We defer out of district out of district tuition to IDA and we subsidize the budget to allow IDA funding to pay for some of the tuition. IDA is our federal funding through uh
Department of Education and IDA funding is typically ranges between 1.2 2 to 1.3 million a [Music] year. Next section is ACIT. We send quite a few students to
ACIT. The cost to educate a student at ACIT is 3,200 for regular education and 6,500 for sped students. And as you can see for 2425 the amount was
499,000 versus sending 268 students the cost is 966,629. The difference is a tuition adjustment. Typically we send the students we budget the current year and then the if there's less or more
students we have a tuition adjustment. So 2425 reflected a 200 was a 287,000 uh tuition adjustment. So that's why there was a
significant decrease in the amount of tuition that we're sending ACIT this school year. Also, we increased the number of students for ACIT because they're opening a new facility and ACIT's current enrollment reflects 15%
of our students. Therefore, we increased the number of students that we that are projected to attend ACIT for 2526 school year. Okay. Our DCP and homeless students, that's pretty consistent. We
had 35 for 2425 and for 2526 there was 30 students. And that varies because students are in and out of the district and they're displaced or homeless. So we have to, you know, pay for the education to other districts for these
students. Then we have our um special ed students that are displaced. That's pretty consistent. Um seven for 2425 and seven for the upcoming school year and that could increase depending on throughout the school
year. Absin students count has been consistent over the last few years. uh the cost to educate a student from from MC to Pleasant was $18,000 and we typically budget that every year and we have been consistent 43 students for
2425 43 students for 2526 and then if the numbers are not 43 at the next school year we actually do a tuition adjustment the following school Here there are four types of funding sources for a school district. Fund 11
are operating expenses, central administration and facilities. Fund 12 is our capital projects and improvements. and fund 15 are our school budgets that of course we have six schools and fund 20 are our federal and
state grant and grant programs. Federal general expenses which fund 11 which is general expenses supports the operation of the district. capital projects throughout the district
or large capital projects that need maybe construction project repairs, large repairs uh in the [Music] district. Okay. So, now we're going to get into the type of expenses that are
general fund expenses. We have our personnel, of course, salaries. We have our attendance truency offices with Kenny Vento. And for 2526, we have a new welcome center and enrollment and registration center that will be coming
for the 25 26 school year. We have our specialized services which includes speech occupational therapists, physical therapists, 101 aids, child study teams, and preschool for disabilities. We have our curriculum and instruction supervisors.
We have a principal on special assignment. Also new for the upcoming year, we'll have a director of grant programs in early childhood education. We'll have two new reading specialists for preK through two. And we'll have a
new district Dana analyst. The continuation on general spences superintendent's office. There will be a new parent partnership communication coordinator. You have the business office. We have our talent and development office. Operations. We have
facilities custodial and maintenance. We have transportation. We have our bus drivers and we are going to hire a few more bus drivers. We have technology. We have the help desk and we have new technology contractual services. We have safety and
security. departments. And then we have our curriculum materials and supplies. For elementary, we're going to continue with our ELA, Wonders, Foundations, Math, I Ready, EXL, Science, Mystery Science,
Moses, Mac, Social Studies, Impact, SS. for the middle school. ELA, Study, Sync, Lexia, Power Up, Math Envisions, I Ready, Science, Inspire, Science, Mosc,
Newella, Social Studies, Discovering Our World, Newella in the High School for ELA, My Perspectives, Saddler, Grammar, Power Up for Math and Visions, IXL, Science,
Savage, HS Science, and Worldviews New Zella for social studies. Okay. The supplemental curriculum material supplies SS vocabul vocabulary versatiles that's for
elementary. For middle we have edp puzzle, near pod, sore, vocabulary, quizzes, math, Alex, science, edp puzzle, near pod, social studies we have edpuzzle, nearpot our primary sources.
