Oh yeah, we should do that first. 10. Just I have a motion to end uh executive session return to public session. >> Moved. >> All in favor? >> I absent. >> Uh please stand for the pledge of
>> allegiance. Allegiance United States of America to the Republic. [clears throat] Uh the superintendent recommends that we approve the December uh regular meeting, the January 5th reorganization meeting,
and the January 5th special meeting minutes. moved. >> All in favor? >> Any abstensions? Board President report. Good evening everyone. I' like to welcome uh to to welcome tonight to our board to board members, the
administrators, staff, students, and members of the Robinsville community. Thank you all for taking the time to attend this this evening and for your continued support of our schools. I hope everyone fared well after the recent snowstorm that impacted our community. I would like to thank our facilities,
transportation, and administrative teams for their hard work in preparing our buildings and ensuring the safety of our students and staff. I also appreciate the patience and flexibility shown by our families during the disruption. These moments highlight the importance of communication and collaboration across our district.
This evening, the board will be will be presented the 2025 2024 2025 audit report. I am pleased to note that the audit reflects no findings which speaks to the strong fiscal practices oversight and professionalism professionalism of our administrative staff.
Maintaining transparency, accountability, and sound financial management remains a core responsibility of the board, and the report that will be presented this evening reinforces our commitment to those principles. I'd also like to briefly address the upcoming referendum.
As a board of education, our role is to provide clear, factual information to the community and to ensure the residents understand the details and implications of the proposal. As a board, we are committed to supporting a respectful dialogue and dissemination of transparent information as our community
considers this important topic. The district is hosting many sessions open to all residents to review the details of the referendum. I encourage everyone to attend one of the upcoming sessions to obtain more details and ask questions in an open environment directly from the
district staff. I want to thank the administrators and staff from the building level through central office for making yourselves available and accessible for the community. As always, I want to thank our educators, staff, and administrators for their dedication to our students. I thank our families and community members for being active
partners in our schools. We look forward to continuing our work together in the months ahead. Thank you. And I now turn it over to Dr. Piso. >> Okay. Thank you very much. Um I'd like to uh start out with our Robinsville
High School Executive Council. We have both the president and vice president here. If you could give your reports, please. >> So before break, we hosted a clap out for Dr. Rossi congratulating every and thanking everything that she's done here
at RHS. And though she will be missed, we wish her the best and are so happy for what she has yet to accomplish. >> We welcomed in our fill and assistant principal, Mr. Tele. We appreciate his kindness and positivity added into our school during Raventime this week. Exec
will give him a chance to formally introduce himself so everyone can know who he is. >> And we came back from the snow day with a 90-minute delay, starting classes at 9:00 a.m. today instead of 7:30. and all after school activities were resumed.
>> And midterms have also been push pushed back due to the snow day. They will start a day later. Now, >> this is a message from the Black Culture Club. Please join us for our fourth annual Black History Month festival on Thursday, February 5th from 5 to 8:00
p.m. in the RHS Commons area. We are excited to announce that this year's studentled Black History Museum theme is the Harlem Renaissance. Guests are invited to tour four different rooms where students will present historical facts and highlights on a variety of topics from this influential area.
Please note that the museum portion of the evening will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. only. So, be sure to arrive on time. Each guest visiting will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win prizes once the museum closes. In addition to the Black History Museum,
the evening will feature music, soul food, dance performances, and a variety of sorry in a variety of black blackowned ven vendors offerings items such as skincare products, clothing, books, arts
and crafts, and much more. Bring the whole family out for dinner and help us celebrate the start of Black History Month together. Everyone is welcome there. This is a free community event. However, vendors will be charging for their items. >> We hope you will join us and support the
RHS Black Culture Club on Thursday, February 5th from 5th from 5 to 8:00 p.m. at Robinsville High School. We look forward to celebrating with you. Now, moving on to Pawnro Middle School. They just got back from their snow day and students are ready to work. A huge
shout out goes out to do Mr. Murphy and his team for clearing school property after a challenging storm and making it safe for students and staffs. On January 14th, they hosted a parent night focused restor restorative justice. Our presenters were detective Marlon Webb
and detective Sher Johnson from the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office accompanied by Sunni K9 and our very own Laney Potter which is the school counselor for Ponder Middle School. Restorative justice represents a fundamental shift in how we approach
discipline in our schools rather than focusing solely on punishment. This approach prioritizes repairing harm, building stronger relationships, and teaching students the skills that they need to make they need to make for better choices in the future.
>> Last week, Pond uh had another day focused on students turning in uh their PBSIS points for incentive base rewards. Some students got to make Rice Krispie treats, play board games, do a little uh improvisation, or have a vector robot
relay race. Students had a lot of fun while being rewarded for being caught doing something good. Next week, Pond is hosting their Pond PreK fashion show. This is in line with preK clothing study and features our three and four-year-olds strutting their stuff
introduced by our eighth grade MC's for the event. We're now moving on to Sharon Elementary School. So, the Sharon students returned from the winter break refreshed and ready to go. The first few days back at school were spent reviewing both school and class expectations. They are
respectful, they are kind, and they are ready to learn. >> On the morning of Wednesday, January 14th, Sharon's school practiced the lockdown drill. We are proud of our students and staff for executing our practice safety procedures. >> Earlier this month, Sharon School
celebrated the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King. Junior students participated in a schoolwide virtual morning meeting where Dr. Broutier and Mr. Paciferero read a book about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and students participated in a variety of activities.
Second grade students performed in our annual snowflake spectacular. Students did an amazing job and a big shout out to our music teachers, Mrs. Jeffrey and Mrs. Apple Apple Apple for their efforts. On Monday, January 26th, Dr.
Boutier and Mr. Pasero hosted a pop-up snow day readaloud on Zoom. Students and staff were all invited to sit back and enjoy a story entitled Snow Day. Thank you guys. >> Thank you. All right, great great job as as always,
Caric and uh Isabella, I always uh always appreciate your your report. So, thank you very much. Uh next up, we have our PTA report. I believe we have Pond PTA here today and thank you for uh inviting me and some of my colleagues to
your last meeting. Much appreciated. >> Yeah, thank you so much. Um yes, so I'm Danielle Legal. I am the Pond PTA president. So, I'm gonna report on Sharon, then pawn, then the high school. So, the Sharon PTA is having a give love
week. During the week of February 9th, donate to Sharon PTA and all donations will be generously tripled by the Vincent J. Manini Memorial Fund up to $3,500. All match donations will be used for fun
new items for the playground. We are happy to announce that we will be hosting our first family movie night. It will be Thursday, February 26th at 6 PM at Robinsville High School Auditorium. Grab your family, get comfy, and join us. Free popcorn and water included per
child. This is a free event, but you must reserve a ticket as spots are limited. Parents must stay for the event. Your books are on sale now. Don't forget to order yours today. Finally, our next PTA meeting will be Thursday, February 19th at 7:30 p.m. at the
Sharing Cafeteria. We hope to see you there. Road Middle School PTA would like to thank Dr. Po, Dr. Burns, and Mr. Mra for attending our January PTA meeting to discuss the upcoming public question preschool initiative. Um, the PRMS PTA
is excited to host Ponot Talent, a talent show highlighting both students and teachers. We have over 20 acts thus far and are hoping for more before this Friday's audition process. The show will be held on Thursday, March 12th, and is a fundraiser for the PTA. For the month
of February, the PTA will be partnering with Shine and Inspire, a local nonprofit to provide essential items such as clothing, healthy snacks, school supplies, and hygiene items for students in Mercer County. Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 18th, via
Zoom. Now, for the high school, one of our biggest fundraising events, Designer Handbag Bingo, is this upcoming Sunday, February 1st, at the high school. Cross your fingers for no more snow next weekend. Players can bring refreshments,
listen to the DJ, and have a super fun night playing bingo for a chance to win 16 fabulous handbags. There will also be a 50/50 as well as 20 basket raffles. Special raffle tickets are available for a chance to win an exquisite designer bag valued at over $1,200.
As this is our major fundraiser for the class of 2027's red carpet and postprom events, please get your tickets today to support the cause of a secure substancefree night after the prom. Doors open at 5:00 p.m. and bingo starts
at 6 p.m. Also this week we have our one smart cookie event at school where individually bagged cookies are given to the student body upon their half-day dismissal after midterms. The cookies are labeled with messages of support and kudos for a job well done on their exams. Lastly, we have a restaurant
social happening at Dave's Hot Chicken this Thursday from 4 to 8:00 p.m. You can order online or in store, and the flyer can be found on our Facebook and Instagram pages. Our next meeting is Wednesday, February 11th via Zoom. Thank you so much. We appreciate you letting
us speak. >> Thank you. Thank you. We appreciate you coming in and uh and speaking on behalf of the PTA. Um next up we have our Robinsville Education Association. I believe we have
President Miss Sharon Martin here. >> Hi. I just wanted to um update you on some of the great things that our staff and students are doing during their clubs at the three schools. At the high school, the Robbinsville Asian-American Dance Association had their fourth annual show showcase in December. Uh the
showcase opened with an amazing classical dance performance by the president and vice president of the club, followed by performances from students in grades K to 8. After a brief intermission, the dancers of Rata took the stage to dazzle the audience with dynamic high energy routines inspired by this year's theme, which was elements,
fire, water, air and earth. Each dance paid tribute to one of these elements through unique styles, music, and movement. Adding to the fun, Robbinsville's very own teachers and staff took the stage for a special performance. Lively MC's kept the audience entertained throughout the night with humor, games, and crowd engagement. The evening wrapped up with
a delicious dinner and open dance floor. The event was open to the public and was attended by more than 300 members of the the community. Uh the Ponro Middle School Science Olympiad took place on January 15th. They competed in a regional tournament and thanks to their strong performance, the team qualified for the state
championship which will be held on March 9th. Students dedicated countless hours both in and out of school designing and building devices, exploring a wide range of science topics, and preparing for hands-on lobby nights. Please join us in congratulating the team on their achievement and wishing them the best of
luck at the upcoming state championship. And last, at Sharon School, the fourth grade student council has been engaged in several meaningful projects. In December, representatives collaborated with Robinsville High School sophomore Sneha Celis on the initiative called Books for a Friend. This organization works to ensure that children everywhere
have access to books regardless of their background or circumstances. Over the course of one week, the students work together to collect and donate as many books as possible to support this cause. Currently, they're leading a winter clothing drive in partnership with the local Robinsville organization, Be Kind.
