e Cent the current feed is not on the one that's on says April 26th there's two different ones sorry for the delay everyone we were having some technical difficulties um but we're going to move into the budget Workshop the business administrator Patricia m will do her uh presentation good evening president by mon vice president quintella esteemed board members and the Rosel Park Community tonight is my privilege to present to you the preliminary budget for the 2024 2025 school year I am confident that your support with your support we will move swiftly towards its approval within the coming week I appreciate your patience as we worked to finalize this budget and I assure you that next year we aim to present the budget even earlier in our proceedings following my presentation I invite your valued input please feel free to share your thoughts during Public public sessions or reach out to me via email I will ensure that all questions are thoroughly addressed during our final presentation at the next meeting thank thank you for your attention and collaboration in shaping the future of our educational Community oh I'm sorry I got to point it this way okay so tonight we're going to be talking about expenditures revenues programs and services and tax levy information we first start with our expenditures okay I put the expenditures in a pie chart to just way you could see the portion of the budget that is allocated for different Services I first start with special services um six over $6 million $6.6 million represents 133% of our budget that includes special education instruction supplies related service child study team Support Services basic skills OT PT abs a speech Support Services extraordinary service child study team regular programs represents 14.8% um sorry 14.8 million of our budget in 29% and that includes co-curricular Athletics and before and after school programs Support Services 2.5 million represents 5% of our our budget and that includes attendance Health guidance media instructional staff training health benefits represents a little over $10 million of our budget 20% um and that's all the health care benefits provided to the staff Administration represents 2.8 million which is 6% of our budget General Administration superintendent B business office principles and Technology Transportation uh represents a little over $900,000 which is 2% of our um budget busing in and out of uh District regular education special education and Athletics operations and facility represents um is 10.4 million roughly 20% of our budget which includes custodial maintenance utility faculty facility projects um I just listed the expenditures I just went over with you in a list form if you prefer to look at it that way as compared to a piie chart next is our revenues so the revenue U chart that you're looking at shows last year's revenues um broken down by local taxes um on the first line you can see our local taxes um are 24 a little over 24 million which is a change of 443,000 which is 1.87% um it's a little bit less than a 2% for debt Services State resources um a little over well 23.8 million which is a change of over $2 million um and the percent of change is 99.94% from last year Federal sources um is 820,000 um Federal sources um usually you budget for 15% less um each year because you're not sure yet what the um what the approval will be on that so you anticipate a little bit of a loss because that could be a loss so that's a you know we're representing that change as ative 8% other sources um that includes interest income and semi 4.2 million which is a change of 862,5kg and in the reserves the 3.8 million that is there for the uh facilities um improvements that we're going to make I have that list a little bit later in the presentation um that will be paying for some changes that we need to do in the facilities along with the rod grants and that's the change of 218% so overall the total um re uh revenues that we're expecting is 56 a little over $56 million with a change of over 5 million and um percentage wise that's 10.65% and that list is now in a pie chart um I labeled everything with um all the all the revenue in that we're getting and it just makes you to see it a little bit on a on a broader range a little visual which is exactly what I just read off to you um the percent that you're seeing again is the percent in change not a percent of the total um anticipated grants um so every year we do get our Title One our title two title three title four funds um based on last year we received 282,000 we don't know what the numbers are for this year so we anticipate somewhere in that range um that is not part of the revenue that we just reviewed um our high impact tutoring Grant um $105,000 and that would be um that's pending approval we are probably a couple weeks away from getting that final approval that will go through the year 2024 so that will go to December climate change and culture Innovation Grant 124,000 again pending approval on that that will go the whole school year 2425 and the esa Grant um it fluctuates a annually we don't know um we estimate that to be somewhere between 3 and 8% based on um prior years okay our programs and services um this year we're happy to as you all know announced that we expanded our preschool program this was a big Initiative for the district um we did open up our three additional classrooms in April and we are anticipating somewhere between two and three additional classes to um open up in September um totaling in all 13 classes um in the district for preschool um instructional programs updates to our K12 mathematics program uh updates to our K12 Ela alignment to update to standards updates to K2 foundational literacy