For the high you have edp puzzle, quizzes, near pod, sora. For math for the high school, you have a menntum science edp puzzle quizzes, near pod. For social studies, ed puzzle, quiz edited, near pod. For professional
development for 2526, we anticipate an administrative academy, a teacher mentoring academy, a school leadership teams, and after school staff training. Okay. So for fund 12 is our
capital projects and equipment and these are the projects we anticipate for 2526. A genie scissor lift trailer tilt electric water jeter snow blower gas power water jeter transportation. We
want to do the uh pavement of the parking lot for transportation the bus area. Uh well, actually purchasing the bus uh five new buses, loading zone paving, Le Avenue unit ventilators, Le
Avenue uh parking design, PHS pool repairs and upgrades, fence repairs, dehumidifiers. Uh at the high school, we want to add some security ballards. We're going to add a new marquee for the high school.
We we want to replace the football field, the track field for um the school year. Scoreboards for the football field and the soccer field. Uh we're going to do baseball field grass repairs. South Main is going
to get a basketball court. The high school and the middle school, we want to repair the stair treads. The high school and middle school, the stairwell, door alarms, high school, middle school, security gates, and security booths. the fire panels at Leeds Avenue, South Maine, the high school in Washington,
and we just recently uh the middle school repaired the final fire panels at middle school during spring break. Uh the high school, we're going to upgrade to the high school locker room. And for the high school and middle school, we're going to do HVAC unit replacements. It's going to be
phase one of six. For transportation, we want to add electronic fencing to the bus yard and five buses. I mentioned that earlier. For safety and security, we're going to um open gate the weapon detection
system. We're going to have patrol monitoring system. We're going to have a a school resource officer this school year. And we're going to continue with the K9 scent works dogs for the school's budgets. Going to continue to have our principles, sensor
principles, teachers. We're going to have new basic skills teachers in the elementary uh counselors. We're going to add a new guidance counselor for leads avenue. continue with nurses, librarians, secretaries, classroom aids, media
upgrades at South Main, and materials and supplies. For the high school, middle school principles, we have three assistant principles at the high, one at the middle school. We have one dean at the high school, and two deans at the
middle school. Teachers, we plan to add two new security officers to the district. We have our school climate and culture coordinators, counselors, nurses, librarians. For lunch, we plan on adding eight new lunch aids, four for
the high school and four for the middle school during lunch periods for next school year. Secretaries continue to have at the school alternative education services, credit recovery, after school and
Saturday detention and effective school solutions. We implemented them last year and we are going to bring them back this year. Media upgrades at the high school and middle school. We're redoing the uh libraries at those two schools. Locker
upgrades at the middle school. The middle school continued to upgrade their furniture. They bought quite a few quite a bit of furniture in the 24 25 school year. For new um the high school, we want to have a CT well CTE radio TV
production program, but we want to add a newsroom for the students for the upcoming school year. Fund 20, our grants and entitlement. Our early childhood uh program grant. It's uh we received 6.8 million in aid for
that program. However, that program actually cost the districts 8,58,832,000 to run. We had about 781,000 left in carryover this school year and the district had to
contribute 234 thou no I'm sorry $222,37 for that budget to make it make it whole. In the past um the pres the preschool special ed we actually contribute that every year. So for the
total amount, the district contributed $457,132,000 for the preschool program and that's because salaries goes up and the state has only funding us 6.8 million for that uh program which consists of 450
students for this school year for our other federal programs. Title one, two, three, four. Title one is our tutoring, parent involvement, supplemental intervention programs, professional development and mentoring is title two.
Title three is bilingual ed programs, dual language and ESL. And title four is our performing arts. And IDA is our special education grant that we use to fund tuition for um our students. And um
for this school year we allocated 75% for these grants. In the past we would allocate 85% but the county recommended allocating a lesser amount because we don't know what the climate is for the federal funds
with the current administration. We have our Perkins which is our career tech education TV radio production and graphic design. Our 21st century program, we continue with that. We have a continuation for that program this school year. Fresh fruit
and vegetable program, which is a fresh fruit program for the elementary schools and for our JRTC military instructors. We're going to increase and go from one instructor to two for this school year.