Students have been collecting new and gently used winter hats, scarves, gloves, and coats and other weather essentials to support members of the community in need and the drive will go on until later this week. Through these efforts, the Sharon School fourth grade student council is proud to give back and make a positive impact within the
school and our greater community. >> All right, thank you. Miss Johnson here for our principles and supervisors association. >> Good evening everybody. Um, I am excited to be able to speak tonight because you get to hear a little bit about some of
the highlights from student services which uh you don't often get to hear about. Um, I'd love to share some exciting news this year. This is the first year that we have in all three buildings some version of coffee cart.
Um led by pretty phenomenal special education teachers um but then run by our truly phenomenal special education students here at the high school. We have the uh soore brew crew which serves
daily out in the uh front lobby here of the high school. also takes pre-orders um and will do deliveries. We have night and day cafe at um I should say at the high school here that is run by Christieos, Will Spectre, Carly, and
with the support of Jen Den, our transition coordinator. Um at the middle school, Lauren Denzo, and Janette Castigion run the Night and Day Cafe. Um that is also pre-orders. Pre-orders on Monday. They prepare and deliver all of
um the drinks and snacks on Tuesdays. And then we have this year for the first time um boomers which is monthly that is Mary Kate Adolfie and Alyssa Euro's classes. Um
and that one is strictly a beverage cart but those orders are you know made and prepared delivered by our students. Um, another just few updates that kind of sing the praises of some of our special education
staff members. Um, back in October, Paul Katano, who's a special education social studies teacher at Pawn Road Middle School, had the opportunity to present at the assisted technology conference at TCJ.
um he presented uh his presentation was um AI isn't cheating, it's competing and it really was all about how teachers can utilize AI to support lesson planning, help provide student support and so forth. Um to really just enhance the
human experience of teaching. Uh I was able to attend that conference and did a phenomenal job. Um, we also have two presenters from the district. Our assistant director of student services, Christina Mino, is partnering up with
Kathy St. John from Pawn Road Middle School um to present at the 40th annual executive functioning conference through research. Um, research is the company that provides our smarts curriculum, which is an executive functioning
curriculum brought on by the district many years ago. Um, Robinsville has really been front and center in the SMARTS curriculum work. That curriculum is utilized in our supplemental and MDS classes, which is also infused in
instruction throughout the district. Um, and then also exciting, um, Nicole Aiero, school psychologist at Palm Road. A lot of highlights from Pond staff. um school psychologist at Prom Road Middle School. Um has been a camp coordinator
for Camp Shrivever through Special Olympics of New Jersey and is that's essentially their summer camp. Um but she has also just been provided the opportunity to become a clinical director at SJ which is all um it is
under their like healthy athletes program. It is a mental health service. It is all volunteers. Um, but some of the things that they are responsible for are uh coordinating mental health screenings, providing tools to manage stress and improve well-being, recruit
and train other health professionals, assist them with grant applications, set up and supervise healthy athlete events, collect and report data and evaluate that program. So just proud of our student.
Okay, thank you very much. Okay, there's now uh two pieces remaining that that I'll cover. Uh next, we have the semiannual public school student safety data systems report. As per the state requirement this evening,
I will report upon all acts of violence, vandalism, uh, and harassment, intimidation, and bullying by each school in reporting period 1, which is September 2025 to December 31st, 2025. The state notices uh notes uh incidents
in four different categories: violence, vandalism, substances, and weapons. Uh for Sharon Elementary School, there were zero incidents for period 1. For Pine Road Middle School, six incidents occurred in reporting period one and were in the following categories. One
incident involved violence, five incidents involved a weapon. Robinsville High School, three in incidents occurred in reporting period one and were in the following categories. two incidents involving substances and one incident in
involved violence. For the 202526 reporting period one, the Robbinsville Public School District completed five HIV investigations and the outcome of the investigations resulted in three cases as unfounded and two cases as founded. The breakdown by school is as
follows. Sharon Elementary School, one case uh and it was founded. Pondro Middle School, two cases and two were unfounded. Robinsville High School, two cases, one founded and one unfounded.
Now, on to my actual report. Um, we uh first of all, I did promise that each month I would do a update on the crematorium. I was in touch with the township and I think mostly related to the holidays there wasn't anything uh that really has advanced on that front.
So uh still u as I reported previously cautiously optimistic that we'll find a positive resolution for all parties involved. Uh good evening and thank you for being here on this very cold evening and we have two even colder evenings coming up
so we have something to look forward to on the cold front. Um, we uh we are approaching an important decision, one that will shape the future of our schools and our students. On Tuesday, March 10th, Robbinsville voters will be asked to participate in a special
election to consider additional local funding for public education. This proposal comes at a critical time. Our district is facing a significant reoccurring structural budget deficit that if not addressed will affect staffing levels, class sizes sizes, and
the programs that support a well-rounded education for our students. Over the next two years, we're projecting a shortfall of approximately $5 million. This gap is the result of long-term factors including r rising operational cost, inflation, increas increasing
special education and transportation expenses and ongoing limitations in state aid combined with a history of remaining below the full allowable tax cap. While costs continue to rise, our revenue options are limited, making
local funding an essential part of this conversation. If voters approve the proposed increase of 5,31,476 in local school funding, Robbinsville public schools will be able to maintain current staffing levels and preserve the
academic and extracurricular programs our community values. Please note this amount equates to our 2024 2025 adequacy number as defined by the state. Without this support, the district would
be forced to eliminate up to 22 classroom teaching positions, nine additional studentf facing educator roles, and other essential staff. These reductions would be felt across our schools, impacting instruction, student services, and the overall learning environment.
This referendum is not about expansion, it's about stability. The proposed funding would allow us to sustain the six existing programs, maintain reasonable class sizes, and continuing offerings such as electives, athletics, clubs, and enrichment opportunities.
Programs that support academic success, student engagement, and social emotional well-being. Transparency and collaboration are central to this process. We have scheduled and completed multiple public information sessions led by district leaders to explain the
budget challenges, review the ballot question, and to create space for open dialogue. I encourage residents to attend, review the financial information we have shared, and ask questions about both the proposed funding and the potential impacts if not approved.
Budget documents are publicly available, and my administrative team and I are accessible and eager to engage. I invite you to contact me directly to schedule a conversation. Many school districts across New Jersey are facing similar challenges in Robbinsville. I see this moment as an
opportunity for our community to come together, reflect on our shared priorities, and determine how we will continue to support the highquality education our students deserve. As March tension approaches, I encourage all rel all residents to stay informed, participate in discussions, and take
part in the election. Thank you for your time, your engagement, and your continued support of Robinsville's children. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Piso. Assistant Superintendent, Port Secretary Port, Mr. McCre,
Mr. President, Board of Education. So, today, tonight, we have an audit presentation. I'll be presenting the ASSA report and public question update. Um while we await the auditor to come, I'll proceed to the ASSA.
But before that, I'd like to say u from after these I'm just going to jump in. So when you go through their presentation, if board members can please just refrain from asking questions till the end so that way Mr. McCree can tell the the whole report. Thank you. And we'll be posting these
slides as well. Um Starting next month, all board meetings will go back to pond. Okay? We'll advertise that we It's a better setup. I can present better. All these presentations we're doing, it's much cleaner and nicer setup as we have done before. Uh and I'll also once
again, I know you thanked, but I like to thank them again to the buildings and grounds crew as well as our custodians for all the cleaning they've done. I mean, 12, 13, 14 hour shifts. Some of them slept in our buildings because it was too dangerous to go home. got up the next morning and started plowing and
cleaning up again. So, schools look amazing. My my county does not, but this county this school is great. Thank you to them again for for all that hard work and effort. Um hopefully that is the last part. Um so, ASSA I'll presenting this right
now going through it. What does it stand for? It's for the application for state school aid. These are the numbers that every district on October 15th pulse your number of kids how many are IEP uh low income being reduced all these data
and figures are used to adjust for next year's right now the budget we're going to do the state takes everything equity and figures out your state aid if you have a big increase in student body they'll let you go a little higher if it's a decrease they will take money
from you lower your accounts so that's where those numbers come from um and it's quite important in summation enrollment is down 1.6%. So another 50 students less
without preschool it's over 80 okay down almost 3%. at this trend looking at the kindergarten class coming in in one dozen years when they get to the seniors to be a senior uh we will have 849 less students
declining enrollment. This does not this does not include new construction. We've been told by one realtor uh expect 150 to 200 kids coming in on the next year. We can't account for that. I know construction is starting uh and they'll
be coming in mid year. We hope they don't all come in in one grade and they're all spread out. What does that mean? Probably one more class size per student, but we'll adjust from from those numbers. Pretty reduced numbers have gone up. Again, this is a trend that I've seen from five years ago.
We're around two or 3% and it's been slowly ticking up. We're at 10.8% now. Um, this is the highest by far that I've seen and it's the first time we have crossed 10% which is a magic figure of getting more grants and aids out there.
