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GOOD AFTERNOON, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
WE NOW WILL BEGIN THE GARLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES SPECIAL MEETING. THIS IS TUESDAY, MARCH 29TH, 2022.
[I. Call to Order and Determination of a Quorum]
THERE IS A QUORUM.WE WILL PROCEED TO ITEM TWO, WHICH IS A PUBLIC FORUM.
[II. Public Forum]
THIS IS THE FORUM WHERE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH TO MAKE COMMENTS CAN COME FORWARD AND DO SO.TODAY, BY POLICY, WE'RE LIMITED TO DISCUSS THE ITEMS AT HAND ON THE AGENDA, WHICH ARE OUR 2022 AND 2023 BUDGET WORKSHOP.
SO WE DO HAVE A SPEAKER PRESENT, MR. BOB DUCKWORTH, WHO WILL COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME ONCE YOU'RE THROUGH WITH YOUR INTRODUCTION AND YOUR COMMENTS BEGIN, WE WILL START THE THREE MINUTE CLOCK.
THANK YOU. CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY? MY NAME IS BOB DUCKWORTH.
I'VE BEEN A MEMBER OF THIS COMMUNITY MY ENTIRE LIFE.
I'VE BEEN VERY ACTIVE IN THE COMMUNITY, HAD FOUR CHILDREN, WENT THROUGH, THREE CHILDREN, FOUR GRANDCHILDREN, WENT THROUGH GARLAND ISD, GRADUATED AND HAVE A GOOD CAREER'S BEHIND THEM AT THIS TIME. SO I'M APPRECIATIVE FOR THAT SERVICE OF THE COMMUNITY.
GOOD EVENING, TRUSTEE MILLER AND BOARD.
MY NAME IS BOB DUCKWORTH AND YOU HAVE MY ADDRESS ON YOUR CARD THERE.
I COME BEFORE YOU AS AN ACTIVE MEMBER AND PART OF THIS COMMUNITY TO SHARE MY THOUGHTS RELATED TO YOUR DISCUSSION OF THE BUDGET WORKSHOP.
AS I DO NOT HAVE A STUDENT IN GISD.
YOU'RE NOT PARTICULARLY INTERESTED OF HEARING FROM ME AS I UNDERSTAND.
BUT THIS FORUM PROVIDES ME THAT ABILITY TO SPEAK TO YOU.
TODAY'S SUBJECT IS THE 22-23 BUDGET WORKSHOP.
AS THE INFORMATION PORTION OF THE AGENDA PROVIDES NO SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR THE PUBLIC.
I SENT AN EMAIL TO YOUR SUPERINTENDENT THIS MORNING BUT HAVE NOT RECEIVED A RESPONSE.
I WILL ATTEMPT TO ADDRESS THE PARTICULAR SUBJECT, BUT WE'LL GIVE YOU A LITTLE BACKGROUND SO AS YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M ADDRESSING IS A PARTICULAR BUDGET ITEM.
HAVING BEEN A PART OF THIS COMMUNITY FOR 59 YEARS, I'M CONCERNED FOR MYSELF AND OTHER SENIORS IN THE COMMUNITY AND TAKE ISSUE WITH THE DISTRICT'S ATTITUDE.
BECAUSE I DO NOT HAVE A STUDENT IN GISD YOU HAVE INDICATED TO ME THAT YOU DO NOT WANT TO HEAR MY CONCERNS OR COMPLAINTS.
THIS PER THE LETTER FROM YOUR GENERAL COUNSEL.
I'VE BEEN TOLD TO ADDRESS MY COMPLAINTS AND CONCERNS THROUGH THAT OFFICE RATHER THAN YOU AS MY ELECTED OFFICIALS.
LET ME MAKE IT VERY CLEAR TO YOU.
EVERY ONE OF YOU EXCEPT MS. STANLEY. THE LAST TIME I VOTED FOR YOU WILL BE THE LAST TIME I VOTED FOR YOU.
BECAUSE YOU WANT OUR TAXES, BUT YOU DO NOT WANT OUR COMPLAINTS OR CONCERNS.
WE ARE AN I COMMUNITY AND I CONSIDER EVERYBODY MY AGE OR NOBODY WITH KIDS IN THE DISTRICT , YOU'RE SPEAKING TO THEM WHEN YOU SPEAK TO ME, YOU'RE DEFINING THEM AS YOU'RE DEFINING ME. YOU SAY YOU HAVE NO USE FOR THE PUBLIC WHO HAVE IDENTIFIED AS NOT HAVING ANY CHILDREN IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. AND ALL OF YOU ARE AWARE OF THAT DEFINITION.
MY RECOMMENDATION FOR THE BUDGET WORKSHOP DISCUSSION TODAY IS STOP TAXING THE GENERAL PUBLIC WHO YOUR SUPERINTENDENT AND YOU HAVE IDENTIFIED AS NOT HAVING A STUDENT IN GISD.
I PAID A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TAXES IN THE PAST 59 YEARS.
AND APPARENTLY YOU DO NOT APPRECIATE THOSE OF US WHO HAVE CARRIED THE BURDEN ALL THESE YEARS. YOU DO NOT.
YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR OUR CONCERNS OR COMPLAINTS.
STOP TAKING OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT REAL ESTATE TAX MONEY OR EITHER TREAT US LIKE PART OF THIS COMMUNITY. THANK YOU.
AND AS A NOTE. YOU KNOW, THIS IS AN OLD SAYING PROBABLY WE'VE HEARD.
IF THIS IS NOT TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS.
OK, I DON'T SEE ANY FURTHER SPEAKERS AT THIS TIME, MECHELLE.
SO WE WILL CONTINUE ON WITH THE AGENDA.
[III.A. Budget Workshop]
INFORMATION ITEMS BUDGET WORKSHOP.THIS WILL BE CONDUCTED THIS AFTERNOON BY DR.
BUT FIRST, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR SUPERINTENDENT.
DR. RICARDO LOPEZ COME UP AND OPEN THE MEETING.
THANK YOU. PRESIDENT MILLER, BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
TODAY, WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING AN OVERVIEW OF OUR FIRST RENDITION OF THE BUDGET WORKSHOP.
THE BUDGET WORKSHOP DOES GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT OUR PROJECTIONS ARE FOR THE UPCOMING
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YEAR, HOW WE'RE GOING TO BE ALLOCATING SOME OF OUR FUNDS.AND THIS IS JUST THE PRELIMINARY WORKSHOP TO GET FINAL BUDGET APPROVAL IN JUNE.
SO THIS IS THE RUNWAY, THE STEPPING STONES.
A LOT OF THE PRESENTATION THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IS GOING TO BE REPETITIVE FROM THINGS THAT YOU HAVE SEEN.
WHAT IT DOES IS IT REMINDS THE PUBLIC OF THE DIFFERENT FACETS OF EVERYTHING THAT GOES INTO OUR TAX BASE. IT ALSO LETS THE PUBLIC KNOW WHERE WE STAND FINANCIALLY, AND WE SAY IT OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR TRANSPARENCY SAKE, AND WE ALSO SAY IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN. SO THEN THAT WAY, AS MORE PEOPLE LISTEN, THEY'RE ABLE TO TO FOLLOW ALONG ON WHAT WE'RE HAVING. WHAT IS UNIQUE TO THE BUDGET WORKSHOP THAT THE TRUSTEES HAVE STARTED FOR PAST FEW YEARS IS WE START TALKING ABOUT SALARIES AT THIS TIME.
WE START TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE PROJECT AND WHAT WE HOPE TO HAVE IS A FINAL SALARY PRESENTATION FOR APRIL, AND THAT WILL LET OUR EMPLOYEES KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE GIVING THEM A CERTAIN TYPE OF RAISE, AND WILL LET THE SURROUNDING AREAS KNOW HOW MUCH WE'RE GOING TO BE GIVING. AND IT'LL BE A GREAT RETAINMENT TYPE OF AND RECRUITMENT TYPE OF DEVICE. WE'RE VERY PROUD OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN PUTTING INTO.
I WANT TO GIVE A BIG SHOUT OUT TO BRENT RINGO AND HIS TEAM.
I WANT TO GIVE A BIG SHOUT OUT TO DR.
THEY'VE REALLY COME UP WITH SOME INNOVATION ON WHAT WE'RE DOING.
THERE'S ONE THING THAT I'M GOING TO ADDRESS THAT DEALS WITH THE BUDGET THAT IS NOT IN THIS WORKSHOP. AND SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO FOR THE NEXT YEAR AND THIS GOES MORE INTO EMPLOYEE BENEFITS IS TRADITIONALLY WE GET FIVE STATE LOCAL DAYS AND I MEAN FIVE STATE DAYS AND TWO LOCAL DAYS.
WE'RE ONE OF THE DISTRICTS THAT GIVE A TOTAL OF SEVEN DAYS AND WE WANT TO INCREASE THE LOCAL DAYS NEXT YEAR TO FIVE DAYS.
SO IT'LL BE FIVE STATE, FIVE LOCAL FOR A TOTAL OF TEN STARTING NEXT YEAR.
THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE COMPENSATION PACKAGE THAT WE'RE BRINGING.
IT'S SOMETHING THAT OUR EMPLOYEES, SINCE WE FIRST GOT HERE, HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR.
IT'S A BIG BUDGET ITEM THAT EVENTUALLY TAKES HOLD, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR ADDITIONAL SUBS.
BUT THE CAVEAT THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO IT AT THE EXPENSE OF, WE'RE ONE OF THE DISTRICTS THAT YOU GET A TOTAL OF 30 DAYS EMERGENCY LEAVE IF YOU NEED IT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY INTO IT.
IT'S JUST PART OF YOU BEING AN EMPLOYEE.
IN OTHER DISTRICTS, YOU HAVE TO GIVE UP SOME DAYS TO DO IT.
AT THIS POINT, CAN'T PROMISE IT LONG TERM, BUT AT THIS POINT WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR ANY BUY INS OR ANYTHING ELSE.
SO WITH THAT, WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THE BUDGET PRESENTATION.
WHAT ALSO THE BUDGET PRESENTATION IS NOT ADDRESSING IS WHAT HAPPENED WITH TIA.
AND IT WAS A DEVASTATING BLOW TO FIND OUT THAT OUR TEACHERS THAT ARE THE MOST DESERVING AND SO HEROIC, IN THE MIDST OF OUR PANDEMIC, DID NOT GET THE COMPENSATION THAT WE BELIEVE THAT THEY RECEIVED.
WHEN WE RECEIVED NOTIFICATION THAT AS A DISTRICT, BECAUSE IT'S EITHER ALL OR NONE, WE DIDN'T VALIDATE, WE IMMEDIATELY STARTED SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS FOR WHY.
AND NONE OF THOSE ANSWERS ARE LIKE, COME BACK IN A DAY OR TWO.
AND FOR EVERY ANSWER IT LEADS TO THREE MORE QUESTIONS.
AND FOR EVERY ANSWER TO THOSE THREE QUESTIONS THEN IT'S SIX QUESTIONS.
I NEED TO APPLY DR. RINGO AND HIS TEAM, BECAUSE IMMEDIATELY WE STARTED EXPLORING HOW CAN WE FILL THE GAP, AT LEAST FOR THIS YEAR.
AND WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT ESSER FUNDS ONCE AGAIN, WE DON'T WANT TO PUBLICLY SAY WHAT WE'RE DOING BECAUSE WHAT WE KNOW IS IF IT DOESN'T GO THROUGH, IT JUST LEADS TO MORE DISAPPOINTMENT. AND NO ONE'S BEEN MORE HURT THAN OUR TEACHERS AND THEY DESERVE THE BEST.
AND I WANT TO SAY, LET'S NOT FORGET THEY WERE HERE WHENEVER IF WE REMEMBER LAST YEAR.
WHEN WE STARTED EARLY. WE STARTED EARLY LAST YEAR.
WHEN WE STARTED EARLY A LOT OF THE RHETORIC WAS LET'S HAVE A LATE START TO OCTOBER.
THEY WERE ONE OF THE FIRST ONES IN DOING A DUAL PLATFORM, BEING STRETCHED AT ALL ENDS.
WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND IS WHY SOMEBODY WOULD COMPARE 2019 NON-PANDEMIC YEAR TO A PANDEMIC YEAR THAT WASN'T EVEN ACCOUNTABLE.
AND TELL US THAT STAAR IS NOT A PREREQUISITE.
BUT GUESS WHAT? THAT'S WHAT THEY USE TO TO MODIFY AND SAY, HEY, THIS IS WHERE IT IS.
WE USED A VERY GOOD GROWTH MEASURE.
AND YOU COULD SEE IT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR WHEN THEY FIRST CAME IN WITHOUT FOUR MONTHS OF SCHOOL.
AND AT THE END OF THE YEAR, THE KIDS GREW AND OUR PRINCIPALS HONORED THEIR WORK THROUGH
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STRONG EVALUATIONS.IF YOU ARE IN THE MIDST OF THE FIGHT, YOU WOULD BE VERY PROUD OF IT.
BUT WHEN YOU'RE NOT, YOU TURN AROUND AND SAY, WELL, WE EXPECTED MORE BECAUSE WE EXPECTED A CERTAIN GROWTH IN 2019 TO 2021.
THE FACT REMAINS THAT WE WERE THE BIGGEST DISTRICT TO SUBMIT FOR TIA.
WE HAD OVER 500 PEOPLE GO IN AND SOME DISTRICTS 30, 20, 9.
THE FACT IS, IS THAT I STAND BY THE TEACHERS AND WE'RE GOING TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN.
AND I JUST WANT THE BOARD AND THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO HELP OUR TEACHERS AND WE STAND BY THEM.
AND SO IN THE FUTURE, IF APPROVED, WE'LL BE COMING FOR AN APPROVAL FROM THE BOARD FOR AN ESSER PLAN THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM THIS BECAUSE IT'S COMING FROM FEDERAL FUNDS.
LASTLY, I WANT TO ADDRESS THAT THERE SEEMED TO BE A LOT OF CONFUSION LAST WEEK FOR OUR BOARD MEETING.
WE HAD A NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WANTED TO SPEAK FOR OPEN MEETINGS.
AT THAT TIME, WE WERE HONORING A FEW TEACHERS THAT SAID, HEY, WE WANT ANSWERS.
YOU KNOW, WE WANTED TO SPEAK TO THE BOARD, BUT WE WANT SOMEBODY THAT WE COULD HAVE TWO WAY CONVERSATIONS. AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE WE WANT THE SAME THING FROM THE AGENCY.
AND AND IT SEEMED TO BE SOME CONFUSION THAT SOME PEOPLE CAME TO SPEAK AND WEREN'T ABLE TO. AND I JUST WANT TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW EVERYBODY IS FREE TO SPEAK.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE WANTED THOSE QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED.
AND WE WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT WE ARE WORKING TIRELESSLY TO IF WE CAN'T FIX THE PROBLEM THIS YEAR BECAUSE THERE'S NO APPEAL PROCESS, THEN WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT IT NEXT YEAR. WE'RE LOOKING AT THE ESSER FUNDS.
WE ARE DEVELOPING THE TASK FORCE FOR A THREE YEAR PLAN FOR TEACHER RETENTION.
THEY'RE ARE MOST VALUED PEOPLE.
THEY ARE OUR HEROES, AND WE STAND BEHIND THEM.
AND FOR THOSE TEACHERS THAT ARE LISTENING JUST KNOW WE LOVE YOU, WE RESPECT YOU, AND WE'RE SORRY YOU'RE GOING THROUGH THIS AND WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MAKE IT RIGHT.
SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO DR.
RINGO FOR OUR BUDGET PRESENTATION.
PRESIDENT MILLER BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
AND AGAIN, I CANNOT CONTRIBUTE ENOUGH THANKS TO OUR BUDGET TEAM GOING THROUGH THE BUDGET BILL PROCESS AS WE GO THROUGH IT, WORKING WITH COVID AND THE ADA FLUCTUATIONS, AS WE'VE SAID SINCE THE BEGINNING OF COVID, EXPECT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FLUCTUATIONS OF PROJECTED REVENUES OF GOING UP AND DOWN BECAUSE WHEN THERE IS AN OLD HOLD HARMLESS, WE HAVE TO BUDGET FOR WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE.
AND AS WE LEARNED TODAY THERE'S GOING TO BE SO HOLD HARMLESS APPLIED FOR THIS YEAR TO HELP US WITH ATTENDANCE AND WHAT THAT IMPACT IS, WE HAVE NO IDEA.
THE GOVERNOR ANNOUNCED IT'S GOING TO COME OUT NOW TEA WE'LL GIVE THEIR GUIDANCE ON THAT CALCULATION. WE WILL BE COMING BACK TO YOU ONCE WE KNOW MORE FOR OUR BUDGET AMENDMENT FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR AND WHAT THAT MAY LOOK LIKE.
BUT WE BELIEVE IT WILL BE A POSITIVE IMPACT FOR OUR REVENUE PROJECTIONS FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR. AND SO TODAY WE'RE GOING TO DISCUSS OUR GENERAL FUND, STUDENT NUTRITION FUND AND DEBT SERVICE FUND AND OUR PLANNING FOR 2022 AND 2023 FISCAL YEAR.
WE'RE JUST PROVIDING INFORMATION ON A TAX RATE ELECTION.
SUMMARY AND NEXT STEPS AND OPEN UP TO COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS.
FOR ANYONE WHO IS WATCHING TEXAS SCHOOL FINANCE, THERE'S A COMMON MISCONCEPTION THAT AS WE PAY MORE IN PROPERTY TAXES, SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE MORE TO OPERATE WITH.
AND UNDER CURRENT STATUTE, EVEN FORMER STATUTE AS WE PAY MORE IN TAXES, AS WE CAN SEE IN THE SEESAW EFFECT.
THE STATE CUTS US BY THAT SAME AMOUNT OF FUNDING AND MOVES THAT FUNDING AT THE STATE LEVEL TO OTHER PARTS OF THE STATE BUDGET.
AND SO THE KEY PIECE HERE IS WE LOOK AT STATE FUNDING.
UNFORTUNATELY, THERE IS NO NEW REVENUE WITHOUT INCREASING AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE OR THE TAX RATE ELECTION WITHOUT DOING ONE OF THOSE TWO ITEMS FUNDING TYPICALLY DOES NOT GO UP WITH ALL THINGS REMAINING EQUAL.