As you can see uh on the chart the revenues this is just a visual so you can see how the revenues are allocated and where most of our money comes from which most of you know uh 69.6 comes from our state aid. Then uh
11.8% 8% come came from our budgeted fund balance and 6 is tuition from other districts which would be ABS seeking or any other districts we receive tuition from. Our grants and entitlements are
9.8% and our tax livy is 8.2%. And then we have the appropriation uh graph that shows how the funding is actually broken up. The total budget of
100 26 million $5,619. Okay. Capital outlay is 4.9% of it. Tuition is 4.3%. Charter school is 5.8% of that appropriation. Employee benefits is
15.7% and that has increased because of health insurance increases has increased significantly over the past 2 years. Our maintenance and operations percentage is 9.1% of the budget. Transportation is
3.5%. Administration is 2.4%. Grants and entitlements is 9.8%. And our big chunk is instruction and instructional support which is 44 5%. That says four but it should
should be.5%. 44.5%. The main allocations that impact the the variances in the 2520 budget are the differences in fund balance, state aid, and grants and entitlements. Our fund balance increased significantly due to
the final ARS funding for expenditures through September 30th, 2024. For the last four or five years, we've been utilizing the RB master money and as of September the 30th, that funding is no longer available. We have exhausted that
funding. So that allowed us to have this additional surplus because if you can see from the previous year, our surplus our surplus was about $8.8 million. So we were fortunate this year to end with a um good surplus. [Music]
uh state aid increased and grants and entitlements were reduced and that was because we not lost money but the our money is no longer part of the district's um budget for the 2526 school year. We
budgeted 75% of grants and that was based on a recommendation from the county and that's another reason why the allocation is slightly lower. The state may give us more. I mean, the federal one state may give us more, but we budget 75% so we don't want to
overbudget. So, we rather go low. And if we get more, we'll allocate that appropriately. And as you can see, our tax levy has been consistent with the 2% minimum, and we continue to keep
the tax levy at the minimum 2% annual annually. And that's it. Thank you. Thank you to board applications. And anyone have any questions? Does anyone have any questions?
I I have a question. [Music] And did we have the landscaping in there for the schools? The landscaping for Yeah. Is that included in all the schools? Well, yeah, that's in like the individual schools
grounds department. Yeah. Well, not in the schools. It's in facilities, but it's in the facilities budget. The grounds budget, the landscaper for the schools. And this may be a crazy question. I don't know, but I want to ask it. What makes the tax levy go up so much? How do
they determine that? Well, that's required. Like the minimum is 2%. Like we have to increase it 2%. Like that's the law. I have no choice but to increase it by [Music] 2%. [Music]
Anybody have any [Music] questions? Okay, thank you. [Music] Um, does anyone from the public look have any questions on the budget
[Music] presentation? should see a copy of that because what is embedded inside the um agenda is not the details of that. So where can we get a copy of that?
The public presentation will have that on the website tomorrow and two 48 hours after the budget is approved by the board. I put the oh the userfriendly budget on the website. Well, 48 hours. I have to wait 48 hours
after the budget is approved and the userfriendly budget bills on the website. Any other questions? No questions. May I have a motion to accept the Pleasantville School
Board's budget presentation for 2025 to 2026? Motion. Motion by Mrs. Akens. May I have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Gibson. Any questions? No questions. Roll call is
one. Miss Albert. Mr. Gibson. Yes. Miss Aken. Yes, Miss Melo. Yeah, Miss Melo. Yes, Miss Silver.
Miss Waters. Yes, Miss King. Yes, Miss Roel. Yes. Motion carries. Next is 1.8 board. Um, we don't have anybody speaking for the public.