Uh, good news, special education is holding steady. It's actually kind of low for for for most uh school districts in the state. Uh, we're at 14.6%. Enrollment districtwide. You'll see uh that chart and there's a pop. That's
preschool. Okay. That is 186 that includes 186 fully funded general education preschool expansion aid students in the state paying for if they're special needs three and four year olds we would have to cover any anyway no matter what as we have done in the past
this is taking our preschool you'll see that number down we are at the number we were about a decade ago plus I'm estimating about a quart million dollars less in state aing
enment. People ask why? What's going on that was a chart for for without prison. This is a demographic chart as it from a study that was done years ago. It basically says this is the factors you use when your home ownership is older.
So you look at construction costs when those massive developments were built. As those home and home ownership gains more and more time, you have less and less kids. So that's where that chart shows it up and it kind of matches where our enrollment numbers are going. Um we
will be hiring a new demographic study in the next couple of months. So we hope to have something by the summer that will give us a better analysis. This last study was done almost a decade ago on roll by school. You can see the numbers going down and holding steady in
some places and the capacity limits are listed right there. There's always a question about preschool. Where are you finding the case what's going on with declining enrollment. That's where it's coming from. That's where you find the space and you readjust.
This is just analysis. I look at this is general education kids only. What's your class size for seniors? If you look at the kindergarten class going all the way through, what would that class size be? You can see once again downtrend downtrend.
This is actually a full chart. Can't really read it. Um, but we look at these numbers. What we do is all right, the fourth grade class will be a fifth grade next year or the eighth grade class will be a freshman. The freshman class coming in and what's the graduating class coming out? And as you can see, there's
less and less kids coming into the schools and it's working way it way up to middle school and high school. Now, elementary school is much easier to adjust. So, you just readjust one of those class teachers and they get gets fixed out. Middle school a little bit
harder. And of course, the high school's the hardest because if you try to reduce, you may be cutting a program. So you have to watch that that class size. If you go to the kindergarten class and take a look, you know, you have over a
decade ago about 234 kids. You now have 120 coming in, right? And every few years it drops by 20. So that's a trend that I'm looking at. Um, and the last slide is just transportation efficiency. Why do I
include this? Because they're done at the same time. Um, we used to be the highest the most efficient transportation department uh in the county and we just got edged out by one school district. If you compare it, our factors is 1.7. That means every bus is
running almost two trips a day. You'll see some other districts are running less than one. Literally spending twice as much as we do. millions of dollars more. Um this is also takes in into account courtesy busing. So um those
numbers would be higher but that was not factored in the equation. The state wants you to be at 1.2 we change very efficient department. Um any questions on this one this moment? Yes ma'am.
Um, have we done an analysis in the last like five years of what grade level bands our moveins have been? >> What grade level bands? What >> like the the new moveins as we've had houses sold and parents are moving into district? Um, are we seeing that those
are primarily elementary students, middle school students, high school? Have we done an analysis to see? >> I do not have that data. Uh, it's just conjecture for some reason. fourth grade. The principles have told me, oh, this one year, one development came out, all
these fourth grade students came in. Um, you know, so we're looking out for that. We just don't know. Um, there's so many socioeconomic issues with that. Are they two bedrooms? Are they three bedrooms? What's the going rate of the of that property being sold? What is it
location? Um, there are some buildings sold in town uh and apartments. Um, there were condos for sale. They went for a high price and barely brought any kids in. That was a little bit of a shocker and good news district managing our budget. Other um I don't want to
call them out. Um other developments came in with a lot more students and more special needs as well. So it's really, you know, just a guess, but I have no hard data for that.
All right. At this present moment, uh, I'd like to call up our auditor, uh, Mr. Dave McN of Hol McNage. Once again, this is received the audit packets. We will post that audit on our own website. I think it's already it's already posted on the state. Um, but
tonight, you'll be approving the audit. Um, and ask your questions on that. Um, but now the floor is yours, sir. >> Thank you very much. Can you hear me? Okay, great. Um, as Nick said, I'm Dave McN.
I'm a partner with HMA. Here to give a quick recap of the audit from 2025. Sorry, I'm a few minutes late. Um, so, um, when we come to do the audit, we spend about two weeks on site and then there's a lot of back and forth as we go
through our review and diligence. So, I do appreciate all the help from the business office and their uh, patience as we them throughout the months in the fall. Um, the audits were due uh January 15th this year. We were well before that
deadline on the little handout that you have. I gave you page numbers that you can reference back to that large document. I'm not going to go through that the actual audit report. There's just a lot of pages, but if you ever wanted to cross reference um I gave you page numbers. When we come to do the
audit, we issue three reports. Our first is our independent artists report. This is our opinion on your financial statements. U basically talks about how we performed our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards in the United States of America government auditing standards as
well as uh requirements of the New Jersey State Department of Education. This we issued what's called an unmodified opinion. Best opinion you can receive that basically says we feel Robinsville's financial statements are fairly stated in all material respects
as of June 30, 2025. So a reader or user of your financial statements can rely on the numbers they see within your report. Uh the second report we issue is a report on internal control and compliance. So as we're looking at your financial statements, we're also also
making sure that the district's controls are operating properly and that you're complying with uh compliance requirements mostly set forth by the New Jersey State Department of Education. Um this is also a clean report. there are no reportable weaknesses or findings. So
that's great. Then our third report is our report on compliance over major programs and internal controls over those programs. So we do what's also called a single audit. So in addition to the financial statement audit, we do a single audit because the district spends over $750,000 in federal and state aid.
So we're required to do a separate audit specifically on grant programs. This year on the federal side we looked at special education or the IDA funds and on the state side we looked at state state aid and transportation. This is also an unmodified opinion um
that says that we feel the district complied in all material respects with those compliance requirements of those programs. So three clean reports. Um I just give you a little note there on the handout management's discussion and analysis which is on pages 15 to 21.
And this is a nice little section to read on your own if you want to just take a small part of the big report. Gives a nice comparative financial information for the year. Talks about some of the policies in the district. Um on there I do list uh some of the activity of the financials which I think
you're all well aware of but did want to mention there's new um capital project schedules in the audit this year. Their F exhibits that will track some of the capital projects that have started. Um that service there's years left on your 20 2005 issue and about six or seven
years left on the 2013 bond issue. Flipping over to that second page, this gives a full recap of the general fund, which is the main operating fund of the district and where you spend most of your time analyzing. I give you a five-year comparison
for 2025. That column kind of shows how the year went financially. At the very top, you'll see excess revenue. Uh this is revenue that came in above budget or anticipated and unexpended appropriations is that next number. This is money that wasn't spent of the budget
6 million44598. The combination of those two numbers generate a fund balance of a little over $6.7 million. The district did use 1,738 307 of fund balance in the for the budget. There was incumbrances of a
million607579. Um there was a withdrawal of maintenance reserve of a million411 and then a withdrawal from capital reserve of 2,ion435686. So when you take all those numbers together there was an overall decrease
in fund balance in 2025 of 444,866. Middle of the page shows how how much of the budget was spent in comparison years before. So you'll see about 90% 89.95% of the budget was spent in 2025. Years before it ranged from 92 to 94%. So less
of the budget was spent in 2025. And that kind of drives being able to rejuvenate some of the fund balance that was used. The bottom third of the page shows where your fund balance stands. So overall um like I mentioned you fund balance is down $444,000.
So it went from 12,634 to 12,19130. Um, of that 12,190, not all of that is available. A lot of it is either been used or is restricted. So that bottom a third of the page kind of shows where the 12,190 sits. Uh, the
first number there is incumbrances of a million29347. Those are our obligations uh, purchases already made at the end of the year. The next number is excess surplus. That's 1.4 million even. Those are the funds that are going
to need to be used at the starting point of your budget that you're working on. Now, prior year excess was also 1,400 that was used in the year you're in now. Capital reserve at the end of the year was 4,25486. Those are future u there's a fund set
aside for future capital needs of the district. You have a maintenance reserve of 2,6612. Those are funds that are restricted for maintenance needs of the district. There's an unemployment reserve of 581024. Those are funds that are restricted for future unemployment claims and that leaves you with
unreserved fund balance of a million2101. So that's the amount of fund balance that's free or uh available to use. Um normally you try not to use that. It's 2% of your budget. So it's kind of your piggy bank and you really only want to use that in emergency. Um
that kind of recaps all of your fund balance. Uh I just make a note at the bottom. So the capital reserve and the maintenance reserve numbers you see above some of those were already used in the year and now so 400,000 of that was used in 2526 for the capital reserve and the maintenance reserve 300 was used in
2526. Um that's really all I like to go through without boring people too much but I can take questions if you have them. Before we go, I just want to point out so this is a snapshot in time of June
30th. People always ask like what are these incumbrances in purchase orders? You made purchase orders. It's ordering something on Amazon or whatever, but you haven't paid it yet. Mail, it's coming in and you haven't paid it. So that's a big amount, a million change. Sometimes it's two
million. Sometimes even more when you have construction projects because that could be in the literally five, six, seven million range. Um, and we also pull money for next year's budget. So, we're always pulling 1.4. Generate 1.4 million, put 1.4 million. Only way to
solve that is to raise taxes. 1.4 million budget. Always been a discussion in the past. Was never done. We wanted to raise the taxes to fix that accounting uh managerial a better way of saying we play
accounting uh managerial managerial accounting uh practices to go back and forth year by year. A bunch of districts don't do that but we do that here. It's not preferred. It's not best practice but is what we've inherited.