ANOTHER KEY PIECE AS WE PLAN FOR FISCAL YEAR 22-23.
THIS VISUAL, THE LAST TIME GARLAND ISD HAD A NORMAL 12 MONTH OPERATIONAL YEAR WAS 2017-18. AFTER 2017-18, YOU CAN SEE BY FISCAL YEAR WHAT OCCURRED.
FISCAL YEAR 18-19 WE HAD A TEN MONTH FISCAL YEAR.
WE CHANGED OUR FISCAL YEAR THAT YEAR TO START IN JULY VERSUS STARTING IN SEPTEMBER.
AND THEN AS WE HIT 2020, WE SHUT DOWN COMPLETELY FOR A QUARTER OF OUR OPERATIONAL YEAR WITH COVID. AND THEN WE HIT 2021, WHICH WAS THIS PAST SCHOOL YEAR / FISCAL YEAR, HOLD HARMLESS WAS APPLIED.
AND AGAIN, WHAT THAT MEANS IS IT PROVIDES A FLOOR ON THE REVENUE CALCULATIONS FOR
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ATTENDANCE DUE TO THE COVID IMPACT.AND ALSO WITH THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR THIS SLIDE, WE DO KNOW NOW THERE'S GOING TO BE A HOLD HARMLESS FOR THE FIRST FOUR, SIX WEEKS, ATTENDANCE PERIODS, MAYBE MORE.
WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE FIFTH AND SIXTH SIX WEEKS, AND WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT CALCULATION LOOKS LIKE. HOPEFULLY 2023 FISCAL YEAR WE RETURN TO NORMAL AND HAVE A TRUE 12 MONTH OPERATIONAL BUDGET IN THAT FISCAL YEAR.
AND ACROSS THE STATE, JUST SOME KEY HIGHLIGHTS WITH TEXAS SCHOOL FINANCE.
THERE'S A VISUAL OF A GUY FLYING AN AIRPLANE AND WORKING ON THE ENGINE AT THE SAME TIME.
THAT IS PRETTY MUCH WHAT HAPPENS WITH TEXAS SCHOOL FINANCE.
ACROSS THE STATE IN VARIOUS AREAS, ESSER HAS ALLOWED DISTRICTS TO RIGHT-SIZE BUDGETS THROUGH COVID. WE DO KNOW INFLATION HAS EATEN INTO HOUSE BILL 3 GAINS WHEN THAT HAD PASSED. LONG TERM PREDICTABLE FUNDING IS EVEN MORE DIFFICULT TO PROJECT DUE TO THESE LARGE FLUCTUATIONS IN ADA.
WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT TRS ACTIVE CARE IS GOING TO CHARGE US FOR THE 2023 PLAN YEAR.
THOSE RATES ARE TYPICALLY RELEASED IN JUNE FOR THE COMING PLAN YEAR AND THEN ALSO THE STAFFING VACANCIES BEING LARGER THAN NORMAL.
SOME THINGS THAT ARE ALREADY EMERGING FOR THE UPCOMING LEGISLATIVE SESSION THAT WILL START IN JANUARY OF 2023.
THE GOOD NEWS IS STATE REVENUE LOOKS STRONG.
WHEN THAT'S THE CASE, THERE'S TYPICALLY NO FUNDING CUTS TO PUBLIC EDUCATION.
WHEN STATE REVENUE IS STRUGGLING, WE'RE PREPARING FOR POTENTIAL FUNDING CUTS.
THERE'S MORE PRESSURE FOR PROPERTY TAX REDUCTIONS ACROSS THE STATE WITH ALL THE NEW GROWTH IN TEXAS, PLUS APPRAISALS INCREASING THAT IS COMING ABOUT.
THERE'S ALREADY ESSER BACKLASH BUILDING AND WE HAD A PRESENTATION ON THAT ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO THAT THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY AND PEOPLE WANT THAT MONEY.
AND SO THERE'S CONCERNS OUT THERE ABOUT HOW ESSER FUNDS ARE BEING UTILIZED AND IF THEY'RE BEING UTILIZED EFFICIENTLY.
AND THEN THERE'S ALSO THE PERCEPTION THAT SOME LAWMAKERS BELIEVE THAT THEY SOLVED SCHOOL FINANCE WITH HOUSE BILL 3.
SO EVEN THOUGH WE'RE FACING INFLATION AND FACING RISING COST, THERE IS NO STREAM TO PROVIDE NEW REVENUE FOR THAT AT THIS TIME.
AND THERE'S DISTRICT PRESSURES AROUND BUDGET UNCERTAINTY, STAFFING SHORTAGES, INFLATION, WAGE PRESSURES ARE GROWING.
AND THERE'S THE TERM OF FISCAL CLIFF BEING UTILIZED QUITE A BIT ACROSS THE STATE.
THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE'VE DISCUSSED, THE ADA UNCERTAINTY AND STAFFING SHORTAGES BEING FACED, AS WE'VE NOTED BEFORE FOR GARLAND ISD, WE'RE AVERAGING DOUBLE THAN WHAT WE TYPICALLY AVERAGE IN A NORMAL OPERATIONAL YEAR THIS YEAR AND LAST YEAR AS WE GO THROUGH COVID. AND THAT'S JUST NOT HERE, THAT'S ACROSS THE STATE, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THERE'S ABOUT 9000 EDUCATOR VACANCIES THAT CAN BE FILLED TODAY ACROSS THE STATE OF TEXAS.
WITHOUT INCREASED ADA THERE'S A FUTURE PRESSURE ON ABILITY TO INCREASE REVENUE, AND WITH THAT INCREASED REVENUE, THAT'S WHERE WE INVEST IN OUR PROGRAMS AND OUR PEOPLE.
AND WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO TURN OVER TO MS. MAYO TO GO THROUGH THE ASSUMPTIONS IN THE PLANNING.
RINGO. GOOD AFTERNOON, PRESIDENT MILLER, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, DR.
LOPEZ, WE'RE GOING TO START GOING THROUGH OUR 22-23 BUDGET PRESENTATION.
NOT MANY THINGS HAVE CHANGED SINCE WE LAST SPOKE, BUT I'LL BE SURE TO HIGHLIGHT ANY ITEMS THAT HAVE. WE DO HOPE TO BE CLOSE TO FULLY OPERATIONAL IN FY 23.
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A CONTINUED COMPRESSION ON OUR M&O TAX RATE DOWN TO $0.9053 AND OUR 98% TAX COLLECTION RATE.
AND THEN WE ALSO ARE PROCEEDING WITH OUR THREE SCENARIOS THAT WE PRESENTED TO YOU BEFORE.
SO THIS WILL BE A VERY FAMILIAR PRESENTATION.
STILL UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME IS OUR CCMR FIGURES THAT WE WILL GET FROM TEA.
ONCE WE HAVE THAT, WE'LL BE ABLE TO UPDATE OUR REVENUE PROJECTIONS.
AS WE CONTINUE TO GET GUIDANCE AS EARLY AS TODAY FROM TEA WE'LL CONTINUE MONITORING OUR REVENUE CHANGES. OUR CERTIFIED VALUES WILL BE MEETING AGAIN IN APRIL TO GET MORE CLARIFICATION ON THAT.
AND AS DR. RINGO JUST MENTIONED, OUR TRS ACTIVE CARE RATES.
WE DO PLAN FOR FY 23 THERE IS NO TRANSPORTATION REPLACEMENT SCHEDULE IN THE CURRENT BUDGET, BUT WE WILL WANT TO REVIEW THAT NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
AND WE ALSO NEED TO INCLUDE A GPS BASED TRACKING SYSTEM.
SO THIS IS A SLIDE THAT YOU ALL HAVE SEEN BEFORE.
SO IT'S JUST KIND OF A REMINDER THAT IN THE PAST WE HAVE BEGUN TO FIRM UP OUR REVENUE PROJECTIONS AND TO COME CLOSER TO OUR INTEREST INCOME FORECAST IN OUR SHARS, TO FIRM UP THOSE REVENUE PROJECTIONS JUST TO KIND OF SHARE THAT WITH YOU, REMIND YOU THERE.
AND THEN THIS IS A SLIDE I JUST WANT TO PAUSE ON FOR JUST A SECOND BECAUSE AT 12:30 TODAY, WE DID RECEIVE SOME INFORMATION THAT DR.
RINGO MENTIONED IS THAT WE ARE GOING TO RECEIVE SOME ADA HOLD HARMLESS.
SO BASICALLY JUST THE VERY HIGH LEVEL INFORMATION THAT WE'VE RECEIVED SO FAR IS THEY ARE GOING TO LOOK AT OUR HISTORICAL ADA PERCENTAGE.
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NOW, THIS ONLY PROTECTS US FOR OUR ADA PERCENTAGE.SO ANY DISTRICTS OR IF WE HAD A LOSS IN ENROLLMENT, THIS IS NOT HOLD HARMLESS FOR THAT.
SO WE HAD TRADITIONALLY EXPERIENCED ABOUT 96% OR A LITTLE BIT OVER 96% OF ENROLLMENT FOR OUR AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE.
AND AS YOU KNOW, THIS YEAR IT'S BEEN SOMEWHAT LOWER.
SO I THINK WHAT THE STATE IS REALLY HOPING TO ACCOMPLISH HERE IS TO BRING US BACK TO THOSE HISTORICAL PERCENTAGES TO EVEN OUT OUR ADA.
AND SO WE WILL BE RECEIVING THAT PERCENTAGE IT'S GOING TO BE A CALCULATION TEA DOES FOR EVERY DISTRICT.
AND ONCE WE RECEIVE THAT PERCENTAGE, WE'LL BE ABLE TO PROCEED WITH OUR ANALYSIS.
BUT BASED ON OUR TODAY 12:30 QUICK BACK OF THE NAPKIN REVIEW, WE EXPECT TO SEE A POSITIVE OUTCOME THAT WOULD AFFECT US THIS FISCAL YEAR.
AS SOON AS WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION, WE'LL SHARE IT OUT TO YOU.
BUT THIS IS GREAT NEWS AND WE'RE VERY EXCITED, AS YOU CAN SEE ON THIS SLIDE, THAT GREEN LINE, WE DID TAKE A BIT OF A NOSE DIVE INTO THE FOURTH SIX WEEKS.
AND SO HAVING THAT ADA HOLD HARMLESS FROM FIRST THROUGH FOURTH IS GOING TO BE REALLY A TREMENDOUS BREAK FOR OUR DISTRICT AND DISTRICTS ALL OVER THE STATE OF TEXAS.
I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS THAT MAY HELP.
I KNOW THEY'LL HELP ME UNDERSTAND AS WE CONTINUE THROUGH THE PRESENTATION HAS TO DO WITH THE ASSUMPTIONS THAT WERE MADE.
IN THE SCENARIOS YOU HAD A 488 VARIANCE, POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE? YES, SIR. HOW WAS 400 ARRIVED AT? IS THAT AN ANALYTICAL NUMBER OR JUST KIND OF WHAT WE FEEL LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE? IT'S A NUMBER WHEN WE TOOK OUR DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION THAT WE WERE PRESENTED WITH IN THE FALL AND WE BASICALLY LOOKED AT THAT INFORMATION, WE REALLY BELIEVE WE'RE GOING TO BE FLAT OR HAVE A LITTLE SLIGHT GROWTH.
BUT WITH THE CONSTANT UNKNOWNS THAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING, WE ALSO WANTED TO SHOW A WORST CASE SCENARIO.
SO AS YOU'LL SEE AS WE GO THROUGH THE PRESENTATION, WE DO USE THAT FLAT ADA TO BUILD OUR FORECASTS ON BECAUSE WE ARE FAIRLY CONFIDENT WE WILL REMAIN FLAT.
OK. AND THEN AS YOU TALK ABOUT THE CCMR, WE'RE STILL WAITING ON A NUMBER.
IS THAT FOR THE 21, 22 YEAR? IT'LL AFFECT THE 21-22 YEAR AS WELL.
IT'S NOT REALLY A BUDGET ITEM, NO IMPACT ON THE 22-23 BUDGET? WE WILL ESSENTIALLY TAKE THE INFORMATION WE GET FOR FOR THIS YEAR AND APPLY THOSE.
RIGHT. SO FOR THE 22-23 BUDGET, WE HAVE BUILT THAT REVENUE OUT ON THE CCMR INFORMATION THAT WE KNOW TODAY.
IF CCMR FIGURES INCREASE, WHICH WE'RE HOPEFUL, AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE'VE PUT A LOT OF EFFORT INTO CCMR OVER THE PAST YEARS.
IF THAT NUMBER GROWS, IT WOULD FURTHER AFFECT OUR 22-23 NUMBER BECAUSE WE'LL CARRY THAT FORWARD. SO IT COULD AFFECT THIS YEAR AND NEXT YEAR.
OK. AND THEN AS YOU PROJECT WITH THIS 400 VARIANCE ADA BACK AND FORTH AND THEN I LOOK AT THE PREVIOUS SLIDE.
NO THE ADA SLIDE THE ATTENDANCE SLIDE.
YES. I MEAN, THAT'S A HUGE GAP.
SO I'M SITTING HERE GOING, OH, WELL LET ME ASK A QUESTION.
DO WE HAVE A FEELING WHERE THOSE KIDS ARE AND DO WE FEEL CONFIDENT THAT THEY WILL BE BACK? I MEAN, HOW DO WE THAT'S A BIG IMPACT.
THAT'S A REAL BIG IMPACT ON OUR BUDGET BECAUSE, WELL, AS YOU KNOW.
AND THAT I THINK RELATES TO THE QUESTION YOU ASKED AT A PRIOR MEETING, IS WHAT IS ARE WE GOING TO BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE OUR OLD HISTORICAL PERCENTAGE RATES WHEN IT COMES TO ADA AND VACANCY? AND THAT I THINK THAT'S A BIG QUESTION OF THE DAY, WHICH IS WHY WE WANT YOU TO SEE THE WORST MIDDLE AND BEST CASE SCENARIOS.
RIGHT. TO KIND OF HAVE THAT PERSPECTIVE AS YOU'RE MAKING DECISIONS GOING FORWARD.
AND I'LL JUST SO THAT HELPS ME AS WE GO THROUGH THE REST OF IT, THE WAY YOU SET IT UP.
BOARD, DID YOU HAVE ANY OTHER THINGS ON THE ASSUMPTIONS? YES. TO DR.
LOPEZ, IN YOUR QUESTION ABOUT DO WE KNOW WHERE THOSE KIDS ARE? I THINK WE'RE CONSTANTLY LOOKING FOR THE STUDENTS, ARE WE NOT? SO THAT IS AN ONGOING EFFORT, AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE GOOD TO EXPLAIN THAT.
TESTING. CAN YOU TURN IT UP, PLEASE.
THANK YOU. SO THERE'S TWO FACETS TO THIS AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE.
THE FIRST ONE IS THE KIDS THAT ARE ENROLLED THAT AREN'T SHOWING UP TO SCHOOL.
WHERE ARE THEY? A LOT OF THEM, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT FOURTH QUARTER DROP THAT WE HAD, A LOT, REMEMBER WHEN OMICRON WAS AT ITS PEAK IN JANUARY WHEN WE RETURNED FROM VACATION.
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THAT'S I MEAN, WE WERE AT OUR LOWEST ADA FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR ABOUT THAT POINT.SO GETTING THEM BACK IS GETTING MORE ON TRACK.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, I TALKED TO A LOT OF TEACHERS RECENTLY.
I'VE TALKED TO A LOT OF PRINCIPALS.
AND THEY'RE SEEING MORE AND MORE KIDS BEING BACK REGULARLY RIGHT NOW AFTER SPRING BREAK.
NOW, ENROLLMENT WISE, WE'RE STILL TRYING TO TRACK KIDS WHERE ARE THEY AT? YOU KNOW, THERE'S KIDS THAT WE CAN'T FIND.
THERE'S A STATE SYSTEM THAT WHENEVER THEY GO SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE STATE OR THEY REGISTER BY LAW, WE'VE GOT TO TRANSFER FOLDERS, WE'VE GOT TO DO ALL THOSE THINGS AND SO WE CAN'T FIND OUT WHERE THESE KIDS ARE AT.
SO THERE MIGHT BE SOME KIDS THAT HAVE NEVER REGISTERED IN SCHOOL.
SO WE'RE STILL TRACKING THOSE KIDS DOWN.
BUT WHEN IT COMES TO ADA, OUR PRINCIPALS ARE CALLING KIDS THAT HAVE BEEN HISTORICALLY ABSENT. THEIR COUNSELORS ARE CALLING KIDS, STUDENT SERVICES IS CALLING KIDS.
WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO ROUND THEM UP.
THIS IS OUR ENROLLMENT HISTORY.
IT WAS ALSO PRESENTED IN OUR DEMOGRAPHICS.
SO JUST KIND OF TO KEEP THAT IN THE FOREFRONT OF YOUR MIND AND LIKE DR.
LOPEZ JUST ALLUDED TO, IS KIND OF LOOKING FOR THOSE KIDS.
AND THAT'S OUR ENROLLMENT HAS DECLINED SLIGHTLY.
THESE ARE OUR BUDGET REDUCTIONS.
SO WE WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THIS TO YOU JUST SO YOU CAN VISUALLY SEE THAT WHEN YOU START MAKING PLANS WITH SOME OF THE OTHER SLIDES WE HAVE GOING FORWARD.
WE HAD OUR ONE TIME EXPENDITURES THAT WE DID BRING TO THE BOARD LAST FISCAL YEAR THAT WE DID EXPECT TO BE REMOVED FROM THE BUDGET AS THEY ARE AS NORMAL PROCESS.
AND YOU CAN ALSO SEE OUR ICON, OUR VIRTUAL SCHOOL IS COMING OUT.
IN LAST FISCAL YEAR, THE TOP TWO VIRTUAL SCHOOL ITEMS WERE REQUESTED AS PART OF THE BUDGET DEVELOPMENT PROCESS AND THE VIRTUAL SCHOOL CONTRACT WAS REQUESTED THROUGH A BUDGET AMENDMENT IN THIS FISCAL YEAR AND IT WAS IN OCTOBER.
