on August 4th. If it is um I can't tell you how to vote

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because I'm still at the But go to Dallas August 4th um to cast your vote. If it is approved, the district can begin collecting this mill as soon as the winter pass. And again, this is all open county

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homeowners. That is the district stabilization uh plan for today. What questions might I be? Yes, great question. Finance shout out to Andrea Farm. We only recognized a portion of the revenue. So, our grant

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was $1.1 million for this summer. We only recognized 400,000 for this fiscal year to come for the expenses. The summer school is two weeks. Well, really three with teacher orientation. So we have three weeks of salary, transportation, food, lights and

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gas, blah blah blah. So we only recognize 400,000 in revenue for this year. We um what's it called? Um deferred revenue. We did the rest of the revenue in the 26 27 because at the end of the day when you

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have a grant your expenditures and your revenue need general fund is something different. And then far and tiff travel are going to work very closely together to look at salaries that were paid or um that were paid out for summer school

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hourly rates um called utilities that we use and we're asking our vendors to give us two different invoices for June one from June 1st to June 12th because that was the regular school year and one for June 13th to June 30th so we can account all

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of the summer school money for those and have appropriate accounting What are we doing for >> uh we have contacted friends. We got a lot of flyers. I know there's a couple conventions and stuff this week. We're going to go down there. Um have some tables contact uh Oak Park.

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Shout out to our principal group that came with a lot of great ideas. We're going to go to a lot of community events. We got banners up now. Most of our schools Now we're updating our website. Um and then um so a couple of schools local schools closed. We have

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contacted those transportation companies to see those kids so we can go long. do a mailing as well to some of those >> um stuff to my job

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and I know you billboard have a I thought about you because I had Miss Nor. And we're also getting long signs to put in community um not people's own yards but on like public sidewalks or public

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places to uh generate speific So those schools that have closed recently, those bus rout All right. As promised, we'll provide um updates along with the tracker things that we're doing contract review

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whatever we will provide um appropriate those actions are completed. Thank you for your time tonight. I know this is a very uh delicate time for our district, a very uncertain time, but I believe um all things work together for

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our needs. We want to come out of this. Um we're going to identify a wonderful leader to move, you know, to move us forward. And if we stand together, needs to be done. Number five board of education values public

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meetings. We public comments on speakers are to express themselves in a civil manner with due process to the dignity or the dignity and privacy of others who may be affected by public comment portion of the meeting cannot be used to make personal attacks against the school board member or school

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district employee. They disrupt the order of meeting order of the meeting and are totally unrelated in the manner in which the member or employee performance. Speakers should be aware that statements violate the rights of others under the law of defamation or invasion of privacy. Comments may result such

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comments in legal liability. Most comments can be concisely stated in three minutes and the boardfully that comments remain focused on the topic or issue and not directed specific. Good evening. The other thing that I

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feel like pretty much Approval of the 2025. Resolve that the board of education hereby approve the recommended final budget amendments for fiscal year 2025.

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It will further resolve that the superintendent is authorized to implement the public budget amendment and make any necessary inordance with law. First, I would like to say thank you for such a clear understand.

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>> Yes. Item number was taken nearby. Adopt your fiscal year to 2027 capital. Please.

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The specification is not under from the projected budget for 27 budget around the projected 26 27 approve the administration be further resolved that

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superintendent author Yes. >> Yes. We're going to move on to item which is7 resolve that the open year 2026

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2027 budget for the general fund debt fund capital project fund fund as itemized in the appropriation document presented to the board. He is further

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involved that the superintendent and administrator staff are authorized to implement and administr in accordance with the law regulated. Thank you. Um the motion that was just read was

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really for the budget and so the motion on the floor right now to address the Okay, we're going to move to resolved that Board of Education approved the cabinet employment

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agreement for the year of for the year 2026 2027 school year. There are there are some provisions that are in the cabinet contract versus some of the other contract. So the question that I

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wanted to ask is before the final contacts are reprinted. We will remove the um so I made sure there was no TSA language in any of them and we'll remove the salary schedule. But I will note one of

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the things Dr. green listing when he talked about the upcoming superintendent contract was a salary schedule because of all that right the same the same concept but if it be the will of the board then we can remove those salary schedules

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it is not it does not mean that it's a twoear contract I want to make clear no contract has been issued no TSA or tax renee has been granted or provided in any of the contracts And then we can remove the salary schedule

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for the time being that services recommend. And also um when we were talking about the spoken year

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26 27 year 27 is that one of these contracts they are for that year we're speaking If there are specific provides um now what we could do

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the um these contracts could be approved for and then could be listed and then provided as a separate as a separate

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because after June 30th none of the independent if you're not in the teachers union or the educated union they're at there's no appropriate right so um I will need to know the specifics about

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the stipen in order to make the adjustment to the contract. There are there are a few there are two other things I had a question about because I

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had a few parents that said that they're not able to anymore. So I was surprised to see that. Um so previously we had so material is a federal program for homeless students

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and homeless and displaced. Um previously we had um personnel that handled that. We did we lost that personel. So somebody else absorbed that duty that was not under their regular duties. Right. So the cabinet member