Um the rest of the questions we talk about maintenance and capital reserve capital reserve we have a large a rod grant dupe um state will fund us 40%. That rod grant is for the high school HBAC systems we expect that to be a 7
and a half million that project estimate was from three years ago. Expect to do it need to save a little bit more money. We expect to do it in the summer of 2027. I do not know what the cost will be then, but their architects are working
on the numbers now. Don't want to take any more of Mr. McN's time. I know you have a lot of questions, so please proceed. Um, at this point, remember this is your auditor. He does not work for me. Works for you. >> Thank you. Thank you very much for the
detail audit report. I have five questions, so please bear with me. Go one by one. Okay. Um, does the audit confirm that our recurring revenue or recurring cost is growing more than 2% than our
recurring revenue? >> Does it confirm that? >> Um, well, I guess I would say your budget increased more than 2% I believe. So, I I mean I don't know the exact percentage. I know in general costs are
increasing more than 2% for everyone. Um yeah, I don't know how to answer that question exactly, but I would say costs are increasing more than 2%. I think the budget, you know, the the budget went from 56 million to 64 million. So that's
a big jump. >> Thank you. I think I think that that tells the story that it is a good extent. So uh from a compliance standpoint, what would be the audit and legal consequences if a district attempted to use the restricted reserve for operating expense? Because most of
the time what I hear is there is a lot of fund balance. There is a reserve why can't we use that for operating expenses? And I do understand that there is a law which actually restricts. But I want to know what's the compliance or legal obligation if we actually go there and do that.
>> What's the Can you say the last part again? Sorry. What's the legal consequences? >> Well, if you don't if I mean I can only speak from the audit side. It would be a comment in your report. Um I don't know where it would go from there, but the county would get involved and then the
county could assign a state monitor. Um so that gets messy. I don't you know legally I guess they could withhold state aid, but I can't say I've ever seen it get to that point. I've also never seen it done. You're saying if you just said I'm going to use my capital reserve because I need to pay for supplies, right? Yeah. So, we would we
would have a comment that's the extent we would take it then the county would get involved from there. >> Thank you. That that tells me that you know you can't actually dip into the reserve fund and you know use that for any kind of operating expenses. reserved is reserved and in in one way my
understanding is by having this particular reserve fund district is actually helping the community to save some tax dollars because you could always dip into the reserve when there is emergency so you don't go back and kind of you know go for a referendum so in my estimation I feel like you know
there is a lot of tax savings by having the reserve funds is that is that correct is that >> yeah that's good I mean you can't always go and issue debt and then you have to pay interest on things so yeah I agree Thank you. And this is another question which actually
always intrigued me. Sorry. From an audit and best practice perspective, are our current reserve levels reasonable given the number, size and age of our school buildings? Are we actually do we have appropriate reserves or
should be having more or should be or should be having less? I get that question a lot. It's really hard for me to answer. Kind of out of my wheelhouse. I the architect is always involved developing your long range facilities plan. You have a maintenance reserver. I think it's called a comprehensive maintenance plan that's
maintained. So, you know, that's kind of management architect evaluating what your needs are and your reserves. I will say that reserves for most districts are not enough. I mean, yours I can just tell are not enough. I mean, your long range facilities plan is probably
millions and millions of dollars for these future, you know, needs and we're only at, you know, $4 million, which looks like a lot of money, but we know that if you needed a roof or something that would be gone in an instance. So, um, I don't I don't have any clients
that have reserves where I say, "Wow, your reserves are really good. You're in really good shape." I don't think the nature of school budgets right now allow for that. So, it's just managing what you can. Hopefully, you have enough those upcoming needs like Nick mentioned, you have those capital projects in place that also have grants
attached. Um, you're going to have to manage that year by year. So, to answer your question, they're probably too low, but every districts are too low. >> One last question, have you found anything in audit at all where there is it accounts to some kind
of either fund mismanagement or you know some kind of a movement which should not happen? >> No. If there were anything like that, it would be in my report. Um, we we always see things time from time for improvement and I'm not saying we had that. Um, but anything that
mismanagement, things like that would always be in my report and public information. >> Thank you. >> So, um, I'd like to jump in again. We talk about capital maintenance reserve. Um,
not something I'm proud of. Uh, but we, it's a reality. We live monthto month. Have to manage our money monthto month. You see four, five, six million. That's more than I have. It's more probably
whole table combined. Um, the reality is we talk with huge numbers. So, we have a $70 million budget plus $6 million in reserves. It's one month. It's like going to your family. Spend
your spend your life savings even though we we know you only have one month. You don't even have two months. The standard ASBO International, which is an association for all business officials and CFOs, they tell you 5 to 10%. what you should have at the end extra
uh outside the state. They budget capital within their budget. We in New Jersey do not do that. Make it go out of a public question. Ask the public, may I spend money to repair my leaky roofs as well. Sometimes it doesn't go through. If you know
anybody who has buildings and assets, you can just go on Google or chat GPT and find out what should you be spending every year to maintain your build. says 1 to 4% depending on where you live and the age of your buildings. We spend
less than the half. Our buildings replacement value today, if you had to build all these new buildings, it's about $500 million. 1% is 5 million. You don't 5 to 20 million. It's massive. Our tax levy is
just 40. You have to go out our long range facilities plan. It is in the tens of millions of what you have to spend in the next five to eight years to maintain these buildings. We're going to be going through the bond committee to talk about these numbers. We'll publish them
publicly and go through all that. We'll have a year of talking this discussion, but I wanted to put that in a frame set of what kind of large numbers we're talking about. And the numbers are not going down. They continue to go up. I thought $400 a square foot was an insane
amount for a building. It was 800 a few years ago. Now it's $1,000 to $1,200 a square foot. >> Yeah. >> Uh thank you for letting me speak. Yes, ma'am.
>> Um so hi Mr. McN. Thank you for being here. I think this might be a question for both of you, but I'm going to address it to Mr. McN. When I'm assuming someone is going to look at this kind of overview later, I
realize that it has been written June 30th of 2025. When I look at total fund balance, my assumption is that this is extra money. This 11,237,000 and your total fund balance, can you
explain why this may not be extra money? Um, can you kind of explain where that $11 million has gone and where we are currently here? Just because we're talking about a referendum if we're going out and asking people for 5 million and we're like, oh, we have
11,200, you know, extra, people might not understand why why we would go for a referendum. >> Um, really you have the the number just two lines above. So, the 12 million 1901 13 the 11 million is there. I should
have explain that um the state withholds two of your payments, your state aid payments. So you don't get those till the next month in July. So we're not allowed to show them. So that's a gap based number. Really your budgetary fund balance is 12 million night, but same idea. I'll kind of explain where that
money sits. So like I kind of recap. Um yes, you have 12.1 million fund balance, but it's all either used as of June 30 or reserve other than that 1,200 101. So like we were just talking about the numbers above that 1,2101
there's reserves. So there's 581,000 in an unemployment reserve. Those are restricted for future unemployment. So if you had to do a lot of layoffs, you'd have money set aside for that. Um the number above that again we talked about was the maintenance number. Those are money set aside for maintenance,
carpets, etc. Painting. Um then there's the capital reserve which we just talked about the $4.2 million. uh that's restricted for capital items um in that long range facilities plan we just talked about all those needs down the road five eight years those funds
would go towards that then the numbers above that the the next number that's 1.4 million that fund balance was used to balance the budget you're in now the 256 so that's also gone at June 30 really the number above that is 1.4
million that's the excess surplus that was created in that year. So that's going towards tax in the budget year you're building now. Um and then the number above the million million 293 407 that's actually been spent. Those are obligations made as of June 30 purchases
made that you haven't received that good or service yet. So it's just sitting there waiting. So of that 12,190 really the only free money is a,200101 which is obviously incredibly small. That's the calculation there is the
state only let you keep about 2% of your budgeted expenditures and that is the cap or the max you're a Sure. I'd like to jump in again and talk about those the reserves, right? Some of these
things, the 1.4 million, you take it, you put it back, it's gone, right? You cut those checks. Poss, you cut the checks. Uh unemployment insurance, you cannot touch that. That's not even your money. That's teacher, the staff gave the
unemployment, it's reserved for them. Um the 2% he speaks about, if you touch it, have to put it back at the end of the year. State put that So nobody bounces checks. Um really it's the capital and
maintenance reserve. By the way, that's six million. That's multiple years of savings. Multiple years. I like to look at the percent of budget expended and nonexpended and we've gone up to like 94. That's pretty high. Went down. What
happened this year? Did I say last year? I hit the preschool accounts. That's managerial accounting. Not if you carry any money over for preschool. Remember, we got a lot of money from the state to launch it in the beginning.
Carried almost a million dollars, carried it, and the state says if you carry money, we're going to take it from you. They hit us 25%. Now, granted, they gave us the money, so they just took it back. But you were trying to have a reserve in a rainy day.
That was going on for seven, eight, nine years. They just no notice to us this year. Should I I'm sorry. As of June 30th, it's not going to happen. I notified the board business committee. I'm going to kill it. And if there's a
dollar, it's because of a rounding error. I charged everything I could legally those accounts so nothing rolls. Okay? You don't want to lose the money. That's why there's a pop. Those money were transferred whatever
maint down the road. So you'll see that come again. So if you look at this as a snapshot in time once again preschool significant helped out well over 1 million
1.4 nodding his head ask about it. Um that will not occur again. I say that because we've already budgeted 700,000 in the current budget. Right. So we will kill it off to the end but it won't be that massive amount because in
the past we did not budget like that. Did it on purpose to save positions. Charged it legally multiple positions. So it's in the budget. It's absorbed one time only. Now it's recurring.