SO AT THAT TIME WE WERE PROJECTING ABOUT $9 MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE VIRTUAL SCHOOL CONTRACT BASED ON THE INFORMATION AND ENROLLMENT PREFERENCE THAT WE HAD HAD AT THAT TIME.
AND THEN ONCE WE BEGAN TO GET INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS, THE CONTRACT WAS DOWN TO ABOUT 824,000. AND WE CAME BACK TO THE BOARD IN JANUARY AND WE PUT THAT MONEY BACK IN FUND BALANCE. SO THAT'S WHY THAT NUMBER MAY SEEM A LITTLE SMALLER THAN YOU ALL REMEMBER.
WE HAVE ALREADY COME TO THE BOARD AND REDUCED THE BUDGET FOR THERE.
THAT WAS A BUDGET ITEM THAT WAS INCLUDED INTO THE BUDGET IN FOR THE MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT THAT IS GOING TO COME OUT NOW.
AND THEN INTERSESSION PAYROLL AND NON PAYROLL WILL BE COMING OUT OF THE BUDGET FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR. SO THAT GIVES US A TOTAL REDUCTIONS AT THIS TIME, ABOUT 7.6, $7.7 MILLION DOLLARS. AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO CIRCLE BACK AROUND AND ASK FOR SOME ADDITIONAL ITEMS. THERE IS ONLY TWO ITEMS HERE THAT ARE NEW THAT WILL BE NEW TO YOU.
ONE OF THE WELL, SOMEWHAT NEW, THE DCAD ANNUAL INCREASES IS AN ITEM THAT WE COME AND ASK FOR EVERY YEAR.
AND THEN THE INCREASED FEES FOR THE ESSA ADMINISTRATIVE GUIDANCE.
SO WE CAME TO YOU IN THE FALL.
THERE WERE SOME POSITIONS THAT WERE IN TITLE 1 THAT NEEDED TO BE MOVED OVER INTO THE GENERAL FUND. AND WE CAME AND USED FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR WE WERE ABLE TO USE SALARY SAVINGS BECAUSE OF OUR HIGHER THAN AVERAGE VACANCY RATES TO COVER THOSE POSITIONS TO COME IN THE GENERAL FUND. AND THIS WAS A BUDGET AMENDMENT ITEM THAT WE SPOKE ABOUT THIS FALL.
SO THIS IS THE REQUEST TO JUST ADD THOSE POSITIONS TO NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
IT'S A TITLE 1 COMPLIANCE ISSUE.
YES, SIR. MR. BEACH. SO MS. MAYO SO IN THE BUDGET REDUCTIONS WE PUT DOWN PRE K FURNITURE EXPANSION AND WE TOOK THAT OUT. YES, SIR.
AND THEN WE COME DOWN FOR THE GENERAL FUND RECOMMENDATIONS AND WE ADD IT RIGHT BACK IN THERE FOR 254 SO.
YOU'RE RIGHT. YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT.
AND SO THAT JUST COMES DOWN TO OUR ANALYST BRAINS AND BEING VERY LINE ITEM SPECIFIC, WE HAD A PRE K EXPANSION PROGRAM BEFORE.
WE TOOK IT OUT. WE HAVE ANOTHER EXPANSION PROGRAM GOING FORWARD AND WE'RE GOING TO ADD THAT BACK. SO YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT.
THAT IS THAT WOULD TECHNICALLY BE A WASH.
BUT JUST IN THE ESSENCE OF TRANSPARENCY, WE WANT TO PUT THOSE LINES THERE FOR YOU.
AND PUTTING THE TOTAL ONE TIME ADD THAT MEANING, THAT'S GOING TO ONLY BE IN THAT 22-23 BUDGET YEAR, IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT. YES, SIR.
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GRIFFIN HAD A QUESTION. I JUST ALSO WANTED TO POINT OUT TO YOU, I'VE LAID A FOLDER IN FRONT OF EACH OF YOU, AND IT HAS THE RECOMMENDATION ITEMS FROM THE PAST.SO AT YOUR LEISURE, IF YOU WANT TO REVIEW THE ITEMS WE HAVE ADDED AND TAKEN FROM THE PAST. OK.
THIS IS NOT MY QUESTION. BUT SINCE YOU MENTIONED IT, YOU HAVE ALL OF THEM LABELED THE SAME THING. THEY SHOULD HAVE A YEAR AT THE EACH AT THE TOP IN A GRAY BOX.
OK, THAT'S THE DEAL. SO YOU'RE TRYING TO GIVE US THE REASON FOR THE MULTIPLE ONES IS FOR A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE? YES, MA'AM. OF WHAT WE'VE DONE FOR REDUCTION AND POSITIONS? AND NON POSITION, I BELIEVE EACH YEAR HAS A POSITION AND NON POSITION STAPLED TOGETHER.
I SEE YEAH OKAY. AND THIS IS A PROCESS THAT WE BEGAN AT BOARD REQUESTS I BELIEVE TWO YEARS AGO TO ADD THEM IN A BUDGET WORKSHOP ONCE WE START TO GET CLOSER TO THE END OF THE PROCESS, TO GIVE YOU A BETTER PERSPECTIVE OF WHERE WE ARE.
OKAY. SO MY QUESTION IS, AND IF THIS IS NOT THE TIME AND WE NEED TO DELAY IT, I'M PREPARED TO DELAY.
BUT LOOKING AT THIS IS WHAT WE'VE LOOKED AT, OUR FULL TIME EMPLOYEES.
AND SO WHERE ARE THE POTENTIAL NEW POSITIONS FOR THE NEXT BUDGET YEAR? IS NOW THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT THIS OR IS THAT AT ANOTHER POINT? I DON'T KNOW. THIS IS A GREAT TIME.
THESE ARE THE BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE'VE RECEIVED AT THIS TIME AND WE DO NOT HAVE ANY NEW POSITIONS.
SO AT OUR BOARD MEETING LAST TUESDAY, WE DID BRING TO YOU POSITIONS IN THAT BUDGET AMENDMENT THAT WILL START THIS YEAR.
THOSE ARE THE TWO POSITIONS THAT WE'RE REVIEWING.
THE OTHER POSITIONS THAT YOU'LL SEE HERE, THERE'S 12 TEACHER FTES AND 19 PARA'S LISTED THERE ON THE RECOMMENDATION SHEET TWO NURSES, TWO EARLY COLLEGE LIAISONS AND TWO MAGNET ADVISORS AND A HALF TIME EARLY COLLEGE ROUTE SPECIALIST.
THOSE ARE OUR POSITIONS THAT WE HAVE AT THIS TIME AND THERE ARE NO ADDITIONAL THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED. AND I WANT TO SPEAK TO MOVING FORWARD WITH THE ACCELERATION THE RECOVERY, ACCELERATION RECOVERY PLAN.
AS WE LOOK AT THAT AND WE'VE HAD PRESENTATIONS WHERE WE HAVE DISCOVERED THAT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT'S IN THERE, SOME OF THEM ARE BEING DONE AND SOME ARE NOT.
AND SO I WANT TO TALK ABOUT HOW CAN WE EXPECT TO MAXIMIZE THAT PLAN WITHOUT LOOKING AT OUR STUDENT MANAGEMENT? BECAUSE EVERYONE IS SAYING AND HISTORICALLY IT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING AROUND THE STATE, IT'S REALLY HAPPENING AROUND ALL OF THE STATES.
IS THAT THE LOSS OF TIME AWAY FROM THE SCHOOL BUILDING, THAT OUR KIDS ARE COMING BACK NOT AT THE GRADE LEVEL THAT THEY'RE IN BECAUSE THEY HAVE HAD THIS UP AND DOWN OF BEING IN AND OUT. SO WHEN WE LOOK AT STUDENT MANAGEMENT AND I THINK WE'VE HAD SOMETHING WHEN WE'VE HAD OUR DISCIPLINE REPORTS, AM I IN THE RIGHT PLACE OR THE WRONG PLACE? ABSOLUTELY. I THINK JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, ARE WE TALKING LIKE THE BEHAVIORAL SPECIALISTS THAT WE WERE HAVING, BUT MORE AT THE CAMPUS LEVEL HELPING, LET'S SAY, THE MOST AT RISK CAMPUSES OR BECAUSE THEN THAT WOULD BE LIKE 72.
WHAT I'M THINKING OF IS BECAUSE THE LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION HAD HOUSE BILLS AND SENATE BILLS THAT WAS PASSED THAT WE NO LONGER CAN IGNORE MENTAL HEALTH AND ALL ALIGN WITH THAT MENTAL HEALTH IS WHAT HAS COME OUT TO BE SEL.
SO IF WE REALLY WANT TO GET OUR CLASSROOMS BACK ON TRACK, THEN AT SOME POINT AND WE'VE SAID IT HERE THAT WE WANT TEACHERS TO TEACH AND NOT BEING INTERRUPTED BY OTHER THINGS.
BUT AGAIN, WE'RE RECOGNIZING THAT OUR STUDENTS HAVE SPECIAL SITUATIONS AND SO WE CAN'T NECESSARILY OVERLOOK IT.
SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THE BILLS THAT HAVE BEEN PASSED IN THE LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION, IT TALKS ABOUT HOW WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE ATTENTION TO MENTAL HEALTH.
AND I THINK HOW THAT'S TRICKLING DOWN TO SCHOOLS AND DISTRICTS HAS BEEN THROUGH EITHER SEL COORDINATORS AND BEHAVIOR SPECIALISTS.
I DON'T KNOW IF I NECESSARILY LIKE THE WORD BEHAVIOR SPECIALIST, BUT IT IS WHAT IT IS.
SO MY DEAL IS, AS WE LOOK AT TRYING TO COMPLETE THAT PLAN,
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IS THERE A POINT THAT WE CAN START? I'M NOT SUGGESTING NECESSARILY THAT WE ARE PREPARED BUDGET WISE TO INTRODUCE 72.BUT I THINK WHEN WE LOOK AT THE DATA THAT WE'VE BEEN PROVIDED FROM OUR DISCIPLINE AND OUR STUDENT SERVICES AREAS, WE KNOW THAT RIGHT NOW OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND OUR HIGH SCHOOLS, AND SOMEHOW THAT'S A TOTAL OF 20.
I THINK THAT'S RIGHT. IF MY MATH, YOU KNOW, 13.
CLOSE. SO I JUST WANT TO PUT THAT ON THE TABLE.
I DON'T KNOW IF OTHER BOARD MEMBERS BASICALLY FEEL THAT SAME WAY, BUT SEL HAS TO RAISE TO, WE HAVE TO TAKE IT TO A LEVEL THAT IS A PRIORITY OF SOMEONE.
AND THEN THE BEHAVIOR SPECIALISTS NEED TO BE A PRIORITY OF SOMEONE.
WE'VE BEEN DOING A GREAT JOB WITH WHAT WE'VE HAD, BUT IF WE ARE WANTING TO ADDRESS AND TRY TO COMPLETE THE BRILLIANT PLAN THAT YOU AND YOUR STAFF HAS WORKED ON, I JUST WANT TO THROW THIS OUT THAT THIS SHOULD BE THE TIME I BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD CONSIDER THOSE TWO AREAS JUST FOR THE SUCCESS OF OUR CHILDREN.
I'D LIKE TO PIGGYBACK JUST A SECOND, DR.
AND I KIND OF, I WOULD ECHO THAT, AND I'M GLAD MS. GRIFFIN BROUGHT THAT UP BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TALKED, I THINK, SEVERAL MEETINGS IN A ROW NOW ABOUT TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WAYS TO ALLOW TEACHERS TO DO MORE TEACHING AND HAVE MORE TIME PLANNING AND JUST BUY THEM SOME MORE TIME IN CLASS TO BE THE TEACHERS THAT THEY ARE. AND I KNOW THROUGH TIME THERE MAY HAVE BEEN SOME DISTRACTIONS THAT HAVE CREPT INTO THEIR DAILY ROUTINE AND SOME THINGS THAT HAVE KEPT THEM FROM BEING AS EFFECTIVE AS I KNOW THEY WANT TO BE.
SO THE DISCIPLINE FACTOR, ESPECIALLY COMING BACK FROM COVID, SO I HEAR HAS REALLY RAMPED UP. AND YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL, WE HAD BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT SPECIALISTS, MS. GRIFFIN, THEY WERE CALLED A COACH WITH A PADDLE.
[LAUGHTER] BUT THINGS ARE MORE COMPLICATED NOW AND EVERYTHING IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT.
THE SIMPLE WAYS ARE GONE AND OUR KIDS HAVE SUCH HUGE NEED.
SO IF THERE ARE MORE EFFECTIVE WAYS, DR.
LOPEZ I THINK TWO OF YOUR BOARD MEMBERS ANYWAY WOULD BE RECEPTIVE TO SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
MR. BEACH. JUST TO KIND OF PIGGYBACK ON WHAT BOTH OF YOU HAVE SAID ABOUT THIS, WHICH I AGREE 100% WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
YOU KNOW, TOO, WE ALSO, AT ONE POINT IN THIS DISTRICT HAD FOUR ATTENDANCE ADMINISTRATOR AND I'M SITTING HERE AND I'M LISTENING TO THE BUDGET TODAY ABOUT ADA.
AND A LOT OF TIMES THE STUDENTS THAT ARE OUT THERE THAT ARE NOT COMING TO SCHOOL AND WHEN THEY DO COME ARE BEHAVIORAL ISSUES.
AND IT COULD BE MENTAL HEALTH, IT COULD BE SOMETHING WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, THAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT. BUT WE HAD ATTENDANCE ADMINISTRATORS OUT THERE THAT WERE BEATING ON THE DOORS AND THEY WERE OUT THERE FINDING THOSE KIDS AND THEY WERE GETTING THEM BACK IN SCHOOL OR THEY WERE BEING FINED.
AND SO THAT HAS GONE AWAY, AND WE'RE NOT DOING THAT ANYMORE.
I KIND OF KNOW WHO THE SENATOR WAS THAT KIND OF DID AWAY WITH THAT.
I HATE TO SEE THAT PROGRAM GONE AWAY BECAUSE I THINK THAT PUTS TEETH IN THE DISTRICT THAT WE CAN GET KIDS BACK IN THE SCHOOL WHERE THEY NEED TO BE INSTEAD OF WALKING THE STREETS.
AND TO AGREE WITH WHAT YOU GUYS ARE SAYING, IT'S VERY, VERY TOUGH WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO BALANCE A BUDGET AND ADA IS ONE OF OUR MAJOR SOURCES WE HAVE TO FIND A SOLUTION ABOUT GETTING THOSE KIDS THERE AND WHATEVER KIND OF PROBLEM THEY MAY BE HAVING.
AND, YOU KNOW, AND A START JUMP OF THE BEHAVIORAL THING IS I KNOW THAT MARY GARCIA, THE ONE MAN PROGRAM OVER THERE, ONE SHOW PROGRAM WITH NOW SHE HAS FOUR LADIES HELPING HER.
BUT IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE GET THAT PROGRAM UP OFF THE GROUND AND GOING, BUT WE CAN'T FUND EVERYTHING.
SO WITH THAT COMING ON BOARD, IF THAT DOES COME ON BOARD, SOMETHING ELSE MAY HAVE TO GO.
THANK YOU. I JUST WANT FROM SOME CLARITY AND SOME INSIGHT.
I THINK, REMEMBER, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT TRUANCY OFFICERS.
IS THAT LIKE KIND OF THE TRUANCY PROGRAM HERE? THAT'S WHAT WE USED TO HAVE WHEN I GREW UP.
AND A LOT OF THOSE THINGS HAVE GONE BY THE WAYSIDE, ESPECIALLY SINCE WHEN YOU TAKE PEOPLE TO TRUANCY COURT, THEY NO LONGER ARE FINED OR HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
AND IT BECAME A BURDEN, MORE OF A BURDEN TO DO ALL THE PAPERWORK AND GO THERE AND NOTHING HAPPENED TO THE CHILDREN. RIGHT.
SO SOME THINGS HAVE TO CHANGE THERE.
SO I JUST WANT SOME CLARITY WITH THAT.
THE SECOND THING, WHAT I'M HEARING.
WHAT I'M HEARING THE BOARD SAY IS THEY DON'T WANT AN ISOLATION ROOM LIKE ISS TO SUSPEND A KID. AND THE REASON WHY IS ANYBODY LISTENING I DON'T WANT CONFUSION THAT LET'S GET THESE
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BEHAVIORAL KIDS AND WE HAVE A BUNCH OF BEHAVIORAL LET'S GET THEM OUT OF THE CLASSROOM AND JUST TO PULL THEM OUT, THIS IS MORE ABOUT UNDERSTANDING.AND I KNOW MS. GRIFFIN USES MY WORDS AND TELLS ME.
YEAH. KIDS HAVE TO LEARN TO SCHOOL AGAIN.
RIGHT? BUT FIND OUT THE DEEPER ISSUES.
YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON AT HOME.
THERE'S A LOT TO IT AND IT'S A VERY COMPLEX THING.
AND I WILL SAY THAT WE WILL SCRUB THE BUDGET TO LOOK AT IT.
NOW, YOU DID BRING UP A VERY IMPORTANT POINT, ALL OF YOU.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR TIME FOR TEACHERS.
OUR HIGH SCHOOLS ARE DOUBLE BLOCKED.
SO THEY HAVE THE CORE CLASSES HAVE ESPECIALLY A CONFERENCE AND THEN A PLANNING TIME.
AND WE'RE LOOKING TO DO THAT AT MIDDLE SCHOOLS NEXT YEAR.
SO WHICH MEANS ADDITIONAL STAFFING.
SO WE'RE SCRUBBING AND LIKE YOU SAID, WE'RE CLOSING SOME THINGS TO OPEN OTHERS.
AND THEN WE'RE EXAMINING HOW THE MASTER SCHEDULE WORKS FOR ELEMENTARY SO THEY COULD HAVE THAT PLANNING TIME AS WELL.
WE BELIEVE IF PEOPLE CAN GET TOGETHER AND WORK TOGETHER AND HAVE MORE TIME TO PLAN, THAT'S LESS LOAD, THEY HAVE TO NOT ONLY TAKE HOME, BUT THEY'RE BETTER PREPARED BECAUSE THEY WORK TOGETHER ON SOMETHING AND WE ALL KNOW WE'RE BETTER TOGETHER.