program um ufli phonics curriculum and Dibbles uh eth Edition um of course social emotional learning as we will continue to do that as we have in the past um as well as summer programs ESL extended uh school year Credit Recovery learning remediation and Saturday programs for instructional support that remains in place um special education initiatives um so the first one is the n2y unique curriculum this year we piloted the use of the n2y unique curriculum tools in the Middle School self-contained classes next year we are expanding this to all self-contained classrooms in the district the n2y unique is a wonderful tool tool for our students it differentiates on five different levels pulling from age appropriate materials that aligned to the njsls and the dlm Essential Elements next we have a district nurse the district the district is exploring options to hire a flow in District nurse who will also have the responsibility of riding the school bus with a group of medically fragile students who require monitoring during the bus ride currently the district contracts out at a high rate for just the daily bus ride Hiring Our Own staff to monitor our students would reduce costs while allowing for extra coverage for field trips and other activities where the nurses are pulled from their schools community-based instruction we are seeking to build a community-based instruction program to assist our students with life skills needs community-based instruction will address social emotional goals recreational goals educational goals uh communicational goals and motor goals we will be seeking assistance through ruter and the bogs Center to develop the framework and the goals of this program njcie which stands for New Jersey Coalition for inclusive education we will continue to work on creating a more inclusive environment for our students with the assistance of njcie and we are seeking to apply for further assistance at the elementary level as well speech therapists all of our speech therapists are participating in a self-guided professional development module that will assist them with better identifying and evaluating students who require communication device oh sorry I didn't mean to do that okay thought it was going to go reading interventionist Middle School in collaboration with the general education programming at the middle school the district is seeking to add a reading interventionist at the middle school level to assist students who continue to require assistance with word recognition spelling and decoding expansion of the special s special evaluation education evaluation test kits we are seeking to expand our library of special education evaluations by purchasing new test kits to evaluate evaluate speech and language motor skills cognitive AB abilities and academic abilities by expanding our library and purchasing more testing materials we can choose evaluations tailored to each child's unique needs translation services the district is looking into translation services both written and verbal to find ways to increase communication with parents from various cultural backgrounds okay Support Services um professional development Equity advanced placement Project Lead the Way instructional strategies best practices multi-tiered system of support uh social emotional learning ESL strategies virtual learning all remain in place as they have in the past okay that's not the way we're supposed to go hold on sorry about that all right we're good um professional development Equity advanced placement Institute Project Lead the Way instructional strategies best practices multi-tier system of support response to intervention social emotional learning ESL strategies and virtual learning oh I just read that I'm sorry um if you look at the picture Superman do you recognize that person I have to I had to point that out I had to point that out I didn't realize it was there until this afternoon like okay there I am okay I I didn't know that um so some of our capital projects for this year um includes the the roof the replacement of insur and the cost of $11 million HV at AC in the gymnasium in Sherman 1.1 roughly uh unit ventilator um this is for the Aldine School a little over 900,000 electrical electrical HVAC Aline which is over 1.4 and electrical HVAC Sherman um that would be a little over 1.2 um these projects are going to be funded through the rod grants um which we're approving for um submission tonight to be submitted along with the 3.8 million that was in the earlier budget that will go to um finish paying for the those projects um so local tax um Levy comparison just from um year to year from the you know the last few years um so this year we are increasing our budget by three $443,000 which is the 1.87% um and it just goes back to show you that over the years the increase in the budget um monetarily as well as the percent so local tax the impact it would be on a homeowner um and this is based on WE reached out to the town and they gave us the average uh assessed value of a home in Rosel park at $253,000 um what that means to someone whose home is Val Val at that amount would be an increase an annual increase of $111 for the year um again um if your house is valued higher it would be more than $111 that the tax would be for a home of that value $5,700 or50 $5,800 and those are the preceding years that was presented last year and that's all thank you um I'll be posting this onto um our website tomorrow morning okay the PowerPoint presentation anything I read um I'd be happy to share as well if anybody wants I you know I'm I'm happy to share that on the website as well I could put that up thank you Miss Mau we will roll into the business section agenda items one through