>> Look. Um sometimes I feel like we do a lot of good job and we don't market it correctly. So I'll actually ask on that particular line one question by having this particular good practices of maintaining reserve funds I feel that there is an implicit savings for the tax
payers because when you actually have this particular reserve and utilize that without going out for a referendum you're actually saving taxpayers good amount of money and I believe over the years if you calculate this and this is my what do you call napkin analysis you
probably would have saved like you know 10 to 12 million is there any way that you could actually do some work to kind of you know tease out that particular stuff with the 5.1 million concurrent savings that we have done. This is also something from a budget by having a good practice in the budget and you know
having good reserves we have saved and that should be out for the public to actually also know. So this is an interesting point that you make. Uh we kind of call arbitrage because we're making interest rates are a little bit higher but on this six million we're making about a quarter
million interest that stays in those accounts. Um and we can borrow money for less than what interest rates are because we're government and it's about three and a quarter now. Um I know we have people in town who work on bonds but we'll know that when we go out. Um
when you have uh Dr. those as well. Very well. Uh when you have budget concerns as us, you will get a phone call from Moody's. I've had two of them. They wanted to downgrade us. If the public question did not pass in
March 2024, I'm willing to bet money they would have downgraded. Actually, they just told me like congratulations will not be down. So, uh that downgrade I don't know what it would be. Um but we're looking a
large amount of money. Um, a quarter point could literally cost this town many, many hundreds of thousands a year in interest. So, um, I don't know. Go out to the bond markets, obviously small. I I I don't know. It's just we'll see that. We actually will
have bond council tell us about this and bond sales people who know this industry inside and out and they'll tell us how to structure it and what these items are. Um, but it's right now it's speculation, but I just know it. You're right. It will cost you more. But how much? I don't know. But it's certainly
not the same numbers that you would do as a homeowner or commercial. Our numbers are far superior. Um, we're government and we're sovereign. Thank you, Mr. McN. Thank you for coming. Appreciate your time and effort. Once again, any questions or concerns,
just shoot me an email. I'll forward it on to Mr. McN, come back as well. Thank you. >> Yep. Thank you very much. Everyone, have a good night. >> Have a good night. >> I'd like to proceed to the uh public question update. Um so, at you know,
we've we've had meetings with the county. They've come and inspected our uh where the vote's going to be. um same position as we as we have for for half the town. It'll be at the high school in the back auditorium, the auxiliary gym. It'll be from 6:00 am to 8:00 pm. They
decide how many machines. They're estimating to bring uh 16 uh eight machines, but they're double-sided. So, it's 16 total. Last time we had a March election, they had 10. So, they want to bring a little bit more uh make it faster for everybody uh and so forth. Um
this is the public question as it is approved. from the from the county executive superintendent as well as submitted to the county clerk. Uh it is 22 teachers and staff uh in the classroom as well as nine electives. So 31 positions have been listed and the interpretive state for and it's posted
publicly as well. Um this is the updated tax impact. Um, going with the township, uh, the average assessed home increased from 380,000 to 380,800, an $800 increase. Um, I figured out the
average monthly impact for the home about $43 for 2026 and a little bit less for 2027. As wait a second, how'd that go down? Well, because it's averaging out differently and there's no health waiver in that. In addition, we know that the
value of the town is going to go up as well. I assume the three-year average increase. So more bigger township, more money is spread out separately. So that pushes it down as well. In the past, we've always spoken about, okay, what would the question cost? This time
people ask like, no, I don't want to know what the question is. I want to know what the question and your 2% and any other other items. So I also threw in the debt. do not know what healthcare is going to be. Why don't I know the state has that
information? They will publish it with the state aid at the end of February. It is a cap. It gets a little complicated. If they go low, then you can only go a certain amount. If they go high, then I get a haircut. So, it's not a it's not a onetoone dollar. There is a discount and
there's a cap as well that they control that formula. Um, this goes on the assessed value. So that's the calculations out there. We've spoken to us before why balanced budgets are structurally impossible under current law. And we have inflation
at 4% roughly. I can only raise taxes 1.55% for my budget. Right? Talk about 2% but it's 2% of less than 80% of my budget is local tax. That's where that number comes from.
It's just not sustainable. Um How do you do that? It worked in the past with low inflation, but not today. Um, as well as state aid cuts with how much funding they give us. All right. I've been asked, you know,
uh, how does this what happened? Give me some historical information. What's going on? Well, um, so we plotted out inflation verse the tax increase. Okay. Um, take a guess. What's the higher one?
That's inflation. One below it is your tax increase. Okay. So over the years um basically low amount and you did not keep up with CPI. Okay. You'll see a pop in the end. That's because in 2324 we
pulled all the bank available bank capped even though millions had expired the year before the years before and the public question also pushed that up. I've been asked about property tax increases year-over-year.
Um, well, why just you? Why is it your problem? Why is this not going somebody else's? There's a lot of emotions and what's going on. This is the data. This is actually your property tax increases year-over-year uh for both county, municipal, and uh
school district. Now, township, I added the open space because they control that. And you can see for many, many years, everybody was around zero. It was a great time. inflation starts hitting. Township did go up and they messaged it correctly. Sorry, we can't keep up with
the inflation. Uh we didn't catch up till a couple years later. Okay, so and then the county um that kind of speaks for itself. Those are massive pops at 15%. So people have increased the taxes. Um there seems to be a shortterm memory
on items. Um but that is the data and the facts where you can see the tax increases are school taxes keep on going up and up and up and up. Uh this is a chart for um
what percentage of your property tax is actually the schools about 55% a little higher. I I've seen many places it's 60 to 65%. So this is actually pretty good. But you can see that even in the past
few years, you're less than what you were a decade ago and for a long trend. Shockingly, so this is data and it shows that people go up and as a previous chart, everybody was going up together. We're still lower
as a percentage on your whole property tax bill than before. I was asked what what what's going on? My last school district a asked me this. We had spikes and tax increases and then flat and then another spike. It was up
and down like a yo-yo effect. I'm like slow and steady. Slow and steady. Many industries talk about slow and steady. A lot of information at the bottom. Your total tax impact over that decade uh
roughly a decade uh is now actually 1.8% 8.6%. Let's call it roughly 1.9. People said what happens if we went to full cap and every waiver where we would be instead of around 1.9 you'd be at 2.3
2.3% is what we would have been year after year a little less. You would not have to do public question now and you would not have done a public question before. You would literally have $2 and.5 million more right now. Over those years it would have added up
to about $25 million more. That's untaxed 25 million for this town. Um, hypothetical scenario, you know, we're not blaming prior boards. You know, this is what occurred. Mind you,
those periods where you had very low tax increases, the state increased your aid substantially, like $3 million in one year. Um, we've talked about how do you explain that? we'll talk about that's really a bonus
not relying on every year it changes and adjusts not only from the ASSA but there's also other factors involved the wealth of your town and and so forth so basically you've traded that short-term
taxer stream for longterm budget stability what What about the other school districts? I'm paying so much in this town. You do pay pay more than I pay in my my town, more than my county. You do
in comparison to your neighboring districts. These are your numbers off everyone's user friendly budgets. Uh we are not comparing to West Windsor. You can see that at the bottom is the number of students really hopeull Lawrence.
Look at those numbers. as well. We'll probably be at the size of Euing and Hopewell in a few years. My guess, we'll know from the demographic study with all the new construction coming in, but you can see they are spending 20, 30, 40 million dollars more
districts and they're a little bit bigger than us. They're massive, massive numbers. And also see this, this came out because I was asked what do the other districts do? Did they go to the full cap predominantly overwhelmingly? Yes. 2%
and waiverss and they went high year over year. You can see those angles going up while ours are a little flatter. Okay. We fight for about a million dollars. We always talk if we had a million dollars more what we could do for our students.
That's 20 30 40 million roughly the same size. Just wanted to point that out when people say, "What are we doing differently? What's going on?" Amount under adequacy. This is from our
state school aid documents. At one point, we were at 9 million under adequacy. We are getting much better. As of last year, we're five million under adequacy. They say this year at eight. I'd like to see the number when it comes in. Have exact proof of what it
would say. U this is what the state says you're supposeding minimally meet the minimum standard of what they believe education talk about the local tax levy this is what they think local fair share should you're supposed to contribute
look back in history at one point it was zero there what and it skyrocketed that's predominantly co property values went up now it went across the state, but your income also drastically increased. They know those numbers not
only from the property values, but they know your income from your tax returns. Put down what town you're from, and they look at those tax returns year over year over year. And right after COVID, those numbers popped up 10 to 15% a year. Asked, what are we spending compared to
other school districts? Guess where Robinsville is for the bottom line. We are almost catching Hamilton. The uh this data is the actual uh actual numbers not budgeted numbers. So it's about a year old because it takes time
to post. So hopefully in a few months everything will be post and I can update this chart. Um state average is thousands of dollars more per student. This goes into line into effect of the local tax li I had showed before. Um mind you people ask what does the five
million get mean reality is maintain not going to get you new clubs or sports ormies any of it's just to maintain the funds to maintain our class size
have a little extra we're going to husband that money try to do the rod grant and carry us for two year and use it the following year that's two plan on on squeezing it to a third year. The debt falls off. Why? Gives us
options. Don't know. That's far out. But it's better than planning year to year. Oh well. Reality is we don't plan year to year. We plan in two weeks. Whenever the state says this is your number, we react. Trying to get ahead of it. And
you can see from all the efficient budgets, right? This is people call this efficient use another terminology or not but we say it efficient to be gentle and nice to everybody. Don't you have very very little room for error
very little room for error. The districts have room have room for error. Everyone's feeling the pinch but just got there earlier than the others. What happens if we do nothing? You can
read the slide and I won't go through it. um you understand what happens the second order effects, third order effects happens to your town. I've said this before uh into the smaller sessions. This is a defining moment in your town next five years. Okay? I don't want to say a decade, but definitely for
five years. Why? It's very easy for test scores to drop. Okay? And when they drop or there's an issue, it's incredibly hard to pull out of that spiral. Okay.
And you fail one year and catch up the next year. Fail a student two years in a row, you're gone. Studies after studies talking about that. Uh we are not there. We certainly
are not. But that is a concern of the administration us at the table about that. Um we are looking at going if this doesn't go through. We are looking at class sizes of 30 to the year after. Um, and how do we control that, maintain the
high level? Um, I want to end a little bit on on a higher note. Um, people ask like how in the world do you sustain such high scores when you're the most efficient in the whole entire county and
one of the most efficient in the whole entire state? That's staff. That's our staff. That is our administration, that it's our teachers, our support staff working hard, sleeping here at night, right?