SO WE'LL BE LOOKING AT ALL THOSE FACETS TO HELP STRENGTHEN TEACHING PEDAGOGY AND THE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE.
MR. PRESIDENT, IF I COULD JUST FINISH A THOUGHT, I LEFT IT HANGING THERE A LITTLE BIT? IS I SEE THESE ADDITIONAL BEHAVIORAL SPECIALISTS.
I SEE LIKE AN SEL, THE COORDINATOR TYPE THING AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL.
BUT WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HELPING CAMPUSES, I SEE THESE INDIVIDUALS REPORTING TO SOMEONE IN CENTRAL OFFICE, BUT THEY ARE HOUSED ON THAT CAMPUS BECAUSE THEIR TASK IS TO CHANGE THE CULTURE AND THE CLIMATE OF THAT SCHOOL.
AND THE ONLY WAY TO DO THAT IS THAT THEY ARE A PART OF THAT CAMPUS AND UNDERSTAND AND NOT THAT THEY ARE HERE AND SWITCHING BACK AND FORTH.
I KNOW THIS IS A BIG ASK, BUT I JUST ASK THAT YOU ALL LOOK, LET THE DATA GUIDE YOU IN TERMS OF WE HAVE THE DISCIPLINE REPORTS NOW THAT ARE AT A DIFFERENT TYPE OF FORMAT.
SO LET THE DATA LEAD YOU AND COME BACK AND SEE WHAT'S THE BEST THING THAT WE CAN BASICALLY DO. THANK YOU.
SO I'M NOT DISAGREEING WITH ANYTHING THAT'S BEING SAID.
BUT I THINK THAT FOR ME, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE CLARIFICATION BECAUSE WHEN I HEAR IT, I DO BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.
AND IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, IN OUR LAST BOARD MEETING, WE SIGNED UP TO SPEND A PRETTY HEALTHY AMOUNT OF MONEY TO MAKE MENTAL HEALTH ACCESSIBLE AT NO CHARGE TO OUR KIDS ON CAMPUSES. BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW MENTAL HEALTH AND SEL ROLES TOGETHER, AND THAT MAKES ME UNCOMFORTABLE. AND SO FOR A LOT OF PARENTS AND FOR ME PERSONALLY, I THINK WE NEED SOME EDUCATION AS TO WHAT THAT IS.
SO I'M JUST GOING TO PUT THAT OUT THERE.
AND I THINK YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
AND IT'S THE WAY THE BILLS WERE WRITTEN AND DISTRICTS THAT DIDN'T HAVE STAFF READY TO DEDICATE TO ONE OR THE OTHER, THEN THEY ARE HITTING AND MISSING AND DOING THINGS.
AND SO I THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION.
IN MOVING FORWARD AS WE PLAN IT, HOW DO WE SEE THIS? AND FROM THE DIFFERENT SOURCES, SEL IS TECHNIQUES AND DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT AND THE BEHAVIOR SPECIALIST ARE MORE INDIVIDUALIZED.
BUT AGAIN, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT THE TEAM CAN BRING BACK IN TERMS OF WHAT THEY ASSESS. SO THANKS.
AND I AM THE CULPRIT IN THIS, SO I WILL OWN THE PROBLEM, BUT WE DO HAVE A COUPLE OF BOARD MEMBERS THAT HAVE A LITTLE TIGHT TIME FRAME, SO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON WITH MS. MAYO, UNLESS Y'ALL HAVE AN OBJECTION.
OKAY. GO AHEAD MS. MAYO. WELL THAT'S A WRAP.
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. JUST KIDDING.
[LAUGHTER] YES, SIR. DULY NOTED.
ONE THING THAT WE HAD BY BOARD REQUEST WAS A REALLOCATION.
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, THERE WAS A NMSI BOARD, A NMSI ITEM APPROVED FOR THE BOARD.
THOSE DOLLARS, THIS IS HOW THEY REPRESENT CURRENTLY IN THE BUDGET AND THE ITEMS THAT THEY WERE DISPLAYED TO.
THERE WAS SOME FUNDING THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE BOARD AND THEN THERE WAS SOME FUNDING DEDICATED FROM ACADEMICS, BASE BUDGETS IN ORDER TO MAKE THIS PROGRAM MOVE FORWARD.
BUT WE ARE TAKING THAT FULL AMOUNT AND PROPOSING A REALLOCATION FOR ACHIEVEMENT BY DESIGN BUDGET. AND HERE'S THE LINE ITEMS THAT THEY WILL BE REALLOCATED TO.
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THIS IS GOING TO BE PRESENTED IN THE NEXT DAC MEETING BY ADVANCED ACADEMICS AND SO IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT.WE DO HAVE THE DEPARTMENT HERE IF IT'S A SPECIFIC PROGRAM OR RELATED QUESTION.
I HAD ASKED THIS TO BE HERE TODAY AND IT APPEARS WE'RE ACTUALLY EXPANDING THE PROGRAM NOW. NMSI OBVIOUSLY WAS MAINLY MATH AND SCIENCE.
WE'RE NOW EXPANDING IT TO THE SOCIAL WELL, I'LL LET THE DEPARTMENT SPEAK TO THAT PROGRAMMATIC CHANGE.
YES, IT WILL INCLUDE ALL AP COURSES.
AND THE THING I TALKED ABOUT LAST TIME WAS THE CELEBRATIONS.
ARE WE PLANNING TO HAVE CELEBRATIONS AGAIN? WE WILL BE DOING CELEBRATIONS.
BACK WHEN WE DID THE BIG PEP RALLIES, IT WAS WHEN WE WERE HANDING OUT CHECKS TO STUDENTS BASED ON THEIR PERFORMANCE. WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE DOING THE GRADUATION MEDALS AND THE CERTIFICATES FOR EVERY STUDENT THAT ACHIEVES A QUALIFYING SCORE AND INCLUDING THOSE IN CAMPUS END OF YEAR ACADEMIC CELEBRATIONS.
AND IT APPEARS THERE ALSO WILL BE REWARDS FOR THE TEACHERS, TOO.
YES. AND SO WHEN WE INCLUDE NOW THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, IS THAT THE WHOLE FACET NOW? BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, MATH.
IT'S TO MAKE SURE WE'RE COVERING EVERY AP TEACHER AND EVERY AP.
SO EVERY AP COURSE IS INCLUDED IN INCENTIVE PAY, IN STIPEND AND IN STUDENT PERFORMANCE.
THANK YOU. JUST LOOKING AT THE REALLOCATION.
IT APPEARS THAT UNDER THE OLD NMSI BUDGET, IT'S THE EXACT SAME AMOUNT.
CORRECT? BETWEEN THE TWO? IT IS. BUT UNDER THE OLD NMSI BUDGET, OVER HALF OF IT WAS GOING FOR CONSULTANT FEES, CORRECT? YES, WELL OVER HALF.
AND OUR TEACHERS WERE ALLOCATED ABOUT $302,000 DOLLARS IF MY MATH IS RIGHT, UNDER THE OLD BUDGET, WE'RE UNDER THE ACHIEVEMENT BY DESIGN BUDGET THE ONLY TYPE OF AND THEY ARE NOT REALLY CONSULTING FEES, BUT WHAT'S GOING DIRECTLY TO THE COLLEGE BOARD IS LESS THAN HALF OF WHAT WAS GOING TO CONSULTANT FEES BEFORE, CORRECT? WELL, THE COLLEGE BOARD FEES ARE GOING TO BE BASICALLY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
AND BUT THERE WILL NOT BE ANY CONSULTANT FEES FOR THE COLLEGE BOARD, WHICH WE CURRENTLY PAY FOR.
TUNE OF ABOUT $735,000 DOLLARS UNDER THIS ONE.
SO IT'S THE SAME AMOUNT OF EXPENDITURES THAT THE DISTRICT IS GOING TO USE, BUT HALF THE MONEY IS GOING TO END UP IN THE HANDS OF OUR TEACHERS AS OPPOSED TO SOME OUT OF THE DISTRICT CONSULTANT, CORRECT? THAT IS CORRECT. WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT.
WE DON'T, WE ARE NOT ABANDONING THE FOUNDATIONAL PIECES THAT WE TOOK ON WITH NMSI STUDY SESSIONS, CELEBRATING STUDENTS, TEACHER TRAINING.
WE WANT TO CONTINUE THOSE AND WE WANT TO EXPAND THOSE.
AND AS TRUSTEE JOHNSON SAID, KEEP THAT MONEY IN-HOUSE AND IMPACT ALL OF OUR TEACHERS INSTEAD OF JUST SELECT TEACHERS.
SO WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE GLADIATOR SESSIONS? WELL, WE'VE, DUE TO COVID, WE'VE TRANSITIONED AWAY FROM FACE TO FACE.
AND NMSI ISN'T CURRENTLY OFFERING FACE TO FACE.
RIGHT. WE'VE BEEN DOING VIRTUAL.
SO DEPENDING ON WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE WORLD AND WHERE WE STAND AND THE AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES, ONE OF THE THINGS WE ALWAYS STRUGGLED WITH, WITH GLADIATOR SATURDAYS WAS PERSONNEL AND HAVING A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF TEACHERS.
AND SO THAT REQUIRED US TO REACH OUT TO OTHER DISTRICTS AND RECRUIT THEIR TEACHERS.
SO IT WOULD BE DEPENDENT UPON THE AVAILABILITY OF TEACHERS OUTSIDE OF OUR DISTRICT, INCLUDING OUR TEACHERS, IN ORDER TO REPLICATE WHAT WE HAD DONE PREVIOUSLY WITH GLADIATOR SATURDAYS. DO YOU SEE A COMPONENT WHERE UNDER NMSI THEY BROUGHT IN AND THAT WAS A GOOD PORTION OF THE FUNDS MR. JOHNSON WAS REFERRING TO THE SIGNIFICANT DOLLARS WHERE THEY BROUGHT IN THE LITERALLY THE TOP AP TEACHERS FROM THE COUNTRY.
I WAS ALWAYS SHOCKED WHERE THEY CAME FROM.
THEY HAD FLOWN IN FROM LITERALLY EVERY STATE TO TEACH OUR KIDS AND THESE WERE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THE AP TEST OR AP SCORES.
HOW DO WE ASSIGN CORRECT THE APPROPRIATE TEACHERS? BECAUSE WE WOULD HAVE OUR OWN TEACHERS, OUR OWN AP, HEARING GOING TO THOSE SESSIONS I SAT WITH THEM BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO HEAR THESE AP TEACHERS.
HOW DO WE MAKE UP FOR THAT? WELL, THE WORLD HAS CHANGED DUE TO COVID.
SO ONE THING THAT THE COLLEGE BOARD HAS BROUGHT OUT, THEY NOW HAVE THEIR OWN LMS,
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BASICALLY WITH AP CLASSROOM, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN YOUTUBE CHANNEL WHERE THEY ARE LEVERAGING THOSE SAME TEACHERS AND THEY'RE PROVIDING ONLINE LESSONS EQUIVALENT TO WHAT WE WOULD HAVE FACE TO FACE.AND YOU CAN NEVER WITH VIRTUAL REPLACE FACE TO FACE BUT THAT EQUIVALENT OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THIS TOPIC IN THIS COURSE.
THIS IS HOW WE TEACH THIS IS HOW WE PREP STUDENTS FOR THE EXAM.
OKAY. MS. MAYO, CONTINUE. YES, SIR.
SO THESE ARE OUR GENERAL FUND SCENARIOS.
THEY'RE VERY SIMILAR TO THE ONES WE SAW IN THE PAST.
WE JUST ADDED THAT ONE, THOSE TWO ITEMS THAT WE SHARED WITH YOU JUST A MOMENT AGO.
SO OUR BOTTOM LINES ARE BASICALLY THE SAME IN THESE PROJECTIONS.
AND THEN AGAIN, WE'RE SHOWING OUR WORST MIDDLE AND BEST CASE SCENARIOS HERE FOR YOUR PERSPECTIVE. I DO WANT TO POINT OUT AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT MORE, BUT WITH OUR HOLD HARMLESS GREAT NEWS THAT WE GOT TODAY AND THEN OUR UNFORTUNATE HIGHER THAN AVERAGE VACANCIES WE DO EXPECT TO MAINTAIN OR TO BUILD BACK SOME OF THAT NEGATIVE 41 MILLION THAT YOU SEE THERE FOR 21-22.
AND SO WE ARE GOING TO BE GETTING CLOSER TO FLAT ON THAT NUMBER AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE YEAR. SO THAT WILL GIVE YOU SOME KIND OF PERSPECTIVE AS WE MOVE THROUGH SOME FUTURE DECISIONS. MS. MAYO, ON THAT SLIDE.
YES, SIR. WITH RESPECT TO OUR EXPECTATION OF A NORMAL YEAR, MAYBE IN 22-23. YES.
WITH 84% OF OUR EXPENDITURES BEING SALARY AND PERSONNEL DRIVEN, GIVEN THE FACT THAT WE HAVEN'T COME ANYWHERE CLOSE TO KIND OF 100% OPERATIONAL FULFILLMENT WITH RESPECT TO FILLING JOBS AND SO FORTH.
THERE'S A BIG NUMBER THAT HAS BEEN SAVED EVERY YEAR DUE TO COVID.
I CALL IT SAVED. IT'S JUST NOT SPENT WE DIDN'T SAVE IT.
SORT OF UNFORTUNATE SAVE, YES.
WE DIDN'T SPEND IT FOR THOSE ITEMS. AND THEN DO YOU KNOW HOW BIG THAT NUMBER PROBABLY WILL, CAN YOU GUESS AT HOW BIG THAT NUMBER WILL BE FOR THIS OPERATING YEAR? HOW MUCH OF THAT SAVE APPROXIMATELY IS GOING TO BE? AND THEN HOW DO YOU PLAN A NEXT YEAR BUDGET ITEM IN THE FACE OF THE VACANCIES, TEACHER SHORTAGES, THE VERY HARSH DIFFICULTY IN FILLING POSITIONS? I MEAN, WHAT IS THE EXPECTATION THERE? THAT IS THE BIG ITEM, THE BIGGEST ITEM THAT WILL DRIVE OUR BUDGET.
I DON'T WANT TO CALL THEM SAVES, BUT THERE'S ITEMS THAT WE NEED TO BE SPENDING THAT HAVE TO DO WITH TEACHERS THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO SPEND BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE THE TEACHERS TO SPEND IT.
SO THAT FOR NEXT YEAR TO BE FULLY OPERATIONAL AND FULLY EFFECTIVE MY UNDERSTANDING IS WE WOULD NEED TO APPROACH SOME KIND OF FULL STAFFING.
SO WHERE DO WE STAND ON KIND OF GUESSING WHERE ALL THAT'S GOING TO COME OUT? THAT'LL HELP ME AS WE GO THROUGH THE REST OF THE PRESENTATION JUST TO KIND OF KNOW WHAT IT IS YOU DO EXPECT.
SO I'LL I THINK THERE'S TWO QUESTIONS THERE.
SO I'M GOING TO ANSWER THEM BOTH AND THEN LET ME KNOW IF YOU.
SO FOR THIS, YES, WE CAN MAKE GUESSES AND THEY'RE VERY EDUCATED AND ESPECIALLY BEING THIS FAR INTO THE YEAR, WE CAN SEE HOW MANY VACANCIES WE HAVE, WHAT IS OUR PAYROLL LOOKING LIKE EVERY MONTH. AND SO WE DO EXPECT TO SEE SOME VERY SIMILAR TO LAST YEAR.
SO SOMEWHERE IN THE $20 MILLION DOLLAR RANGE BASED ON OUR CURRENT VACANCIES AND WHAT WE'VE SEEN EVERY MONTH BECAUSE BEING WE JUST GOT DONE WITH JANUARY, I THINK WE JUST CLEARED FEBRUARY PAYROLL.
SO WE DO HAVE A LOT OF DATA, SO WE FEEL REALLY CONFIDENT ABOUT THAT.
THE NON PAYROLL SAVES ARE WHERE WE BEGIN TO GET INTO A LITTLE BIT OF AN UNCERTAIN AREA, BUT WE'RE MONITORING THOSE REALLY CLOSE.
AND I THINK LAST YEAR THEY WERE MAYBE AROUND 2 TO $3 MILLION DOLLARS.
AND SO WE'LL KEEP MONITORING THAT.
SO FOR LET'S SAY FOR ASSUMPTION PURPOSES, IF WE LOOK AT THAT 41 AND SO WE ADD BACK 20 MILLION THERE.
AND THEN IF YOU'LL JUST REMEMBER THAT CURRENT BUDGET IS BUILT ON WHAT WE EXPECTED AT FALL SNAPSHOT. SO REMEMBER WAY BACK IN OCTOBER AND HOW MUCH WE'VE LEARNED SINCE THEN, WE TOOK OUR ADA. YOU CAN SEE IT'S 46,800.
THAT'S PRETTY LOW BACK THEN DUE TO THAT INTEREST IN VIRTUAL SCHOOL AT THE TIME.
AND WE DIDN'T EVEN THINK WE WERE GOING TO RECEIVE ADA FOR THOSE CHILDREN AT ALL THAT ATTENDED. WE TOOK ALL OF THAT OUT OF THE BUDGET BECAUSE WE ARE REQUIRED TO DO OUR PEIMS REPORTING TO THE STATE AND WE'RE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THOSE FIGURES.
WE DID LEARN THAT, THAT INFORMATION ISN'T GOING TO BE AVERAGED OUT THROUGH FIRST THIS YEAR, SO WE HAVE A LEEWAY THERE.
AND THEN WE KNOW WE HAVE GAINED SOME OF THOSE STUDENTS BACK BECAUSE THEY HAVE COME BACK TO SCHOOL IN MANY CASES AND THIS INFORMATION THAT WE LEARNED TODAY.
SO AS WE GET ALL OF THIS INFORMATION, WE'RE MOVING CLOSER TO ZERO IN THAT.
AND SO I EXPECT WE'RE GOING TO BE VERY CLOSE TO MEETING THE BUDGET NOW.