So, next we have 1.8 Any more comments? Mr. Gibson? Yes. No. Do you have any comments? Yes. No comments. Miss Melo, Miss
Silver, Miss Waters, Miss Akens. No, Miss King. Well, I want to thank the staff who worked on the buzzard
presentation. Um, I think it looks very good. It's very tight. Um, I see a lot of good things in here for Pleasantville that we're going to be doing. I see a lot of um, uh, new positions in here. I see a
lot of um academics in here to help educate our children for the staff. Um so with that um I'm happy with it. May I have a motion to adjourn this budget hearing?
Motion. Motion by Mr. Gibson. I have a second. Second by Miss Silver. No questions. All this way. Mr. Gibson. Yes. Miss Akens, yes. Miss Melo, yes. Miss
Silver, Miss Waters, Miss King, yes. Miss Roel, yes. Motion carries. Do you want these back, Mrs. White? Do you want this back?
[Music] Okay. Ready? [Music] [Music] Yes. Okay. Um we have another meeting that we will be um our regular meeting but since we
advertised it at 7 o'clock we cannot start technically until 7:00. Right now it is 6:40. So we will be starting at um exactly 7:00. Good evening everyone. Good evening everyone. Today is Tuesday,
April the 29th, 2025. We're going to start our school board meeting. May we please stand for the flag salute and a moment of silence. And please remember our superintendent and her family. And please remember the
district and keep them in prayer. To the flag of the United States of America to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisibley andice. This is to advise those present at this
April 29th, 2025 special board action meeting of the board division. education of the city of Pleasantville and the county of Atlantic. That notice was given on April 17th, 2025 and April 24th, 2025 as required by the provisions of chapter 231 of the laws of
1975. Notice thereof has been distributed for publication in the press carry a post and posted in the administration building and forwarded to the city clerk of the city of Pleasantville within the time required by said act.
[Music] Miss Akens here. Miss Melo here. Miss Silver present. Miss Waters here. Miss King present. Miss Roel
here. Good. Okay. Next is 1.5 public comments. The one signed the public comments. So next we're going to go with the swearing in of our new board member is Malia Pepe. [Music]
[Music] Good evening. I will be swearing at Miss Marie Pepe as our new board member. Miss Pepe, if you can repeat after me. This is the required oath for school board members. [Music]
I state your name. I, Marie Pepe, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution. I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution in the Constitution of the State of New Jersey of the state of New
Jersey. and that I will bear true faith I will bear true in faith and allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and to the government and to the government established established in the United States in the United States
in this state in this state under the authority and the the authority of of the people of the people so help me God so help me God I state your name I Marie Pepe do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I possess possess the
qualifications. I possess the qualification by law by law for the for the office for the office of member of a board of education of member of board of education and that I am not disqualified that I am not disqualified as a voter as
a voter pursuing pursuing to RS to RS 19 19 4-1 4-1 nor disqualified nor disqualified due to conviction due to conviction of a crime of a crime or offense of offense listed
listed in NJS in NJS 18A 18A 12-1 12-1 and that I will faithfully in that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform all the
duties of that office of that office according to the best according to the best of my ability of my ability. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations education. Thank you. Thank you everyone.
Thank [Music] you. And also I'll give you a copy of the declaration and the code of ethics for the board of education. I just need you to sign that you received the copy of the code of ethics for the
board of education. Okay. You'll you'll receive a welcome package from New Jersey School Boards in the New York. the dies. [Music] Congratulations. Okay, next is
[Music] 2.1. And I'm very excited about this next one. Um, this is for our new uh for the new school sematic design submission to the New Jersey Department of A. This
is about our new school. So, may I have a motion for 2.1? Motion by Mr. Gibson. Second. Second by Mrs. Akens. Any [Music] questions? No questions. work on this
white. Miss Akins. [Music] Mr. Gibson. Yes. Miss Akins. Yes. Miss Melo. Yes. Miss Silver. Yes. Miss
Waters. Yes. Miss King. Yes. Miss Rowell. Yes. Motion carries. [Music] This is a very um exciting project. I'm sorry, Miss Ro.