Let's honor them, respect them, okay? Um, and of course the parents in the community, paying for extra activities, extra sports, extra tutoring, and what they do for their kids in this community. Okay? This is this is the defining moment in your town. However
the vote comes out, we will lead from the front. We will adapt and we will overcome to continue the great work we do at the school. I'd like to finish up with the budget timeline. We posted this before the public outreach dates as well and the
community connections and discussions that kind of coffee hour with people coming. Had dozen pe dozens of people come talk to us one-on-one. Very fruitful, very honest with each other. Um dispelling some misinformation out there. pointing them to the right direction of where the information is and they can make their own judgments
and their own decisions. I know there are websites out there. I understand um I have groups coming to me that I know for a fact are trying to kill the public question and I have groups coming out to me that are supporting the public question. In the end, we will do our fiduciary duty, provide all the
appropriate uh and truthful answers in a transparent and honest way. You provide the data. Uh they use the data as a different story. Um but we're here for you and at this moment Thank you for letting me speak for so long. Questions. >> Thank you very much. I think this is a
lot of work, a lot of data. Um can we have those particular slides deck posted tonight? >> Yeah, >> tonight. Uh is there is there is there something stopping us from >> the person who runs it is uh out sick today. So okay,
>> so will be tomorrow. [laughter] >> If that person wasn't sick, it would have been already cool. So I want to reach out to that person. >> The only one thing that I noticed there is the tax table in one of the slide which is which actually details out the 26 and 27. Um I think if I'm looking at
again coming in from West Windsor say that I forgot everything about Robinsville. I'm just joking kidding. But if I'm doing that right when I see that particular slide I'm like you know bit confusing a bit around you know 26 numbers and 27 numbers. Can you actually kind of just provide some explanation
for 26 and 27? I know why the numbers are that. But next to that parenthesis something Y 26 looks 42.95 and 26 >> 39. Yeah, this one. >> This one. This one. >> Okay. >> This exactly >> next to next to the average home monthly
impact where you have 26 42 and 20 27 $39. So you might want to actually just say why it is 42. >> I think there's >> it's partially there. Yeah. >> Right. and you talk about the health care piece and that component um being
one of the reasons why the 27 is lower. But I think what Ragu was saying is that it would be helpful maybe to add >> either a link to a document or something that explains, you know, this is a question that has been coming up about 27 being lower or numbers than 26.
>> Thank you. Yeah. So, I'll try to answer it right now, but I'll I'll do it again. um package and uh we actually present it a little bit more accurately when we um
present 100% accurate when we do the the budget and I show a chart where it divides the money in half and this in half school year and the taxes are calendar year difference is part of 2026
includes the health waiver 2027 does not that when we have that health waver information. Um, they'll both go up, but because of the growth, you don't know the fourth quarter, the fourth
number in that they're done over four quarters. Um, so I don't have that number. So, it'll always show a little less and it'll always show a little less because value of the town is going to grow a little bit. The value of the town is
going to grow enough to adjust it by a dollar. That's why I do down. Um, you know, if I say the value, if I think the value of the town is going to grow dramatically, that'll drop a lot. If I say it's going to stay even, the number will be about the same.
So, that's why I put that little asterisk. We assume it's going to grow around a third. Personally, with all the construction going on in town, that should hit much more. But question is when does that home turn on?
Are they moving in in December? Are they moving in in January? Uh that's a question for the township to answer. I don't know all the data on that. Um but I, you know, I asked them, hey, what is the town's value grow? They give me exactly what it is. Try to match it our spreadsheet. So that's kind of the thing, but you can understand it's a few
dollars. Um averaging there. Why does the table say annual cost at the top and on the right it is monthly impact. So you might want to check that it's monthly. You're right. >> Yeah. Thank you.
>> I'll fix that. >> Can I ask a different question? Not about this slide. Um the question that I had was I know it's been coming up in terms of the actual vote um and the cost that we will incur for the day of the
voting and second to that like why did we not go out in November. So, if we could just answer, I know we've discussed this, but if we could talk about why didn't we go out for a referendum in November, which would not have cost us anything, um, and why did we choose to do it in March, and then
maybe the approximate cost, because I know we don't know the cost yet, um, from the county, but maybe what it cost us last time, just so we have an idea. >> So, I'll go in reverse. Uh, so, uh, last time we went out, uh, last March election was about $65,000.
November is free. If there was another March election, then we can jump on say you had a fire chief or something and share the cost. But there's nothing. It's just us. Um this is one of the initiatives why Governor Christie pushed for everyone to go to November is you save a lot of money if every school
district November, but caveats came with it that trapped you. Back then it wasn't a trap because inflation was less than 2%. Now the 2% uh ties your hands. For us to go out in November, it's also a legal concern as well. For
us to go out in November, you have to put that on the ballot on the question in the budget, March and April budget. So upcoming now to get it on next year and next school year.
Um, so for us to have done it, we would have done it before. You get the money immediately, but you've already started school. So you would sit on it, you put staff on it. What do you do? So it is a a tricky
thing to do. Typically a November election is a one-time going out for a debt. I am going out uh great astro turf or some capital project. It's 90% of the time,
95% of the time. What we have done is completely changed that. We were one of the first, we were the first to do it in decades. You see on the news, many districts are doing it now, taking our lead. Um, we set the standard tone
and more uh regulations come out from that and more checklist and processing procedures. At this point, I can uh I'm going to defer to Eric if wants to add into on that like why would you not go out November? You can um are options,
but there's especially on a recurring budget. >> Yeah. I mean, just from a strategic standpoint, not go out to a November question. Okay. And while some districts
will from time to time do that, statistical data kind of indicates that they're more frequently. Aside from that um the process as it as it unfolds it allows you four times. So process would
be select the time mostly to meet the voters and to the voters. Um outside of that those are the primary considerations why choose one election versus
>> I think Mr. Mice I heard you saying also financially we would receive the funding right away. So then if we were not able to utilize all of that funding then it goes into reserves. >> It would go into fund balance. >> We cannot use it for >> Right.
>> Here's where it gets I know where you're going. Here's tricky. Um I believe I know where you're going. Um you technically have to make a second budget, right? So when we approve the budget in March and April, March is a tenative draft and April is the final.
We have two budgets. Make one what we have and then you make a separate one saying this is what else we would do if we had that money. That question fails. Not do that for the entire year. public said, "No, you don't have the money. You
cannot sneak it in somehow." Um, this new version, a new law that came out specifically tells us four months that we're allowed to do it. Remember, it's not one of them, right? So, one's in the budget process.
I said typically for construction and 99% construction um and then outside the budget process is these recurring items or one time items. Um and we've talked about this as well. You know, if we put
staffing on there have to fire people classrooms cost you so much money. You would say it wouldn't be one person on that.
So it's a big risk to take November gone through this before going back to passes in November. So right now we pass the budget, April uh March election, say the public votes yes on it. I know the number I put in the
budget. After the budget is approved in April, late April, I delivered a tax document to the township of May. This is what you should charge for Q3. They have time to do all and they're
doing their budget at the same time. So they have time to and the county gets their money. So everybody kind of gets it in time to get to fix your quarterly three and four estimates. You do in November Q4 you're getting that at the last month. >> You're going to tax them six months all
in one month. Adjust it. >> It's a big big increase. >> Um in the past we've actually said let's vote November for next school year. That was that was something we've done and now they said you can't >> do that
like only one last thing on the communication front and I'm very sure you guys are actually hit with barrage of emails which you're kindly actually replying to everyone as you can only suggestion when those particular communication goes out to ensure that we
route them all to this particular website the district website where all the information is provide them the link rather than you know spending more time putting everything back in the email again. The reason why I say that is it makes sure that our communication is
consistent and there is not too much of data here and there which actually leads to misinterpretation of some part of the communication but I know you guys are you know very much aware on this particular pro perspective but I just wanted to kind of you know give my suggestion. Thank you. >> And responses those are going on the
FAQs as well. >> Yes. Yes. Yes, we are looking to add that as part of the FAQs which will uh which will be uh added to the current website >> and that's as as you point out I get a
lot of the same questions over and over have to make the FAQs on top of trying to >> um get that out there and fix some of these things. So I know sudden some of these project public questions they go
for six months and get everything ready. Typically that's for a bond right you just you know it's coming a year ahead two years ahead for it all your documents line up and try to get those
quick question just around the logistics of the March 10th vote. Um I know you mentioned you're going to do the FAQ. What will be the options for users who are not able to make it to I think you also said they're going to double >> they can vote by mail
>> and what is the deadline or you have like the logistics how they can go through that process if they're not aware of how to do so. >> So uh the elections process is very very regimented. Um I don't control it. I don't I just give the letter saying this
is the question put it on the ballot. The county township about as well. They will do the advertisements. There's certain advertisements they have to do. Have to create the mailers. They have to send out all and print all the mail and ballots. They have those lists.
>> Um I don't know when the mail ballot date is, but I know it's coming up soon. Um and then get that out. And then there's also dropboxes. Drop those as well. We are not doing early voting. That is an option. Um we
are doing a full full day 6 a.m. 8 p.m. I know there's a town out there that only said 3 pm to 800 pm. I know that is a strategy to play. We are not playing those games. It is a full mail. Those were already registered.
They'll get their >> for the record. I got mine today. >> Yeah. >> Why no early voting? >> You have to man those positions. um and that is an option that really came out of co
and they're much more efficient now. I mean those mach but one one location for the whole town back of the high school all of that that also keeps the cost down there. Watch that.
is not affect the gym for that period. That's it. >> Um, so we covered the mailings. Did you mention a sample ballot, Nick? Will the sample val be sent? >> They'll print that out and send those out as well. >> County takes care of >> the whole town will get that.