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IT IS YOU KNOW, I'M GOING OUT ON A LIMB SAYING THAT.BUT IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO WHAT TEA TELLS US OUR HISTORICAL PERCENTAGE IS GOING TO BE.
IF IT'S WHAT WE EXPECT IT TO BE, WE'LL BE IN A GOOD PLACE.
IF IT'S NOT LIKE WHEN WE GOT FIRST SIX WEEKS HOLD HARMLESS AND WE THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT NEWS AND THEN THEY CAME OUT WITH ALL THESE CAVEATS AND THEN WE DECIDED, OKAY, WELL, BASED ON THOSE CAVEATS, WE LIKELY WON'T EVEN GET IT.
AND SO WE JUST HAD THE WAY WE GOT AN EMAIL TODAY FEELS VERY FAVORABLE.
SURE. AND SO AS FAR AS THE FUTURE, YOUR PLANNING AND DR.
BROWN IS HERE, SHE MAY BE BETTER TO SPEAK TO THIS.
SO WE HAD STAFFING MEETINGS THAT HAD GONE ON IN FEBRUARY.
AND SO WE ESSENTIALLY TAKE ALL THAT INFORMATION AND THAT'S HOW WE BUILD OUR BUDGET.
BUDGET THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, THE BOARD'S LOOKING AT FOR 22, 23, WHAT HOW CLOSE TO FULL EMPLOYMENT, LET'S CALL IT, DO YOU THINK IS THAT BUDGET BASED ON? IT'S NOT 100% OR IS IT? WELL, IT IS BASED ON 100%, OKAY BUT SO HERE IS.
SO WE ARE GOING TO HAVE ABOUT PROBABLY 4 TO 6%.
IF EVERYTHING WAS GREAT AND WE WERE BACKED BEFORE COVID HAPPENED, THERE'S GOING TO BE MAYBE $6 MILLION DOLLARS THERE THAT WE ALREADY KNOW IS GOING TO BE SAVINGS.
AND SO WITH THAT, IN THE BACK OF YOUR MIND, YOU COULD GO AHEAD AND THAT'S CERTAINLY A NUMBER THAT YOU COULD PLAN ON ADDING BACK.
SO FOR 22, 23, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GOING TO BE INTO THE NEGATIVE 20S.
IF WE GAIN OUR ADA BACK, WE'RE GOING TO BE IN EVEN A LITTLE BIT BETTER PLACE.
SO WITH RESPECT TO THAT, IN THE 21-22 BUDGET, DIDN'T WE HAVE SOME ITEMS THAT WERE REMOVED FROM THE BUDGET THAT WERE REPLACED BY ESSER FUNDING? WE DID AND WE TOOK THEM OUT OF THE BUDGET IN THIS FISCAL YEAR.
SO THEY'RE REFLECTED IN THAT CURRENT BUDGET.
SO THE 41 NUMBER BEFORE PAYROLL SAVES REFLECTS ITEMS THAT WERE REMOVED FOR ESSER FUNDING.
YES, SIR. YOU CAN SEE ON THIS SLIDE I JUST ADVANCED AHEAD.
THIS IS THE RECENT BUDGET AMENDMENT THAT YOU JUST SAW.
OK. SO THEY ARE REPRESENTED THERE.
BUT CONCEPTUALLY, SO I UNDERSTAND THE NUMBERS AGAIN, 22-23, IF THERE ARE ANY ITEMS THAT WILL BE FUNDED BY ESSER, THEY'RE NOT INCLUDED IN THE BUDGET WE'RE LOOKING AT? THERE ARE. THAT'S CORRECT.
NOW, YOU KNOW, IF THERE ARE SOME OTHER ITEMS THAT ARE CHOSEN TO SUPPLANT FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO ESSER, THEN THAT COULD FURTHER IMPROVE THAT OUTLOOK.
BUT THAT WOULD BE AN AMENDMENT TO THE BUDGET. YES.
YES. AND YOU WOULD SEE THAT ON A MONTHLY AMENDMENT.
OKAY. SO THAT'S HOW IT'S SET UP.
IT'S SET UP TO THE CURRENT BUDGET.
ALREADY HAS THE ESSER MONEY OUT OF IT.
WE HAVEN'T PUT INTO THIS ANY NUMBER ON THE EXPENDITURES NOT REALIZED WITH RESPECT TO PAYROLL I CAN'T CALL IT SAVES.
AND THEN IN THE FUTURE BUDGET JUST DEPENDS ON HOW CLOSE WE GET TO THAT 100% ENROLLMENT OR 100% FULFILLMENT NUMBER.
AND WE ALREADY KNOW WE ONLY SPEND 95% OF THAT, MAYBE 98% OF THAT.
MR. MILLER, FOR TO GIVE AN ESSENCE OF THE COVID IMPACT FOR OUR 20-21 FISCAL YEAR THAT WE JUST FINISHED, WE HAD OVER $21 MILLION DOLLARS IN PAYROLL SAVES, WHICH IS ABNORMAL.
AND IT'S GOING TO BE ABOUT THE SAME THIS YEAR.
YES, SIR. THE REASON MR. MILLER WAS ASKING YOU ALL THESE QUESTIONS, HE'S TRYING TO SAVE ME FROM GETTING A LUNCH [LAUGHTER] I WAS JUST TRYING.
OH, ARE YOU? YOU'RE ON THE TIME CRUNCH.
I'M TRYING TO EAT INTO MY LUNCH DEFICIT, SO I'M SORRY.
BOARD I JUST WANTED TO GO THROUGH THAT.
SO THESE NUMBERS ARE REFLECTIVE OF THE ASSUMPTIONS THAT SHE JUST COVERED.
IT CLEARS UP FOR ME THAT THE NUMBERS, YOU KNOW, KIND OF APPLES TO APPLES, RIGHT? YES. OKAY. THANK YOU.
YES, SIR. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT AS WE GO FORWARD.
SO I THINK WHAT MR. MILLER'S QUESTIONS AND YOUR ANSWERS AND WHAT WE HEARD AT NOONTIME TODAY, THE 41 MILLION THAT IT SHOWS HERE, THERE'S A VERY GOOD CHANCE AND YOU SAID FLAT, POTENTIALLY FLAT.
I FEEL THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HOLD ME TO THAT.
I'M MORE WORRIED ABOUT MY BET WITH HIM.
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[LAUGHTER] BUT AS WE GO FORWARD AND WE START TALKING ABOUT RAISES, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHAT OUR PROJECTED FUND BALANCE WILL BE.WE STARTED THIS FISCAL YEAR WITH AROUND WITH 270.
AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT AS WE LOOK AT RAISES GOING FORWARD IN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES WHERE WE REALLY THINK THAT NUMBER IS GOING TO BE.
AND YOU'VE PROJECTED US OUT TO 2025 WITH VERY LOW NUMBERS.
BUT AS YOU GO BACK AND FILL THOSE GAPS, THE NUMBER GETS HIGHER AND HIGHER.
THAT'S WHAT I'M AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHY I WAS ASKING THOSE QUESTIONS.
YES. SO, YOU KNOW, SO RIGHT NOW WE ARE BUDGETED FOR STAFFING AS IF IT WAS A NORMAL YEAR.
WE HAVE THAT, YOU KNOW, 6 TO $8 MILLION DOLLAR THAT COULD BE THAT IS A TRUE NORMAL VACANCY SAVE.
SO ANYTHING ABOVE THAT, IF WE'RE NOT ABLE TO GET BACK TO THOSE PRE-COVID VACANCIES, THEN THAT WOULD BE AN ADDITIONAL MINIMIZER AND I WANT TO SAY SAVE TO THAT DEFICIT YOU SEE THERE AND COULD IMPACT YOUR FUTURE DECISIONS.
THIS IS THE REVENUE BREAKDOWN.
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE.
RINGO KIND OF SPOKE ABOUT EARLIER.
JUST A REMINDER OF OUR PAYROLL VERSUS NON PAYROLL BUDGET THAT MR. MILLER JUST ALLUDED TO AND DR.
I'M COMING BACK ON THIS ONE JUST TO HIGHLIGHT, WHEN WE LOOK AT JUST THE TYPICAL DOLLAR, WE BREAK THAT OUT ACROSS THE STATE OF TEXAS HISTORICALLY, FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS, IT'S BETWEEN 80 TO 90% OF THE BUDGET IS COMMITTED TO PAYROLL.
FOR GARLAND ISD, WHEN WE SPLIT THAT DOLLAR OUT, YOU CAN SEE 85% OF ITS COMMITTED TO PAYROLL. WHEN WE LOOK AT THE NON PAYROLL SIDE, THERE'S REALLY NOT A LOT OF FLEXIBILITY BECAUSE 3 TO 4% OF THAT DOES GO OUT TO UTILITIES, GAS FOR BUSSES, GAS FOR SCHOOLS, ELECTRICITY, WATER.
AND SO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MOVING FUNDS WITHIN THE BUDGET, THERE'S THE BUDGET IS PRETTY MUCH SET AS WE LOOK AT THAT.
SO IS THAT AN ACTUAL NUMBER OR A BUDGETED NUMBER? THAT IS ACTUALS.
I MEAN, I'M SORRY. THAT'S BUDGETED.
THAT'S BUDGETED NUMBERS. SO ACTUALS, THE PERCENTAGE IS GOING TO MOVE A LITTLE BIT.
WE NEVER SPEND 100% OF OUR PAYROLL DOLLARS.
WE NEVER SPEND 1% OF OUR NON PAYROLL DOLLARS.
YEAH. OKAY. AND WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT BACK OVER TO MS. MAYO. OKAY.
SO WHERE WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH SOME OF OUR GENERAL FUND RAISE SCENARIOS.
SO THERE WAS A SERIES OF SLOTS HERE AND THEY HAVE A WHOLE BUNCH OF DIFFERENT SCENARIOS ON THEM. SO I'M GOING TO EXPLAIN WHAT EACH OF THEM IS.
AND THEN YOU ALL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF PUT SOME THINGS TOGETHER AND TO KIND OF HAVE SOME DISCUSSION THERE IF THAT'S.
SO, THIS FIRST SLOT IS JUST 1%, THREE 5% MIDPOINT RAISE, PLUS SOME EQUITY ADJUSTMENTS PROPOSED BY TASB.
AND IT'S JUST A STRAIGHT PERCENTAGE FOR EVERYONE.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE HERE.
THE PROPOSED STARTING SALARY FOR A TEACHER IS THAT FIRST LINE THERE, 56 SEVEN AND GOES ON. AND THEN THE PROPOSED 15 YEAR, FOR CREDIBLE YEARS OF SERVICE IS FOR VISUALLY FOR YOU TO SEE WHAT THAT TEACHER AT 15 YEARS WOULD BE BASED ON EACH OF THESE SCENARIOS.
SO THAT'S JUST FOR YOUR KIND OF INPUT.
THIS IS JUST KIND OF TO GIVE YOU VISUALLY WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE TO THE FUND BALANCE.
IT'S JUST THE MATH APPLIED TO THAT EARLIER SLIDE.
IF WE ONLY RAISED STARTING PAY FOR TEACHERS TO 59,000 OR 60,000, THAT'S JUST THE AMOUNT TO DO THAT.
YOU CAN SEE THE APPROXIMATE INCREASE FROM THE CURRENT STARTING PAY TO THE NEW STARTING PAY IS THERE. AND THEN THERE'S ALSO SOME BLOCKS DOWN AT THE BOTTOM THAT KIND OF SHOW YOU THE STARTING SALARY FOR A TEACHER WITH 15 CREDIBLE YEARS OF SERVICE AT 59 AND 60 ONCE WE MOVE THOSE SCALES.
SO THOSE TWO BOXES AT THE BOTTOM, THE STARTING SALARY FOR THE 15 YEAR TEACHER, THAT KIND OF IS JUST THE OTHER SLIDES THAT APPLIES TO.
BUT IT STARTED TO GET JUMBLED.
SO KIND OF JUST KEEP THAT IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD.
THIS IS RAISE IMPACT FOR ALL PERCENTAGES FOR ALL OTHER STAFF AND TEACHERS AT 59 K AND THIS IS THE SAME SCENARIO FOR TEACHERS AT 60 K AND ALL OTHER STAFF WITH THOSE INCREMENTAL INCREASES. AND THEN THIS IS JUST A FURTHER BREAKDOWN.
EXEMPT NONEXEMPT TEACHERS AT 59 K EXEMPT NON EXEMPT TEACHERS AT 60 K.
SO I KNOW THAT THAT IS A LOT OF INFORMATION, BUT MAYBE THAT'LL GIVE YOU THE TOOLS THAT YOU NEED TO KIND OF HAVE SOME DISCUSSION.
SURE. DR. RINGO, THE DOLLAR BILL YOU SHOWED WAS THAT PERCENT BASED ON REVENUE OR EXPENSES?
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TOTAL EXPENSES? THAT IS.YES SIR, THAT'S BASED ON EXPENDITURES.
85%. BUT WHEN YOU'RE BUDGETING A, SO JUST COMPARING EXPENDITURES TO TOTAL EXPENDITURES, THE NORMAL RATIO, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 80 AND 90%.
YES, SIR. DO YOU HAVE THAT FOR A REVENUE NUMBER? IS THAT KIND OF THING TRACKED AT ALL? IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN WE'RE PROJECTING NEGATIVE REVENUES, I MEAN, I DID THE QUICK NUMBERS.
THIS IS 92-93% OF OUR REVENUE GOES TO ACTUAL PAYROLL.
YES SIR. AND AS THAT DEFICIT INCREASES, THAT NUMBER WILL GET LARGER.
YES. SO I DIDN'T KNOW IF THAT NUMBER WAS USEFUL OR NOT OR IF IT'S USED IN THE INDUSTRY OR NOT. BUT I WAS LOOKING AT THAT WHEN YOU WERE SAYING 84% I SAT HERE AND CALCULATED, BUT I DID IT ON REVENUE, NOT ON TOTAL EXPENSE COMPARED TO TOTAL PAYROLL.
YEAH. IT JUST CHANGES THE NUMBER.
AND I GUESS WHERE THAT WOULD BE TRACKED, IT'S NOT NECESSARILY TRACKED TO PAYROLL, BUT WITHIN OUR FINANCIAL RATING FOR THE STATE OF TEXAS, THE FIRST RATING, THEY LOOK AT REVENUES VERSUS OPERATIONS, MEANING DO OUR REVENUES EQUAL OR EXCEED OUR EXPENDITURE BUDGET IN BEING ABLE TO GET POINTS ON THAT INDICATOR? IT WOULD BE INTERESTING FOR ME AND MAYBE YOU COULD SHARE WITH THE BOARD IN A FUTURE MEETING, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE KIND OF HISTORICALLY WHAT OUR RATIO OF PAYROLL TO REVENUE WAS. WITH ALL THE PAYROLL EXPENDITURES TO OUR REVENUE.
THANK YOU. MR. GLICK? YEAH. THANK YOU.
COULD YOU GO TO THE CHART? WE YEAH OFF PAGE 20.
IF WE RAISE THE STARTING PAY TO 60,000.
WHAT YOU'RE SHOWING IS WHAT THE STARTING TEACHER WOULD GET AND WHAT THE TEACHER AT 15 YEARS EXPERIENCE WOULD GET.
YES. MR. GLICK MOVE YOUR MIC JUST A LITTLE CLOSER.
THANK YOU. SORRY ABOUT THAT. SO THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SHOWING NOW, THEN DO YOU APPLY THAT WITH THE STARTING AND THE RAISES? IS THERE A BOX THAT DOES THAT? SO LET ME I THINK I'VE ANSWERED MAYBE.
SO THIS SCREEN HERE, YOUR SLIDE 25, I BELIEVE.
YES. SO THAT IS ALL THE OTHER STAFF HAD A PERCENTAGE INCREASE AND THEN THE TEACHERS AT 59 OR 60, DEPENDING ON WHICH SLIDE, IF YOU LOOK AT 25 OR 26 AND IT'S THE TOTAL IMPACT.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, ON SLIDE 25, IF TEACHERS, IF WE RAISE THE STARTING SALARY OF TEACHERS TO 59,000 DOLLARS AND WE GIVE ALL OTHER STAFF A 1% MIDPOINT, IT'S A TOTAL OF $9.5 MILLION DOLLARS. SO YEAH, I SEE THE SEVEN ON 24.
YES, SIR. AND THAT'S UNDER THE 1% FOR THE TEACHERS AT 59.
THAT'S THE SAME NUMBER I SEE THAT THERE.
IT'S NOT A PERCENTAGE BASED, IT'S JUST RAISING THEM.
SO TASB DID A MODEL FOR US AND APPLIED AN INCREASE TO THE STARTING PAY AND DID A CORRESPONDING SCALED INCREASE DOWN? IT'S NOT NECESSARILY A PERCENTAGE INCREASE.
IS THAT SUFFICIENT? YES. OK. SO LET'S GO TO A STARTING SALARY OF 59.
OK. SO THAT WOULD BE AND THAT'S THE 15 MILLION 4.
IS THAT OKAY? MR. PRESIDENT, CAN ASK ONE? MR. JOHNSON.
LARRY MAY HAVE IT, BUT I DON'T.
OKAY. [LAUGHTER] SO I GUESS THE QUESTION I HAVE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE 15 YEAR, OBVIOUSLY AT 59 K WERE INCREASING STARTING PAY 4.75% AND AT 60 IT'S 6.25 IS THAT RIGHT? SOMEWHERE WELL, AND THAT'S FOR THE STARTING PAY.
YES, THAT'S FOR THE STARTING PAY.
YES, SIR. SO IF YOU'RE NOT A BRAND NEW TEACHER, LIKE, FOR INSTANCE, YOU LOOK AT THE 15 YEAR. IS THERE ANY WAY WE KNOW WHAT PERCENTAGE RAISE THEY'RE GETTING? WE HAVE WE SURE WE COULD CALCULATE THAT.
WE HAVE THE SCALES AND WHAT THAT IS.