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that is and it's one other employee that's not cab because they do duties that are not aligned to their current job. Right. Um now with family the federal regulations changed a little

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bit. previously outside. You can do a whole bunch of things, but we can only give these in accordance to the um the federal guidelines from the Kenny Vento, but also the did not come from the

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bento. They got for doing duties that were not aligned to their general job function, but it did not come from the Mckenn, right? It is specifically designed families amies for housing,

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transportation, um food, you know, what somebody had to do to duty, right? That wasn't part of your normal job function. But according to them, I personally

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do a lot of things, right? And I just want the board to understand that at what point do you need because you're saying that they worked it or they touched it but I see there

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are some um other contracts that don't have that worked in so that's that's why I'm asking the question because I didn't see other than

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that employee get right supporting securing housing transportation all there are several other stipens somebody gets a for somebody else get a

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other multiple and I can send a Not that fun, right? I'm okay with that. >> Yeah, that was correct. I was just saying that that one sightings that I

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saw for that one person. I want to be clear that I'm not speaking of individual. No, I'm just saying from what I saw from that individual person versus looking at all the other

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contracts that I believe that I mean teaching learning for instance I didn't see any for that area. So I don't know what the scope of work is for that person

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actually get that type. I just know that um what is the explanation of why they wouldn't get al from my understanding um in terms of that it was specifically from we had a person that was that was

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over years ago in the district that is no longer So then that delegation of duties had to go somewhere where it went without a normal job for that position. So when you do

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something outside of your normal job scope, you could potentially get there. I'm very weary as a board member because we were brought to our attention that there is

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a very cautious critical stabilization need to keep to make it through. And I have a home, have children, I have a

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budget, I have a savings, I have just don't from those contracts there's more than 1% in most cases more than 3% in some cases and um

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it's hard to you know to accept the contracts the way they are. I wish when I brought up the contracts back in May 1st that we could have been going through them and not being surprised if we weren't surprised and then we

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didn't receive 87 contracts until Thursday uh before the meeting last I spent all my time reading through those contracts. It is not a brag. It is my fuciary duty to read every single contract.

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This is why I probably have the questions I have because it has to make sense. Johnny Cochran said the glove don't fit too much. Well, my thing is if it doesn't make sense, I have to functionality understand it or see it. But if we go

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ahead and we approve these contracts the way they are based on the total was that as a line item in the budget of 27 I mean 26 27 28 or 26 27

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will be Right. But the salary bucket is made up of multi different types of money right across the board. I do also want to clarify provide some information. Um the contracts were provided because I needed

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to know what the budget right so teacher contracts their movement is roughly 4.9% each year 4.5%. parent educators um they get an IR administrators they get a

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roughly 2.3% lane u increase a year so everybody has builtin increases right except for independent contract that's um 900 grand that's behavior interventionist that's all of everybody who's not covered under bargain

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agreement because of the budget I only approve or gave a 1% increase when everybody get either a two in some cases 11% depending on you education if you move

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the money on average though um so those contracts got the smallest percent increase and the reason I didn't have them earlier because I needed to know what the budget was on finance before I even thought about what a percent I will also know nothing else changed in

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those contracts except for the % increase in their salary except for two and that was to that was for our specification director and then it was one other um employee

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who was significantly below the normal right so those are the only two that were above the 1% I also removed all the TSA that were in the previous contract everything else should have stayed the

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outside and that's again 1300 grand anybody who falls like I said when I say 1300 anybody who falls on the board% increase and then it also behavior they are

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So my question that I was ask was uh nothing what you were really talking about but it was really about is it affordable for it going forward

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like like how much is it because you said it's different I don't know maybe right now >> no I was saying as far as the amount of raises or what's the amount

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that's a solid amount like how much Yeah. So on the personnel report on the personnel that was provided um we would have to find the difference between the current salary

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and what I came up with was there were a lot of the 2.3s but I guess where I'm is that we're saying this is freeze if

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they have anything to do with this contract for these contracts coming up because they say it's full year for these numbers for everybody that increase. So again,

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teachers union on average 4 something% step increase automatic. Here are educators $1 increase automatic administrators. Now they have independent contracts but they're not technically they're an association. So

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that's why they have independent contract they get about 2.3% independent who are there's everybody else who don't fall under a collective burden I only

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significantly below everybody shows an increase based on their depth for the principles of the independent They >> only have an

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alpha agreement. They have a salary. The only people that are vote are asking for the recommendation of the board to approve. Why did the schedule for each person. I mean, I

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said this last time. I said this last year and I said we should be able to see what the schedule is and that will kind of like, you know, answer all my questions probably now because I didn't know anything. Um, here we are again voting on contracts.