>> So, just confirm every household will get a sample ballot. >> Oh, one more thing. And just to confirm, if say a a community member feels they should have received a sample ballot and have not, they should not follow up with you. They should follow up with the county. Correct.
>> County superintendent of elections. >> Thank you. >> Very nice job. >> We'll direct Oh, any other questions or comments for Mr. McCree for your time? I know it was long today
for my section. I appreciate it. Thank you, Nick. Board committee reports. Uh, ED policy. Dr. Gold. The Ed Policy Committee met on January 20th at 6 PM. Committee members in attendance included myself and Miss
Amanda Hill D'Angelo along with Superintendent Dr. Piso, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, Miss DeFazio. Uh, Miss Camarano, supervisor of elementary and ESL attended as a guest. During the meeting, the committee reviewed
expectations for phone use and communications during board meetings, potential changes to board report protocols, and a proposed adjustment to the board meeting location, which Mr. McCree mentioned tonight. We'll move back to Conro Middle School. The
committee also reviewed um policy and regulation updates as part of alert 236, including associated summary documents and an update to policy 6511 related to direct deposits.
Miss Camarano, supervisor of elementary and ESL, shared uh with the committee her very new exciting appointment and position as the NJTSS regional coach. This opportunity will strengthen the district's early literacy
systems by bringing current evidence-based practices related to tier one instruction, universal screening, and tiered supports back to Robinsville, aligning us with the NJTSS ER framework. The committee also received an overview
of the full day professional development scheduled for February 13, uh, 20 26 for staff members. Finally, an update was provided on ongoing work related to the gradebook practices. This includes continued conversations and planning
with teachers as well as collaboration with Robinsville High School administration to engage students in focus groups as part of the process. The next ed policy meeting is scheduled for February 17, 2026. >> Thank you. Any questions, comments for
ed policy? Not seeing any personnel. Uh, Miss Banguk is out, so I will read the report for her. Uh, the personnel committee met on January 20th at 5:00 pm in superintendent's office. The meeting was chaired by board member and committee
chair uh, Nadia Bandukta. Uh, committee members present were board members uh, Dr. Gould, Dr. Pierro, and myself. Administrators were Dr. PO superintendent Lisa Tremor HR and uh Nick Pre the assistant superintendent
and BA also attended uh was John Leger the director of technology as a guest. The committee first discussed the systems data analysis hire. John Leger uh provided information and led the discussion related to the position. Lisa Tremor then reviewed the January 2026 materials that were shared via Google
Sheets. The committee discussed the content and format of the information provided. Uh Mr. Gre led a discussion regarding permits and fundraising matters during which general considerations and current practices were reviewed. Uh Dr. Piso discussed uh device uses
during the board meetings. Uh the committee considered current procedures and potential uh improvements to best serve the community needs. Dr. Piso also led a discussion regarding possible changes to board report uh board report protocols for consideration. Uh the committee did not advise the change so
the protocols remain in place. Uh the committee further discussed the proposed change uh to the location of board meetings. Um considerations related to this proposal were reviewed. Administration proposed moving board meetings back to pond as was just discussed and they will move back there in February.
Further discussion items were identified uh including blanket approvals for 2026 2027 school year which are scheduled to be discussed at the May personnel meeting. Uh the meeting concluded with understanding that the next personnel committee is scheduled for February 17th
at 5:00 pm. Any questions or comments? N uh business. Dr. Pierro. >> Good evening. Uh the business committee met on January 22nd to review facilities, finance, operations, and planning items for the district. We began with facilities updates at the high school. The LED lighting project is
moving forward and is awaiting a site visit to finalize the scope of the work. at Sharon School. The district is still waiting for JCPNL P&L's formal action plan regarding the leaking transformer. We also addressed a failing hot water heater at Sharon. Because the unit has passed its useful life, a replacement
with a high efficiency system has been contracted. Under rental funded operations, the committee completed interviews for facilities rental manage manager position. The Canada has accepted the offer and appointment will be brought forward for the board today. We also reviewed summer planning items.
The prek bathroom project at Pond Middle school continues to advance with final specifications being completed and bids expected to be advertised in early February for summer 2026 work. On the finance side, the committee reviewed the annual bills list rotation which screen
responses to the health broker RFP and received an update on the status of the public question including recent presentations and community feedback. The annual audit will be presented was presented tonight um and red summer program pricing was approved in grants and donations. The committee accepted a
$14,000 unrestricted anonymous donation and a $1,500 donation to support the Raven Cinematic Arts Club Advisor. Security discussions include the continued pilot security strobes at front entrances. Given the projected cost, the community discussed the phased and deliberate roll out. We are spearheading a county OEM reunification
task force with volunteers identified across all public schools in Mercer County and plan launch in February to support each other in case of emergencies. In technology, the district secured a 5-year rate award totaling approximately 425,000 with a reimbursement match increasing to
50%. Finally, we reviewed the general board operations, including guidance on communications during board meetings and proposed future change to board meeting location back to Pond Road. Uh, one major initiative is for all board members to review the monthly bills at least once per year so that everyone
familiarizes themselves on school expenditures. The next business committee meeting will be on February 19th at 5. >> Thank you, Dr. B. Any questions or comments for business? >> Not seeing any. Uh, Mr. Nand, community relations.
>> Thank you. The community relations committee of um met on January 22nd, 2026 at 6 p.m. Um the meeting was attended by myself, Nadia Bandupta, Mandang Angelia, author and superintendent Patrick Pizu. No
committee members were absent. Uh superintendent Pizu presented a series of onepageformational flyers intended to support community communications regarding the upcoming public question. The committee reviewed and discussed the PA one pager, athletics and clubs one pager, student services one pager,
mental health one pager, and academic interventions one pager. Committee members provided feedback on the content, clarity, and consistency of the materials and discuss their use of for public outreach. The committee then discussed communication practices during board meetings. Superintendent Dr. Pizzer led a conversation focused on
ensuring transparency in establishing clear expectations during the meetings. A discussion followed regarding potential changes to the board report protocols. Committee members considered possible adjustment related to structure, timing, and consistency of the reports provided during the board meetings. The current protocol of
administration providing draft reports to the committee chair will be continued. Superintendent Pis also presented a proposed change to the board meeting location. The committee discussed logistical considerations, accessibility, and potential impact on the community participation. Board meetings will be held at Pond Road
Middle School effective our February meeting. The next community relation u meeting is scheduled for February 19, 2026. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. N. Any questions, comments? >> Any liazison reports? actually this so
there was a meeting held by Mercer community um but we had a conflicting dual meeting um and so when it is published via video and like their YouTube station I'll review it and present it in the next meeting but it
hasn't been sent out yet. >> Yeah. The only uh I guess big item coming up is the unsung uh era awards are scheduled for Thursday March 19th. Um registration is open for that already and I think it closes Thank you both. Anything else?
>> No public comment. Time will be allocated for public comment at this meeting. Members of the public wishing to address the board of education on agenda items must state their name, municipality, and group, if any, they represent. A member of the public shall not be permitted to speak until he or she is
recognized by the presiding officer. In accordance with district policy 0167, each comment shall be limited to three minutes. No participant may speak more than once. No dialogue between a speaker and the board and or superintendent shall extend the three-minute time limit provided herein. Live streaming of the
meetings shall be for viewing only. The public will not have the ability to participate in public session unless they are physically present at the meeting. Although the board encourages public comment, the presiding officer can interrupt, warn, and or interminate a participant's statement, question, or
inquiry when it is too lengthy and may also interrupt and warn a participant when the statement, question or inquiry is abusive, obscene, or may be defamatory. Moreover, the presiding officer can request any person to leave the meeting when that person does not observe reasonable decorum. Inherence to
protocol established by the new excuse me the New Jersey uh school boards association. The board will use this public comment period as an opportunity to listen to resident concerns but not to debate issues or enter into a question and answer session. Issues raised by members of the public may
require review and investigation and may or may not be responsive by the board or superintendent during the meeting. All comments will be considered and a response will be forthcoming if and when appropriate. And just to reiterate, every person will have one public comment this evening.
So, can I have a motion to open public comment on agenda items? All in favor? Any obstensions? All right. Public comment is open for 30 minutes. Any public comment on agenda items?
Robinsville. First question. You always have two public comments, right? Tonight we only have one. >> I don't understand. >> Clarify because last meeting people got back up and spoke at the same We're still going to have two. No, I'm saying not saying I'm saying that this is a
clarification that everybody had a chance to speak once during this public comment. The second public comment session will have an opportunity to speak again. >> Okay. Thank you. I understand. Thank you very much for clearing that up. Um so is the um my question is um the part that
we talking about the agenda is the conversation that we had that you guys had with the uh auditor and the explanation that we talked about the school question is it part of that questions or just the agenda? >> I'll take that. So it has to be on the
agenda for this portion. Uh the the budget stuff is not for approval tonight. audit is. So tonight we are approving the audit and then present it. So that you can ask about it now. >> I can ask about it now. >> The audit now. Yes. >> Perfect. Thank you very much. Okay. So I
have a couple of question that I wanted to ask you. First of all, it is a a little bit concerning about the finding that Mr. Po said about the pond six incidents and the Robinsville High School incidents and the weapons and all that. It is a little bit concerning. So
I want to know what is it that we are going to do in future that we have less of this because these are the long bigger number that we had before from before. That was my number one. Number two is the question about um did I hear correctly that we are approving a
position for the rental person who can handle the rental. So we are getting another we are hiring another person for the rental. Um that is a question. And then how much are we paying that and do we have the money? Then the next question that I have is about the
approval of the audit. Um I have sat down through the audits and obviously if you do not have the paperwork in front of you, it's very difficult to follow up the 1.4 million and the four four million in here and the 7 million there. It's very difficult. So if you are
approving it, have you guys seen it already before? And if you guys have seen it, why can't I see it? If I have any question, I can ask question now because I he was going very fast. I was actually going to ask him, give me his papers so I can read it before your
question. The questions are open. But if I am supposed to ask the question afterward, what's the question going to do? It's not going to help me. It's not going to answer any of my doubts or anything. Remember, you are asking the public for a question that you want to pass. So all the options that has to be
open for me to ask my questions. you guys have nothing to um hide so I can ask the questions. So that's my biggest problem right now and I'm very very upset about that. And also I want to say
um I want to thank you Mr. Nick. Thank you very much for answering my emails. Thank you very much for explaining everything that you could. I really appreciate it. And uh at the second part I will um I will ask my question about the conversations that we had over the
emails about the things and I hope you can put that slide up again. Um and uh I appreciate that but the only thing is I really would like you guys to answer these questions because um I don't get a chance to get the answers.