AND SO I THINK MAYBE WHAT YOU'RE GETTING TO IS ON THIS SCALE TO BRING THE TEACHERS TO THE STARTING PAY IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A HIGHER PERCENTAGE ON THOSE LOWER TENURED AND IT'S NOT
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AN EVEN 6.52 ALL THE WAY DOWN.WELL, AND I GUESS THAT'S THE QUESTION BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE SETTING OURSELVES UP FOR AN EQUITY ADJUSTMENT IN TWO YEARS WITH RESPECT TO THIS, BECAUSE WE'RE DISPROPORTIONATELY INCREASING STARTING PAY AND WE'RE NOT GIVING A CORRESPONDING INCREASE IN EXPERIENCE OR VETERAN PAY.
AND MAYBE THAT'S THE WAY THE BUDGET HAS TO WORK.
I DON'T KNOW. BUT I DO THINK WE NEED TO THAT WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT PERCENTAGE WE ARE BECAUSE WE TYPICALLY DO RAISES FROM THE MIDPOINT THAT'S ACROSS THE BOARD FOR ALL TEACHERS. WELL.
SO AND THE WAY TASB DID THEIR ANALYSIS IS THEY REVIEW ALL THE MARKET AND ALL THE STEPS FOR ALL THE TEACHERS IN OUR AREA AND THEN THEY APPLIED A FORMULA TO INCREASE THE STARTING PAY UP AND THEN THEY APPLIED THAT THE CALCULATION TO THE MIDPOINT OF THOSE TEACHERS.
BUT THERE DOES APPEAR TO BE A HIGHER WEIGHT ON THE STARTING TEACHERS AND DR.
BROWN MAY BE ABLE TO SPEAK MORE TO THAT STEP INCREASE.
AND I THINK WHAT TRUSTEE JOHNSON'S ALLUDING TO IS WHAT WE CALL COMPRESSION.
SO WHAT HAPPENS IS THE TOP DOESN'T MOVE AS FAST, THE BOTTOM GETS A JUMP.
RIGHT. AND SO NOW YOU HAVE THE COMPRESSION.
SO THEN THE NEXT PAY PERIODS, WE DO THE STUDIES TO DECOMPRESS.
AND SO WE'VE DONE A LOT OF STUDIES AND LAST YEAR WE INVESTED HIGHLY IN THE MID AND SO THE MID GOT A BIGGER RAISE THAN THE LOWER EVEN THOUGH IT DIDN'T FEEL LIKE IT WITH EVERYTHING ELSE GOING UP. AND SO WHAT THEY'RE SAYING IS THIS IS GOOD, BUT WHAT DOES THE COMPRESSION LOOK LIKE? BECAUSE WHAT THE OTHER TELLTALE SIGN THAT WE FAILED TO MENTION IS WITH THE ESSER FUNDING, WHICH WE'RE HOPING FOR APPROVAL, SIGN ON BONUS OF $1,000 FOR PROFESSIONALS AND $500 FOR NON PROFESSIONALS.
AND SO IF WE DID SAY THE BOARD APPROVED A $59,000 NEW START PAY WITH A $1,000 WE WILL BE THE FIRST TO $60,000 RIGHT STARTING PAY IN OUR REGION.
AND THEN WHAT WE WANT TO SEE IS WHAT THE PAY RATE WOULD LOOK LIKE FOR THOSE HIGHER RATED TEACHERS. AND IF WE COULD GET SOME SORT OF NUMBERS, THAT WOULD HELP.
SURE. THE PERCENTAGE GROWTH IS UP.
AND I GUESS MY CONCERN ABOUT IT IS I FEEL LIKE LAST YEAR WE LOOKED AT THIS ISSUE REGARDING COMPRESSION AND IT WAS KIND OF A NET CUMULATIVE CREEP THAT HAPPENED OVER THE COURSE OF TIME. TASB CAME AND SAID, HEY, WE GOT COMPRESSION ON THIS AND I FEEL LIKE WE'RE KIND OF THIS TIME WE'RE EYES WIDE OPEN JUMPING INTO COMPRESSION, KNOWING WE'RE DOING IT.
SO AND I KNOW THERE'S OTHER THINGS THAT MITIGATE THIS.
FOR ONE EXPERIENCED TEACHERS HAVE ACCESS TO STIPENDS.
SOME OF THE STUFF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WITH RESPECT TO THE AP PROGRAMS, IS AP TEACHERS WILL HAVE GREATER STIPENDS AND THINGS THAT THAT CAN MITIGATE THAT EFFECT THAT NEW TEACHERS DON'T HAVE THE ACCESS TO NECESSARILY.
BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE NUMBERS WITH RESPECT TO THIS BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, WE'VE ALWAYS TRIED OVER THE COURSE OF TIME TO GIVE TEACHERS RAISES ACROSS THE BOARD RELATIVELY UNIFORM. AND OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEARS, THAT DOESN'T WORK OUT.
AND WE HAVE TO MAKE AN ADJUSTMENT, BUT I THINK WE'D HAVE TO MAKE AN ADJUSTMENT ALMOST INSTANTLY NEXT YEAR ON THIS ONE SO.
IF YOU SEE SLIDE 22 AND YOU LOOK AT THE 3% MIDPOINT ACROSS THE BOARD COLUMN, YOU'LL SEE THAT PROPOSED STARTING SALARY FOR NEW TEACHERS IS $58,000 IN THE 15 YEARS.
SO THAT'S WITH EVERYONE GETTING THE SAME INCREASE.
AND THAT, COUPLED WITH THE ESSER STIPENDS, WOULD PUT THAT STARTING SALARY OVER TO 59,000 THERE. OKAY.
MR. BEACH AND THEN MS. GRIFFIN. DO YOU KNOW THAT WHEN WE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO FIND OUT WHAT THE TRS HEALTH RATES ARE GOING TO BE, THAT WILL AFFECT THE SCENARIOS? BECAUSE YOU GIVE A PAY RAISE AND WHATEVER WE LOOK AT GETTING IN, HOW IF IT'S 1% OR 2%, THAT'S NORMALLY EATEN UP IN THE HEALTH INSURANCE SIDE SO DO YOU? SO UNFORTUNATELY, I DON'T BELIEVE WE'LL RECEIVE THAT DATA UNTIL AFTER WE HAVE I THINK DR.
RINGO MENTIONED IT WOULD BE JUNE AND AT THAT POINT WE WOULD HAVE ALREADY BUILT OUR BUDGET AT THAT TIME. YES SIR GREAT QUESTION.
MS. GRIFFIN. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WHEN YOU STARTED TALKING ABOUT THE CHANGE IN STARTING SALARIES AND THEN YOU SAID THAT TEACHERS THAT ARE ALREADY ON STAFF WOULD BE AFFECTED BY THAT STARTING SALARY.
IS THAT WHAT YOU SAID? WELL, THEY WOULD BE POSITIVELY AFFECTED BECAUSE THE WHOLE STEP SCALE WOULD INCREASE.
THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET TO.
EVERYONE WOULD RECEIVE A RAISE.
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OKAY, BUT SEE, WE'RE SAYING RAISE AND WE'RE SAYING RAISE.SO WE NEED TO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHICH STARTING SALARY, WE NEED TO REFER TO THAT AS THE STEP RAISE, BECAUSE THAT IS HOW THAT WORKS.
OK. THEN THAT IS IN ADDITION TO WHICHEVER ONE OF THESE SCENARIOS THAT WE COME UP WITH.
RIGHT. SO FOR TEACHERS, THEY WOULD GET A BUMP FOR THE STEP AND THEN THEY WOULD GET A BUMP. AND I THINK WE HAVE TO USE DIFFERENT WORDING BECAUSE IT ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE RAISE IN GENERAL.
DID I GET THAT OR DID I MESS THAT UP? NO. YES, THAT MAKES SENSE.
YES. ALL RIGHT. I MEAN, I KIND OF THINK WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE RAISE IN GENERAL.
THE RAISE IN GENERAL DOES AFFECT THE POINTS THAT THE STEP IS ON.
SO, I MEAN, WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS LIKE SLIDE 25 AND SLIDE 24, I MEAN, NO MATTER WHAT PERCENTAGE INCREASE WE SELECT THE TEACHER RATE, THE AMOUNT WE'RE ALLOCATING TEACHERS IS STATIC. IT DOESN'T CHANGE LIKE WE DO A 1% RAISE OR A 5% RAISE THAT NUMBER IS THE SAME BECAUSE THAT'S ALREADY FACTORED INTO THE FACT THAT WE MADE THE DECISION TO GO WITH 60 K STARTED, CORRECT? I DON'T.
SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A STRAIGHT PERCENTAGE INCREASE? YEAH. I MEAN, I'M SAYING YOU LOOK AT SLIDE 25.
AND YOU SEE THE COLUMN SAYS TEACHERS 59 K.
YES, SIR. THOSE NUMBERS NEVER CHANGE.
THAT'S CORRECT. SO NO MATTER WHAT PERCENTAGE RAISE WE SETTLE ON THOSE NUMBERS STAY THE SAME, BECAUSE WHEN WE'RE MAKING THE DECISION TO GO WITH THE 59 K THAT'S KEEPING ALL THESE NUMBERS THE SAME, IF YOU CHOOSE THAT MODEL.
DR. HELP ME OUT, DR.. WHAT'S CONFUSING ABOUT TEACHER SALARIES IS LET'S LOOK AT IT THIS WAY. THEY HAVE STEPS.
RIGHT? SO WHAT WE DON'T SEE IS THE STEP.
SO LET'S SAY WE GAVE A 0% RAISE, RIGHT.
OK. AND PUBLIC IF YOU JUST GOT ON I'M NOT SAYING THAT'S WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING.
[LAUGHTER] I WANT TO BE CLEAR.
ALL RIGHT. BUT WE HAVE TO USE THIS AS A STATIC STEPPING STONE.
TEACHERS AUTOMATICALLY GET THEIR NEXT STEP BECAUSE THEY FOLLOW A STEP GUIDELINE.
YES. SO EVEN IF YOU GIVE ZERO, THEN THE TEACHERS WOULD LET'S SAY IF I WENT TO 0 TO 1, I MIGHT GET 300 400.
WHAT MS. GRIFFIN IS SAYING THEY'RE GOING TO GET THEIR NATURAL STEP PLUS WHATEVER INCREASE ON TOP OF IT. THAT'S WHY, THAT BECAUSE IN SOME PEOPLE WHEN WE MIX THE WORDS, THEN THEY'RE LIKE WE'RE AUTOMATICALLY GETTING A STEP.
SO IF I MOVE FROM 24 TO 25 AND IT MIGHT NOT BE A GROUNDBREAKING RAISE, BUT YOU'RE GOING TO GET MORE MONEY. THAT'S THE WAY THE TEACHER SYSTEM WORKS.
SO IN ESSENCE, WE'RE ADDING MONEY TO THE STEP.
BUT FROM MY POINT, I GET THAT.
BUT MY POINT, WHATEVER PERCENTAGE RAISE WE PICK HERE, THOUGH, I MEAN, WE'VE ALREADY FACTORED IN WHAT THE TEACHERS ARE GOING TO MAKE.
THAT'S ALREADY SET, WHETHER WE PICK 5% OR 2% ALL OUR CONTRIBUTION, BUT NOT THE STEP IS STATIC? WE'VE ALREADY MADE THAT SELECTION WITH THE 59 OR THE 60 K? I DON'T. NO.
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY.
THEN THIS SLIDE IS HORRIBLY CONFUSING TO ME.
THIS SHOULD GO UP OVER THE COURSE OF TIME.
NO, WHAT HE'S SAYING IS THIS IS IF WE DO ONE POINT INCREASE FOR EQUITY ADJUSTMENT, THE TEACHER SALARY IS THERE IF WE DO 59%.
YES. RIGHT. THAT'S CORRECT. SO THAT HE'S SAYING NO MATTER WHAT, THAT STAYS STATIC.
THE ADDITIONAL PERCENTAGE, HE DOESN'T WANT TO GO CONFUSION THAT IF TEACHERS GET $59,000 AND THEN WE DO A FOUR POINT RAISE, THEY DON'T GET 59 PLUS THE 4% ADDITION.
SO THE $59,000 THAT ONE COLUMN OR THAT ONE ROW.
YES. THE DEFINITION OF THAT IS WHAT NEW TEACHERS? IT IS STARTING THE NEW STARTING PAY THE ZERO STEP.
SO STARTING NEW TEACHERS ARE NOT REALLY ELIGIBLE FOR A RAISE YET, RIGHT? THAT, YEAH THEY WOULD COME IN.
WELL IT COMES, IT STAYS STATIC BECAUSE WHAT THAT DOES IS IF THE BOARD CHOOSES TO DO WE WANT TO START ALL TEACHERS BASED ON THE TASB MODEL AT 59.
THEN WHEN EVERY STEP IS CORRESPONDINGLY INCREASED, THE IMPACT OF THAT STEP SCALE CHANGE IS $7 MILLION DOLLARS PERIOD.
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OK. IF WE DID A PERCENTAGE AND GREW THE STEP BY JUST PERCENTAGE OF MIDPOINT FOR FIVE STEPS, THAT'S WHAT IS INCLUDED IN SLIDE 22.MAYBE WE NEED THE WHOLE STAIRWAY LAID OUT FOR US.
[LAUGHTER]. BECAUSE I THINK WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS RIGHT NOW EVERYBODY'S STARTING ON THE BOTTOM STEP AND IF WE GIVE THEM A RAISE, THEY MOVE UP IN THAT SCALE, EVERYBODY MOVES UP.
WELL, IF YOU HAVE 14 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE THE NEXT YEAR, YOU HAVE 15 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.
SO YOU GET THE CURRENT STEP INCREASE PLUS WHATEVER PERCENTAGE INCREASE WAS NEEDED TO ADJUST THAT SCALE TO START AT 59.
AGAIN THIS IS OUR FIRST PRELIMINARY OR NOT PRELIMINARY THIS IS OUR FIRST MEETING ON THIS.
I THINK PROBABLY WE NEED TO SPEND SOME MORE TIME ON THIS.
I WANT TO GET THROUGH AS MUCH OF THIS AS WE CAN WHILE WE HAVE THE FULL BOARD HERE.
WE HAVE, I KNOW, AT LEAST ONE MEMBER THAT HAS A HARD STOP AT 6:00.
SO BOARD IF IT'S OKAY, WE'LL JUST KIND OF MOVE PAST THIS KNOWING THAT WE'RE GOING TO GET FURTHER EXPLANATIONS ABOUT HOW THE STAIR STEPS WORK AND THEN THE SALARIES AND THE MIDPOINTS AND ALL THAT FIT TOGETHER IN THIS.
AND WE'LL GET SOME CLARITY FOR US ALL BEFORE WE HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION.
YES SIR. WE'LL GET WITH HR AND HAVE THEM BRING BACK THAT STEP MODEL THAT SHOWS 0 TO 30 PLUS YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.
AND YOU CAN SEE HOW WHEN YOU PUSH THE STARTING SALARY UP THE WHOLE SCALE SLIDES.
YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I'M THINKING. SO WE WILL BRING THAT BACK TO SHOW YOU.
OK. DO YOU WANT THE TEACHER SCALE SLIDE TO BE AT 59 OR 60.
BOARD, DO WE WANT IT 59, 60? DO WE WANT BOTH? WHAT DO WE WANT? ALL RIGHT. YEAH.
SO ANY BUDGET APPROVALS PRIOR TO JUNE 22ND.
SO REMAINING AS ADA, WHICH WE'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT TODAY, CCMR, WE'VE MENTIONED EARLIER ANY EQUITY ADJUSTMENTS FROM HR AND WE TALKED ABOUT SOME THAT WERE PRESENTED IN THE TASB ANALYSIS. BUT IF THERE'S ANY ADDITIONAL ONES COMING FORWARD, THOSE COULD IMPACT THE BUDGET. ANY ADDITIONAL STIPEND AMOUNTS, INCREASES FOR TRANSPORTATION, CHANGES IN OUR CERTIFIED VALUES, WHICH AS WE GO INTO APRIL AND INTO MAY, WE'LL START TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT. AND WE'VE MENTIONED OUR TRS ACTIVE CARE RATES ARE STILL UNKNOWN.
GIVE ME AN IDEA OF THE CCMR RANGE.
IT COULD BE A NUMBER BETWEEN OH, IT'S NOT GOING TO BE HUGE.
I MEAN, THE OF OUR INFORMATION IS RELIES ON DATA FROM LIKE TWO YEARS AGO BECAUSE IT HAS TO DETERMINE IF THOSE STUDENTS WENT TO COLLEGE.
AND SO BY NOW WE HAD ALREADY KIND OF GROWN OUR PROGRAM AND SO IT COULD BE A COUPLE OF MILLION DOLLARS.
IT'S NOT GOING TO BE, BUT IT IS SUBSTANTIAL.
GETS LARRY CLOSER TO WINNING HIS BET.
I FORGOT. WE WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT.
OKAY. THIS IS OUR BUDGET AMENDMENT YOU JUST APPROVED.
THIS JUST REPRESENTS WHERE THE BUDGET IS NOW.
AND WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT NET CHANGE IN FUND BALANCE.
AND THESE ARE GENERAL FUND SCENARIOS.
JUST GIVE YOU AN OUTLOOK OF THE FUTURE.
THIS IS NOT REALLY CHANGED SINCE WE LAST SPOKE, BUT WE DID ADD SOME ITEMS IN THERE JUST SO YOU COULD SEE KIND OF THE CHANGES THAT HAVE GONE GO ON THERE.
AND THOSE CURRENT SCENARIOS DO NOT REFLECT RATES.
YES, THIS IS OUR FUND BALANCE HISTORY.
JUST TO KIND OF GIVE YOU AN IDEA, DID YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO THIS ONE? YEAH. I WANTED TO SPEAK TO THIS SLIDE SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE THERE WAS A SLIDE EARLIER THAT TALKED ABOUT WE HAVEN'T HAD A NORMAL FISCAL YEAR SINCE 17-18.
AND WITH THAT THROUGH THE LAST FEW YEARS, WE'VE HAD SOME ADDS TO FUND BALANCE AND SO TO HIGHLIGHT OUR CHANGE IN FISCAL YEARS.
AND YOU CAN SEE HOW THAT IS NOW LEVELING OUT.
WE DO NOT FORESEE ANY MORE IF WE HAVE AS THE FUND BALANCE, IT'S GOING TO BE COMPARABLE TO WHAT WE SAW LAST YEAR DUE TO COVID EXPENDITURE SAVES BECAUSE AS WE GO THROUGH THIS, WE LOOK AT 17-18. THAT WAS OUR LAST 12 MONTH OPERATIONAL YEAR.