two where oh I'm sorry Miss the public session correct thank you we're going to go into the uh business section and then we'll go into the public participation parp yeah you want to go participation first okay we're going to open the public participation then on agenda items only each member of the public may speak a maximum of 3 minutes please state your name and address for the [Applause] record Katie mcder Rosell Park uh Mrs Mau thank you so much for this presentation um I normally have things prepared and rehearsed because I'm terrible at this but we're going on the Fly because I didn't know what I was going to ask so um I'm going to start with thanks first so school nurse yay uh both my children require rescue medication and this is a wonderful change it means that the school nurse stays consistent I always got nervous when the school nurse had to go on field trips and she wasn't there um I love this thank you so much uh community- based instruction I am a graduate of the partners and policym program at BO at the bog Center at Ruckers and I couldn't think of a better partner and this is amazing and I'm super excited about that translation servic is very needed very happy happy about that um I wanted to talk sorry sorry sorry uh just a little bit about Recruitment and Retention and it seems like there's some stuff in there that will help for that and I just wanted to talk about related Services I was super disappointed last year when the occupational therapist only stayed a year she made great progress with my son little did I know that we were going to get Mr robertello who is by far the best occupational therapist my son has ever worked with and miss miss Mrs cyprien who's a speech language pathologist at Sherman is amazing but watching the two of them work together it's a little bit mind-blowing it's something I've never seen in roselt park before so they they support each other they work on skills in their they work on OT skills in speech sessions they work on speech sessions and OT sessions they come into the classroom they generalize those skills um I want us to think about what we can do to keep fantastic people in in the district like we lost a bcba recently why did she leave if it's for a better opportunity let's make Rosell Park that better opportunity right because we want to for kids like my kid having five bcbas in the past five years that's not consistent there's no consistency for him and that's what he needs without that there's no trust uh you know but progress is really limited because he's having to learn somebody new every single year so how can we as a district keep the amazing people that we have uh I forgot to talk about in two why um Mrs ma talked about it but I've been for years saying that the self-contained teachers are the hardest working teachers in this District it they have multiple grade levels multiple levels within each grade level how they do it like Mrs Stevens is amazing best special education teacher in the district I don't know how she did it and this programming is fantastic am I done am I done with my time you have 10 seconds okay well that's about it all right thank you guys thank you good evening Jackie Rosel Park I have a quick question regarding the presentation we just watched by the way thank you very much for that um thorough explanation um re regarding the extended school year and the additional programs that will be remain the same is there any uh talk about developing the esy program further from last year's pilot program where the district um moved the uh esy from the elementary school to the middle school now I know that there's currently some projects that are currently happening at Aline and most likely the esy will be in the middle school but was there any discussion on developing that program for those um Middle School to high school kids who are you know needing the esy so that's one question and then just to piggy back on uh Miss mcder um one of the things that as a cpad co-leader we've been discussing was how we can better retain our professionals and that's going to take a lot of coordination and buy in from the board when we discuss paying our teachers more paying our par professionals more currently we're at a uh I believe Rosell Park is within the low income for paying Paris and don't quote me on that but apparently we're not paying them the minimum wage so should be I mean everybody who works with our children should be paid really well but I'm urging the finance committee and all of those that vote regarding the budget to really look at that line item and just please pay our parent professionals more if we do have that ability to to make that call and our teachers and our uh service related professionals as well because they do an amazing job so that's all thank you thank you anyone else I will close the public participation ladies and gentlemen Lauren Harms is here he has arrived had to take care of my grandson sorry about that now we'll roll into business two items in their business approval of bills number one number two authorizing execution and delivery of the grant agreements I'll move it have a second second roll call please vice president constant quintella yes Susan carlstrom yes Lauren harmes yes C Meo yes Chris Monroe yes Michael Ann Regan yes president Paul bante yes thank you motion passed um those are all our items so can I have a motion to adjourn the meeting motion that was have a second second all favor I okay the next schedule board meeting will be an open session so sorry the next schedule board meeting will be an O an open session held on Tuesday April 30th at 6: PM the board meeting will be held the rzo Park High School auditorium thank you and good night everyone e