I forgot that woman, Miss Peppy, you would probably be abstaining. I forgot to add her call. Oh, okay. Do we have to go back? [Music] Okay.
Yeah. So, this is a very um I'm excited. I'm sure the board is excited. Um this is in regards to our new school that we will be building on Decada Avenue. Um the state had came down. They had a meeting with um the school board
committee. Um they also had a meeting with uh city council as well. Um I know they're excited. We're excited. So with that, um we will keep everyone posted uh of the progress. It's due to open spring
of 2028. hopefully we don't have any hiccups or we don't need to pause for anything, but I'm not um believing that. I'm believing that it's going to be fall um I mean spring of
2028. So with that um 2.2 the broker of record. May I have uh a motion for someone to appoint a broker of record? No. Which who is being
appointed? May I have Okay. May I have a motion to appoint the broker of record uh corporate employee benefits? Motion by who?
Oh uh Miss Silver motion you second and Miss Ward second. Any questions [Music] board motion? Mrs. Silver, Miss Waters. Second. No
questions. Rok Mr. Gibson, yes. Miss Aikens, no. Miss Melo, no. Miss Silver.
Miss Waters. Yes. Miss King. Yes. M. Roell. Yes. Motion carried. Thank you. Congratulations. Corporate employee benefits.
Next, may I have a motion? Oh, corporate employee benefits. Okay. Next, may I have a motion for 2.3 property and casual brokers 2025 to 2026. Okay. I take it back. Let me fix
this and do this correctly. I have a motion to approve treadstone risk for our property and casual brokers 2025 to 2026. Treadstone. Yes. Motion by Mrs. Waters. May I have a second? Don't speak at once. Don't speak
at once. Second. Second by Mr. Gibson. Any questions? I do have a question. Yes, M. Um, no, we can go through all if you want. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah, we could
do that. Okay. Oh, wait. Yeah. Mhm. But you have to whichever one you want to. Yes. Is that mean for both or we just doing just this one? No, you can propose whoever you want to.
We're doing them one at a time. Okay. So, if you want to propose one, you can just throw it up there. Okay. Um I mean, I thought I'm going to do it. You just not So recommendations.
Countic. You may get two entities at the same she said after we did it question. [Music] And just so we And just so we have an understanding about this one board.
So, so board, so we have an understanding of this and I'm not sure if you had read your amended package on these carriers um because Miss White did send it home in your um packet and she
also did email um the uh revised copy of one of the um persons that submitted. um the information was missing on one of them. So it made it like
uh they were a little bit more higher than the other ones. Um and everything I'm saying is public knowledge. So if you want to look at it, so it the all the information was not given at the time, but it was given to the board members. It was emailed to you and it
was also sent in your packet. Um, so it's just a matter of us really when we get our stuff reading it ahead of time. If you have questions, you can give me a call, you can give um, Miss King a call, which is device, or you can give Miss White a call. It's just a
matter of that or just, you know, talking. Yes, Miss King. Go ahead. We all did get the package, but I I didn't know how this was going to be carried out because I we received an evaluation sheet and I thought that was
going to be the president, if you will, used to make this election. And I didn't know that the what I'm thinking or thought what what we voted on tonight is to proceed with this selection process after these
sheets were collected and evaluated by our board secretary and with the scores. I thought the scores represented what we were selecting. Yeah, I agree because this is the package we received.