THAT WAS ALSO THE LAST YEAR WE HAD OVER 10 MILLION.
WE TRANSFERRED OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND TO SUPPORT THE BOND PROGRAM, AND THAT WAS PLANNED SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE BOND PROGRAM.
AND WHEN WE WENT TO 18-19, WE CHANGED OUR FISCAL YEAR.
WE HAD TWO LESS MONTHS OF OPERATIONAL EXPENDITURES.
AND SO WHEN YOU TAKE TWO MONTHS OFF THE BOOKS, IT'S REALLY NOT A SAVE, IT'S JUST A SHIFT ON PAPER BECAUSE THOSE EXPENDITURES ARE NOT GOING OUT.
SO WE CHANGED OUR STARTING JULY FROM JUNE ONE TO JULY ONE.
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SO THAT WAS TWO LESS MONTHS. SO THAT HELPED ADD FUNDS TO THE FUND BALANCE THAT FISCAL YEAR. THEN WHEN WE GET TO 1920, THAT'S WHERE WE HAD HOUSE BILL THREE IMPACT THAT INCREASED FUNDING FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACROSS TEXAS.ALSO, AS WE HEARD, THERE'S BEEN RUMORS WITH HOUSE BILL THREE WAS COMING OUT THAT EVERYBODY WOULD GET A 5000 PAY RAISE.
THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE CONVERSATIONS.
BUT WHEN IT WAS SET AND DONE, THE STATE PROVIDED GARLAND ISD ROUGHLY $6 FOR PAY RAISES THAT WERE REQUIRED.
AND SO IF WHAT HAD STARTED OUT THE 5000 PAY RAISE MARK AT THE BEGINNING AND THE STATE ACTUALLY PASSED THAT THE STATE WOULD HAVE HAD TO GIVE US ROUGHLY $21 MILLION TO HELP WITH THOSE RAISES. AND SO THAT, AS WE SAW, DID NOT OCCUR, UNFORTUNATELY.
BUT IT WAS A LOT OF STATE RHETORIC THAT THAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN HOUSE BILL THREE PASSED IN 19-20.
AND SO WHEN WE HAD A QUARTER OF OUR YEAR NOT OPERATING.
SO WE WEREN'T PAYING FOR ANY GASES IN OUR BUSSES, NOT PAYING FOR ALL THAT WATER ON A DAILY BASIS. AT THE CAMPUSES WE ADDED ROUGHLY 37 MILLION TO OUR BUDGET 2021.
WE HAD A TEN MONTH OPERATIONAL I'M SORRY, WE HAD AS YOU CAN SEE, WE OPERATED THAT YEAR.
WE HAD OUR SMALLEST FUND BALANCE AD WE HAD NO $10 MILLION TRANSFER OUT.
IF WE HAD HAD THAT IN THE BUDGET LAST YEAR, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A $7 MILLION HIT TO THE FUND BALANCE ROUGHLY.
AND SO YOU CAN SEE THAT WE ARE NOW LEVELING OUT WHEN WE HAVE THESE OPERATIONS AND THAT WAS WITH OUR ADA HOLD HARMLESS IN EFFECT LAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR 2122 WE KNOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME PAYROLL SAVES THAT ARE COMPARABLE TO LAST YEAR.
WE KNOW WE JUST HAD A HOLD HARMLESS ADDED FOR THE FIRST FOUR OR SIX WEEKS PERIODS.
AND SO THE HOPE IS WE DO GET BACK TO A LEVEL OUT, BUT IT DEPENDS ON THOSE PAYROLL AND NON PAYROLL SAVINGS AS WE PROGRESSED THROUGH THIS YEAR.
OKAY. SO TWO QUESTIONS ON THAT REAL QUICK.
THE THE IDEA HOLD HARMLESS, WHICH WENT TO FOUR HOW BIG AN IMPACT WAS THAT WENT TO FOUR PERIODS OF SAY HOW BIG AN IMPACT WAS THAT BASED ON WHAT WE WERE WE DON'T KNOW BECAUSE THE THRESHOLDS AND THOSE CALCULATIONS NOW WILL HAVE TO COME OUT FROM TEA.
SO THAT'S JUST, IT'S JUST NO NEWS BUT NO FACTS TO GO.
AND SO PEOPLE ARE AWARE THAT CAME OUT TODAY AT AROUND NOON.
AND SO ONCE THAT GOVERNOR ANNOUNCED IT, THEN THE NEXT STEPS ARE TO TEA START RELEASING THEIR GUIDANCE.
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TEACHERS WE CURRENTLY HAVE EMPLOYED? A LITTLE OVER 4100.
I WOULD NEED TO CONFIRM WITH DR.
BROWN. I CAN'T REMEMBER EXACTLY OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
AND THE BUDGET, YOU CAN GUESSTIMATE SOME 4100.
4000 AND ON A FULLY OPERATIONAL BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR IT WOULD BE HOW MANY THE SAME FOR TEACHERS. WITH THE ADDITIONS THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED IN THE BUDGET, IT'S STILL A LITTLE OVER 4000, A LITTLE OVER 41100, WHATEVER THAT NUMBER IS.
BUT I THINK THAT'S THAT'S ALL FUNDS WITH THE 4100 BECAUSE WE DO HAVE TEACHERS THAT TEACH UNDER TITLE, BUT WE CAN BREAK IT OUT FOR GENERAL FUND.
THAT WOULD BE YEAH THAT'D BE GOOD.
MS. MAYO JUST INFORMED ME 3500 TEACHERS IN THE GENERAL FUND.
SO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RAISES, ARE WE TALKING ABOUT RAISES TO 3500 TEACHERS? IT IT WOULD BE FOR ALL EMPLOYEES.
LET ME REPHRASE HOW MANY EMPLOYEES WORKING WITH TODAY AND DO WE EXPECT ANY INCREASES ONCE WE GET FULLY HIRED OR CAN FULLY UTILIZE EMPTY POSITIONS? THAT'S WHAT I LIKE TO QUESTION.
I WAS ASKING YOU EARLIER, WE'VE BEEN SUFFERING THROUGH A YEAR WHERE WE HAD A TON OF VACANCIES. WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH SUBS.
WE'RE HAVING TO SCRAMBLE ALL KINDS OF WAYS.
DO YOU SEE THAT NORMALIZING IN 2023, WHICH WOULD HAVE US GET CLOSER TO A FULL SPEND, IF YOU WILL, OF OUR BUDGET? I DON'T SEE IT NORMALIZING TO THE POINT IT WAS PRIOR TO COVID, BUT DEPENDING ON WHERE THAT STARTING PAY IS, I DO SEE IT IMPROVING FROM WHERE WE'RE AT.
BECAUSE THAT WOULD SET A STANDARD IN THE DALLAS METROPLEX.
SO THAT WOULD BE PART OF THAT NORMAL $6 MILLION FLUFF WE HAVE IN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT WE BUDGET FOR SALARIES AND WHAT WE ACTUALLY SPEND IS THAT DIFFICULTY IN FILLING POSITIONS I DON'T BELIEVE WOULD BE AS HIGH AS 20 MILLION IN SAVES, BUT WE WOULD BE NOT WHERE OUR HISTORICAL WERE BETWEEN SIX AND EIGHT.
WE'D LAND SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THERE MOVING FORWARD.
THANK YOU. AND LIKE I SAID, TO REITERATE, TEXAS SCHOOL OF FINANCE, WE'RE FLYING THAT PLANE AND OPERATING WHILE IT'S ALL HAPPENING AND ALL THESE FLUCTUATIONS TAKE PLACE.
SO ALL OUR ASSUMPTIONS ARE BASED OFF TRENDS.
AND WHAT WE'RE SEEING AND OBVIOUSLY I'M SORRY, BOARD THE REASON I ASK THOSE QUESTIONS IS 84% OF OUR EXPENDITURES ARE IN THIS GROUP.
THERE IS REALLY NO OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO SAVE OUR WAY INTO PROSPERITY IN THE NON-PAYROLL AREA. IT'S ABOUT FUNDING AND IT'S ABOUT ADA.
IT'S ABOUT THOSE KIND OF THINGS THAT ALLOW US TO GET TO A STABILIZED FUNDING POSITION FOR
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THE EXPENDITURES THAT WE WE CAN COME PRETTY CLOSE ON EXPENDITURES BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO RUN THE DISTRICT.WHAT'S REALLY UNLESS COVID HITS.
BUT WHAT'S REALLY HARD FOR US IS WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO PROJECT OUR REVENUES AND WE DON'T HAVE ANY WAYS TO REALLY INCREASE IT OTHER THAN ADA.
AND ON PROJECTING THOSE REVENUES.
ANOTHER CHANGE THAT WE'VE SEEN PRIOR TO 18-19, WE DID NOT BUDGET FEDERAL REVENUE, WHICH WAS ROUGHLY $8 MILLION.
WE DID NOT BUDGET INTEREST INCOME IN OUR PROJECTIONS.
AND SINCE 18-19, WE HAVE DONE THAT.
SO THE ONLY TRUE BIG FLUCTUATIONS IN OUR REVENUES HAVE BEEN A RESULT OF THESE ADA FLUCTUATIONS. I KNOW YOU'VE MENTIONED THIS BEFORE, MR. PRESIDENT, AND AT SOME POINT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE A BIGGER DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS.
I MEAN, THE TREND LINES ON OUR ENROLLMENT, ARE WE ALWAYS I KEEP HEARING IT, MEANING AFTER MANY, WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT BEING IN 55,000 SCHOOLS.
WE'RE NOT 55,000 ATTENDED SCHOOL DISTRICT, BUT YET WE HAVE THE SAME FACILITIES WE HAVE AND WE'RE AT 58,000 PERSON SCHOOL DISTRICT.
WE HAVE 58,000 SCHOOL DISTRICT.
I MEAN, AT SOME POINT, WE'VE GOT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE'RE JUST NOT THAT BIG ANYMORE AND MAKE THE NECESSARY ADJUSTMENTS.
SO YOU SAY THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO IN THE EXPENDITURE SIDE.
WELL, YEAH, IF WE KEEP THE SAME SCHOOL MODEL THAT WE HAVE NOW, IF WE KEEP THE SAME, WE KEEP ACTING LIKE WE'RE IN THE MID FIFTIES, BUT WE'RE NOT, WE'RE IN MORE LIKE THE MID FORTIES. WELL I GUESS MY, MY POINT IS IF YOU LOOK AT THE, THE DOLLAR BILL, THERE'S NOT A WHOLE LOT OF THINGS WE CAN SAVE VERSUS THE SALARIES, THE PERSONNEL, THE OVERHEAD.
IT'S ONLY 16% IN THE OTHER CATEGORY.
SO WE CAN WE CAN DO A LOT, BUT WE'RE QUICKLY GETTING TO THE POINT WHERE PAYROLL IS GOING TO BE 100% OF REVENUE.
BUT WE ARE AND THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT AND AVOID.
WE ARE CONTINUING TO STAFF AS THOUGH WE HAD ENROLLMENT IN THE MID FIFTIES AND AT SOME POINT THAT'S GOT TO STOP AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO END.
PART OF IT IS BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF CAMPUSES THAT WE HAVE, WE HAVE TO STAFF THE CAMPUSES WE HAVE.
I MEAN, THE QUESTION IS, DO WE NEED 72 CAMPUSES IF WE ONLY HAVE 45,000 STUDENTS? I THINK THOSE ARE THOSE ARE VALID QUESTIONS THAT WE YOU KNOW, THIS BOARD NEEDS TO TACKLE. IT'S A GOOD POINT.
I'M SORRY. MR. RINGO, CONTINUE.
AND WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT BACK TO MS. MAYO. I HAVE A QUESTION FOR BRENT, PLEASE.
I'M SORRY. ALSO ALSO ON YOUR FUND BALANCE HISTORY HERE ON THE PROJECTION THAT YOU HAVE FOR 22-23 WITH THE RED LINE GOING ACROSS.
HOW DOES THAT AFFECT OR WHAT IS THAT AS FAR AS OUR BOND RATING IS CONCERNED? WHAT DO THEY LOOK AT AS FAR AS WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT SCENARIO? GREAT QUESTION. THEY LOOK AT QUITE A FEW FACTORS.
ONE IS ONE BEING THE REQUIRED DO WE HAVE AT LEAST THREE MONTHS IN OUR FUND BALANCE TO SUPPORT THE DISTRICT? BECAUSE WHEN YOU DO THAT, YOU HAVE THE CASH FLOW TO MEET THE NEEDS.
SINCE WE'RE AN AGING DISTRICT AND AS WE SAW WITH OUR FACILITIES CONDITION ASSESSMENT THAT WAS DONE BY PBC AT THAT TIME, OUR AVERAGE AGE OF OUR FACILITIES WAS 44 YEARS OLD.
WE'RE NOW TWO YEARS PAST THAT.
SO THAT AGE IS ALSO INCREASED.
YOU WILL BE SEEING AND WORKING WITH THE FACILITIES TEAM AND WE'VE SAID THIS IN THE LAST BUDGET WORKSHOP, THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME FACILITIES REQUESTS THAT COME THROUGH THAT FOR ITEMS OF CHILLERS THAT HAVE OUTLIVED THEIR LIFE.
AND IF WE IF WAITING FOR NOT WAITING, BUT THE NEXT TIME WE DO A BOND PROGRAM, IF THEY GO OUT BEFORE THE NEXT BOND PROGRAM, THAT FACILITY IS GOING TO HAVE TO SHUT DOWN.
AND SO IN THE COMING MONTH OR TWO, WE WILL BE COMING BACK TO THE BOARD.
THERE'S THREE CAMPUSES IN PARTICULAR I CAN THINK OF, ONE OF THEM BEING THAT HAS A A A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT THAT'S BEEN IN OPERATION SINCE 1995.
AND WE'RE YOU KNOW, IT WAS IF WE DON'T GET THAT REPLACED AND THAT GOES DOWN, THAT CAMPUS WILL HAVE TO CLOSE UNTIL IT'S REPLACED.
AND SO ROUGHLY WHAT HE'S BROUGHT FORWARD IS ABOUT $3.9 MILLION THAT WOULD BE COMING BACK TO THE BOARD TO DO A TRANSFER OUT TO CAPITAL OUTLAY.
SO THE FACILITIES TEAM CAN ADDRESS THOSE THREE CAMPUSES.
BUT HAVING THREE MONTHS, THEY LOOK AT THEY ALSO LOOK AT OUR REVENUE CAPACITY.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? IF DISTRICTS HAVE ALREADY DONE A TREE, THEY DON'T HAVE ANOTHER WAY TO GO GENERATE REVENUE UNLESS THEY INCREASE ADA SOMEHOW DRASTICALLY.
SO WHERE THAT RED LINE IS DRAWN RIGHT THERE, WHAT WOULD THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT? IT'S ROUGHLY 130, 125 ISH, 135 ISH MILLION.
AND THEN SINCE WE'RE AN AGING DISTRICT, MY RECOMMENDATION IS AS DISTRICTS AGE WITH AGING FACILITIES, AS ALWAYS TO HAVE ROUGHLY FOUR AND A HALF MONTHS, THAT ALLOWS US TO ADDRESS THOSE NEEDS THAT COME UP. IF WE HAVE A HAIL STORM, TORNADO, WE HAVE TO PAY THOSE DEDUCTIBLES, PAY THAT PER SITE.
IT ALLOWS THAT FLEXIBILITY BECAUSE ONCE YOU REPLENISH THAT FUND BALANCE AND AS YOU CAN SEE NOW, WE WILL NOT BE ADDING 30 MILLION A YEAR TO FUND BALANCE OR LIKE WITH THE FISCAL
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YEAR CHANGE OR A COVID IMPACT, IT'S GOING TO BE PRETTY TIGHT.OKAY. THANK YOU, BRETT. WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT BACK TO MS. MAYO. PERFECT SEGUE ON HOW TO GET MORE REVENUE.
AND HERE WE ARE WITH OUR SECOND REVENUE DRIVER.
TAX RATE. SO THIS IS INFORMATION WE'VE SHARED WITH YOU IN PRIOR BOARD MEETINGS.
SO AS WE MENTIONED, WE ARE GOING TO BE COMPRESSED.
WE TALKED ABOUT OUR TAV VALUES GROWING AT 10% THIS YEAR.
SO THAT COMPRESSES US DOWN TO 0.9053.
THIS IS HOW OUR PENNIES GROW OUT.
IF WE WERE TO TAKE ALL THE GOLDEN COPPER PENNIES TO 1.0253.
THESE ARE THE PROPERTY RATES BY DISTRICT.
THIS IS A SLIDE YOU ALL HAVE SEEN BEFORE.
SO THIS IS JUST FOR YOUR KNOWLEDGE TO SEE KIND OF WHERE WE SIT WITH THE OTHER DISTRICTS AS FAR AS TAX RATES.
AND JUST THE KEY TAKEAWAYS IS THE STATE FUNDING SYSTEM IS STRUCTURED TO PROVIDE US WITH A BASIC AMOUNT OF FUNDING AND IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY AND SUPPORT ALL THE ENHANCED PROGRAMS THAT GARLAND ISD CHOOSES TO OFFER.
THERE ISN'T ANY ADDITIONAL REVENUE PROVIDED BY THE STATE.
THEY DO NOT AND HAVE NOT ADDRESSED INFLATION.
AND JUST AS WE HAVE KIND OF TALKED A LOT ABOUT TONIGHT, IS 80 TO 90% OF ANY DISTRICT'S BUDGET IS PAYROLL.
SO THIS IS A PROJECTED TRE IMPACT AT A 10% VALUE GROWTH.
YOU CAN SEE IT PENNY BY PENNY, WHAT THAT WOULD RETURN IF WE WERE ABLE TO INCREASE OUR M&O TAX RATE. THIS IS JUST A SUMMARY SLIDE TO KIND OF SHOW YOU THE BREAKOUT BETWEEN THE GOLDEN PENNIES AND THE COPPER PENNIES THERE FOR YOUR KNOWLEDGE.
AND WE'VE SHARED THIS INFORMATION WITH YOU BEFORE.