Not seeing additional public comment for agenda items. Can I have a motion to close public comment on agenda items? >> Moved. >> All in favor? Any or abstensions? Okay. Uh monthly resolutions. The superintendent recommends that the board of education approve the following
personnel education policy and business action items. No personnel appointments pending criminal background clearance where applicable any salary or siphons and full-term priority to start date. Can I have a motion? Second. Second. Any discussion? So is
Barbara and Tanya. Any discussion? Roll call, please. >> Duka, absent. >> Dr. Gold, >> Angelo, >> yes. >> Mr. Howard, >> yes. >> Yes.
>> Yes. >> Mr. Ray, >> yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. Thank you, Mr. McCree. Any old business? new business.
U just wanted to bring out that um superintendent and both president Pete and myself had a very good discussion with BAPS um around what's going on currently uh with the referendum and the meeting was attended very much by their
operating head and you know certainly their you know points who are present and also um few other members community members who are very very um very much concerned and very much be helpful with you know uh uh what they can do. The meeting went very well. Um the meeting
discussion was very much around not just going and asking for the money but we were just also trying to understand what are the areas that we can actually cooperate and borrow some best practices uh given BAPS is a very big uh facility and we are trying to understand how they run it effectively you know what are the
lessons learned that they have which we can actually share etc etc so I think we'll continue that particular discussion I just wanted to bring it up and thank the BAPS community for opening the doors for us to actually meet with them and also openingu their hearts to kind of you know share some of the best practices and thank you um
superintendent Dr. Der and also Pete for joining me on that particular journey and another meeting we also had was with the springside community um thank you again for coming in and reaching out to the public and you know coming to the people to answer their question that uh
community was uh very much wanted to kind of you know understand the situation and understand you know what they can do to help. Um it was very much well good we had a very good attendance um and I certainly had the community members tell me that it went very well and thank you for actually doing that
particular thing too. Um and I know we are also working through to have more community sessions you know apart from over and above what the school is hosting and I'm trying to attend almost all community sessions where I can to actually be of help but you know
appreciate the um administration for for staying late and being open and reaching out to all the community members. So thank you. >> Thank you. So for just because we approved the audit this evening. So the board of education approves the audit
report. It goes on to the website once the board approves it. So that's just the way it works. I would recommend it's released by the state before us. So if you know that if you're looking for the auto report, it comes out before that. So that's just the way Mr. McCree, am I getting that right? That's just the way
it works. Yeah. So our deadline to submit to the state before we actually review it. I think it's already know people have gotten a copy of it. uh it's already posted on the state website grab it that way but we'll post it on
ours and we have historical numbers going back for we'll post also the AMR which is another management report um in that same uh web page we have all the state aid numbers which surprisingly you aren't allowed to see
for other districts we post all of ours everybody can our numbers transparenc Thank you, Nick. On that one, you know, particularly hearing the question from the community, if there are people who doesn't have access digitally to the copy, if they actually approach you,
will the administration be providing a copy to them or can they do that? >> Or I'll let them take a look at one of our copies. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Um the other piece about the facilities coordinator that is coming out of the uh
facilities rental fund, correct? >> Correct. So, as Tonight you approved the facilities rentals person. Uh our facilities rentals have grown from about 150 grand to 350 $400,000 a year. Uh we also want to task this person with uh
generating more revenue in addition to the advertising revenue that we don't really have. We have a little bit in this town but school but to increase that uh posted the salary they came within range so I think it's $30 an hour. Um and to grow that great deal of
experience with this person running national camps uh dance competitions really comes in understands that those numbers that's where most of our our funds come from um and it is paid 100% by the facilities rental program so there's a little bit of a catch 22 do a
good job and you get you know program grows if not then we'll readress it with that being said take a look at the uh agenda item for personnel you actually we actually spell out the account codes.
>> See, it's not an operating budget number at fund 11. >> So, the taxpayer does not pay that >> it's in the fund 60. Those are enterprise funds. >> So, they're treated like off books, but they still get audited, right? So, the auditor will review it. We'll check it.
The next year, you'll see it in the audit. You'll see how much money it's generating. And that is all controlled by Mr. Brian Murphy. Now, we have that program growing. I I t that person you know grow it grow the program with you
great job and then we'll salaries on that they're not as constrained as we would be position but it's covered under us it's part-time position so there will be no health benefits associated with it program grows so big then you know grow
with it and that'll be incredible opportunity for this town. >> And just just a reminder to everyone that maybe doesn't know this that a lot of the great improvements we've done to the district facilities have come out of that fund that is funding itself. So all
the rental fees go right back into the schools directly. >> So uh this is something I inherited uh when I when I came here uh a little over five years ago height of COVID. Uh I think they were generating about 150,000 I I say and they would put it right into the budget.
Well, CO hits, can't rent anything. Now you have to let go of staff, fill that gap in the budget. Talking with the county, came up with an idea. Let's make an enterprise fund. Whatever it generates stays with it. What can you use the
money? Well, if it's facilities rentals, fix your facilities. At that moment in time, we had plans in the ether and discussing about fixing the dance floor at the stage. There are splinters. Kids would paint
it. The kids painted it every year to keep the splinters from like it was it was shameful quite honestly. Um for years rental money paid for that to get fixed. And now it's a dance competition. >> Now the guess what? More people want to
rent it. >> More people want to be here. Fix the lights. Pond auditorium to fix all those projectors which we get to use as well. And our to use. If not, guess what? It was on the long range facilities plan to
repair money that's being generated fixes all these things. We help pay for scoreboards. We hope for other items items that we can't budget for, but we're fixing. We plan to spend a million and a half facilities rental money
fixing the auditorium, not have the taxpayer pay for it. People are shocked at how much rent our facilities for beautiful facilities want to maintain them come back fix the lights now unfortunately the lights turn on you can
see in there okay we need to fix the carpet we need to fix the chairs give the lights again um and you know it's going to be paid so we're slowly fixing the auditorium um and I hope to have it all done in the next three years
cost the taxpayer all paid for by these rentals Of course, we'd like to raise the fees on that. So, you'll see slow increases on those fees. Make about $35,000 a weekend on these rentals. That's just for dance competitions. We can grow it. And this
is the public. Want to have a corporate event, no liquor, but a corporate event at the at the school. Love to rent it for you in the summer. We have time and space to allow it to rental in the summer. Right off the turnpike, we're cross 195.
We have nearby with hotels nearby. Help out the community. In the summer, my buildings are empty. Granted, they're being maintained and fixed. We can squeeze in a rental for corporate corporate sponsor and corporate events.
>> Thank you, Mr. >> I was just going to add that or just recap that so this rentals facility manager is really to generate revenue, right? to help us to generate re revenue and offset taxpayer. >> Correct. Correct. And it's jobs getting
too big for our current position. I need my buildings and grounds manager to >> build managers. Thank you. Any other new business? Not seeing any. Can I have a motion to open uh the second public comment on
school related items for 30 minutes? >> Moved. >> All in favor? >> I. >> All right. Same rules. 3 minutes. Floor is open. Nick, could you please put that slide up? Sorry. Who was the who was the who
motioned? Who second and Anthony? I heard. Yeah. Okay. Yep. >> Okay. Is it okay if you can put that aside? The one that says the one that >> Yes.
Okay. Because um my question is about the school question about the budget. Um so from that is right if I'm not mistaken now I have to read it from my head um that it said that at the top of the um chart it says yearly and then the
other one says monthly 2026 $56 per month or like something like that 27 is what 37 per month. So, I want to know that that $56
that was the whole time that I was trying to get all of it together. The question is how much would it be per month for 2026? I am not even talking about 2027. For 2026, how much per
month? the school portion of this money, the five million plus the 2% will be the additional money that we would be paying as what we are already paying. I don't care how much they everybody's paying. I'm just saying for a house of 385,000
that's the one that we are talking about. If they are paying let's say $1,000 per month now it's going to be 158 or is it going to be um something different? That's the question that I have that how much per month for the
next half of the 2026 we are going to be paying 2% plus the 5 million if it passes. I don't care how much that $38580,000 house was paying before $1,000. I don't care. I just want to
know the addition. How much is that addition? Is that addition that $42.95 approximately? I know that the healthcare and all that has not come in and all that. That is the question. I want to know how much more you have to pay. Not
all together. I just want to know the amount. That is my question. So is there a chart that right now you have is this the chart accurate? Is this the chart that I should go by? Like somebody's house is 480,000, somebody's house is 520,000.
So they can do this calculation question. That is the question that I have. I know that there are some people that they are putting this and that out there and you can put in the number and it comes out. I don't care. I do the calculator by myself. I like to know if
that 300 if and the and the way I put in put it in is 380,800 pays $42.95. A $480,000 house, how much? So you multiply and you divide and you get your number? That is
my question. I would appreciate if you guys come with the chart as beautiful as it is with that number. People just want to know how much per month they have to add to what they already are paid. That's it. Thank you.