Mrs. White, can you elaborate on that? because I did fill my scores out. Yeah. Typically, whoever for the category of broker of record and the category of property and casualty, there was three vendors each and they did the
presentation. So, the evaluation form, you was to score the evaluation form for each category of who you wanted to select for that category, right? And you will be recommending
that vendor for health broker record for health and broker for property and casualty. The only thing we didn't know was when these were supposed to be submitted or handed over to you. I thought it was
tonight and not a firm decision made tonight, but based on our evaluation of the packages that we received and the presentation that the brokers presented at the last meeting that we will base our determination, our scoring here,
give it to you and you make and and you collected compiled the data. So the gave us a result. Yes. Um may I have a motion? Is there a motion? Oh, we need to resend the last one. Who who withdrew?
Uh, Miss Word or withdraws. You withdraw and Missib Gib uh Mr. Gibson withdraws. May I have a motion to go in? I said withdraw. You withdraw, right, Mr.
Gibson? Yes, I thanks. Okay. session for legal. May I have a motion to go into close session for legal? May I have a motion to go into executive session for legal? I make a motion. Thank you, Miss King. Motion. May I have a second?
Second by Miss Silver. Any questions? No questions. Roll from Miss White. Mr. Gibson. Mr. Gibson.
Mr. Gibson. Mr. Gibson. We're going into executive session. Okay. Miss Akins. Yes. Miss Melo. Yes. Miss Silver.
Miss Waters? Yes. Miss King? Yes. Miss Roel? Yes. Motion carries. [Music] Motion by Mrs. Akins. May I have a second? Second. Second by Miss
Silver. Roll call on Miss. [Music] Mr. Gibson. Yes. Miss Akins. Yes, Miss Melo. Yes, Miss Silver. Yes, Miss Waters. Yes, Miss
King. Yes, Miss Roel. Yes. Motion carries. Uh, I need to have a motion. I'm sorry, Stephy. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. May I have a motion to resend
2.2? too. Second motion by Mrs. Waters, second by Mr. Gibson. Any questions? No questions. Roll call on Miss White. Mr. Gibson, yes.
Miss Aens, yes. Miss Melo, yes. Miss Silver, yes. Miss Waters, yes. Miss King, yes. Miss Rewell, yes. Motion carries. Next 3.1. Uh, may I have a
motion for 3.1? Motion by a motion. Silver. Second. May I have a second? Second. Second by Mrs. King. Any questions? Any questions? Roll call. Miss White.
Mr. Gibson. Yes. Miss Aken, yes. Miss Melo, Miss Silver, yes. Miss Waters, yes. Miss Pepe, Mrs. Pepe. Okay, Miss King. Yes. Miss Roell, yes.
Motion carries. Next, allow public comments. No public comments. Next board comments. Mr. Gibson, no comments. Mrs. Melo, Miss Silva, Miss Akins. I just want to thank
everyone that came out. I want to thank everyone that's watching. Everyone have a good night. Miss Pep, Miss [Music] Pepe, Miss [Music] King, I have a comment. I just like to
thank everyone for coming out. Um, we want to thank the staff for all you do. Um, and I just want you to remember, um, the board members, if you haven't signed up for the JOTC, the annual military ball, that's
going to be on the 10th from 6:00 to 9:30. Um, if you're going to be attending, please notify Miss um, White as soon as possible to let um, them know that you will be attending. And it's a RSVP on here, too.
has passed the date. But still, if you're going to attend or if you haven't signed up, please let um Miss White know. Okay. Okay. Next, please remember the Pleasantville High School graduation. It's going to be on June the
18th, 2025 at 6:00. It's going to be at the Jim Wellen Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. If the board members haven't um yet let Miss Diaz know if you're going to be there, please give her a call to let her know if you're going to be at graduation this
year. And our next meeting will be on May 13th. May 13th. No, never mind. May 13th. Okay. Thank you. We hope that you get home safe. We hope you have a healthy a
healthy, blessed, and safe week. until we see you again. Continue to pray for the district. Continue to pray for one another. And with that, we're going to adjourn our meeting. May I have a motion to adjourn this meeting? Motion by Mrs.
Silver. May I have a second? Second by Miss Akins. Any questions? No questions? All in favor? I oppose. Good night.