TRE IMPACT EXAMPLE IS LISTED HERE ON 22-23.
KEEP IN MIND THAT SHOWS AN M&O RATE WITH ALL PENNIES AND OUR CURRENT I&S TAX RATE, WHICH COULD BE REDUCED DOWN TO OFFSET ANY LIKE WE HAD TALKED ABOUT IN THE PAST.
THIS IS THE INFORMATION THAT IS NEEDED.
JUST IF WE WERE TO CONSIDER THAT AND FOR FORWARD PLANNING AND JUST TO REMEMBER THAT WE'RE STILL UNDER A DISASTER EXCEPTION, WHICH MEANS WE DO NOT AT THIS TIME HAVE A COMPLETE EFFICIENCY AUDIT AND THAT'S A SAVE IN TIME AND FUNDS TO THE DISTRICT IF WE LOOK TO DO THAT IN THE FUTURE.
ELECTION TIMELINES ARE LISTED HERE.
THIS IS THE PER PENNY IMPACT ON A $215,000 HOME.
SO THIS IS SHOWING THE INFORMATION WITH A 40 K HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION WE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE IN OUR LAST BUDGET WORKSHOP THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE ON THE BALLOT IN MAY, AND WE ARE PLANNING AS IF THAT IS LIKELY TO OCCUR.
STUDENT NUTRITION SERVICES FUND RIGHT NOW IS SHOWING A POSITIVE OR A NET ZERO CHANGE TO FUND BALANCE. BUT I DO WANT TO POINT OUT STUDENT NUTRITION HAS BEEN DOING JUST SUCH A GREAT JOB AND DUE TO THE ALLOWANCES MADE FROM THE USDA AND THE FREE MEALS THIS YEAR, THEY HAVE NOT ONLY BUILT UP THEIR FUND BALANCE, BUT THEY ARE NOW APPROACHING THE LIMITS THAT THEY CAN HAVE. THEY CAN ONLY HAVE THREE MONTHS OF FUND BALANCE, SO WE WILL LIKELY BE COMING BACK TO YOU WITH SOME INCREASE IN EXPENDITURES BECAUSE THEY DO HAVE SOME AGING ITEMS IN THEIR SERVICE LINES THAT NEED TO BE UPDATED.
SO THAT WILL BE REALLY GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR SCHOOLS.
THIS IS OUR CURRENT DEBT SERVICE FUND PROJECTION AND AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'RE SHOWING A HEALTHY NET CHANGE IN FUND BALANCE OF $18 MILLION.
SO IT MIGHT BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW POSSIBLY THAT IN TAX RATE.
SO ON THAT SLIDE, WHAT IS WHAT IS THAT BALANCE IN THAT FUND, THE CURRENT BALANCE? OH, I DON'T KNOW. OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
72 MILLION. OH, AGAIN, THE EXACT NUMBER MR. MILLER, BUT IT'S IN THAT RANGE, SO 72 PLUS 18 OR 72 AFTER 18.
PLUS THE 18. SO IT'LL BE AROUND 90 MILLION IN TOTAL.
AND THAT MONEY CAN ONLY BE USED TO PAY PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST ON FUTURE BONDS.
YES, SIR. OR PAY OFF BONDS OR PAY OFF CURRENT BOND.
THERE'S A CONFUSING STATEMENT THAT I NEED TO CLARIFY FOR MYSELF ON PAGE 35.
THE KEY TAKEAWAYS THAT YOU JUST MENTIONED EARLIER, WHERE IT SAYS OTHER DISTRICTS WITH A TAX RATE ELECTION ARE GENERATING MORE REVENUE PER STUDENT.
HOW IS THAT WHAT HOW I MEAN, IN OTHER WORDS AND I KNOW THE PENNIES ARE INVOLVED IN THAT.
SO I DON'T I DON'T I'M NOT I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT.
SO IF YOU SWITCHED US BACK TO SLIDE 34, SO WITH A DISTRICT THAT HAS A HIGHER TAX RATE, SO THEY'RE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ADDITIONAL GOLD AND AN ADDITIONAL COPPER PENNIES.
SO IN ONE WAY, THEY'RE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ADDITIONAL LOCAL FUNDS BECAUSE THEY ARE ABLE TO GENERATE MORE REVENUE ON THE LOCAL SIDE.
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IN ADDITION TO THAT, ON THE STATE SIDE, THEY'RE ABLE TO GENERATE ADDITIONAL STATE FUNDING WITH RELATION TO THAT COPPER AND GOLD PENNY.SO FOR HERE LOCALLY GENERATES ABOUT 2.47 MILLION FOR EACH GOLD IN THE STATE SIDE, ABOUT 4 MILLION AND THEN THE SAME ON THE COPPER ON THE LOCAL.
AND THE STATE IS ABOUT 790,000 PER PENNY.
AND SO IF YOU'RE A DISTRICT THAT IS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THOSE ADDITIONAL PENNIES AND THEY ARE TRULY RECEIVING MORE REVENUE PER STUDENT THAN OUR DISTRICT OR A DISTRICT WITH A LOWER RATE, I WANTED TO.
LET'S JUST SAY WE HAVE 50,000 KIDS, 50,000 A DAY, AND WE PASS A TRE UNDER CURRENT NUMBERS RIGHT NOW IT'S GOING TO GENERATE 50 MILLION MORE DOLLARS WITH THE SAME NUMBER OF KIDS IN THIS DISTRICT. SO DISTRICTS THAT PASS A TRE GET TO OPERATE WITH MORE MONEY ON THE SAME NUMBER OF STUDENTS.
AND THAT'S THIS VERY LAST LINE.
IF IS A REPRESENTATIVE OF ALL PENNIES, $49 MILLION, AND THAT'S WITH OUR CURRENT INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE.
SO THAT IS THAT DID THAT CLEAR? YEAH, OF COURSE.
SO THIS IS SOME INFORMATION JUST GIVING YOU OUR NEW PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST.
WE PAY OUR DEBT IN AUGUST AND FEBRUARY OF EVERY YEAR.
AND THEN WE WANTED TO PROVIDE YOU WITH A PROPOSED I.A.
TAX RATE CHART THERE SO THAT YOU COULD SEE WE COULD CONTINUE TO SERVICE OUR DEBT DOWN TO 0.2479.
THIS IS IN ANOTHER ELECTION TIMELINE AND THEN JUST CURRENTLY IMPLEMENTED.
THESE ITEMS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED BEFORE.
WE DO ARE AWAITING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RAISES AND STIPENDS, TRANSPORTATION FLEET PURCHASES. AND THEN THERE IS A BULLET POINT HERE.
WE TALKED BRIEFLY ABOUT BEFORE THE AGING BUILDING NEEDS.
SO WE DO HAVE SOME PRIORITY ONE ITEM NEEDS AND MR. GONZALES IS GOING TO PRESENT THOSE IN AN UPCOMING FACILITIES MEETING.
BUT WE DO EXPECT TO TRANSFER SOME FUNDING OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND BALANCE IN THIS FISCAL YEAR INTO A CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND TO BEGIN TAKING CARE OF SOME OF THESE.
AS DR. RINGO MENTIONED EARLIER TODAY, SOME OF THEM ARE QUITE OLD AND ARE IN NEED OF REPAIR. SO WE WILL BEGIN REVIEWING THOSE.
BUT MR. GONZALEZ'S TEAM IS GOING TO PRESENT THAT TO THE BOARD AND SHARE THAT INFORMATION WITH YOU, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE A CORRESPONDING BUDGET AMENDMENT AT THAT TIME.
AND THEN THESE ARE JUST OUR NEXT STEPS.
OUR BUDGET WORKSHOP WAS COMPLETED TODAY AND WE'LL MOVE INTO APRIL AND START GETTING OUR INFORMATION ON DCAD.
HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET OUR CCMR FUNDING, SO THAT'LL BE A POSITIVE IMPACT.
WE HOPE TO WELL WE HAVE TO BY LAW ADOPT OUR BUDGET JULY, THE DISTRICT DEPARTMENTS AND CAMPUSES WILL HAVE THEIR NEXT YEAR'S FUNDING, WILL RECEIVE OUR CERTIFIED VALUES IN AUGUST, AND WE WILL CONSIDER OUR TAX RATE FOR ADOPTION.
THIS WAS OUR FIRST RUN THROUGH THE BUDGET.
I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THE STAFF HAS DONE.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE QUESTIONS.
WE HAVE TIME FOR SOME MORE QUESTIONS.
ACTUALLY, WE STAY HERE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE.
WE'RE GOING TO LOSE A COUPLE OF POTENTIALLY TO LOSE A COUPLE OF BOARD MEMBERS HERE TO OTHER COMMITMENTS. I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND PATIENCE HERE WITH THE BOARD.
I THINK THERE WERE SOME ASK FOR SOME FUTURE FOR SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
I BELIEVE MR. GRIFFIN BROUGHT UP A COUPLE OF THINGS.
AND WITH RESPECT TO THE $59 AND $60,000 STARTING POINTS, THOSE TWO RAISING INCREASES.
BOARD, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE MORE CLARITY OR MORE DESCRIPTION OF? WES, ARE YOU CLEAR ON YOUR QUESTION THAT YOU HAD? UNDERSTAND WHY IT HAS TO HAPPEN THIS WAY, WE ALWAYS MAKE DECISIONS ON BUDGETS BEFORE WE GET ALL THE FINAL DATA.
WE WON'T GET OUR CERTIFIED TAX APPRAISAL NUMBER IN UNTIL AFTER WE'VE HAD TO PASS OUR BUDGET. SO AS WE KNOW, WE ALWAYS HAVE TO MAYBE TWEAK IT AS FROM TIME TO TIME IF THERE ARE ANY CHANGES TO ESSER OR THINGS THAT ARE ALLOWED TO TRANSPIRE UNDER ESSER.
IT MAY IMPACT OUR EXPENDITURES.
IT CAN ONLY HELP, RIGHT? DR. RINGO SO WE GOT A COUPLE OF WILD CARDS GOING ON.
BOARD. I THINK WE NEED TO SPEND SOME TIME THINKING AND CONTEMPLATING HOW WE CAN HELP OUR
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EMPLOYEES WITH INFLATION AND EVERYTHING IS GOING ON.YOU KNOW, ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO ASSIST OUR EMPLOYEES.
I THINK THIS BOARD IS UNIFIED IN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE MATH PROBLEM.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE DO HAVE A EXCELLENT TAX, EXCELLENT BOND RATING.
AND WE I DON'T THINK WE'VE HAD MANY YEARS WHERE WE'VE HAD A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON OUR GENERAL FUND BECAUSE WE WE HAD MORE EXPENDITURES THAN REVENUE.
IF WE HAVE, IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME, BUT WE'RE KIND OF NEARING A POINT WHERE WITHOUT A TREE, IN MY PERSONAL OPINION, WITHOUT SOME KIND OF TAX INCREASE TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD FOR US, ESPECIALLY AS WE'RE HAVING TO COMPETE WITH OTHER DISTRICTS FOR TALENT, FOR TEACHERS, AS DR.
RINGO SAID, AN EXTRA $50 MILLION TO HELP US KIND OF RIGHT THE SHIP IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS WOULD GO A LONG WAY.
WE TRIED IT DURING A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR.
I DON'T THINK ANYONE SITTING AT THIS TABLE IS GOING TO TRY THAT AGAIN.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, SO THERE ARE THINGS OUT THERE THAT CAN HAPPEN TO PUT US BACK IN A REAL STABLE, POSITIVE POSITION.
WE'RE NOT IN WE'RE NOT IN AN UNSTABLE POSITION.
NOW, AS A MATTER OF FACT, AS THEIR FUNDING GOES ON FOR A COUPLE OF MORE YEARS, I THINK IT GOT EXTENDED ANOTHER YEAR.
THEY EXTENDED THE THERE HAS BEEN AN UPDATE THAT WAS ONE OF THOSE INFORMATION CAME OUT.
AND THEN WHEN LATER WHEN THEY CLARIFIED IT, WE STILL HAVE TO SPEND THE FUNDS FOR ESSER TWO BY SEPTEMBER OF 2023 THE THE SOME OF THE PAPERWORK.
SO THEY TOOK IT IN. THEY THEY GAVE IT AND THEY TOOK IT AWAY.
WELL, THE CLARITY, THE PAPERWORK PART OF IT, I SAY THE PAPERWORK THAT SOME OF THE SUBMISSIONS AND THAT TYPE STUFF IS STILL HAS BEEN EXTENDED FOR A YEAR.
BUT AS FAR AS US SPENDING IT AND THAT WAS ONE OF THOSE CLARITY ITEMS, YOU KNOW, INFORMATION TODAY LIKE COMES OUT AND AS WE GET GUIDANCE AND DETAILS, THEY PROVIDE MORE CLARITY ON WHAT THEIR INTENT IS.
SO THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE BUILT INTO THE ESSER BUDGET, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, THAT WHEN ESSER RUNS OUT IN TWO YEARS, THEY'RE GOING TO GO AWAY.
ARE WE GOING TO HAVE TO SWALLOW REAL HARD AND FIND A WAY TO PUT THEM INTO OUR OPERATING BUDGET? YES, SIR. ONE OF THE ONE REPLACEMENT IS ONE OF THOSE ITEMS THAT'S ROUGHLY 3.1, 3.4 MILLION. WE HAVE IT BUILT INTO THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET.
ESSER, WE ARE LOWERING THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE ITEMS. ARE THERE ANY OTHER ITEMS THAT WILL CREEP BACK INTO OUR BUDGET IN 24 OR 25 THAT WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT CURRENTLY IN TODAY'S BUDGET? NO, SIR. THE ITEMS THAT WOULD GO AWAY IN TODAY'S BUDGET THAT ARE.
ESSER YOU KNOW, WE HAVE RETENTION STIPENDS.
WE HAVE SOME OTHER ITEMS THAT ARE BEING PAID FOR BY ESSER THAT WILL HAVE BEEN PAID OUT FOR THREE YEARS IN A ROW.
BUT WHEN THAT GOES AWAY THERE, THAT IS NO MORE.
BUT BUT THE 1 TO 1 DEVICES ARE IT RIGHT NOW I THINK LITTLE CLARIFICATION WE'RE JUST THINKING ESSER T-CLASS AS PART OF ESSER AND SO WE'VE GOT TO REMEMBER WE HAVE STAFFING THAT ARE IN T-CLASS AND WE HAVE PROGRAMS THAT T-CLASS IS PAYING FOR WHERE WE HAVE MATERIALS THAT T-CLASS IS PAYING FOR.
ESSER BUT FROM THE STATE ESSER.
SO THERE'S TWO THERE'S ONES THAT CAME DIRECTLY TO US THAT WE'RE ALLOCATING, AND THEN THERE'S GRANTS THAT CAME TO US FROM ESSER.
AND SO THAT MAY BE IN THE FUTURE WHEN THOSE GRANTS ARE NOW POTENTIAL THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO EVALUATE WHAT WE KEEP AND WHAT WE DON'T.
THAT'S MY POINT IN THIS WHOLE DISCUSSION BOARD.
I THINK EVERYBODY HERE IS AWARE, BUT ESSER HAS PROVIDED US A WAY TO TAKE CARE OF SOME THINGS HERE IN THIS EMERGENCY THROUGH THE COVID TIMES, AND EVENTUALLY THAT MONEY RUNS OUT OR THE TIME PERIOD RUNS OUT, WHICHEVER COMES FIRST.
AND TO KEEP DOING THOSE THINGS, WE'VE GOT TO FIND ROOM IN OUR BUDGET AND DR.
LOPEZ AS WELL AS WE CAN, I MEAN, KEEP US INFORMED AS TO WHAT YEAR THAT IMPACT.
AND, YOU KNOW, KIND OF BECAUSE WHEN I BUILD THE BUDGET, AS YOU KNOW, I LIKE TO LOOK TWO OR THREE YEARS DOWN THE ROAD, I LIKE TO LOOK JUST ONE.
AND I'M KIND OF LOOKING AT THE EXPENDITURES AND I SEE THE TRAJECTORY OF IT.
AND THEN I'VE SEEN THE TRAJECTORY OF REVENUE, WHICH HAD BEEN KIND OF FLAT.
AND SO MY CONCERN IS AT SOME POINT WE GET TO THAT 100% OF SALARIES OR SALARIES, 100% OF REVENUE, AND THAT'S WHEN WE HAVE A LOT OF DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS.
SO IN ORDER TO CIRCUMVENT ALL THAT OR PREVENT ALL THAT FROM HAPPENING AS WE GO THROUGH THIS, I JUST WANT SOME CONVERSATION ABOUT THOSE OUT YEARS.
THE PROGRAMS WE HAVE TODAY, THE PROGRAM REVIEW THAT WE'RE SO GRATEFUL THAT THAT STAFF HAS UNDERGONE TO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT SPENDING ANYTHING WASTEFUL AND APPRECIATE YOUR EFFORT AND YOUR STAFF'S EFFORT FOR THOSE THINGS.
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WE SAW A RESULT OF IT TODAY.I THINK IT WAS A $7 MILLION ITEM CONTINUE ALL THOSE EFFORTS.
RINGO WHEN WOULD OUR NEXT BUDGET SESSION BE WORKSHOP.
I'LL WORK WITH MR. GLICK AND MS. HOGAN ON DATES AND THEY WILL SURVEY THE BOARD, I BELIEVE, AND WE'LL HAVE A DATE ON THE CALENDAR. WE WILL NEED UPDATES FOR RAISES BECAUSE THE BUDGET AND THE RAISES ARE GOING TO BE TWO SEPARATE FOLDS.
WE NEED TO HAVE THAT APPROVED BY APRIL SO WE CAN START SECURING AND RETAINING AND RECRUITING. THAT'S WHAT WE DID IN PAST YEARS.
SO IF FINANCE WE COULD DO AN UPDATE FOR THIS WOULD WOULD BE OKAY SIR.
BOARD GREAT JOB. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ANY LAST COMMENTS ON BUDGET STUFF FOR TODAY?
[VI. Adjournment ]
I THINK WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF HOMEWORK.GREAT PRESENTATION. THANK YOU.
IT'S 5:54 SEEING NO FURTHER QUESTIONS.
MEETING IS ADJOURNED.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.