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We don't even know all of these schedules. What are the what are the schedules? I mean at this point I sound foolish but I don't even have you know I heard you say you know they get to 1% that's their schedule where is

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Yes. Everybody's schedule on our website. You don't know what I saw that, but I just don't know, you know, full. I mean, we're bargaining

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people. I mean, reality is reality. We all here have a job on this on this board. We go through the same thing that you guys go through. I I'll be a fool to sit here and ignore that. But I'm not going to ignore it that we

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literally haven't seen But again, I don't know who's what, but yet we have the stabilization plan. They're saying we have to be careful. We have to be careful. And

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again, that code I talked about, it's like right now I'm in a code. I I don't know what to do because of the lack of information that we receive as a board. It goes back to our governing class and our our group norms that we established

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and under one of those we spoke about that but I didn't know that some information I don't know that you need But if there's ever request the lawyers to come and review these contracts, I thought that's what

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was going to happen. I see the lawyer bills and You know, I would wish that we as a board because according to our bylaws, we have to request it from the president. I did so and it would be

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it would be I guess to see or understand. I don't understand because you have steps, you have a schedule, then you have all these people. just too much for the board to receive something on a Thursday before meeting. And I repeat myself over and

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over. If it was me, I'm putting my foot in that step that if I were to make a decision on someone's someone's life like this is, you know, it's groceries. It's hot. Okay. And I'm

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just saying I I want to, but then we have a stabilization plan. Is it a part of the stabilization? not stabilization plan for next year or this year. We'reing the contracts that are still with the um

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with everything in a part of the plan for anything that this person and I don't think that's what I'm saying now projected budget right

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so that's what she budget proposed budget now because we have to contracts are only contract. So even contract agreecl.

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the board and I'll come back tonight. >> So, so the 1% is what's on top of It's on a personal but it's% of 50,000

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and I think they went to 54,000 that was 24% Right. >> Anyone else? accounted for in the budget whoever superintendent can always come in structure. So come in and do whatever

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he or she may need to not in the contract they're not covered by anything employee I don't know who will work none of us will work without a contract

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whether it's a collective bargaining contract or an independent are the contracts ever um It depends on the job because the decision hasn't been made

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and the contracts are now extended till the salary would just remain as stated currently. But again, if the contract are not approved, then other provisions in the contract, those other things that employee

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protection, you know, things like that aren't, they're not real. No, if it's a contract, no, we have to honor the contract. But what what I'm suggesting is restructured. So if a person decides to move on from the district or the district is

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restructured and that person is eliminated or whatever the case may have a different So what's happened with any other uh salary adjust or um personnel adjustment

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restructuring here right here to the offright or position elimination at this building because independent contract ways protection and latitude from the board

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whoever the next opportunity is to do what needs to happen so that's what I'm saying even00 but they only work two weeks right then we got to restructure it in the next that $50,000

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item goes away, right? And we've only worked for 250 days. So, let's say we approve a $50,000 contract tonight, but that only is on the for

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the department, they accounted for the full reduced or eliminated or whatever the salary is not only $20

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for whatever eliminated. So the money I looked in here reference I just mer >> the total amount of the contract that we're going to approve So I know the insurance part

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is their salary benefit and benefits are about%. So for example, if a person's salary is um 70,000, we pay their $70,000 salary plus 60% of that salary retirement

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healthare. So that will be an additional 60% of 4.2,000. So all in all for that one human we $70,000 plus the 42,000 benefit on our book is

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14. So to your question for example they will come out of special um our K12 ELA coordinator her salary will come out of

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what you're saying is that based on talking about revenue not money going out right so what's going Um that's what these are but they like

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so these are the salaries of this group. >> I'm looking at one number and can't find the other. Okay. So come from whatever the function of that position I just want to see

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like I'm tell you if you go to the check run you see consultants you see what they were paying out you see this it's blind items you know and it's more understandable so we are not lawyers so you're saying what you're saying I

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understand it but then I don't see it like salary wouldn't come out on a table. >> No, no. I was an example that like that line item. Okay. The monthly uh finance

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the finance state when it comes out item was easier to look at. But if I'm saying them salaries have to be overion about 2.5 oh I'm over

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so with 2.5 then it's not okay you know like there used to be because I used to look at this a lot and it would be like one item and it was saying like $15,000 but it was actually you know But I was just wondering where is it you

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know like on here. um on the monthly financial statements but I will tell our system it entire budget is over 100 pages. 19 organize each and every

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what you're seeing there right now is organized by function. of the budget book. So for example, the finance department is under function code. So everybody who is in the finance department

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all human resources transportation every teaching and learning is a different function code than finance. Finance is a different function code than human resources. But all of those

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are all particular. Thank you very much. that. >> Yes. cardboard. I'm sorry. Yes. Board of Education. I'm sorry. One

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person. Yeah, that's what I person Yes. The board of education approve policy. 106 authorization for one

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month. Yes. Question. Just a reminder and whatever it would be. I just wanted to say um since we were um

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seeing who would you know go where to um help with the enrollment. I would say the board should uh the board to appoint uh an ambassador because I know that you know we you know get together and you

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know maybe we can have an ambassador of our to get the word out or you know whatever like you know backpacks and things like that would be my recommendation to the I will probably

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right now after all I the person talk to that person, you know, we're building this over here. I'll make myself reach out to me.

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